 Tim Mattson, Ph.D. Tim Mattson earned a PhD. in Chemistry for his work on quantum molecular scattering theory (UCSC, 1985). This was followed by a Post-doc at Caltech where he ported his molecular scattering software to the Caltech/JPL hypercubes. Since then, he has held a number of commercial and academic positions with computational science on high performance computers as the common thread. Dr. Mattson joined Intel in 1993 to work on a variety of parallel computing problems. This included benchmarking, system performance modeling, and applications research with an emphasis on molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry codes. He was one of the lead scientists on Intel's ASCI teraFLOPS project: a project that resulted in the first computer to run MPLINPACK in excess of one teraFLOPS. As Intel ramped down the supercomputer group in 1996, Dr. Mattson shifted his focus to making parallel computing a mainstream technology. He helped write each of the OpenMP standards for programming shared memory computers and until recently served as the CEO of the OpenMP architecture review board. Cluster computing has been an important part of Dr. Mattson's work since the late 1980s. At Intel, he has played a leadership role in guiding Intel's strategies in this market. He is a founder of Open Cluster Group, the group responsible for OSCAR, the most popular package in the world for building HPC clusters. Currently, Dr. Mattson is Intel's worldwide industry segment manager for life sciences. He is responsible for Intel's strategy for the life sciences market and is Intel's chief spokesman to the life sciences community. |
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