Simon McIntosh-Smith

Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith is the founder and Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, which runs the UK’s Isambard-AI service, a leadership-class supercomputer optimised for artificial intelligence.

He began his career in industry as a microprocessor architect, first at Inmos and STMicro in the 1990s, before co-designing the world’s first fully programmable GPU at Pixelfusion in 1999.

In 2002 he co-founded ClearSpeed Technology where, as Director of Architecture and Applications, he co-developed the first modern many-core HPC accelerators.

He previously founded the HPC Research Group in Bristol, where his research interests include advanced computer architectures and performance portability.

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