Beau Johnston
Computer Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolBeau Johnston is a computer scientist with 15 years’ experience specializing in high-performance and heterogeneous computing, currently spearheading collaborations on IRIS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in HPC and programming languages and developed AIWC, an architecture-independent workload characterization tool that pairs workload features with machine-learning performance models to guide scheduling and hardware evaluation. Beau’s work spans runtime systems, accelerators (CPU, NVIDIA/AMD GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs) and programming models (OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenCL, CUDA, SYCL), and contributed to the R&D 100–winning IRIS framework that enables truly heterogeneous concurrent execution from smartphones to supercomputers. Based in Canberra, he also applies data science and computational modeling to ecology and neuroscience, bringing cross-domain rigor to performance-driven tooling and developer guidance.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBCompSc.(Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class (85%), BCompSc.(Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class (85%) at University of New England (AU)
Github Skills (54)
graph-algorithms10
python10
network-analysis10
graph-analysis10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
graph-theory10
simulator9
ubuntu9
build-system9
opencl9
nvidia8
intel8
architecture7
ruby7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openparallel/Ne10BoostedImageThresh
May 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
BeauJoh/scientific-writing-with-pandoc
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
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