Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Peter Thoman

Peter is an associate professor with the Distributed and Parallel Systems group, and one of the original developers and designers of the Celerity runtime system for accelerator clusters. He is a representative for the University of Innsbruck in Khronos, and a SYCL working group member. Currently, he is leading a project investigating automatic and transparent full-stack data compression in GPU cluster computing.

Peter’s research interests include API and runtime system design for parallelism, accelerator computing, fine-grained task parallelism, and compiler-supported optimizations.