Presenter

Dr. Robert W. Wisniewski is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and the Chief Software Architect for Extreme Scale Computing and a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He is the lead architect for Intel's HPC Orchestrator, a cohesive and comprehensive software stack, and responsible for the software for Aurora, the world's largest announced supercomputer. He has published over 71 papers in the area of high performance computing, computer systems, and system performance, filed over 56 patents, and given over 50 external invited presentations. Before coming to Intel, he was the chief software architect for Blue Gene Research and manager of the Blue Gene and Exascale Research Software Team at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Facility, where he was an IBM Master Inventor and led the software effort on Blue Gene/Q, which was the fastest machine in the world on the June 2012 Top 500 list, and occupied 4 of the top 10 positions.