Contributors

We would especially like to thank Prof Tobias Weinzierl and the Computer Science Department at Durham for their dedication and efforts in putting together these highly valuable afternoon sessions, packed with carefully crafted presentations from the industry and academia.

Markus Geimer is the Head of ATML Parallel Performance and his area of expertise is Parallel Programming, HPC Performance Analysis. Markus' research interests focus on scalable software tools for parallel performance analysis of HPC applications. In particular, Markus is the lead developer of the Scalasca Trace Tools package and involved in the Score-P instrumentation and measurement system efforts. 

Marta Garcia-Gasulla is a computer engineer and holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Since 2017, she has led the Best Practices for Performance and Programmability group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her research focuses on the performance analysis of parallel applications running on supercomputers, with the aim of improving their efficiency and performance.

Rudy Shand is a leading expert in high-performance computing (HPC) debugging and profiling, currently serving as a Technical Services & Support Director at Linaro. Rudy's main interest is in Software quality, Debug tools, Performance tools and Parallel Programming.

Heinrich Bockhurst is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Consultant for High-Performance Computing (HPC) at Intel Corporation. He specialises in helping compute centers modernise their code and optimise software for high-end clusters using tools like Intel VTune Profiler.

Cedric Valensi has been the technical leader of the Performance Tools team at the ECR Lab since 2015, where he coordinates the development efforts and dissemination of the MAQAO performance analysis framework. His research interests focus on performance analysis and optimisation, with particular expertise in binary rewriting for application instrumentation.