Responsibilities of Michael M. Resch
"Die Bewegung in die Ironie hinein ist eine Empörung. Mit dieser Bewegung steigt der Mensch aus seiner Bedingung empor. Die Bewegung aus der Ironie heraus ist ein Engagement. Mit dieser Bewegung kehrt der Mensch in seine Bedingung zurück, um sie zu ändern. Die beiden Bewegungen heißen Freiheit."
Vilém Flusser, Für eine Philosophie der Emigration, in V. Flusser, Von der Freiheit des Migranten – Einsprüche gegen den Nationalismus, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin – Wien, 2000, pp 31-32
Core Activities
- Director of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
- Director of the Institute for High Performance Computing of the University of Stuttgart
Other Activities
- Member of the board of the Gauss Center for Supercomputing
- Member of the advisory board of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
- Member of the steering committee of the German Grid Initiative D-Grid
- Member of the steering committee of the IDC HPC User Forum
- Member of the board of the Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach
- Member of the advisory board of the Dr. Karl Eisele und Elisabeth Eisele foundation
- Member of the board of trustees of the Stiftung Umwelt und Schadensvorsorge / Foundation Environment and Damage Prevention of the SparkassenVersicherung
- Member of the advisory board of the Triangle Venture Capital Group
- Chairman of the Technology and Business Council of T-Systems SfR
- Member of the Technical Computing Advisory Council of Microsoft
Former Activities
- 2003 - 2009 Member of the board of the Informatik Verbund Stuttgart
- 2005 - 2009 Chairman of the NEC User Group Society
- Chairman 2006 - 2007 / Member 2004 - 2007 of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Center for Scientific Supercomputing / Centro Svizzero del Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS)
- 2006 - 2007 Member of the Scientific Committee of the French Next Generation HPC Project (FAME2) Une nouvelle gération de serveurs pour le calcul intensif et le traitement de l'information
- 2003 - 2007 Member (2006 - 2007 speaker)of the board of the HPC Center of Competence of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- 1997 - 2000 Area chair for Performance of the Cray User Group

