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We are pleased to announce we're bringing back the Dell Technologies HPC Community Meeting in March 2021!
We have had to skip the past three in-person meetings due to the pandemic--while launching a successful weekly online series. The return of the HPC Community Meeting in March 2021 meeting will be an online mini-conference, which (like past in-person meetings) will allow us to both cover more information and also go deeper into certain technology areas with breakout sessions and report readouts. |
The HPC Community Meeting in March 2021 will feature:
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Agenda
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Tuesday, March 30th
10:00-10:05 | Welcome, Objectives, Day 1 Schedule, Thanks - Jay Boisseau, Dell Technologies 10:05-10:30 | Welcome, Dell Commitment to Leadership in HPC - Pete Manca, Dell Technologies 10:30-11:00 | NVIDIA Keynote, Introducing the Cloud Native Supercomputing Architecture, Gilad Shainer, SVP Marketing 11:00-12:30 | Technology Discussions #1: Breakout Groups (Parallel Tracks)
12:30-1:00 | Break
1:00-2:00 | HPC Site Showcase: Lightning Talks (Parallel Tracks)
2:00-2:45 | Town Hall #1: Breakout Readouts and Q&A/Discussion
2:45-3:15 | Intel Keynote, oneAPI Vision and Strategy, Joe Curley, Senior Director and General Manager 3:15-3:30 | Day 1 Wrap-up, and Preview of Day 2 - Jay Boisseau, Dell Technologies |
Wednesday, March 31st 10:00-10:15 | Day 1 Highlights, Day 2 Schedule - Jay Boisseau, Dell Technologies 10:15-10:30 | Dell Technologies HPC Solutions - Caitlin Gordon, Dell Technologies 10:30-11:00 | AMD Keynote, Delivering Breakthrough Performance with AMD HPC Solutions, John Morris, CVP, Server Business Unit 11:00-12:30 | Technology Discussions #2: Breakout Groups (Parallel Tracks)
12:30-1:00 | Break 1:00-2:00 | Ask the CTOs
2:00-2:45 | Town Hall #2: Breakout Readouts and Q&A/Discussion
2:45-3:00 | Meeting Wrap-up, Upcoming Events - Jay Boisseau, Dell Technologies |
Meet the Speakers
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Jose L. Alvarez
Director of Life Sciences and Research Computing, Cambridge Computing Jose L. Alvarez has over 20 years of experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, R&D, High-Performance Computing, and IT Infrastructure disciplines. Before joining Cambridge Computer in 2015, Mr. Alvarez worked as a Principal Engineer, Healthcare and Life Sciences World Wide lead, at Seagate’s Cloud and Systems Solutions. Prior to his tenure at Seagate, Mr. Alvarez led DDN’s Healthcare and Life Science HPC practice as World Wide Director. Mr. Alvarez also led Dell’s Healthcare and Life Sciences research computing practice as a Business Development Manager. Before his tenure at Dell, he held senior-level leadership positions in engineering and network architecture at Catholic Health Initiatives. He also has been a guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratories, where he collaborated with Exxon/Mobile conducting research in Molecular Imaging and Modeling. In his current role, Jose is responsible for the development and successful integration of Cambridge Computer’s business strategy within the Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Research Computing communities. Additionally, he is involved with the development of innovative solutions that address data-intensive research computing challenges as they apply to Healthcare and Life Sciences. Mr. Alvarez holds degrees in Chemistry and Computer Sciences. |
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Jess Arrington
Executive Director, Global Sales & Alliances, SchedMD 14 yr HPC industry veteran that finds great fulfillment working with high compute centers to help them be successful in their missions, discoveries, and go-to-market strategies. When not absorbed in the HPC/HTC fun, Jess loves being with his family in the mountains, running miles on end, and reading enlightened books. |
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Jay Boisseau
HPC & AI Technology Strategist, Dell Technologies Jay Boisseau is an experienced, recognized leader and strategist in advanced computing technologies, with over 25 years of experience in building and leading computing programs, departments, and organizations. As the AI & HPC Technology Strategist at Dell Technologies, Jay evaluates new technologies and approaches for HPC and machine/deep learning, assesses customers’ workloads needs and plans, and helps design new solutions to increase customers’ innovation, productivity, and efficiency. His current primary focus areas are cloud-enabled HPC for simulation, data analytics, and AI workloads, and large-scale/high-end solutions for HPC and AI. Additional projects include evaluations of several new AH & HPC technologies and leading the Dell Technologies HPC Community. Before coming to Dell Technologies in 2014, Jay created the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin and led it (2001-14) to world prominence. Under Jay’s leadership, TACC deployed numerous world-class computing systems for U.S. open scientific research and developed new programs to enable thousands of researchers to accomplish more with these powerful technologies. Prior to TACC, Jay worked as an associate director at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (1996-2001) and at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (1994-96). Jay received his doctorate in astronomy from UT Austin for his advanced computational research in modeling the structure supernovae explosions. |
