CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Michael Resch
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Biography of the Conference Chair

Michael Resch is the director of the Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS) / High Perfor-mance Computing Center Stuttgart of the University of Stuttgart/Germany and the director of the De-partment for High Performance Computing at the University of Stuttgart since 2003, holding a full professorship for High Performance Computing.
Michael Resch has a more than 20 year track record in high performance computing. In 2007 he was an invited plenary speaker at SC’07 in Reno, USA. He was a member of the group that received the SC2003 HPC Challenge Award in 2003. In 1999 he led the group that received the NSF Award for High Performance Distributed Computing at SC’99. Michael Resch holds an honorable doctoral degree of the Technical University of Donezk/Ukraine.
Michael Resch is a PI in the cluster of excellence for Simulation Technology (SimTech) funded by the German DFG as part of the German Initiative for Excellence in Research. In 1997 he led the team that for the first time in the history of high performance computing linked two supercomputers in Europe and the US to solve a single great challenge problem. He initiated the first European Grid computing project METODIS in 1998 and has since led a number of European Grid Projects. Michael Resch is a member of the steering board of the German Grid initiative D-Grid, was the PI of the German Grid Engineering Project InGrid and is a Co-PI of the German Financial Grid Computing Project FinGrid.
Michael Resch is a member of the board of the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS), the chairman of the Technology and Business Council (TBC) of T-Systems SfR, a member of the Tech-nical Computing Executive Advisory Council of Microsoft, a member of the steering board of the IDC HPC User Forum, a member of the scientific advisory board of the foundation for Environment and Risk Prevention of the SparkasseVersicherung, a member of the Dr. Eisele foundation for German-French cooperation, a member of the board of the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC), and a member of the advisory board of the Triangle Venture Capital Group.
Michael Resch has previously served as the chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Swiss Center for Supercomputing (CSCS) and was the president of the NEC User Group (NUG).
Michael Resch holds an MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Technical Mathematics from the Technical Univer-sity of Graz/Austria and a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart/Germany. In 2002 he held an Assistant Professorship at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Houston,TX.