Author

Dr Horst Simon is an internationally recognized expert in the development of parallel computational methods for the solution of scientific problems of scale. His research interests are in the development of sparse matrix algorithms, algorithms for large-scale eigenvalue problems, and domain decomposition algorithms. His recursive spectral bisection algorithm is a breakthrough in parallel algorithms. He has 40 years’ experience in high performance computing and numerical algorithms. He has worked in industry (Boeing, SGI), in research labs (NASA Ames, Berkeley Lab), and in universities (Stony Brook Univ., UC Berkeley)