Presenter

Anthony (Tony) Skjellum is a Professor of Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University. His focus has been on scalable libraries and message passing middleware since the late 1980s. Circa 1993-94, his group co-invented the MPICH implementation MPI, together with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory. He has been active in the MPI Forum since its inception in 1992. He is co-PI of the DOE/NNSA Center CUP-ECS, led by the University of New Mexico (UNM), and the UNM-led DOE/NNSA Center COMPASS. His contributions to HPC include work on free and commercial versions of MPI, MPI/RT, and scalable algorithms and libraries.