Speaker - Christoph Lameter

Christoph Lameter was working as a lead in research and development for an algorithmic trading company in Chicago until the end of 2018 and currently maintains the slab allocators and the percpu subsystem in the Linux Kernel. He contributed to a number of Linux projects since the initial kernel releases in the early 90s. As a kernel developer at SGI he helped pioneer the use of Linux for Supercomputing and developed the necessary kernel capabilities for HPC applications. He is working on improving Linux through the use of new faster APIs to a variety of high performance devices and is evaluating new technologies that allow faster processing.