Dr. Brian J. N. Wylie

• Application performance engineering & tools support for JSC HPC systems (since 2004): JUPP (Cray XD1), JUMP (IBM P6), JUBL (IBM BG/L), JUICE (IBM Cell), JUGENE (IBM BG/P), JULI (IBM PPC), JUROPA (Intel NEH), JUDGE (IBM/Nvidia M2050), JUQUEEN (IBM BG/Q), JURECA (Intel/Nvidia HSW+KNL+K80), JURON (IBM/Nvidia Power8+P100), JUSUF (AMD/Nvidia EPYC+V100), JUWELS-C (Intel SKX), JUWELS-B (AMD/Nvidia EPYC+A100), JURECA-DC (AMD/Nvidia EPYC+A100+MI250X), JUPITER (tbd :-)
• Co-responsible for Extreme-scaling workshops & High-Q Club of HPC application codes
• Co-initiator & Coordinator of Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing Tuning Workshop series
• Developer of Scalasca toolset for scalable performance analysis of large-scale parallel applications
• EU HPC Centre of Excellence Performance Optimisation & Productivity performance analyst & trainer
• JLESC developer tools for porting and tuning parallel applications on extreme-scale parallel systems project head
• RIKEN CCS Software Development Technology Unit visiting researcher supporting Kei computer (SPARC64) & Fugaku (A64FX)
• Extreme-Scale Programming Tools (ESPT) / ProTools workshop organiser (2014) and committee member
• SC Conference Technical Program committee member for Tutorials³, BoFs & Workshops
• Students@SC mentor & UNWomen HeForShe equalizer & Women in HPC advocate
• SC22 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase chair

2000/09 - 2004/02: Member of Technical Staff (Solaris Software: Compilers & Tools), Sun Microsystems, Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA

• Co-developed the Developer Studio Performance Analyzer for Solaris/SPARC

1997/09 - 2000/08: Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), Madison, Wisconsin, USA

• Co-developed the Paradyn and dyninst tools in the group led by Prof. Barton Miller

1993/08 - 1997/08: Scientific Researcher, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS), Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

• Co-developed the Annai tools for NEC Cenju-2 MPP in collaboration with NEC Corporation, which became incorporated in Ftrace product

1990/11 - 1993/07: Application Specialist, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), Edinburgh, Scotland

• Co-developed first version of PARAMICS microscopic traffic simulator for Thinking Machines CM-200 which subsequently won the 1994 Scottish Strategic IT Award for technology transfer and 1995 Computerworld Smithsonian IT Award 1995 and became the foundation of a successful spin-off company

JSC publication list

Selected other publications

• B. Mohr, B. J. N. Wylie and F. Wolf: Performance measurement and analysis tools for extremely scalable systems, ISC Award 2008, International Supercomputing Conference, June 2008. [10.1002/cpe.1585]
• M. Itzkowitz, B. J. N. Wylie, C. Aoki, and N. Kosche: Memory profiling using hardware counters, SC'03: Proc. ACM/IEEE Conf. on Supercomputing, Nov. 2003. [10.1145/1048935.1050168]
• H. W. Cain, B. P. Miller and B. J. N. Wylie: A callgraph-based search strategy for automated performance diagnosis, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 14(3):203-217, March 2022. [10.1002/cpe.602]
• K. M. Decker and B. J. N. Wylie: Software Tools for Scalable Multilevel Application Engineering, Int'l J. Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing, 11(3):236-250, Sage, Sept. 1997. [10.1177/109434209701100306]
• C. Clémençon, A. Endo, J. Fritscher, A. Müller, R. Rühl and B. J. N. Wylie: The Annai environment for portable distributed parallel programming, Proc. 28th Hawai`i Int'l Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS-28), vol.2, pp.242-251, IEEE, 1995 [10.1109/HICSS.1995.375456]
• G. D. B. Cameron, B. J. N. Wylie and D. McArthur: PARAMICS: moving vehicles on the Connection Machine, Supercomputing'94: Proc. ACM/IEEE Conf. on Supercomputing, pp.291-300, Nov. 1994. [10.5555/602770.602826]