Seminar :: March 13 :: Henry Tufo

Reflections on a Career in High-Performance Computing

Henry Tufo

University of Colorado Boulder

ABSTRACT

At the twilight of my career I reflect on HPC past, present and future. I do this through the lens of my own work and discuss a few efforts in the areas of scientific application development (CFD, Climate, Materials, etc.), technology tracking, experimental systems development, and designing, maintaining, and operating some of the largest supercomputers in the world, in particular through our partnership with TACC at the University of Texas in Austin on the Stampede family of systems. Finally, I'll attempt to provide some insights on where HPC is headed in the next decade or so and the implications for those that rely on it for their work.

BIO
Dr. Tufo is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, his M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Vermont, and his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Duke University. He is the author of over 100 publications, managed over $40M in funding, and is a two-time recipient of the Gordon Bell Prize for demonstrated excellence in high-performance and large-scale parallel computing (1999 and 2000). His research spans the complete spectrum of high-performance computing with primary focus on scientific applications, supercomputing systems, and their interplay. He is currently co-director of the $13.6 million “Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porous and Particulate Materials Simulations within Exascale Computing Workflows” funded by the DOE PSAAP program.