W Brown
Distinguished Performance Architect at NVIDIA
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolW Brown is a Distinguished Performance Architect with over a decade of experience optimizing software and co-designing hardware for scientific and high-performance computing. He has driven major performance wins—single-handedly delivering multi-fold speedups in LAMMPS and NAMD and contributing to the Titan supercomputer’s world-leading performance—while filing patents and publishing research across parallel algorithms, ML, information theory, and applied molecular physics. At Intel and Oak Ridge he pioneered GPU-accelerated MD at extreme scale and developed algorithmic and tooling advances that made previously infeasible simulations practical. Now at NVIDIA, he continues to bridge low-level architecture and application-level performance, and he remains an active LAMMPS contributor (notably implementing new pair/dihedral styles and Skylake/Intel optimizations). His background uniquely combines a PhD in biomedical sciences, dual BS degrees in CS and biochemistry, and a track record of translating research into production-class, highly optimized scientific software.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of New MexicoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Sciences at The University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Github Skills (9)
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c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
nonlinear-dynamics10
openmp8
fortran4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
lammps/lammps
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 54 commits, 35 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:W implemented new pair styles and dihedral styles within the LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics software package, specifically the DPD/Intel and fourier/intel. The user also added performance improvements for Skylake Xeon servers and addressed compilation issues related to older Intel compilers and the absence of OpenMP support. These changes included updates to the source code and makefiles, along with adjustments to build configurations and documentation.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
wmbrownIntel/lammps
Oct 2017 - Mar 2024
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Contributions:16 pushes, 42 branches in 6 years 6 months
lammps
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