Mark Parsons
Biography
Prof. Mark Parsons joined EPCC, the supercomputing centre at The University of
Edinburgh, in 1994 as a software developer working on several industrial contracts
following a PhD in Particle Physics undertaken on the LEP accelerator at CERN in Geneva.
In 1997 he became the Centre’s Commercial Manager and subsequently its Commercial
Director. Today he is EPCC’s Executive Director and also the Associate Dean for e-Research at Edinburgh. Mark is the Project Coordinator of the NEXTGenIO FETHPC
project, which looks at addressing the I/O bottleneck through the use of novel memory
technologies. His research interests include E xascale software, data intensive computing
and novel hardware design. He has many interests in distributed computing ranging from its
industrial use in projects such as FORTISSIMO to the provision of panEuropean HPC
services through the PRACE Research Infrastructure.
Edinburgh, in 1994 as a software developer working on several industrial contracts
following a PhD in Particle Physics undertaken on the LEP accelerator at CERN in Geneva.
In 1997 he became the Centre’s Commercial Manager and subsequently its Commercial
Director. Today he is EPCC’s Executive Director and also the Associate Dean for e-Research at Edinburgh. Mark is the Project Coordinator of the NEXTGenIO FETHPC
project, which looks at addressing the I/O bottleneck through the use of novel memory
technologies. His research interests include E xascale software, data intensive computing
and novel hardware design. He has many interests in distributed computing ranging from its
industrial use in projects such as FORTISSIMO to the provision of panEuropean HPC
services through the PRACE Research Infrastructure.
Presentations
Birds of a Feather
Intermediate
Performance
Workshop
Exascale
File Systems
I/O
Networks
Storage
