Presenter

Gerhard Wellein is a professor of high performance computing in the Department of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Bayreuth. From 2015 to 2017 he was also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Lugano. Since 2021 he has been the director of the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU). He is a member of the board of directors of the German NHR Alliance, which coordinates the national HPC Tier-2 infrastructures at German universities. He has been serving for many years as the deputy speaker of the Bavarian HPC competence network KONWIHR. As a member of the scientific steering committees of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), he organizes and surveys the compute time application process for national HPC resources.

Gerhard has more than 20 years of experience in teaching HPC techniques to students and scientists. He has contributed to numerous tutorials on node-level performance engineering in the past decade and received the 2011 Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award (together with Jan Treibig and Georg Hager) for outstanding teaching contributions. His research interests focus on performance modelling and performance engineering, architecture-specific code optimization, novel parallelization approaches and hardware-efficient building blocks for sparse linear algebra and stencil solvers. He conducts and leads numerous national and international HPC research projects and has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.