Presenter

Dr Achim Basermann is head of High-Performance Computing at German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Simulation and Software Technology institute and German Research Foundation (DFG) review board member in computer science, topic "Massively Parallel and Data Intensive Systems". He coordinated the application work-package in the European Grid computing project NextGRID, the pre- and post-processing activities in the European Exascale computing project CRESTA and algorithmic research in the Exascale computing projects ESSEX I and II. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen followed by a postdoctoral position in Computer Science at Research Centre Jülich, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics. From 1997 to 2009 he led a team of HPC application experts at C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd. His current research is focused on massively parallel linear algebra algorithms, partitioning methods, optimisation tools in the area of CFD for many-core architectures and GPGPU clusters, high-performance data analytics and quantum computing.