The IT department is pleased to host a public talk presented by Intel Corporation’s General Manager for High Performance Computing (HPC), Dr. Stephen Wheat. The topics covered will be HPC industry and technology evolution, and exascale computing.
Monday, May 14 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Level 0 auditorium between Ibn Sina and Ibn Al Haytham (buildings 2 and 3) south end of Discovery Walk (spine)
Dr. Stephen Wheat is the General Manager of Intel’s HPC Business Unit. He is responsible for the development of Intel’s HPC business strategy including platform architecture, eco-system development, and collaborations. While in this role, Dr. Wheat has influenced the deployment of several Top 10 systems and even more Top 500 HPC systems. He possesses a depth of knowledge and breadth of experience that gives him a unique perspective in understanding large-scale HPC deployments. He was the Advanced Development Manager for the Storage Components Division, the Manager of the RAID Products Development Group, the Manager of the Workstation Products Group Software and Validation Groups, and Manager of the Supercomputing Systems Division (SSD) Operating Systems Software Group. At SSD, he was a Product Line Architect and was the Systems Software Architect for the ASCI Red system.
Before joining Intel in 1995, Dr. Wheat worked for Sandia National Laboratories performing leading research in distributed systems software, where he created and led the SUNMOS and PUMA/Cougar programs. A 1994 Gordon Bell Prize winner, Dr. Wheat has also been awarded Intel’s prestigious Achievement Award and was a top pick for HPCwire People to Watch List in 2006 and again in 2011. He has a patent in Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems.
Dr. Wheat holds a PhD in Computer Science and has several publications on the subjects of load balancing, inter-process communication, and parallel I/O in large-scale HPC systems.