Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith

Professor in High Performance Computing

Office 3.09
Merchant Venturers Building,
Woodland Road, Clifton BS8 1UB
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Research summary

Performance portablity
Application-based fault tolerance (ABFT)
New algorithms for novel architectures
Heterogeneous, many-core processor architectures, including GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGAs, DSPs etc.
Scaling applications to run on millions of cores (Exascale computing)

Senior Lecturer in High Performance Computing and Architectures at the University of Bristol
Chair of the Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC)
Member of EPSRC's new Research Infrastructure Strategic Advisory Team (since 2011)
Member of EPSRC's resource allocation panel (RAP) for HECToR
Member of the programme committee for IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2010
Part of the International Exascale Software Project from April 2010
Technical expert in ...

Senior Lecturer in High Performance Computing and Architectures at the University of Bristol

Chair of the Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC)

Member of EPSRC's new Research Infrastructure Strategic Advisory Team (since 2011)

Member of EPSRC's resource allocation panel (RAP) for HECToR

Member of the programme committee for IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2010

Part of the International Exascale Software Project from April 2010

Technical expert in the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) since November 2010

Member of the programme committee for the International Supercomputing Conference

Member of the programme committee for the Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores (MULTIPROG-2011) workshop ...

Deakin, T, Price, J, Martineau, M & McIntosh-Smith, S, 2018, ‘Evaluating attainable memory bandwidth of parallel programming models via BabelStream’. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, vol 17., pp. 247-262
Shoemark, D, Ibarra, AA, Ross, J, Beesley, J, Bray, H, Mosayebi, M, Linden, N, Liverpool, T, McIntosh-Smith, S, Woolfson, D & Sessions, R, 2018, ‘The dynamical interplay between a megadalton peptide nanocage and solutes probed by microsecond atomistic MD; implications for design’. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.