Marc Snir

Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1979

Research Statement

Prof. Snir is interested in various aspects of parallel computing and large scale distributed processing. His theoretical work in this area includes studies of parallel computation models and of parallel algorithms. His work in parallel computer architecture includes work on parallel interconnection networks and on mechanisms for efficient large scale shared memory support. His work on parallel computing software includes contributions to the design and implementation of the MPI message passing library, work on performance visualization tools and on a parallel file system. While at IBM Research he contributed to the design of the IBM SP2 supercomputer system and of several large-scale shared memory systems.

Prof. Snir's main research interest continues to be models for expressing large-scale parallel computations and mechanisms for mapping those efficiently on distributed and parallel systems.