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Prace Ada Lovelace award goes to LMU lecturer for HPC impact


AMD strengthens senior leadership team


AMD has announced several promotions and a new appointment to strengthen its senior leadership team, to further enable the company’s continued growth in HPC and other markets. AMD announced four senior


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Dr Alice-Agnes Gabriel has been awarded the Prace Ada Lovelace Award for HPC, for her contributions to and impact on HPC in Europe.


The award will be presented to her at the EuroHPC Summit Week 2020/ Pracedays20, on 26 March in Porto, Portugal. Dr Gabriel will give a talk during the plenary session on 25 March, and take part in the Pracedays panel discussion ‘Will HPC, AI and data science be the same in 10 years’ time?’ the following day. Núria López, chair of the Prace scientific


steering committee, said: ‘Dr Gabriel uses numerical simulations coupled to experimental observations to increase our understanding of the underlying physics of earthquakes. The work includes wide scales, and can improve our knowledge and safety against these phenomena.’ Dr Gabriel is a lecturer in Professor Heiner Igel‘s Chair of Seismology in the Institute of Geophysics, LMU, Munich. Her research is focusing on understanding the physics of earthquakes using theoretical analysis, physics-based forward models, innovative observation techniques and High-Performance Computing to bridge spatio-temporal scales. Her research was nominated and


awarded by several prizes, such as one of the Finalist by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize in 2014, at International Conference


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for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC14), New Orleans and Best Paper Award, IEEE/ ACM International Conference for High- Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC17), Denver, USA. Likewise, she was awarded the Prace ISC Award at the International Supercomputing Conference ISC 14, Leipzig, Germany Dr Gabriel contributes to two European


Horizon 2020 projects, an Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine ExaHyPE (ended October 2019) and Center of Excellence In Solid Earth ChEESE. The latter is a centre of excellence with the aim of bringing together leading European researchers in Solid Earth research at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for Exascale supercomputing. She is involved in two collaborative projects with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and two projects funded by the German Research Foundation – one of the two projects is Community Software for Reproducible Computational Seismology CoCoReCS, resulting from an interdisciplinary call to support sustainable research software called SeisSol. On top of this, her research project


‘TEAR – Truly Extended Earthquake Rupture’ was awarded an ERC Starting Grant last year.


vice president promotions: � Nazar Zaidi was promoted to senior vice president of Cores, Server SoC and Systems IP Engineering with continued responsibility for leading the development of leadership CPU cores, server SoCs and system IP. � Andrej Zdravkovic to senior vice president of software development, leading the teams responsible for all aspects of AMD software strategy and development across AMD graphics, client and data center products. � Spencer Pan to senior vice president of Greater China sales and president of AMD Greater China, with responsibility for leading all sales and go-to-market activities for AMD in Greater China and expansion of strategic partner and customer relationships in the region. � Jane Roney to senior vice president of business operations, responsible for aligning and scaling critical business processes across the company to support growth and help ensure consistent execution. AMD announced it has


hired industry veteran Daniel ) McNamara as senior vice president and general manager, server business unit. McNamara is responsible for building on the successful introduction of the second gen AMD Epyc processors to further accelerate adoption of the firm’s high-performance server solutions with cloud, enterprise and ecosystem partners. McNamara combines extensive


semiconductor and enterprise expertise, consistent engineering execution and a proven track record of driving growth in the data center market. Most recently, he was senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Network and Custom Logic group. He has held senior management and engineering roles at Altera, StarGen, SemiTech Solutions and Raytheon.


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