Presenter

Benjamin Glick is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, specializing in GPU communication libraries, high-performance computing, and scalable system software. He currently focuses on NVSHMEM, making high-performance, GPU-aware distributed programming more accessible to developers. Prior to NVIDIA, Ben held engineering roles at AI hardware startups including SAPEON and SambaNova Systems, where he designed distributed operating systems, memory and I/O architectures, collective communication libraries, and virtualization frameworks for custom AI accelerators. He has led software and hardware co-design efforts spanning multiple product generations, from pre-silicon through deployment. Ben’s expertise includes parallel and distributed runtime systems, accelerator and OS architecture, GPU- and network-optimized communication, and HPC/AI infrastructure. His work has been deployed in advanced AI and HPC environments worldwide.