Presenter

Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer (Ph.D. Chemistry, UCSC, 1985) and has worked on a wide range of applications ranging from seismic signal processing to molecular biology. Tim has been with Intel since 1993 where he has worked on: (1) the first TFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), (2) the OpenMP API for shared memory programming, (3) the OpenCL programming language for heterogeneous platforms, (4) Intel's first TFLOP chip (the 80 core research chip), and (5) Intel’s 48 core, SCC research processor. Currently Tim is the PI for Intel’s Big Data science and technology center where he works on Polystore Database management systems and the GraphBLAS project. He also leads a small team at Intel developing runtime systems for exascale computers.