CV for

James Reinders

Professional Experience

Intel Corporation

November 2020 – present

Engineer

James Reinders Consulting LLC

August 2016 – November 2020

HPC and ML/AI Consultant

• Expert consulting
• Blogging
• Technical writing, Teaching, White Papers
• High Performance Machine Learning

Intel Corporation

February 1989 – June 2016

Intel Achievement Award Recipient, Intel’s highest honor.

Parallel Programming Models Architect for Intel’s HPC Business.

Key contributor for two of the longest standing #1 computers in history: ASCI Red (#1 for June 1997-November 2000) and Tianhe-2A (#1 for June 2013-June 2016).

Author/editor of ten technical books (while at Intel, another coming in 2019 post-Intel)

HPC Technical Communications Expert: Public Face for Intel to High Performance Computing (HPC) Software Developers, Corporate qualified spokesperson for Press and Analysts.

Business Architect of Intel’s Software Tools Business (propelling Intel from obscurity to a leader in software development tools, with a powerful channel and sales force).

Official roles and titles during tenure at Intel:

Parallel Programming Model Architect and Evangelist, Director, October 2010-June 2016.

Evangelist and Director of Marketing & Sales for Software Development Tools, 2000-2010

Technical Marketing and Customer Support Manager – Intel Software Development Tools, Pentium 4 and Itanium Software Development Systems, 1998-2000

Project lead and manager Intel Fortran Compiler and C/C++ Frontend teams, 1995-1998

Senior Systems Architect ASCI Red Project (world’s first TeraFLOP supercomputer), Pentium Pro Compilers, and 64-bit Architecture Pathfinding, 1992-1995

Compiler Engineer and Team Lead, iWarp, Systolic Array Supercomputer, Compiler liaison to Carnegie Mellon University, 1989-1992

Corporate qualified spokesperson (media trained) for Intel, 1998-2016.

Selected Publications

• Books
  • Data Parallel C++: Mastering DPC++ for Programming of Heterogeneous Systems using C++ and SYCL, Apress, 2020
  • Pro TBB: C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks, Apress, 2019
  • Intel Xeon Phi Processor High Performance Programming – Knights Landing Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2016
  • High Performance Parallelism Pearls, Volume Two, Morgan Kaufmann, 2015
  • High Performance Parallelism Pearls, Volume One, Morgan Kaufmann, 2015
  • Multithreading for Visual Effects, CRC Press, 2014, co-author with other technical leaders (and friends) from Dreamworks Animation Pixar, AMD, Google, SideFX
  • Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming, Morgan Kaufmann, 2013. Also translated to Japanese (2014) and Chinese (2014).
  • Structured Parallel Programming, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012. Also translated to Japanese (2013).
  • Intel Threading Building Blocks – Outfitting C++ for Parallelism, O’Reilly Press, 2007. Also translated to Japanese (2008), Chinese (2009) and Korean (2010). Sole author.
  • VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials, Intel Press, 2005. Sole author.
• Contributor to books
  • Authored entries on Systolic Arrays and Warp and iWarp, Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Padua, David (Ed.), Springer Publishing, 2011.
  • Author of three chapters in Multi-Core Programming, Akhter, Shameem and Roberts, Jason Gross, Intel Press, 2006.
  • Author of three chapters in Itanium Architecture for Software Developers, Intel Press, 2000.
  • Contributor to book iWarp: Anatomy of a Parallel Computing System, Gross, T. and O'Hallaron, D., MIT Press, 1998.
• Non-book publications
  • Editor of Intel Parallel Universe quarterly magazine. April 2009 (Issue 1) to Q3 2016 (Issue 25).
  • Intel whitepapers, blogs and introductory material for publications, 1989-2016.
  • Hardware and Systems. Reinders, J., in Information Technology Methoden und innovative Anwendungen der Informatik und Informationstechnik, 55(3), pp. 86-90. 2013.
  • Only the first steps of the parallel evolution have been taken thus far, Reinders, J., Facing the Multicore-Challenge II, Springer, pp1-9, 2012.
  • Rules for Parallel Programming for Multicore, Reinders, J., Dr.Dobbs Journal, Sept. 5, 2007
  • Modelling Instruction-Level Parallelism for Software Pipelining, Adl-Tabatabai, A. and Gross, T. and Lueh, G. and Reinders, J., in Proc. IFIP WG10.3 (Concurrent Systems) Working Conf. on Architectures and Compilation Techniques for Fine and Medium Grain Parallelism, pp. 321-330. IFIP WG 10.3, North Holland, Orlando, FL., Jan 1993.
  • “H-150 Speed-up Modifications,” REMark Magazine (HeathkitUser Group), November 1987, pp 44,47,56.
  • “More Undocumented Z80™ Opcodes,” Lifelines Software Magazine, August 1982, pp 10-15.
  • “Random Numbers for Microsoft BASIC,” Lifelines SoftwareMagazine, August 1981, pp 26-27.

