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 (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. He currently pursues research in

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

. He was

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(PI) for the software of the

petascale Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating point operations per second (1 petaFLOPS). Petascale computing allowed faster processing of traditional supercomputer applications. The first system to ...

Blue Waters system and co-director of the

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

and

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

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 science and engineering research United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory operated by University of Chicago, UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facil ...

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

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where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group that was responsible for major contributions to the IBM Scalable POWERparallel and to the Blue Gene supercomputers. He was awarded the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award 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 systems." Snir received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

in 1979, worked at NYU on the NYU Ultracomputer project in 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. 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

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Fellow, ACM Fellow, and

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Fellow. He is on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors and is on the

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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

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Current Research Affiliations

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