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Felix LeClair HPC 2023

May 9, 2023

Felix LeClair is an open-source engineer focused on High Performance Computing (HPC), Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and SYCL. He specializes in optimizing software performance and enabling developers to make the most of cutting-edge hardware technologies, be they CPUs, GPUs, or recently, FPGAs.

Currently, Felix is focused on accelerating OpenBLAS and ffmpeg AVX512 to make reduced precision types more accessible for classical compute. Felix is passionate about open-source software and believes that collaboration and knowledge sharing are key to advancing the field of HPC.

When he’s not busy tinkering with code, Felix enjoys hiking through the mountains of his native province of Ontario, theory crafting on the future directions of compute and poking fun at some nonsensical areas of the industry.