Jeff Larkin
Director at NVIDIA
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Larkin is an HPC application profiling and optimization specialist with 16 years of experience advancing GPU-accelerated and distributed computing at NVIDIA, where he now directs teams shaping programming models, standards, and technical marketing for HPC and quantum computing. He has driven NVIDIA’s HPC software stack and standards engagement—spanning C++, Fortran, OpenACC, OpenMP, and MPI—while chairing the OpenACC technical committee to steer industry adoption. Earlier roles at Cray and the University of Tennessee’s Innovative Computing Laboratory grounded his expertise in performance engineering, cluster/grid middleware, and developer enablement. Based in Knoxville, he combines hands-on porting and profiling experience with strategic leadership, uniquely bridging developer-facing tooling and standards work to accelerate real-world scientific workloads.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Furman University
Stackoverflow
1,279reputation
32kreached
42answers
4questions
Github Skills (91)
formatting10
nvidia10
google-colaboratory10
simulation10
lammps10
autodock9
hpc-applications9
interoperability9
openacc9
gpu9
monte-carlo9
fortran9
cuda9
snl-applications8
cluster-computing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jefflarkin/miniWeather
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
A parallel programming training mini app simulating weather-like flows
Contributions:14 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
flowsparalleltrainingmini-appparallel-programming
OpenACC/openacc-best-practices-guide
Nov 2014 - Apr 2022
The sources for the OpenACC Programming and Best Practices Guide.
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 58 commits in 7 years 6 months
openaccgpufortrancplusplussources
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