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Marisa Brazil
Associate Director of Outreach and Community Engagement, Research Computing, Arizona State University Marisa is the Associate Director of Outreach and Community Engagement within the Research Computing department and a member of the Research Technology Office leadership team at Arizona State University. Marisa creates and facilitates relationships and collaborations with the ASU research community and more broadly at the state, regional, and national level and connects researchers to the appropriate advanced cyberinfrastructure resources to help them accomplish their research goals. Marisa actively engages in many research computing and data communities on behalf of ASU and advocates for the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology field. |
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Paul Calleja
Director of Research Computing, University of Cambridge Dr. Calleja is Director of Research Computing at the University of Cambridge where he oversees one of the UK’s leading large-scale National HPC centers supporting a diverse community of UK frontier science, engineering, and medical research programs. Dr. Calleja has a strong academic/industrial HPC co-design background focusing on commodity open standards-based solutions. Recently he has pioneered the convergence of OpenStack and Research Computing use-cases, working with industry partners to develop the “Scientific OpenStack”, a software-defined supercomputing middleware solution making large scale cloud-native supercomputing a reality. Dr. Calleja also heads up the Cambridge Open Exascale Lab a prominent UK academic/industrial collaboration aimed at the development and democratization of exascale computing solutions. Dr. Calleja obtained his Ph.D. in computational biophysics at Bath University. After filling a post-doctoral research position at Birkbeck College, he moved into private industry, where he spearheaded early commercialization of HPC cluster solutions before moving back into academia heading up HPC provision at Imperial College then Cambridge. |
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Onur Celebioglu
Sr. Director of Engineering, HPC and Emerging Workloads, Dell Technologies Onur Celebioglu is a Sr Director of Engineering, responsible for Emerging Workloads architecture and pathfinding in Dell’s ISG CTIO group. Before that, he was responsible for designing, developing, and integrating Dell EMC’s HPC, AI, and Data Analytics solutions and leading the Dell EMC AI and HPC Innovation Lab. Onur has been part of the team that officially started the HPC program at Dell and has over 21 years of industry experience in HPC. His main areas of expertise are application performance analysis, high-speed interconnects, parallel file systems, and cluster provisioning tools. Onur has worked extensively in HPC product development, published technical articles in various publications, conferences, and journals. Onur has a BS in Electrical Engineering from METU, Turkey, and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Joe Curley
Senior Director and General Manager, oneAPI Products, Solutions & Ecosystem, Intel Joseph (Joe) Curley serves Intel Corporation as Senior Director and General Manager, oneAPI Products, Solutions & Ecosystem. His primary responsibilities include leading the oneAPI industry initiative, product management of Intel’s oneAPI product, and supporting the oneAPI developer ecosystem. Mr. Curley joined Intel Corporation in 2007, and has served in multiple other strategic planning, ecosystem development, and business leadership roles. Prior to joining Intel, Joe worked at Dell, Inc. leading the global workstation product line, the consumer and small business desktop product line, and in a series of engineering roles. He began his career at computer graphics pioneer Tseng Labs. |
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Earl J. Dodd
Global HPC Business Practice Leader, World Wide Technology (WWT) Earl J. Dodd is World Wide Technology’s Global HPC Business Practice Leader. He provides HPC/HPDA/Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, and marketing and sales support to WWT’s global enterprises and governments. Earl helps achieve a customer’s desired ROI by leveraging HPC technology, extreme data in motion, and the Cloud on secure ultra-scale architectures and collaboration environments. This effort drives the next generation of computationally steered workflows in decision support environments for real-time situational awareness and institutional learning. |
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Pradeep Dubey
Senior Fellow and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Pradeep K. Dubey is an Intel Senior Fellow and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab, a part of the Intel Labs organization at Intel Corporation. He leads a team of top researchers focused on state-of-the-art research in parallel computing. Dubey and his team are responsible for defining computer architectures that can efficiently handle emerging machine learning/artificial intelligence, traditional HPC applications for data-centric computing environments, and deriving product differentiation opportunities for Intel’s CPU and GPU processing platforms. Dubey previously worked at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Dubey has made significant contributions to the design, architecture, and application performance of various microprocessors, including the IBM Power PC, the Intel386™, Intel486™, Intel® Pentium®, and Intel Xeon® processors. He holds 32 patents and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers. In 2012, Dubey was honored with an Intel Achievement Award for breakthroughs in parallel computing research. He was honored with the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University in 2014. Dubey holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He is also a Fellow of IEEE. |
