Background
Snir, Marc was born on October 10, 1948 in Paris.
engineer university professor computer scientist
Snir, Marc was born on October 10, 1948 in Paris.
Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, Hebrew University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Hebrew University, 1979.
He currently pursues research in parallel computing. He is principal investigator (Principal Investigator) for the software of the petascale Blue Waters system and co-director of the Intel and Microsoft funded Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC). From 2007 to 2008 he was director of the Illinois Informatics Institute.
He was head of the Computer Science Department from 2001 to 2007.
Until 2001, he was a senior manager at the International Business Machines Corporation T.J. Watson Research Center where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group that was responsible for major contributions to the International Business Machines Corporation SP scalable parallel system and to the International Business Machines Corporation Blue Gene system. Snir received a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, worked at New York University on the New York University Ultracomputer project in 1980-1982, and worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982-1986, before joining International Business Machines Corporation. Marc Snir was a major contributor to the design of the Message Passing Interface.
He has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel languages and libraries and parallel programming environments. Snir is American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.
He is on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors and is on the National Science Foundation CISE advisory committee.
Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at Illinois
Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Aapplications (NCSA)
Illinois Informatics Institute
Information Trust Institute.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member Association for Computing Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation Academy Technology.
Married Avigail Kopelevitch, July 29, 1971. Children: Anat, Yehuda, Batia.