Bertil Schmidt

Bertil Schmidt is a tenured full professor and chair of high-performance computing at the University of Mainz, Germany. He's designed and implemented various parallel algorithms and tools for bioinformatics and data science on numerous platforms ranging from GPUs and embedded devices to the world’s fastest supercomputers. He also authored the textbook “Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice," providing an upper-level introduction to parallel programming.
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Posts by Bertil Schmidt

A protein structure illustration.
Data Science

Boost Alphafold2 Protein Structure Prediction with GPU-Accelerated MMseqs2

The ability to compare the sequences of multiple related proteins is a foundational task for many life science researchers. This is often done in the form of a... 9 MIN READ