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Ken Durazzo
Vice President of Technology Research and Innovation, Dell Technologies Ken has over 20 years of experience as a technology leader, working for some of the largest global tech companies. Ken's experiences span Enterprise Network Innovation, Service Chaining, SDN, Internet Scale and Branch Office Routers, Data Center Switches, Security, Wan and Application Optimization, Server Load Balancing, and Wireless LAN technologies. In leading the OTCO Research Office (ORO) he primarily focuses on ensuring that the company is well aware of emergent technology inflections and the potential impact on the company. This work has led to exploration in a myriad of future impact technologies such as Quantum computing, Carbon Nanotube Memory, Heterogeneous computing acceleration, and virtualization, to name a few. He is an accomplished speaker at many industry events, on a wide range of topics. Ken achieved Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, has 60 granted patents, and several more patents pending. |
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Thomas Francis
Head of Product, UberCloud Thomas Francis is Head of Products for UberCloud, a software company in Silicon Valley. UberCloud helps enterprises build an HPC capability in the cloud. In his role, Thomas defines the product roadmap for UberCloud and is also responsible for product marketing. Thomas has broad industry experience in enterprise software, cloud and IT operations |
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Todd Frederking
Pre-Sales Engineer, Arrow Todd Frederking is a Pre-Sales Engineer at Arrow Electronics and is aligned exclusively to the Dell Technologies data center portfolio. As Dell’s largest global distributor, Arrow supports Partners and Resellers in growing their Dell business and Todd works with Partner Sales, Pre-Sales and their Customers to successfully scope, size, demo, and configure data center solutions including Storage, HCI and compute including HPC. He has been in the role for over 2 ½ years and came to Arrow from DellEMC in Round Rock. He has a good grasp of the portfolio, but he also speaks ‘Dell,’ which is oftentimes just as important. |
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Russ Fromkin
VP of Sales, Cornelis Networks As the Americas and Government Vice President of Sales at Cornelis Networks, Russ is responsible for all sales, business development and channels within the region. Prior to joining Cornelis Networks, Russ was the Director of Americas HPC and HPDA Sales for Intel Corporation for a number of years. Prior to leading the Americas HPC Sales for Intel, Russ held several positions including helping lead information Assurance, HPC, and Cloud Computing activities for the Intel Federal Sales team, as well as helping lead Intel’s return to the Embedded Military, Aerospace, and Government (MAG) business. Russ joined Intel Corporation in 1999 as part of an acquisition of Dialogic, where Russ developed and managed the ISV program and was a key member of the team creating and growing Dialogic’ s Channel Sales program. Prior to Dialogic, Russ started and sold two companies during the 1990’s, including one to a NASDAQ listed company. Russ holds a BA from The Johns Hopkins University and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. |
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Ulrich Fuchs
DAQ IT Service Manager for the ALICE experiment, CERN After completing his studies in nuclear physics, Ulrich worked in the IT department for several years as responsible for the global batch computing farm. Since 2003 he is working as service manager for the data acquisition infrastructure of one of the major experiments at CERN, responsible for technical operations and upgrades of the computing and data center facilities. |
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Caitlin Gordon
VP of Product Management for Integrated Solutions, Dell Technologies Caitlin Gordon, VP of Product Management for Integrated Solutions, has been at Dell Technologies for over 15 years, with broad experience in IT marketing and management. Expertise includes portfolio solutions, messaging and positioning, content creation and activation, product launches, creation and delivery of sales and partner training, press and analyst activity, customer briefings as well as influencing product requirements. In her free time, she can be found chasing around her two kids, watching Boston sports, or riding her Peloton to keep sane. |
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Thomas Green
