Christian Trott
About Christian Trott
Christian Trott is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, leading the development of the Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Model and contributing to the ISO C++ standards committee.
Company
Christian Trott is a Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC. The organization focuses on delivering essential services in national security and technology development. Christian has been with Sandia National Laboratories since 2012, progressing through various technical roles.
Title
Christian Trott serves as the Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. In this capacity, he leads critical projects aimed at optimizing and enhancing computing systems for performance and efficiency. His role involves significant contributions to high-performance computing (HPC) frameworks and programming models.
Education and Expertise
Christian Trott received his Dipl. Ing. in Physics and Computational Physics from Technische Universität Ilmenau in 2007 and later earned a Dr.rer.nat. in Computational Physics from the same institution in 2011. As an expert in designing and implementing scientific software, Christian’s specialization includes GPU and ManyCore architectures, and developing production quality solutions for complex C++ applications.
Background
Christian Trott's professional journey includes pivotal roles at Sandia National Laboratories, where he began as a Postdoctoral Appointee in 2012. He moved to the position of Senior Member of Technical Staff in 2014 before assuming his current role as Principal Member of Technical Staff in 2018. Before his tenure at Sandia, he was the owner of Christian Trott HPC Consulting and a Ph.D. student and scientific staff at the University of Technology Ilmenau.
Achievements
Christian Trott leads the development of the Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Model, which is fundamental for supercomputing systems used by the US Department of Energy. He heads Sandia's delegation on the ISO C++ standards committee, focusing on parallel and heterogeneous computing. His work ensures that C++ applications can efficiently run on diverse architectures, including IBM/NVIDIA systems, ARM-based supercomputers, AMD, and Intel architectures.