Author

Dr Tom Deakin is a Lecturer in Advanced Computer Systems at the University of Bristol researching the performance portability of massively parallel High Performance simulation codes. He develops both the theory and practice of performance portability, exploring parallel programming languages and designing and evaluating proxy applications. Tom has contributed to a number of open standard programming models, including SYCL, OpenMP, OpenCL and ISO C++. He is Chair of the Khronos SYCL Working Group, and a member of the ISO WG21 C++ Standards Committee. Tom, with co-author Tim Mattson (Intel Labs), is publishing a book on “Programming Your GPU with OpenMP”, expected to be released in November 2023.