By: TOP500 Team

Dr. Ing. Bernd Mohr, Deputy Division Head / SC17 General Chair, Jülich Supercomputing Centre

For the first time in the history of the Supercomputing Conference, an industry leader from outside the USA will serve as the conference’s general chair. The honor, slated for SC17, goes to Dr. Bernd Mohr, who has previous experience serving the SC Steering Committee, and served as executive consultant for ISC.

Since 1996 Mohr has been a senior scientist at the Jülich Research Center. He also serves as the Deputy Division Head of Application Support as well as a team lead for Programming Environments and Performance Optimization at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). He is an active member in the International Exascale Software Project (IESP) and a leader in the European (EESI) and Jülich (EIC, ECL) exascale efforts.

Read the interview on HPCWire.