# Norman Kutemperor

> Norman Kutemperor is the president, CEO and longtime owner of Scientel Information Technology, a Michigan systems company he has led since 1981. His public career traces a four-decade transition from small-business IT and supply-chain automation to the Gensonix database, high-performance computing and private AI infrastructure. Scientel's most concrete independently documented test came in 2017, when it used 16,800 cores of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Owens Cluster to create 1.25 terabytes of synthetic data in what OSC called its largest-scale calculation at the time.

- **Role:** President and CEO at Scientel Information Technology, Inc.
- **Organizations:** Scientel Information Technology, Inc., Scientel Info Tech
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Carroll College, Helena, Montana
- **Known for:** Led Scientel through a transition from small-business IT and supply-chain automation to database, high-performance computing and AI infrastructure work., Directed Scientel's 2017 Gensonix run on 16,800 cores of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Owens Cluster, then the largest-scale calculation in OSC history., Received Business Worldwide Magazine's IT/Technology CEO USA award in 2015.

## Career timeline

- **1981** — Began leading Scientel as owner and president/CEO, according to his public professional profiles.
- **2013** — Scientel was recognized in Corp! Magazine's science and technology awards; Kutemperor spoke about expansion and its expected effect on Southeast Michigan's IT visibility.
- **2015** — Received Business Worldwide Magazine's IT/Technology CEO USA award and presented Scientel's Gensonix database at the NoSQL Now! conference in San Jose.
- **2017** — Led a Gensonix test on the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Owens Cluster using 600 compute nodes and 16,800 cores; OSC reported 1.25 terabytes of synthetic data and more than 86 million transactions per minute with no errors.
- **2021** — Received The Abrahamic Business Circle's Most Valuable Big Data Technology Platform award and spoke about big data at its Investment Summit.
- **2022** — Named Global Technology CEO of the Year by CEO Monthly, whose profile described Scientel's shift from small-business IT services to big-data systems.
- **2026** — Scientel announced a 6.039-trillion aggregate-parameter test using 36 Nvidia H100 GPUs at OSC and later introduced a mixed-vendor GPU configuration for its LLM systems; these are company-reported results distributed through press releases.

## Achievements

- Led Scientel through a transition from small-business IT and supply-chain automation to database, high-performance computing and AI infrastructure work.
- Directed Scientel's 2017 Gensonix run on 16,800 cores of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Owens Cluster, then the largest-scale calculation in OSC history.
- Received Business Worldwide Magazine's IT/Technology CEO USA award in 2015.
- Presented Gensonix and its multi-model database approach at the 2015 NoSQL Now! conference.
- Received The Abrahamic Business Circle's Most Valuable Big Data Technology Platform award in 2021.
- Named Global Technology CEO of the Year in CEO Monthly's 2022 awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Scientel announced a mixed-vendor LLM system intended to use AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs in one distributed configuration.
- **2026-03** — Scientel reported a 6.039-trillion aggregate-parameter DeepSeek R1 run across 36 Nvidia H100 GPUs at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
- **2025-07** — Kutemperor publicly congratulated Ohio Supercomputer Center's Alan Chalker on LinkedIn during the PEARC25 conference.

## Links

- Website: https://scientel.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/norman-kutemperor-96973b39

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Last updated: 2026-09-28