Presenter

Felix Wolf is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt in Germany, where he is head of the Laboratory for Parallel Programming. He specializes in methods, tools, and algorithms to exploit massive parallelism on modern computer architectures. Since the beginning of his professional career, Prof. Wolf designed programming tools for HPC. He has made major contributions to Scalasca, a widely used open-source tool for the performance analysis of HPC applications. Currently, he is working on methods for automatic performance modeling. Moreover, he has initiated and serves as spokesman of the Virtual Institute – High Productivity Supercomputing, an international initiative of academic HPC programming-tool builders aimed at the enhancement, integration, and deployment of their products. Prof. Wolf has published more than a hundred refereed articles on parallel computing, several of which have received awards.