Senior Programmer, Supercomputing Wales Thomas Green has a Masters in Chemical Engineering from UMIST (now the University of Manchester) and in 2006 started working at the Met Office in the UK supporting the development of the weather and climate model called the Unified Model. The Met Office involved collaboration with ECMWF and was an opportunity to develop skills in MPI, OpenMP, and Fortran and exposed to many different HPC platforms from NEC, IBM, and Cray. In 2013 he joined Cardiff University to be part of the Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff University, ARCCA, led by Professor Martyn Guest. Since starting at Cardiff, a wide knowledge of many research topics has been gained due to the diverse nature of the user community. To provide solutions to researchers many technical skills have been gained including HPC management tools, VMWare technologies, and monitoring tools along with providing training and support. In 2018 the ARCCA team helped launch and support the Supercomputing Wales project and provides the latest HPC service, provided by Dell and Atos, as an HPC resource for researchers in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, and Swansea to use. |
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Prabhat (PK) Gupta
Founder and CEO, Megh Computing Prabhat. K. Gupta (PK) is Founder and CEO of Megh Computing, a startup focused on accelerating Real-Time Analytics using hardware accelerators, including VPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Megh Computing was established in 2017 and is based in Portland, OR with development offices in Bangalore. Previously he was the General Manager of the Xeon+FPGA Products in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for developing the Xeon+FPGA product for accelerating cloud workloads. PK and his team have pioneered the use of FPGA accelerators in the Data Center. PK holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and a MBA from The Wharton School. |
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Frank Herold
CEO, ThinkParQ Frank Herold is the CEO of ThinkParQ GmbH – the company behind BeeGFS. He actively leads the company and the product strategy of BeeGFS as a global player for parallel high-performance filesystems. Prior to joining ThinkParQ, he held various senior management positions within ADIC and Quantum Corporation, responsible for market segments within the academic and scientific research, oil and gas, broadcast and video surveillance sectors, focusing on large scale, high-performance and enterprise accounts within EMEA. Frank has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and holds a master’s degree in engineering (Dipl. -Ing.) in rocket science. |
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Robert Hormuth
Corporate Vice President, Architecture and Strategy of the Data Center and Embedded Solutions, AMD Robert has 33+ years in the computer industry, joining AMD in 2020 after 13 years with Dell, 8 years with Intel, and 11 years at National Instruments. At AMD Robert is charged with creating a long-term system-level vision for DESG and identify the technical requirements/implications to the DESG portfolio. Focusing on emerging technologies and workloads to identify future system and SOC implications by working closely with customers, end-users, ecosystem partners along with internal product management and SOC engineering teams. At Dell EMC Robert held roles from VP/CTO of the Server BU to VP/Technology Fellow in the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group. As CTO Robert and his team focused on server strategy, future architecture, and driving future technology intercepts onto the server portfolio. Robert’s past design/architecture activities include IO peripheral designs, x86 system design, BIOS, firmware, application software, and FPGA/ASIC design. Robert has participated in the creation of multiple industry standards - VME, VXI, PCI, PXI, PCIe, NVMe, RedFish, GenZ, CxL...etc. Robert has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and currently holds 24 patents with 20+ pending. Robert is an active member of The University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Advisory Board. |
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Satheesh Iyer
Senior Consultant, Product Management, Dell Technologies Satheesh Iyer is a product manager for HPC solutions in the Integrated Solutions organization. He has over 25 years of technology industry experience, and has been with Dell for about 15 years. Satheesh has extensive background on data management, HPC and cloud. He lives in Austin, TX. |
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Venkatesh Kannan
Technical Manager, ICHEC Venkatesh Kannan works as the Technical Manager at the Irish Centre of High-End Computing (ICHEC), the national centre for high-performance computing (HPC) in Ireland, whose core mission is to deliver HPC-related capabilities and expertise to higher education institutions, enterprises, and public sector organizations on behalf of the Irish State. At ICHEC, Venkatesh is responsible for defining and implementing the technological vision, strategy, and roadmap of the Centre’s activities in high-performance data analytics, big data management, artificial intelligence, optimization of computational workflows and applications on a variety of computing platforms including extreme-scale HPC clusters, edge computing devices, and quantum computing platforms. Venkatesh also represents ICHEC in a number of Irish and European Union programs, activities, and projects. |
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Jeff Kirk
