Christian Terboven studied computer science at RWTH Aachen University and
specialized on High Performance Computing. Since completing his diploma
in 2006 he is working as a research associate in the HPC department of the
Center for Computing and Communication at RWTH Aachen University. In
10/2009 he became the deputy head of the HPC department.
His research interests center around Parallel Programming - with a focus
on Shared-Memory architectures, Paradigms, Programming Languages, and
related Software Engineering aspects. Christian Terboven has been involved
in the Analysis, Tuning and Parallelization of several large-scale simulation
codes for various architectures, and has published over 20 papers on this
subject.
Since 2006, he is a member of the OpenMP Language Committee. In this
capacity, he is involved in the Affinity subcommittee, working on
explicit support for NUMA architectures, and the Interoperability and
Composability subcommittee, taking care of integration with other
parallel programming models and developments in the base languages.
He is also the second representative in the OpenMP Architecture Review
Board for RWTH Aachen University.
He lead the "Windows-HPC" project that started in 2004 and introduced HPC
on Windows as a service for RWTH Aachen University and the state of
North-Rhine Westphalia, using the Microsoft Windows HPC Server product.
In 04/2010 and 04/2011 he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional (MVP) for Technical Computing (formerly Windows HPC Server)
for his contribution to the technical Windows HPC Server community. More
information on this program may be found here:
MVP Exec
Summary.
