Tim Mattson Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer obsessed with every variety of science (Ph.D. Chemistry, UCSC, 1985). He retired in August 2023 after a long career at Intel where he worked on: (1) the first TFLOP computer (ASCI Red), (2) MPI, OpenMP and OpenCL, (3) two different research processors (Intel’s TFLOP chip and the 48 core SCC), (4) Data management systems (Polystore systems and Array-based storage engines), and (5) the GraphBLAS API for expressing graph algorithms as sparse linear algebra.
Tim is passionate about teaching. He’s been teaching OpenMP longer than anyone on the planet with OpenMP tutorials at every SC’XY conference but one since 1998. He has published six books on different aspects of parallel computing the most recent (November 2023) titled “Programming your GPU with OpenMP”.