Marc Snir is an

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computer scientist. He holds a Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professorship in the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. He currently pursues research in

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. ...

. He was the principal investigator (PI) for the software of the

petascale Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of performing at least 1 quadrillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). These systems are often called petaflops systems and represent a significant leap from traditional ...

Blue Waters Blue Waters was a petascale supercomputer operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorize ...

system and co-director of the

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

and

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-funded Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC). From 2007 to 2008, he was director of the Illinois Informatics Institute. He was Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United Sta ...

from 2011 to 2016 and head of the Computer Science Department at Illinois from 2001 to 2007. Until 2001, he was a senior manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group responsible for major contributions to the IBM

IBM RS/6000 SP The Scalable POWERparallel (SP) is a discontinued series of supercomputers in the IBM RS/6000, RS/6000 line by IBM. The first model, the SP1, was introduced in February 1993, and new models were introduced throughout the 1990s until the RS/6000 w ...

and the

Blue Gene Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption. The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue ...

supercomputers. He was awarded the

Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award given by the IEEE Computer Society, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of supercomputer, high-performance computing. The ...

by the

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in 2013 for his "contributions to the research, development, theory, and standardization of high-performance parallel computing, including the IBM RS/6000 SP and Blue Gene system." Snir received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

in 1979, worked at NYU on the NYU Ultracomputer project from 1980–1982, and worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982–1986 before joining IBM. Marc Snir was a major contributor to the design of the

Message Passing Interface The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a portable message-passing standard designed to function on parallel computing architectures. The MPI standard defines the syntax and semantics of library routines that are useful to a wide range of use ...

. He has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity,

parallel algorithm In computer science, a parallel algorithm, as opposed to a traditional serial algorithm, is an algorithm which can do multiple operations in a given time. It has been a tradition of computer science to describe serial algorithms in abstract mach ...

s, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel languages and libraries and parallel programming environments. Snir is an AAAS Fellow,

ACM Fellow ACM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognises outstanding members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The title of ACM Fellow A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals ...

, and

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Fellow. He is on the

Computing Research Association The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit association of North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia enga ...

Board of Directors and the

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party * National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political g ...

CISE advisory committee.

Current Research Affiliations

Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at Illinois

Blue Waters Project
at th
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Illinois Informatics Institute

Information Trust Institute

References

External links

Biography

Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda

Parallel@Illinois

Illinois Department of Computer Science

Marc Snir Discusses the Blue Waters Project with NCSA's Access Magazine

PatHPC: Workshop on Patterns in High Performance Computing
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1999 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE IBM employees Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Israeli computer scientists {{compu-scientist-stub