Presenter

Volker Weinberg studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and later worked at the research centre DESY. He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin for his studies in the field of lattice QCD. Since 2008 he is working in the HPC group at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and is responsible for HPC training at LRZ, new programming languages and accelerators. Within PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, he is coordinating PRACE training at LRZ, leading the activity to create Best Practice Guides for new architectures and systems and is currently also involved as co-leader of the workpackage WP5 "HPC Commissioning and Prototyping". He was further member of the PRACE-6IP Editorial Board.