Be a Cluster Champion! Tune Your Way to MPI Performance

Cory Levels is a Technical Consulting Engineer responsible for supporting Intel Software Development Tools, with a special focus on the performance analysis tools Intel® VTune™ Profiler and Intel® Advisor. She recently transitioned to the Technical Consulting Engineering Team after completing a six month rotational program through Intel. She has a background in development and was previously on a debug team supporting Intel’s oneAPI efforts.

Cory holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with minors in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, playing soccer and volleyball.

James Tullos is a Technical Consulting Engineer responsible for all things “customer technical support and training” on application performance using Intel Intel® Software Development Tools. He focuses on parallel performance in HPC and cluster environments, with specific knowledge around distributed memory computing using the Message Passing Interface (MPI).

James enjoys sharing his knowledge and is a regular presence at technical trade shows, workshops, and conferences. Prior to joining Intel, he worked in the aerospace engineering field focused on propulsion system analysis programs.

James holds an MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University.

Mike Lee is a Senior Product Marketing Engineer at Intel. He leads efforts in marketing Intel’s software development tools—compilers, analysis tools, and performance libraries—focused on the technical, enterprise, and cloud computing segments. Prior to joining Intel in 2011, Mike held a variety of roles spanning consumer electronics and industrial/scientific instrumentation design at the integrated circuit level, board level and software system design level. Mike holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering (SMEE) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.