Keynote Speakers
Jean-Marc Denis
SiPearlJean-Marc Denis is the Chief Strategy Officer at SiPearl, the Company designing the European high-end microprocessor for supercomputers. Prior to that Jean-Marc was the Chief of Staff in the Innovation and Strategy division at Atos, and was the Chair of the Board of the European Processor Initiative (EPI), after having worked from 1990 to 1995 in the French defense industry.
Jean-Marc has held different technical positions within the HPC industry. In 2004 Jean-Marc joined Bull to launch the HPC activity. Since that, Atos/Bull has become #3 at worldwide level and #1 in Europe in the Supercomputer industry. In 2016 and 2017, he was in charge of the strategy for the BigData Division at ATOS/Bull.
Marc Hamilton
NVIDIAMarc leads the worldwide Solutions Architecture and Engineering team at NVIDIA, responsible for working with customers and partners to deliver the world’s best end to end GPU accelerated data center solutions for artificial intelligence & AI, professional visualization, and high performance computing. Prior to NVIDIA, Marc worked at HP in the Hyperscale Business Unit and at Sun Microsystems in the HPC and data center groups. Marc holds a B.S. in math and computer science from UCLA, an M.S. in electrical engineering from USC, and is a graduate of the UCLA Executive Management program.
Dr. Barbara Chapman
Stony Brook UniversityDr. Chapman is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and of Computer Science, at Stony Brook University, where she is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. She also directs Computer Science and Mathematics Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Dr. Chapman has performed research on parallel programming interfaces and the related implementation technology for over 20 years and has moreover engaged in efforts to develop community standards for parallel programming, including OpenMP, OpenACC and OpenSHMEM. Her research group created the state-of-the-art OpenUH compiler that enabled practical experimentation with parallel language extensions and the corresponding implementation techniques. The group also created a reference implementation of the library-based OpenSHMEM programming interface. Dr. Chapman has co-authored over 200 papers and two books. She obtained a B.Sc. with 1st Class Honours in Mathematics from the University of Canterbury and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast.
Dr. Stuart Midgley
DUGDr Stuart Midgley has been working in the high performance computing industry for 20 years as a user, developer, system support/administrator and system architect. Stuart is currently the Chief Information Officer at DUG.
With a PhD in computational theoretical physics, Stuart learnt very early in his career the power of super computers and the impact they can have on research and has carried over that experience into running one of the worlds largest production computing systems.
With a strong interest in new and emerging technologies, Stuart looks forward to continued development and growth of DUG's system, incorporating the latest hardware and programming paradigms.