Biography
Ronald P. Luijten (CE), senior IEEE member, is the initiator and was senior technical project leader of the DOME hot-water cooled Microdatacenter project. In 2019 Ronald was on sabbatical at ETH Zurich architecting a non-Von-Neumann weather/climate code accelerator (Cloudchaser) and his personal research interests are in data-center architecture, design and performance (‘Data Motion in Data Centers’). He holds more than 35 issued patents, and has co-organized 7 IEEE conferences. Over 35 years, IBM has awarded Ronald with three outstanding technical achievement awards and a corporate patent award. He worked on various communication technologies, packet switching and network performance (WAN and ICT). After retiring from IBM, he founded Data Motion Architecture & Services GmbH in 2020.