Presenter

Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer obsessed with every variety of science (PhD in chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1985). He is a former senior principal engineer in Intel’s parallel computing lab. He was with Intel from 1993 to 2023 and has worked with brilliant people on great projects including: (1) the first TFLOP computer (ASCI Red); (2) MPI, OpenMP and OpenCL; (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 five books on different aspects of parallel computing; the latest (published in November 2019) is titled "The OpenMP Common Core: Making OpenMP Simple Again."