Storage Networking Engineer, Dell Technologies Jeff has spent his career working at the leading edge of compute and networking. Jeff is currently working in the Dell Technologies ISG CTIO Office an HPC and AI Technology Strategist where he has helped grow the HPC program with a new vision, strategy, business development efforts, and new partnerships and solutions. Prior to joining Dell EMC, Jeff worked at several cutting edge semi-conductor companies. At AMD he specialized in superscalar RISC and x86 platforms for high performance computation (1999). At Mellanox he worked on some of the first InfiniBand HPC installations, including the Virginia Tech cluster that reached number three on the top 500 (Big Mac) using Apple workstations (Nov 2004). While at Mellanox he supported Dr. D.K. Panda and the first implementation of MVAPICH at his alma mater, The Ohio State University. Later at Solarflare his focus was OS bypass technology and financial markets (2010). After moving to Dell, Jeff worked in Dell Networking implementing their first Fibre Channel over Ethernet systems and he holds several patents on FCoE (2013). His interest in low latency high performance fabrics has grown as the size of HPC systems has increased. Since transferring to the Server CTO office, he has been thinking hard about how to improve HPC networking and lower latency with innovative new architectures. He believe the future of HPC is better than it ever has been. |
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Gregory Kurtzer
CEO, CIQ / Rocky Linux Throughout the High-Performance Computing industry, Greg is well known as a thought leader, innovator, disruptor, and generally cool guy. He is probably most well known for starting and leading the CentOS distribution of Linux, but he is also the person behind Warewulf, Singularity Containers, and Rocky Linux. Previously Greg spent nearly twenty years working for the United States Department of Energy (DoE) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as Chief HPC Systems Architect. After that, Greg founded Sylabs, which was acquired early in 2020 before launching Ctrl IQ. |
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Brian Kucic
Co-Founder/Principal, R Systems NA Inc. Brian Kucic’s vision was to establish a company that would better serve commercial clients with their HPC needs. This vision led to the creation of a company—R Systems—that is dedicated to serving research partners in a demanding business environment. Presently, as Business Principal, Brian is responsible for the management of all business activities related to sales, customer relations, and project contracts. Brian’s experience and data center management skills ensure that all business activities are targeted for results, added benefits, and performance reliability for all of R Systems’ customers. Prior to R Systems, Brian served as the Private Sector Program Director at The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. From 1999-2003, Brian served as the Cray User Group Operations Chair. He currently serves on Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Board and on the Alliance for High Performance Digital Manufacturing (AHPDM) chaired by Intel’s Dr. Stephen Wheat. Brian graduated from Western Illinois University’s School of Engineering in 1987 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering. He is an avid motorsports fan and has not missed an Indianapolis 500 in decades and highlights the Austin / US Grand Prix as an Annual “Must See.” |
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Saurabh Kulkarni
Head of North America Engineering, Graphcore Saurabh Kulkarni is currently the Head of Engineering in North America at Graphcore. In his career spanning almost 20 years, he has held various leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft and Oracle prior to his current role at Graphcore. His roles have spanned a variety of domains including Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud infrastructure design, Virtual Machine definitions for Microsoft Azure, HPC infrastructure in the cloud and more recently hardware accelerators for AI and scale-out infrastructure for AI compute in the cloud. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 2001, Saurabh started his career at Intel Corporation, where he initially worked on several generations of X86 CPUs for client and server market segments. Towards the later part of his time at Intel, he was a platform architect in the data center group driving customer focused innovation in the enterprise platform and firmware security areas. In 2014, Saurabh moved to Microsoft in the Azure Compute team focusing on the IaaS business and cloud infrastructure, with particular emphasis on scale-out architecture. He drove the server platform architecture and Virtual Machine (VM) sizing strategy for various Azure VM families across general purpose and accelerated computing use cases for HPC and AI workloads. In this capacity, one of his primary areas of focus was efficient architectures for disaggregated resource management for general purpose and specialized compute using novel hardware accelerators and network topologies. Saurabh briefly worked at Oracle in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team working on cloud native services before joining Graphcore, where he is currently the Head of Engineering for North America. In his current role, he focuses on working closely with customers to understand their AI workload needs for training and inference and define efficient, end-to-end solutions that can be either deployed on-prem, on public clouds or in a hybrid cloud setting. He is also involved in the architectural definition of the next generation of Graphcore IPUs and systems aimed at fulfilling the demanding needs of future AI workloads at scale. |
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Justin Lecher
