Christian Terboven
Chief HPC Officer at RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Terboven is Chief HPC Officer at RWTH Aachen’s IT Center and a senior scientist who shapes the university’s HPC strategy, procurement, and service model while coordinating applied research and third‑party projects. With a Dr. rer. nat. in computer science and over a decade of focused work in parallel programming, he specializes in shared‑memory architectures, OpenMP, C++, and performance analysis. He has long steered community standards as a member of the OpenMP Language Committee since 2006 and currently leads its Affinity subcommittee, advancing NUMA-aware computation placement. In practice he pairs hands‑on analysis and tuning of large‑scale simulation codes with teaching labs on parallel and data‑centric programming, bridging research and operational service delivery. Recognized repeatedly as a Microsoft MVP, he combines deep academic credentials with pragmatic system design for campus‑scale and regional HPC infrastructures. Colleagues rely on him for turning low‑level performance insight into procurement and operational choices that make HPC both usable and efficient.
8 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cterboven/OpenMP-tutorial-EUROfusion
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cterboven/OpenMP-tutorial-PRACE-2022
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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