Christian Terboven

Dr. Christian Terboven is a senior scientist at RWTH Aachen University and leads the High-Performance Computing (HPC) group at the IT Center and the Chair for Computer Science 12 - High-Performance Computing. He manages the national and European HPC research and collaboration projects executed at these institutions. In his role as RWTH's HPC service manager and NHR4CES project lead, he is responsible for formulating and implementing RWTH's HPC strategy on infrastructure and service development. He is the vice chair of the Virtual Institute — High Productivity Supercomputing.

His research interests center around Parallel Programming – with a focus on Shared-Memory architectures, paradigms, programming languages, and related software engineering aspects. He has been involved in the analysis, tuning, and parallelization of several large-scale simulation codes for various architectures. He offers lectures and software labs on parallel and data-centric programming. Since 2006, Christian is a member of the OpenMP language committee. In this capacity, he leads the Affinity subcommittee, working on the association of computation with data, for instance on NUMA architectures. He regularly collaborates with industry and has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP (MVP Exec Summary) five times.

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