Intel® Threading Challenge 2010 - Meet the Judges

Dr. Clay Breshears is the author of The Art of Concurrency (O'Reilly, 2009) and has been with Intel since September 2000. He started as a Senior Parallel Application Engineer at the Intel Parallel Applications Center in Champaign, IL, implementing multithreaded and distributed solutions in customer applications. Clay is currently a Course Architect for Intel Innovative Software Education specializing in multi-core and multithreaded programming and training. Clay has served as a judge for the Intel Threading Challenge contests since September 2007.

Before joining Intel, Clay was a Research Scientist at Rice University helping Department of Defense researchers make best use of the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms and resources. Clay received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee in 1996, but has been involved with parallel computation and programming for over twenty-five years.

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