Presenter

Marie-Christine Sawley holds a PhD in Plasma Physics from EPFL (1985). After a postdoc at the University of Sydney, she joined the EPFL in 1988 to lead the support group for HPC applications. She led a number of HPC initiatives for introducing new technology at the EPFL such as the PATP with the Cray T3D, the SwissTX prototype and establishing the Vital IT partnership between HP, EPFL and the SIB. She joined the ETH Zurich in 2003 as general manager of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, expanding its large scientific and technology portfolio. From 2008 until 2010, she worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Particle Physics of ETH on the LCG grid for the CMS detector. She became the Intel manager of the ECR lab in Paris in 2010. The ECR lab activities concentrate on software for exascale, tools, runtime models and applications for XEON and MIC.