Dr. Simon Mcintosh Smith

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Biography

Simon McIntosh-Smith is a Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol, where he leads research in the field of computational architectures. His expertise spans over fifteen years in the industry, focusing on designing and programming some of the world's fastest parallel processors using many-core and multi-core techniques. He has been actively involved in high-performance computing (HPC) and is a member of multiple international committees; notably, he is the chair of the Many-core Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference and has contributed to EPSRC's research initiatives. Simon's research interests involve utilizing the latest graphics processors for solving significant computational problems, particularly in areas such as life sciences, genome sequencing, and quantum chemistry, with a strong emphasis on parallel programming languages like OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA. He is also interested in performance portability and application-based fault tolerance in heterogeneous computing environments.

Research Interests

Experience

Senior Lecturer

2010-01-01 — Present

University of Bristol • Bristol, UK

Teaching and researching high performance computing architectures.

Requirements for University of Bristol

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:19
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:88
Prerequisites
Upper second-class MSci honours degree in physics or related discipline Or a relevant postgraduate MSc
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Specialization Notes

Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.