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.