Presenter

John Shalf is Department Head for Computer Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and former deputy director of Hardware Technology for the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP). He is a co-author of over 80 publications in the field of parallel computing software and HPC technology, including three best papers and the widely cited report "The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley" (with David Patterson and others), as well as "ExaScale Software Study: Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems,” which provided a roadmap for the Exascale Computing Project. Before joining Berkeley Lab in 2000, he worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and was a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysick/Albert Einstein Institut in Potsdam, Germany, where he co-developed the Cactus code framework for computational astrophysics.