Presenter

Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer obsessed with every variety of science (Ph.D. Chemistry, UCSC, 1985). In 2023 he retired after a 45-year career in HPC (30 of which were with Intel). He has had the privilege of working with people much smarter than himself on great projects including: (1) the first TFLOP computer (ASCI Red), (2) Parallel programming languages … Linda, MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL, OCR and PyOMP (3) two different research processors (Intel's TFLOP chip and the 48 core SCC), (4) Data management systems (Polystore systems and Array-based storage engines), and (5) the GraphBLAS API for expressing graph algorithms as sparse linear algebra. Tim has over 150 publications including six books on different aspects of parallel computing.

He is also a recently retired kayak coach and instructor trainer (ACA certified). His obsession with sea kayaking, including “self-wetting” moments in the ocean, is pretty bad.