OpenSHMEM 2017: Fourth workshop on OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
William Carlson

Shared Memory HPC Programming: Past, Present, and Future?

 

BIOGRAPHY
William Carlson is a member of the research staff at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences where, since 1990, his focus has been on applications and system tools for large-scale parallel and distributed computers. He also leads the UPC language effort, a consortium of industry and academic research institutions aiming to produce a unified approach to parallel C programming based on global address space methods. Dr. Carlson graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1981 with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering. He then attended Purdue University, receiving the MSEE and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1990, Dr. Carlson was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his work centered on performance evaluation of advanced computer architectures.