Marc Snir

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Marc Snir (born October 10, 1948 in Courbevoie , France ) is an American computer architect and mathematician who deals with parallel computers and algorithms for them.

Life

Snir received his doctorate in mathematics ( Depth complexity of formulas ) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 with Eli Shamir , after he received his bachelor's degree there in 1972, worked on the ultra-computer project at New York University from 1980 to 1982 , where he was assistant professor for Computer Science was and was Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University from 1982 to 1986 . He then went to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM , where he led the research group for scalable parallel computer systems . With the group he made significant contributions to the SP Scalable Parallel System and the Blue Gene System from IBM. He was also one of the main people in charge of the Message Passing Interface .

He is a Distinguished Fellow in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Argonne National Laboratory and Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He is a US citizen.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Computing Machinery .

In 2013 he received the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award and he received the IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing.

Fonts

  • Editor with Susan L. Graham , Cynthia A. Patterson: Getting up to speed. The future of supercomputing. National Academies Press, Washington DC 2005
  • Marc Snir, Steve Otto, Steven Huss-Lederman, David Walker, Jack Dongarra : MPI- The complete reference, Vol 1: The MPI core. 2nd edition, MIT Press 1998
  • William Gropp, Steven Huss-Lederman, Andrew Lumsdaine, Ewing Lusk, Bill Nitzberg, William Saphir, Marc Snir: MPI-The Complete Reference, Vol. 2 - The MPI-2 Extensions. The MIT Press 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004, place of birth as Courbevois
  2. ↑ Marc Snir in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Online version, Jack Dongarra
personal data
SURNAME Snir, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Courbevoie