Platform Lead Scientific Computing, Astrazeneca Justin Lecher is driving the continuous effort in AstraZeneca to build out versatile HPC, HTC, and accelerator-driven environments to supply computing to a large heterogeneous computing space. Since joining AstraZeneca he has been leading the design and build of today’s Scientific Computing Platform which supports scientists across the globe every day. He has been gaining his interest and enthusiasm for computing in life science as a researcher levering HPC resources to drive insights into molecular structure, dynamics, and function of membrane proteins involved in human cell signaling. |
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John Lockman
AI Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies Programmer, Developer, and Evangelist for containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes, John Lockman works in the Dell EMC HPC and AI Innovation Lab. He specializes in nature-inspired programming, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. John brings a passion for building tools to make advanced computing accessible to a larger audience. |
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James Lowey
Chief Information Officer, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) Mr. Lowey Provides the strategic vision and leadership for all aspects related to Information Technology at TGen. This includes working closely with Scientific and Administrative leadership to ensure the right technology is in place at the right time. Some of this technology includes the TGen HPC environment, a dedicated scientific resource including a three thousand-plus core cluster supercomputer, various SMP and GPU based computational resources, and more than three Petabytes of storage. Mr. Lowey is also responsible for the security and availability of networks, servers, and cloud-based services for a variety of scientific and administrative applications as well as data repositories and transfer mechanisms for both TGen and its collaborators. James joined TGen in 2003 to build large-scale HPC systems to aid scientists in bringing bio-medical research to Arizona. He works closely in conjunction with researchers in the application of computing to life-sciences. To help facilitate this James and his team has brought two supercomputer systems to TGen that have placed in the top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world (www.top500.org) and within the top 10 supercomputers that are dedicated to life sciences research. James works closely with TGen scientists to implement and provide computational tools and data management systems to help facilitate and accelerate translational genomics research and to help expedite patient treatments. Prior to joining TGen, Mr. Lowey worked as a consultant for various Fortune 500 companies, designing, building, and managing large-scale computational systems to solve complex problems and process large amounts of data in a timely fashion. |
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Rod Mach
CEO, TotalCAE Rod Mach is President of TotalCAE, a managed HPC service provider specializing in Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE). Rod is a 25-year veteran in utilizing High Performance Compute (HPC) clusters and cloud for engineering and research. Before founding TotalCAE in 2007, Rodney led the University of Michigan Center for Advanced Computing supporting HPC as part of the national partnership for advanced computational infrastructure (NPACI). Mr. Mach has a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Wayne State University. |
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Amit Majumdar, Ph.D.
Division Director, Data Enabled Scientific Computing, SDSC Amit Majumdar is the Division Director of the Data Enabled Scientific Computing division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His research interests are in high-performance computing (HPC), computational science, cyberinfrastructure (CI) and science gateways. He is interested in the convergence of HPC and data science. He is PI/Co-PI on multiple research projects related to HPC machines/programming, neuroscience cyberinfrastructure, neuromorphic computing, and education/outreach and which are funded by NSF, NIH, DOD, and industry. He received a bachelor’s in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the Jadavpur University, Calcutta; a master's in nuclear engineering from the Idaho State University, Pocatello; a Ph.D. degree in the interdisciplinary program of nuclear engineering and scientific computing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a member of IEEE, SIAM, APS, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), and Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS). |
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Pete Manca
SVP, Integrated Solutions, Dell Technologies Pete Manca is an accomplished senior executive with a history of creating, marketing, and selling high-quality solutions to mission-critical enterprise customers. Pete’s current role, as Senior Vice President of Integrated Solutions, encompasses Custom Design, Technology Alliances, High-Performance Computing, and Data Center Workload Solutions Development. Previously, Pete managed the Converged and Hyper-Converged business unit. Prior to Dell, Pete was CEO of Egenera, a Converged Infrastructure, and Cloud Computing technology company in the Boston area. |
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Ruth Marinshaw
