Presenter

Dr. Michael Lysaght leads the Novel Technologies Group and the Intel Parallel Computing Centre at the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), where he has a particular focus on supporting the Irish scientific user community and Irish industry in the exploitation of emerging HPC technologies, including GPUs, Xeon Phi and FPGAs. In conjunction with his role at ICHEC, Michael is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Funded Investigator in the Irish Centre for Software Engineering (LERO) focusing on data management and I/O performance engineering for extreme-scale seismic imaging. He also leads the Work Package 7 ‘Exploitation of HPC Tools and Techniques’ task as part of the EU’s Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) 3IP project and Work Package 5 in the EU FP7 ‘AutoTune’ project. Michael joined ICHEC in 2011 after working in the UK as a HPC application engineer as part of HECToR’s distributed Computational Science and Engineering program, where he worked on re-factoring and optimizing community codes for the UK research community. Prior to this, he worked for three years as a UK EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in theoretical atomic physics at Queen’s University Belfast, where he pioneered the development of Time-Dependent R-Matrix Theory and associated parallel applications including the TDRM and RMT codes. Michael obtained his PhD in physics in 2006 from University College Dublin and has co-authored 32 journal publications, including a recent book chapter with Intel on dynamic load balancing on heterogeneous architectures using OpenMP 4.0.