Robert Kuhn

Robert Kuhn received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981. In 1983, as assistant professor at Northwestern University, he consulted on the vector register architecture for the Gould SEL real-time minicomputers. In 1987, he led Alliant Computer System's vectorizing-parallelizing compiler team. In 1990, he led the team of application experts at Alliant. In 1992 when Alliant closed, he worked for Kuck and Associates, Inc. and led the customer experts where, for...See more

Robert Kuhn received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981. In 1983, as assistant professor at Northwestern University, he consulted on the vector register architecture for the Gould SEL real-time minicomputers. In 1987, he led Alliant Computer System's vectorizing-parallelizing compiler team. In 1990, he led the team of application experts at Alliant. In 1992 when Alliant closed, he worked for Kuck and Associates, Inc. and led the customer experts where, for example, he worked with SGI and other OEMs on the definition and adoption of OpenMP. In 2000 when Intel acquired KAI, he worked on adoption and integration of threading by HPC ISVs He managed the acquisition by Intel of Pallas GmbH and their MPI tools. He managed Intel's participation in the ASCI/LLNL Ultrascale project to develop MPI/OpenMP performance analysis tools and led development of other Intel HPC tools. Dr. Kuhn led the adoption of threading by ISVs for the introduction of Intel's first multicore processor and the Intel/Microsoft Universal Parallel Computing Research Center project with University of California Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as managing approximately 20 other university research projects in high performance computing. See less