Lecturers on PRACE P2S2
- Dr. Sebastian von Alfthan is a specialist in scientific computing at CSC, the Finnish IT center for science. He received his Ph.D. in computational physics in 2006 from the Helsinki University of Technology and joined CSC shortly thereafter. He has a scientific background in classical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of condensed matter systems.
- Dr. Ulf Andersson works as an application expert at PDC. He earned his Ph.D. degree in numerical analysis in March 2001 at Nada, KTH. He is the chair of the Program Committee.
- Dr. Mark Bull is an Architect at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). He received a PhD in Computational Mathematics from the University of Manchester in 1997, and has been involved in research, consultancy and teaching in High Performance Computing since 1990. He has a special interest in shared memory parallel programming and is currently chair of the OpenMP Language Committee.
- Wolfgang Frings works as senior scientist in the HPC Application Support Division at the Juelich Supercompting Center . He is heading the user support team. His interests are code parallelisation and optimisation as well as benchmarking. He earned his Master's in Computer Science at the University of Hagen.
- Mike Hammill, PDC, has been working as a consultant, teacher, and coordinator in high-performance computing since 1984. Before coming to PDC, he was coordinating a national high-performance consulting program at the Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, USA.
- Dr. Michael Hanke has been a university lecturer and docent at KTH since 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin and has lectured in a variety of universities throughout the world, including the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Russia), Johannes Kepler University (Austria), University of Zaragoza (Spain), and University of Pittsburgh (USA). He has also worked in industry as a Scientific Consultant for Comsol AB and UTRC in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Michael's Scientific Interests include analysis and numerical methods for differential-algebraic equations, partial differential-algebraic systems, and numerical approximation of equations from semiconductor physics.
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Lennart
Johnsson is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston.
He received his M.S. degree in engineering physics in 1967 and the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering in 1970 from Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. At ASEA AB (now ABB), from 1971 to 1979, he led the development of real-time supervisory data acquisition and control systems for electric utilities and process industries. He was on the faculty of Caltech from 1979 to 1983, where he initiated a course in parallel scientific computation, taught VLSI design, and did research in parallel algorithms and VLSI design. From 1983 to 1990, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where he introduced courses in parallel scientific computation and also in computer arithmetic. He also led the research effort that resulted in the acquisition of the first Connection Machine at a university after MIT. He was Gordon McKay Professor at Harvard University from 1990 to 1997.
From 1986 to 1995, Johnsson also served as the director of Computational Sciences at Thinking Machines Corporation and was responsible for the development of the Connection Machine Scientific Software Library (CMSSL) as well as parts of the Connection Machine Run-Time System (CMRTS). Since 1995, he has been Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston; an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Rice University; and a visiting professor of Computing Sciences and Numerical Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He also serves as the director of both the Texas Learning and Computation Center at the University of Houston and the Houston Area Computational Science Consortium. Johnsson serves on the executive board of the W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology in Houston and the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute; he is chair of the PDC External Advisory Committee and the Swedish National Allocations Committee for High-Performance Computation; and he is the editor of seven journals.
- Dr. Pekka Manninen is a specialist in scientific computing at CSC, the Finnish IT center for science, and a docent of physical chemistry at the University of Helsinki. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2004, and has worked since then, before joining CSC, at the universites of Helsinki and Århus and at Helsinki University of Technology. He has a scientific background in molecular quantum mechanics
- Dr. Jean-Philippe Nominé lead Data Management and Post-Processing Group then was Deputy Head of a high performance simulation codes unit at CEA/DIF Supercomputing Centre. He is now involved in PRACE Project, coordinating various CEA activities and mostly involved in Work Package 7. Dr. Nominé received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Paris 6 -Pierre et Marie Curie - University before joining CEA HPC division in 1992.
- Tomas Oppelstrup is a Ph.D. student in numerical analysis at CSC, KTH since 2004, and received an M.S. degree in engineering physics from KTH in 2003. He has done a large part of his Ph.D. research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. His research is focused on diffusion in glasses, and consists to a large extent of long time molecular dynamics simulations. The group has recently taken interest in using graphics cards to speed up the computations, and has developed a molecular dynamics simulation code for graphics card computation.
- Gert Svensson received a M.Sc in engineering physics from KTH in 1981. After that he has worked with computer research and operations at KTH. In the mid-80ties he initiated and installed the first Internet connection at KTH. He started working with parallel computing in 1986 and was one of the founders of PDC in 1990. Late research interest also includes Virtual Reality. He is currently involved in several EC-sponsored projects.
- Aad van der Steen was head of the High Performance Computing Group at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. As such he was involved in studying High Performance System Architectures and their relation to algorithms and programming models that must map onto those architectures. Aad studied mathematics at the Delft University of Technology and got his Ph.D. of Utrecht University on performance assessment on High Performance systems. Now he is employed by the Dutch National Science Foundation for research into High Performance Computers and Computing after retiring from University
- Ari Turunen, CSC, is the WP3 leader in PRACE.
