SCALABLE SIMULATION SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS - Key Persons

Barry Smith received his B.S. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute (Department of Mathematics) at New York University in 1990. His expertise is in the speciality of applied mathetics numerical analysis which focuses on the mathematical needs of implementing simulations. This is distinct from mathematical modeling, which produces the mathematical models used in simulations. Barry worked at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory for 28 years ending as an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Senior Computational Mathematician. Barry and his collaborators on the PETSc Development Team have received multiple recognitions for their work on PETSc 2017 Department of Energy Office of Science 40th anniversary collection of 40 major papers that have changed the face of science for the paper S. Balay, W.D. Gropp, L.C. McInnes, and B.F. Smith, Efficient management of parallelism in object-oriented numerical software libraries. Chapter 10 in E. Arge, A.M. Bruaset and H.P. Langtangen (Eds), Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing, pp. 163-202 (1997).