Presenter

Simon Mcintosh-Smith is the Head of Microelectronics Research Group and Professor of High Performance Computing at Bristol University. He is an Expert in performance portability techniques and application-based fault tolerant computing (ABFT), PI of the first Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) in the UK , Contributor to both the OpenCL and OpenMP parallel programming standards, a Major contributor to the Mantevo mini-app suite of codes, specifically CloverLeaf and TeaLeaf., and Founder of the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL)

He is a Member of the EPSRC Archer national supercomputer design team, Vice chair of the University of Bristol's HPC exec, External examiner for EPCC's HPC and big data masters degrees, Member of EPSRC's new Research Infrastructure Strategic Advisory Team (2011-2015), Member of EPSRC's resource allocation panel (RAP) for HECToR, the UK's national supercomputer resource, Regular member of the programme committee for IEEE/ACM SuperComputing and ISC.