Contributors

Mustafa AbdulJabbar     King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Mustafa is a PhD candidate in the Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST. He works on optimization of high-scale algorithms such as FMM and is interested in closing the gap between RMI-based execution models and real applications in molecular dynamics and fluid mechanics.

Jefferson Amstutz     SURVICE Engineering Company, USA

Jefferson is a Software Engineer in the Applied Technology Operation of SURVICE. He explores interactive visualization and high-performance computing in support of applications for the Army Research Laboratory; he works to solve a variety of physics-based simulation problems in domains such as ballistic vulnerability analysis, radio frequency propagation, and soft-body simulation.

Cédric Andreolli     Intel Corporation, France

Cédric is an application engineer in the Energy team at Intel Corporation. He helps optimize applications running on Intel platforms for the Oil and Gas industry.

Edoardo Aprà     Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Edoardo is a Chief Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory within PNNL. His research focus is on high-performance computational algorithm and software development especially for chemical applications. He is the main developer of the molecular density functional theory (DFT) module in the NWChem package.

Nikita Astafiev     Intel Corporation, Russia

Nikita is a senior software engineer in the Numerics team at Intel. He works on highly optimized math functions. His key areas of interest include automated floating-point error analysis and low-level optimizations.

Troy Baer     National Institute for Computational Sciences, The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Troy leads the HPC systems team for the NICS Systems and Operations group. He has been involved large system deployments including Beacon, Nautilus, and Kraken. In April 2014, Troy received the Adaptive Computing Lifetime Achievement award for contributions in scheduling and resource management using Moab.

Carsten Benthin     Intel Corporation, Germany

Carsten is a Graphics Research Scientist at Intel Corporation. His research interests include all aspects of ray tracing and high-performance rendering, throughput and high-performance computing, low-level code optimization, and massively parallel hardware architectures.

Per Berg     Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark

Per applies his mathematical modeling and scientific computing education to develop modeling software for applications in water environments (estuaries, ocean). Working for both private companies and public institutes, Per has been involved in numerous projects that apply models to solve engineering and scientific problems.

Vincent Betro     National Institute for Computational Sciences, The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Vincent focuses his research on porting and optimizing applications for several architectures, especially the Intel Xeon Phi, and developing Computational Fluid Dynamics codes. He is also the training manager for the XSEDE project, and he has emphasized Xeon Phi Coprocessor training material development for Stampede and Beacon in this role.

Leonardo Borges     Intel Corporation, USA

Leo is a Senior Staff Engineer and has been engaged with the Intel Many Integrated Core program from its early days. He specializes in HPC applying his background in numerical analysis and in developing parallel numerical math libraries. Leo is focused on optimization work related to the Oil & Gas industry.

Ryan Braby     Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Ryan is the Chief Cyberinfrastructure Officer for JICS. Ryan has been directly involved in the administration and/or deployment of 2 systems that ranked #1 on the Top 500 list, one system that ranked #1 on the Green 500 list, and 18 systems that were ranked in the top 50 on the Top 500 list.

Glenn Brook     Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Glenn currently directs the Application Acceleration Center of Excellence (AACE) and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at JICS. He is the principal investigator for the Beacon Project, which is funded by NSF and UT to explore the impact of emerging computing technologies such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor on computational science and engineering.

Ilya Burylov     Intel Corporation, Russia

Ilya is a senior software engineer in the Numerics team at Intel Corporation. His background is in computation optimizations for statistical, financial, and transcendental math functions algorithms. Ilya focuses on optimization of computationally intensive analytics algorithms and data manipulation steps for Big Data workflows within distributed systems.

Ki Sing Chan     The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ki Sing is an undergraduate student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong majoring in Mathematics and Information Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. His first research experience took place in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee during the summer break in 2013. His research focuses on the implementation of a Cholesky Factorization algorithm for large dense matrix.

Gilles Civario     Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland

Gilles is a Senior Software Architect focused on designing and implementing tailored hardware and software solutions to users of the National Service and to ICHEC's technology transfer client companies.

Guillaume Colin de Verdière     Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), France

Guillaume is a senior expert at CEA. His current focus is on novel architectures especially the Intel Xeon Phi, a very promising technology that might potentially get us to an exascale machine. As a direct consequence of this focus, he is actively studying the impact of such novel technologies on legacy code evolution.

Eduardo D'Azevedo     Computational Mathematics Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Eduardo is a staff scientist with research interests that include developing highly scalable parallel solvers. He contributes to projects in materials science and fusion in the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. He has developed out-of-core and compact storage extensions for the ScaLAPACK library and made fundamental contributions in optimal mesh generation.

Jim Dempsey     QuickThread Programming, LLC, USA

Jim is a consultant specializing in high-performance computing (HPC) and optimization of embedded systems. Jim is the President of QuickThread Programming, LLC. Jim's expertise includes high efficiency programming and optimization for Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi processors.

Alejandro Duran     Intel Corporation, Spain

Alejandro is an Application Engineer working with customers to help optimize their codes. He has been part of the OpenMP Language committee since 2005.

Manfred Ernst     Intel Corporation, now at Google Incorporated, USA

Manfred is a member of the Chromium team at Google. Prior to joining Google, he was a Research Scientist at Intel Labs, where he developed the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels. His primary research interests are photorealistic rendering, acceleration structures for ray tracing, sampling, and data compression.

Kerry Evans     Intel Corporation, USA

Kerry is a software engineer working primarily with customers on optimization of medical imaging software on Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.

Rob Farber     TechEnablement.com, USA

Rob is a consultant with an extensive background in HPC and a long history of...