Presenter

Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer obsessed with every variety of science (Ph.D. Chemistry, UCSC, 1985). He is a senior principal engineer in Intel’s parallel computing lab at Intel. Tim has been with Intel since 1993 and has worked with brilliant people on great projects including: (1) the first TFLOP computer, (2) the OpenMP and OpenCL programming languages, (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. He has published five books on different aspects of parallel computing, the latest of which came out November 2019 titled “The OpenMP Common Core: making OpenMP Simple Again”.