CTO Research Computing, Stanford University Ruth Marinshaw is CTO for Research Computing at Stanford University, leading the Stanford Research Computing Center (SRCC). Jointly reporting to the Dean of Research and the Stanford CIO, Ruth and the SRCC team engage with researchers and technologists across a wide spectrum of disciplines to support a growing portfolio of research technologies and Cyberinfrastructure services. Her team is focused on ensuring that all campus researchers have access to strong, sufficient, relevant and robust data and computational platforms and services to accelerate scientific discovery and scholarship. With more than 30 years of experience in supporting, managing and leading technology teams and programs in higher ed, Ruth is especially interested in extending the potential of high-end computing to research areas whose compute and analysis needs cannot be met by traditional HPC solutions. Ruth is actively engaged in the broader national HPC and Research Computing communities through participation in the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), the NSF XSEDE SP Forum, and other initiatives. She serves as the co-chair of the NSF’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and is also a board member of Canada's WestGrid. As a member of Stanford's CIO Council, Ruth is a co-sponsor of the Stanford Women in Technology (WiT) program. |
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Niraj Mathur
VP of Products, GigaIO Niraj is VP Products, GigaIO, and has over 20 years of industry experience in strategic and product marketing, product management, business development, customer applications and advanced silicon engineering. He has held senior leadership roles and led global, cross-functional teams to support these disciplines. Niraj was instrumental in driving numerous successful networking products at Nortel Networks, Quake Technologies, AppliedMicro, Snowbush, Gennum, Semtech and Rambus. He has defined, developed and supported carrier grade hardware and software for the world’s leading telecom, enterprise and cloud customers. His past projects include Ethernet PHYs, core Internet switches, metro optical routers, high-speed silicon IPs and PCI Express products. Niraj holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from McGill University and an MBA from Cornell University. |
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Wil Mayers
Technical Consultant, Alces Flight Wil Mayers has more than 20 years of experience in high-performance compute and storage systems having built large environments for UK government, university and commercial customers. He has worked for both corporates and SMEs, helping customers to optimise their scientific computing workflows across many different domains including engineering, bioinformatics, physics, media and finance. Since 2010 Wil has worked at Alces Flight building and transforming HPC clusters into cloud and cloud-enabled HPC solutions. Wil holds a degree in Computer Science, Biochemistry and Artificial Intelligence from Durham University in the UK. |
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Tommy Minyard
Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center Dr. Minyard is the Director of the Advanced Computing Systems area for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. His groups are responsible for operating and maintaining the center’s production systems and infrastructure; ensuring world-class science through HPC leadership; enhancing HPC research using clusters; performing fault tolerance for large-scale cluster environments; and conducting system performance measurement and benchmarking. He currently acts as Chief Systems Engineer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Frontera and Stampede2 petascale computing systems and acted in the same role for the very successful Ranger (2008) and Stampede (2013) NSF-funded HPC computing systems. Dr. Minyard holds a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin where he specialized in developing parallel algorithms for simulating high-speed turbulent flows with adaptive, unstructured meshes. While completing his doctoral research in aerospace engineering, Dr. Minyard worked at the NASA Ames Research Center and the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE). After continuing his research at UT Austin as a post-doctorate research assistant, he joined CD-Adapco as a software development specialist continuing his career in computational fluid dynamics. Dr. Minyard returned to UT Austin in 2003 to join the Texas Advanced Computing Center. |
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John Morris
CVP, Server Business Unit - Enterprise and HPC Business, AMD John Morris leads the OEM business development and segment marketing for AMD’s Server Business Unit. His team is responsible for developing and enabling new platforms and solutions with OEMs. This enables AMD and its partners to market and sell those solutions. Prior to this role, he was the AMD Sales Leader for North America Commercial Sales with responsibility for client, server, and embedded products. A long-time AMD’er, John has served in several positions during his tenure, including product management, product marketing, and business operations. Prior to joining AMD, he worked at Compaq/HP in product and channel marketing. Outside of work, John can be found on adventures with his wife and two sons, fly fishing on rivers across the US, and serving as a Boy Scout leader. John holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Auburn University. |
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Doug Norton
