Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl

High-Performance Computing

Office Address:
Mersinweg 5
33100 Paderborn
Room:
X1.101

About Christian Plessl

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022: Professor (W3)

Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University

2015 - 2022: Professor (W2)

Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University

2011 - 2015: Junior Professor (W1)

Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University

07/2014: Habilitation equivalence

Positive evaluation of Junior Professorship, Paderborn University

2007 - 2011: Postdoc

Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

10.07.2006: Doctorate

Dept. Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lothar Thiele

1995 - 2001: Degree programme

Diploma Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, CH

2023: Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART)

2018: Research Award, Paderborn University, jointly with Prof. Thomas D. Kühne

2015: Significant Paper Award, Int. Conf. Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

2014: Best Paper Award, International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs

2012: Best Paper Award, International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs

2009: Research Award, Paderborn University, jointly with Prof. Jens Förstner

2001: SEW-EURODRIVE Student Award for Diploma thesis

Publications

Selected Publications

Parallel quantum chemistry on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers
R. Schade, C. Bauer, K. Tamoev, L. Mazur, C. Plessl, T. Kühne, Phys. Rev. Research 4 (2022) 033160.
Towards electronic structure-based ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations with hundreds of millions of atoms
R. Schade, T. Kenter, H. Elgabarty, M. Lass, O. Schütt, A. Lazzaro, H. Pabst, S. Mohr, J. Hutter, T. Kühne, C. Plessl, Parallel Computing 111 (2022).
HighPerMeshes – A Domain-Specific Language for Numerical Algorithms on Unstructured Grids
S. Alhaddad, J. Förstner, S. Groth, D. Grünewald, Y. Grynko, F. Hannig, T. Kenter, F.-J. Pfreundt, C. Plessl, M. Schotte, T. Steinke, J. Teich, M. Weiser, F. Wende, in: Euro-Par 2020: Parallel Processing Workshops, Cham, 2021.
CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package - Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations
T. Kühne, M. Iannuzzi, M.D. Ben, V.V. Rybkin, P. Seewald, F. Stein, T. Laino, R.Z. Khaliullin, O. Schütt, F. Schiffmann, D. Golze, J. Wilhelm, S. Chulkov, M.H.B.-H. Mohammad Hossein Bani-Hashemian, V. Weber, U. Borstnik, M. Taillefumier, A.S. Jakobovits, A. Lazzaro, H. Pabst, T. Müller, R. Schade, M. Guidon, S. Andermatt, N. Holmberg, G.K. Schenter, A. Hehn, A. Bussy, F. Belleflamme, G. Tabacchi, A. Glöß, M. Lass, I. Bethune, C.J. Mundy, C. Plessl, M. Watkins, J. VandeVondele, M. Krack, J. Hutter, The Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (2020).
Evaluating FPGA Accelerator Performance with a Parameterized OpenCL Adaptation of Selected Benchmarks of the HPCChallenge Benchmark Suite
M. Meyer, T. Kenter, C. Plessl, in: 2020 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC), 2020.
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Teaching


Current Courses

  • Advanced Computer Architecture (in English)

Scientific Engagement

Since 2018  |  Co-organizer, International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC)


Since 2004  |  Member of several technical program committees for international conferences, e.g. SC 2021/22, ISC 2021, FPL 2004-2022, ICFPT 2008-2022, FCCM 2020-2022, H2RC 2018-2022


2021  |  General Chair, International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART)


Since 2021  |  Board of Directors, National HPC Association (NHR), Germany