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Tobias Weinzierl is Professor in High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, where he leads the Scientific Computing research group, and the Director of Durham’s Institute for Data Science (IDAS). After studying Computer Science with a minor in Maths, he obtained a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) as well as a habilitation in Computer Science from TUM. Tobias has been the inaugurate director of the Master in Scientific Computing and Data Analysis (MISCADA), he is the PI on multiple HPC projects tied to the UK’s exascale programme ExCALIBUR, and he heads the UK’s first Intel oneAPI Centre of Excellence. He also serves as Domain Panel Chair (Artificial Intelligence) for EuroHPC JU.

He is particularly interested in efficient ways how to translate state-of-the-art algorithms – multigrid, higher-order DG or SPH formalisms – into fast code that fits to modern architectures, and how to create performance-portable algorithms and code. Where possible, his work feeds into open source software.

@tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social

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    Great write-up from one of our @cake-dri.bsky.social CoLs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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    Good start into the week: Our paper on "Annotation-guided AoS-to-SoA conversions and GPU offloading with data views in C++" has been accepted at CPE: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.16517 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.16517
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    Great to see our knowledge exchange project (cake-dri.github.io) being represented properly at meetings. Thanks to Eleanor Broadway @epcc.bsky.social
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    Not to be shared yet (and therefore I put it on social media ;-): As of next autumn, we will start recruiting for a new MSc on AI Infrastructure Platforms. This aligns perfectly with our recent successes and investments into upskilling around Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI).
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    It is great to be at Gregynog to learn more about gravitational waves. Excellent introductory talk by Bernard F. Schutz pointing out how computer hardware technology changed the discipline. We need the same appreciation for software now. https://sites.google.com/view/nrgregynog/home