Presenter

Simon McIntosh-Smith received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cardiff in 1991, graduating as valedictorian. He then became a microprocessor architect at Inmos and STMicroelectronics, before co-designing the world’s first fully programmable GPU at Pixelfusion in 1999. In 2002 he co-founded ClearSpeed Technology where, as Director of Architecture and Applications, he co-developed the first modern many-core HPC accelerators.In 2003 he led the development of the first accelerated BLAS/LAPACK and FFT libraries leading to the first modern accelerated Top500 system, TSUBAME-1.0 at Tokyo Tech in 2006. He now leads the Microelectronics Research Group at the University of Bristol, UK. In 2013 he was a joint recipient of an R&D 100 award for his contribution to Sandia’s Mantevo benchmark suite. In 2014 he was awarded the first Intel Parallel Computing Center in the UK. McIntosh-Smith actively contributes to the Khronos OpenCL heterogeneous many-core programming standard