About the Technical Reviewers
Heinz Bast has more than 20 years experience in the areas of application tuning, benchmarking, and developer support. Since joining Intel’s Supercomputer Systems Division in 1993, Heinz has worked with multiple Intel software enabling teams to support software developers throughout Europe. Heinz Bast has a broad array of applications experience, including computer games, enterprise applications, and high-performance computing environments. Currently Heinz Bast is part of the Intel Developer Products Division, where he focuses on training and supporting customers with development tools and benchmarks.
Dr. Heinrich Bockhorst is a Senior HPC Technical Consulting Engineer for high-performance computing in Europe. He is member of the developer products division (DPD) within the Software & Services Group. Currently his work is focused on manycore enabling and high-scaling hybrid programming targeting Top30 accounts. He conducts four to five customer trainings on cluster tools per year and is in charge of developing new training materials for Europe. Heinrich Bockhorst received his doctoral degree in theoretical solid state physics from Göttingen University, Germany.
Dr. Clay Breshears is currently a Life Science Software Architect for Intel’s Health Strategy and Solutions group. During the 30 years he has been involved with parallel computation and programming he has worked in academia (teaching multiprocessing, multi-core, and multithreaded programming), as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense (programming HPC platforms), and at several jobs at Intel Corporation involved with parallel computation, training, and programming tools.
Dr. Alejandro Duran has been an Application Engineer for Intel Corporation for the past two years, with a focus on HPC enabling. Previously, Alex was a senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the Programming Models Group. He holds a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, in computer architecture. He has been part of the OpenMP Language committee for the past nine years.
Klaus-Dieter Oertel is a Senior HPC Technical Consulting Engineer in the Developer Products Division within Intel’s Software & Services Group. He belongs to the first generation of parallelization experts in Germany, educated during the SUPRENUM project that developed a parallel computer in the second half of the 1980s. In his 25 years of experience in HPC computing, he has worked on all kinds of supercomputers, like large vector machines, shared memory systems, and clusters. In recent years he has focused on the enabling of applications for the latest HPC architecture, the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, and has provided related tools trainings and customer support.