Presenter

Ryan E. Grant is a senior member of technical staff and the scalable interconnects team lead in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. His research focuses on high performance networking for Extreme scale systems. He is an active member of the Portals Networking Interface specification team, working on next generation high performance interconnects. In addition, he serves on the MPI specifications body (MPI Forum), as well as being a developer for the Open MPI project. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Engineering in 2012 from Queen’s University, Canada, where he was an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Research Scholar.