Selected Teaching/Speaking Experience

• Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) invited speaker, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.
• OpenMPCon Keynote speaker for inaugural conference, September 2015
• SIGGRAPH tutorial “Multithreading for Visual Effects” co-presenter in 2013 and 2015. Published the 2013 course as a book after being approached by publisher who sat in on the tutorial.
• Keynote speaker at IXPUG 17 in Austin Texas
• Moderator for Panel “Industry Panel: New Paradigm in Computing: What Should Developers Know?”
• SC17 Tutorial “SC17 Tutorial "Programming your GPU with OpenMP:  A hands-on Introduction," co-presenter.
• SC16 Tutorial “Programming your GPU with OpenMP:  A hands-on Introduction,” co-presenter.
• SC13 Tutorial “Structured Parallel Programming with Patterns,” co-presenter.
• SC11 Workshop “Understanding Intel’s Parallel Programming Models,” co-presenter.
• Intel HPC Developer Conferences 2015: U.S., UK, India, Japan, Korea, China. Overall technical chair, speaker and MC for U.S.
• Intel Developers Forum (IDF), technical presentations every year 2003-2011 and in 2013 and 2015, multiple times “Outstanding Speaker” (top 10). Coaches speakers for most recent IDFs. Also taught courses at IDF events in Beijing, Seoul and Taiwan.
• Intel Sales and Marketing Conference (ISMC), United States, more than 10 years as an instructor.
• Multicore World, 2012, New Zealand, keynote speaker
• LCA2010/Multicore World, New Zealand, keynote speaker
• Apple World-Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), San Francisco, invited external speaker, 2007, 2008.
• China Software Developers Network Conference, Beijing, invited keynote speaker, 2007.
• Evans Data Corporation Developer Relations Conference, San Jose, invited keynote speaker 2009, 2010, 2011.
• Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC), Los Angeles, invited external speaker and panelist, 2008, 2009.
• Finnish Multicore Days 2011 Conference, Stockholm, invited speaker and panelist, 2011.
• Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Multicore-Days 2008 Conference, Stockholm, invited speaker, 2008.
• Sony Corporation, Annual Technical Summit, Tokyo, invited keynote speaker, 2007.
• Customer training – multi-day technical training classes many locations around the world since 1987, hundreds of hours of teaching. Includes helping organize and deliver multiple hands-on courses for programming Intel Xeon Phi, ranging from 2 to 5 day long classes.
• Customer and partner visits – numerous technical and business related presentations at events including user group meetings.
• Taught sections of parallel programming classes, as a guest lecturer, at multiple universities around the U.S.  Also - a guest speaker in college classes in New Zealand, China, Germany, UK, Canada and Mexico.
• School visits – classroom visits, especially during National Engineers Week, to motive/excite young minds about engineering.
• Parallel Programming for High School Students – Brooklyn Technical High School.
• Taught Intel employee development classes on constructive confrontation, situational leadership, dealing with the press at tradeshows; invited speaker at Intel Manager Training courses.

Employment before Intel

Software Project Lead Warp Compilers / GE Radar Systems Division; Syracuse, New York
C and LISP programming, customer training and support
May 1987-February 1989

Teaching Assistant / University of Michigan; Ann Arbors, Michigan
Lectures, grading, labs, office hours; graduate compiler construction, interactive computer graphics, discrete mathematics, data structures, and digital computer engineering lab classes.
September 1983-May 1987

Computer programming summer jobs during high school and college
LISP and C programming; Autonomous Mobile Robot Guidance Systems; 3D modeling and visualization.
General Motors Research, Computer Science; Warren, Michigan / Summers 1986 & 1985

C programming; Voice digitalization & cataloguing; telephone audio response systems
Votrax Incorporated – Voice Synthesis; Troy, Michigan / Summers 1984 & 1982

C and Forth programming; engine emission collection, calibration and analysis
Ford Scientific Research Labs – Engine test; Dearborn, Michigan / Summer 1983

DATABUS(PL/B) programming, customer support; small business accounting and job costing
Account Systems Incorporated; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan / Summer 1981

C and WD16000 assembly programming, customer support; restaurant PoS with central data collection and analysis
Alpha Software Consultants; Detroit, Michigan / Summer 1980

BASIC programming, customer support; small business accounting and job costing
Account Systems Incorporated; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan / Summer 1979

University Education

M.S.E. 1987: University of Michigan, Computer Engineering, summa cum laude

B.S.E. 1985: University of Michigan, Computer Engineering, cum laude

B.S.E. 1985: University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering, cum laude

U.S. Patents Issued

• U.S. Patent 6,698,011, 02-24-04, Isolation of program translation failures, co-inventors Joe Wolf III and Matt Frazer.
• U.S. Patent 6,535,584, 03-18-03, Detection and exploitation of cache redundancies.
• U.S. Patent 6,467,000, 10-15-02, Sideband transfer of redundancy bits for reduction of redundant cacheline transfers.
• U.S. Patent 6,044,437, 03-28-00, Method for generating and transferring redundancy bits between levels of a cache memory hierarchy.
• U.S. Patent 5,897,660, 04-27-99, Method for managing free physical pages that reduces trashing to improve system performance, co-inventor Joe Bonasera.
• U.S. Patent 5,819,088, 10-06-98, Method and apparatus for scheduling instructions for execution on a multi-issue architecture computer.

Keywords for areas of expertise

• high-performance computing (HPC)
• multicore processors
• many-core processors
• accelerators
• field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
• compilers
• compiler optimization technology
• software optimization
• software tools
• operating systems
• GPGPUs
• GPU programming
• SIMD
• Vectorization
• CPUs
• CPU defects or design issues (e.g., FDIV, Spectre, Meltdown)
• computer security
• real time computing
• machine learning
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• programming languages
• computer science
• power efficiency
• performance portability for applications
• teaching
• technical communications
• technical marketing
• software distribution channels
• international software community (well-travelled, well connected)