Matt Norman
Group Leader, Advanced Computing For Life Sciences And Engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Norman is a computational scientist and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable algorithms and performance-portable C++ libraries for high-performance computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As Group Leader for Advanced Computing for Life Sciences and Engineering, he blends deep expertise in CFD, MPI/OpenMP/OpenACC parallelism, and legacy Fortran with modern machine learning augmentation to accelerate modeling and simulation. His background spans PhD-level atmospheric science and computer science, enabling him to translate numerical methods for multi‑100k-processor systems into production-ready solvers and tools. Known for publishing novel conservative remapping and Godunov-type schemes early in his career, he combines research rigor with pragmatic software engineering to tackle climate and life‑science applications. Based in Knoxville, he jokes about “saving the world, one keystroke at a time,” but delivers measurable scalability and performance improvements on leadership-class supercomputers.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Ph.D., Atmospheric Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (49)
climate-model10
porting10
planetary10
bitbake10
fortran10
energy10
linux10
cluster-computing10
cmake10
climate-science10
c1110
earth10
kernel10
renewable-energy10
snl-applications10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mrnorman/miniWeather
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
A parallel programming training mini app simulating weather-like flows
Contributions:1 review, 339 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 6 months
mpiflowsparallelhpc-applicationssnl-applications
mrnorman/YAKL
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
YAKL is A Kokkos Layer: A simple C++ framework for performance portability and Fortran code porting
Contributions:21 reviews, 762 commits, 134 PRs in 3 years 9 months
kernelcppcmakeplatform-independentlinux
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