Seminar: Allen Malony

Bio: Dr. Allen D. Malony is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 1990. From 1981 to 1985, Malony worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. From 1986 to 1991, he was a Senior Software Engineer at the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, where he was the leader of the performance evaluation team for the Cedar multiprocessor. In 1991, Malony joined the faculty at Oregon, spending his first year as a Fulbright Research Scholar and visiting Professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Dr. Malony was awarded the NSF National Young Investigator award in 1994. In 1999 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar to Austria resident at the University of Vienna. Dr. Malony was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2002. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2003. Dr. Malony was named the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair to France in 2016, resident at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He won the Fulbright for the Future award from the Franco-American Fulbright Commission in 2018. Dr. Malony is the Director of the Oregon Advanced Computing Institute for Science and Society (OACISS) at the University of Oregon.

ParaTools, Inc. is a company founded by Dr. Malony and Dr. Sameer Shende in 2004 to provide consulting and advanced development expertise in the area of parallel/distributed computing and performance evaluation tools. ParaTools builds on the widely-respected, open source TAU Performance System (TM), developed in their research work at the University of Oregon. ParaTools works with clients to apply TAU to analyze and optimize parallel applications and runtime software on high-performance computing (HPC) systems. ParaTools also conducts training workshops in the area of parallel technologies. ParaTools, SAS was established in France in 2014 to work with clients in the Europe. Dr. Malony is the CEO and Director of ParaTools, Inc., ParaTools SAS in France, and ParaTools Ltd. in the UK.