SAN DIEGO COUNTY - News from Jan. 5, 1989
Gary M. Johnson, deputy director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, has been named the first executive director of the new North Carolina Supercomputing Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C. He will assume his duties in February.
As executive director, Johnson, 43, will be responsible for providing supercomputing capability and applications expertise to North Carolina universities. The new supercomputer center is currently under construction and will be administered by the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. The center is to be funded by the state.
Johnson is also currently director of research and development at the Advanced Computing Organization of General Atomics, a La Jolla research company. Before joining the San Diego Supercomputer Center in 1987, Johnson was chairman of the Institute for Scientific Computing in Fort Collins, Colo.
From 1984 until 1986, he was professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Institute for Computational Studies at Colorado State University where he is still an affiliate professor.
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