Vice President of Business Development, Inspire Semiconductor Doug is Vice President of Business Development for Inspire Semiconductor. He works with both customers and partners to help them leverage InspireSemi’s breakthrough accelerator solution for HPC, AI, and Blockchain that deliver new standards of speed, efficiency, and flexibility. Doug began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales & marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into new engineering/scientific markets. He then went on to various alliance partner, sales, and marketing leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems and early stage companies such as CoWare, Newisys, Virtana, and Nimbix. Doug is a founding team member of the Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS), is on the board of Technology Advisor Group – Austin, serves on the Venture Mentoring Service for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), and is a technology and business advisor to HealthClicks. He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology. |
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Steve Oberlin
Dell EMC Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies Steve Oberlin has been working in large-scale computing since 1980 when he joined Cray Research bringing up CRAY-1 supercomputers. Career highlights include working with Seymour Cray designing the CRAY-2 and CRAY-3 vector supercomputers and leading the architecture and design of Cray Research’s first MPPs, the T3D and T3E. In the early 21st century, Steve co-founded a startup focusing on enterprise cloud computing infrastructure automation software. 12 years older and almost that much wiser about the rest of the computing world, he returned to HPC, joining NVIDIA in 2013 as the CTO for Accelerated Computing -- just in time to witness GPUs ignite the Big Bang of AI. Steve spends much of his time thinking about how to scale capability fast enough to stay ahead of customer computation, data, and communications demands that are growing several times faster than Moore’s Law at its best, and evangelizing how AI methods and technologies are already fundamentally changing HPC’s future. |
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Robin O'Neill
Vice President of Engineering, GigaIO Robin O’Neill is Vice President, Engineering, for GigaIO Networks, inventors of PCIe as a routable network. Robin has a history of version 1.0 innovation for companies such as Western Digital, Hewlett Packard, PolyServe (acquired by HP), Intel, the Advanced Computer Research Institute (Lyon, France), Sequent Computer Systems, and The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Most recently, he was head of WDLABS, leading the exploration and incubation of emerging systems, software, and new business opportunities for Western Digital. His more notable joint contributions include the Computational Flash Storage architecture at Western Digital, the industry’s first fully-symmetric clustered filesystem at PolyServe, the Decoupled-loop Pipelining CPU at the Advanced Computer Research Institute in France, the industry’s first commercial NUMA system and first commercial SMP system at Sequent, the IEEE POSIX standard, and the Unix-based time-sharing supercomputer operating system at LLNL. Mr. O’Neill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Utah. |
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Bhavesh Patel
Dell EMC Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies Bhavesh Patel is a Dell EMC Distinguished Engineer and drives server architectures & technologies within CTIO group. In addition to his duties as Accelerator & AI/ML System Architect, he is focused on machine learning/deep learning, high-speed IO technologies, and optical communications. He has served in various Engineering roles spanning from Signal Integrity to System design to Architecture:
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Mohan Potheri
Staff Solutions Architect, VMware Mohan Potheri is a Staff Solutions Architect at VMware working for the Cloud Services Business Unit. He is VCDX#98 and has more than 20 years in IT infrastructure, with in depth experience on VMware virtualization. He currently focuses on educating customers and partners on “HPC”, "AI/ML" and "VMware Tanzu” virtualization on vSphere. He is actively engaged with VMware Partner University and VMware Learning Zone to educate partners and customers on VMware capabilities. Mohan Potheri is an expert on AI/ML, HPC & Tanzu and has been a speaker in multiple VMWORLD, VMUG, GTC and Partner events. He is a VCDX panelist engaged in the process of certification of VMware experts. |
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Ramesh Radhakrishnan
Technologist, Office of the CTO, VMware Ramesh is an Engineering Technologist in Dell’s Server CTO Office. He has led technology strategy and architecture for Dell EMC in the areas of Energy Efficient MicroServer Architecture (ARM/Xeon-D), Microsoft Hybrid Cloud and is currently engaged in driving technology strategy and architecture for Dell EMCvaround advanced Analytics and Machine Learning/Deep Learning. He is a member of the Dell Patent Committee and has 15 published patents. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Leo Reiter
CTO and Senior Vice President of Product, Nimbix Leo has over 25 years of professional experience in technology and product development of large-scale computing systems. At Nimbix, he leads both product and R&D for the company’s entire HPC and AI platform and application software portfolio. Leo is also an inventor on many Nimbix patents around HPC and accelerated computing in the cloud, