About the Authors
Dr. Alexander Supalov created the Intel Cluster Tools product line, especially the Intel MPI Library that he designed and led between 2003 and 2014. Before that, he invented new finite-element mesh-generation methods, contributed to the PARMACS and PARASOL interfaces, and developed the first full MPI-2 and IMPI implementations. Alexander guided Intel efforts in the MPI Forum during development of the MPI-2.1, MPI-2.2, and MPI-3 standards. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990, and in 1995 earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexander holds 15 patents.
Andrey Semin is a Senior Engineer and HPC technology manager for Intel in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa regions. He supports the leading European high-performance computing users, helping them to deploy new and innovative HPC solutions to grand-challenge problems. Andrey’s background includes extensive experience working with leading HPC software and hardware vendors. He has been instrumental in developing HPC industry innovations delivering improvements in the energy efficiency from data center to applications; his current research is focused on fine-grained HPC systems power and performance modeling and optimization. Andrey graduated from Moscow State University in Russia in 2000, specializing in possibility theory and its applications for physical experiment analysis. He is the author of over a dozen papers and patents in the area of application tuning and energy efficiency analysis, and is also a frequent speaker on topics impacting the HPC industry.
Dr.-Ing. Michael Klemm is part of Intel’s Software and Services Group, Developer Relations Division. His focus is on high-performance and throughput computing. Michael received a Doctor of Engineering degree (Dr.-Ing.) in computer science from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2008. His research focus was on compilers and runtime optimizations for distributed systems. Michael’s areas of interest include compiler construction, design of programming languages, parallel programming, and performance analysis and tuning. Michael is Intel representative in the OpenMP Language Committee and leads the efforts to develop error-handling features.
Dr. Christopher Dahnken manages the HPC software enabling activities of Intel’s Developer Relations Division in the EMEA region. He focuses on the enabling of major scientific open-source codes for new Intel technologies and the development of scalable algorithms. Chris holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in theoretical physics from the University of Würzburg, Germany.