Speakers MW2019

Updated 10 February 2019

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Multicore World 2017 – Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Labs (LANL), USA

Day 1 – TUESDAY 12th FEBRUARY 2019

James A. Ang, Chief Scientist for Computing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Department of Energy (DOE), Richland, Washington, USA. Former manager at Sandia National Labs, DOE’s Exascale Computing Project.

Sean Blanchard – Systems Engineer, HPC expert, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA

Ariel Hendel – Infrastructure Technologist, Facebook Inc. HW/engineering. Menlo Park, California. USA. His current field of interest is Data Center Networks, particularly simulations and how to guide and drive semiconductor innovation to maximize efficiencies of large scale Data Centers.

Pallavi Shurpali – Infrastructure Engineer, Facebook, Inc. Menlo Park, USA.

Karen Schramm, Vice President, Architecture, Broadcom, Inc. Karen leads a multi-site architecture team responsible for product definition and technology advancement across Broadcom’s Compute & Connectivity business which includes Network Interface Controllers, Network Processors, Switches and a portfolio of System-on-a-Chip devices. Boston, USA.

Gavin Stark – Chief Scientist, CTO, Netronome, Inc. San Francisco, USA.

Nicolaas Viljoen – Associate Director, Software Engineering, Netronome, Inc. Netronome has developed a domain-specific architecture that allows customers to build accelerators for networking and storage applications in data center and edge computing markets, delivering efficient and high-performance heterogeneous solutions when paired with multi-core processors. San Francisco, USA.

Ruud van der Pas – Distinguished Engineer, Performance Geek in the Oracle Linux and Virtualization Engineering organization at Oracle, Santa Clara, California, USA/Netherlands. Coauthor of Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming and Using OpenMP – The Next Step: Affinity, Accelerators, Tasking, and SIMD (MIT Press). (MW18)

John L. Gustafson is an applied physicist and mathematician who is a Visiting Scientist at A*CRC and Professor at National University of Singapore, where he is directing efforts in Next-Generation Arithmetic. He is a former Director at Intel Labs and former Chief Product Architect at AMD. A pioneer in high-performance computing, he first demonstrated scalable massively parallel performance on real applications in 1988. This became known as Gustafson’s Law, for which he won the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize. He is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Award (MW14-16-17-18).

Neal Glew, Software Engineer, DataPLS, Google

Neal is a software engineer in the Flume project at Google, where he mostly works on the shuffle system. He previously worked at Intel on parallel programming models within Intel Labs. He has a PhD in computer science from Cornell University and a BSc(hons) in computer science from Victoria University of Wellington. Sunnyvale, California, USA

Prof Geoffrey C. Fox, Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University. Director, Digital Science Center, Chair of Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Director of the Data Science program. Bloomington, IN, USA. (MW16)

Dr. Andrew Ensor – Director, New Zealand Square Kilometre Array Alliance (NZA) (MW13-14-15-16-17-18). Auckland, New Zealand

Bruno Lago – Managing Director at Catalyst Cloud, Wellington, New Zealand.

Prof Ian Foster – Director, Data Science and Learning Division; Senior Scientist; Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory. Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago. Fellow, Institute for Molecular Engineering. Chief Troublemaker, Globus.org. USA. (MW13-15).

Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka -Director of the RIKEN Centre for Computational Science -the largest supercomputing centre in Japan. Professor, High Performance Computing Systems Group, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) & Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, recently #1 in the world for power efficiency for both the Green 500 and Green Graph 500 lists. A fellow of the ACM and European ISC, has won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011, and the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (MW17).

Pete Beckman, Director, Northwestern University /Argonne National Laboratory Institute for Science and Engineering – Chicago, USA. (MW17)

Victoria Crone – CEO, Callaghan Innovation, Auckland, New Zealand. Callaghan Innovation is New Zealand’s Innovation Agency.

Jeffrey S. Vetter, Distinguished R&D Staff Member, and the founding group leader of the Future Technologies Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research focuses on the investigation and development of next-generation computational architectures, processor technologies and software systems to meet the demands of high-performance computing as it approaches exascale performance levels. These new technologies enable advances in computational tools, including ORNL’s top-rated Summit supercomputer, for solving problems in energy, advanced materials, artificial intelligence and other domains. Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Dr. Mark Moir – Architect, Oracle, USA – New Zealand. Mark is giving a talk in every Multicore World since its creation. His traditional research interests concern practical and theoretical aspects of concurrent, distributed, and real-time computing, with a particular focus on hardware and software mechanisms for making it easier to develop scalable, efficient, and correct concurrent programs for shared-memory multiprocessors. (MW12-13-14-15-16-17-18)

Hugo Vincent, Hugo heads up the Security group in Arm Research, Cambridge, UK as a Principal Research Engineer. His research focuses on security in distributed systems and the IoT. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Mark Seager – Intel Fellow, Director of HPC Strategy, Intel Corporation. Mark leads Scale out strategy for Intel’s Exascale Computing, is a Fellow in Residence for Intel China and is working on an ecosystem approach to develop and build HPC and cloud systems with Exascale capabilities. Mark was instrumental in the development of Intel’s Scalable System Framework. San Francisco, USA.