About

I work as a research assistant at the Department for Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In my daily work I am involved in scientific high performance computing, especially in performance engineering (PE) and the development of tools for PE. In 2009 I implemented the LIKWID Performance Tools. Besides the development of tools I am also interested in web development.

My preferred programming languages are:

• C for all system level and performance critical applications
• Perl as scripting language

At the moment I am learning the programming language Go, which has some interesting new concepts. I am not religious about operating systems. Privately I use everything from Windows to MacOSX, Linux and OpenBSD. I am a fan of simple and transparent solutions. For this reason I switched to OpenBSD as the sole operating system for my private laptop.

Other hobbies besides programming are:

• Collecting Seiko watches
• Collecting fountain pens (especially from Pelikan)
• Handheld gaming
• Fiddling with Hifi systems and loudspeaker construction

In this blog I share my experiences and opinions on various topics and hope that some of the information may be useful to others.