Clay Breshears
Dr. Clay Breshears has been with Intel Corporation since September 2000. He started as a senior
parallel application engineer at the Intel Parallel Applications Center in Champaign, Illinois,
implementing multithreaded and distributed solutions in customer applications. Clay is
currently a courseware architect, specializing in multicore and multithreaded programming
and training. Before joining Intel, Clay was a research scientist at Rice University helping
Department of Defense researchers make the best use of the latest High Performance
Computing (HPC) platforms and resources. Clay received his Ph.D. in computer science from
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1996, but he has been involved with parallel
computation and programming for over 20 years; six of those years were spent in academia at
Eastern Washington University and the University of Southern Mississippi.
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