Speaker: Dr Luiz DeRose, Programming Environments Director, Sr. Principal Engineer, Cray Inc.
Location: The University of Sydney, School of IT Building, Boardroom (Room 124), Level 1

ABSTRACT
The scale of current and future high end systems, as well as the
increasing system software and architecture complexity, brings a new set
of challenges for application developers. In order to achieve high
performance on peta-scale systems, application developers need a
programming environment that can address and hide the issues of scale
and complexity of high end HPC systems. Users must be supported by
intelligent compilers, automatic performance analysis tools, adaptive
libraries, and scalable software. In this talk I will present the Cray
programming environment features that are being developed and deployed
to improve user's productivity on Cray Supercomputers. I will also
discuss some of the challenges and open research problems that need to
be addressed to build the system software for peta-scale systems.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Luiz DeRose is a Senior Principal Engineer and the Programming
Environments Director at Cray Inc, where he is responsible for the
programming environment strategy for all Cray systems. Before joining
Cray in 2004, he was a research staff member and the Tools Group Leader
at the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research.
Dr. DeRose had a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With more than 20 years of high
performance computing experience and a deep knowledge of its programming
environments, he has published more than 40 peer-review articles in
scientific journals, conferences, and book chapters, primarily on the
topics of compilers and tools for high performance computing.

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