Hans Meuer was a professor of computer science at the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public university, public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Aca ...

, managing director of Prometeus GmbH and general chair of the

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. In 1986, he became co-founder and organizer of the first Mannheim Supercomputer Conference, which has been held annually but known as the International Supercomputing Conference since 2001. Meuer served as specialist, project leader, group and department chief during his 11 years at the Jülich Research Centre, Germany. For the following 33 years, he was director of the computer center and professor for computer science at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Since 1998 - 2013, he was the managing director of Prometeus GmbH, a company that runs a series of conferences in fields closely associated with high performance computing. Meuer studied mathematics, physics and politics at the universities of Marburg, Giessen and Vienna. In 1972, he received his doctorate in mathematics from the Rheinisch Westfälische Technical University (RWTH) of

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. Since 1974, he was professor of mathematics and computer science at the

with specialization in software engineering. For more than 20 years, he has been involved intensively in the areas of supercomputing/

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computing, computation in which many calculations or Process (computing), processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. ...

. In 1993, Meuer started the

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

initiative together with Erich Strohmaier, Horst Simon and

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References

External links

Hans Meuer's Homepage

The International Supercomputing Conference HomepageISC Conference Series
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meuer, Hans German computer scientists 1936 births 2014 deaths RWTH Aachen University alumni Academic staff of the University of Mannheim