Presenter

Bill Long is a General Engineer/Master at HPE, and was a Principal Engineer at Cray previously. He has a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been involved with the international standardization of the Fortran language for about 20 years, more recently serving as the head of the HPC subgroup of both the US and ISO committees. He wrote his first Fortran programs as part of an NSF program for high school students in the summer of 1968. He was instrumental in the incorporation of SPMD parallelism into the base Fortran language, making the use of libraries such as MPI no longer necessary for writing code that executes on a distributed-memory parallel computer system.