As my activities deal with high-performance computing, I came up with maxperf being a good name for my own place in the web. This means, maxperf is not a company, and you can not buy anything here.

A short bio of mine may be of interest for some people: In June 1997, I finished my master studies of "Electrical Engineering / Computer Science" at the RWTH Aachen and became a Ph.D. student at the Chair for Operating Systems which belongs to the RWTH. The RWTH is one of the largest technical universities in Europe with more than 30.000 students (Technical University of Aachen would be some sort of translation).

I finally got my Ph.D. from there (Dr.Ing., to be exact - in Germany, a wide variety of doctoral degrees does exist). The title of my Ph.D. thesis is "Efficient Message-Passing on Memory-Coupled Clusters" and deals with an implementation of the Message-Passing Standard (MPI) on top of the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI, which is (still) an innovative interconnect - see Dolphin's website for more information). The complete thesis will be online here soon, and you can get the complete software (named SCI-MPICH) as part of the MP-MPICH project.

In June 2002, I left the LfBS after 5 great years to join NEC at their Computer & Communications Research Laboratories in St.Augustin (CCRL). Together with my colleagues, we maintain the MPI libraries for the whole range of NEC computer systems (look at HPCE for an overview). The most prominent system running our software is probably the Earth Simulator, currently the fastest computer in the world. The focus of my work at CCRL is the improvement of parallel input/output via MPI-IO.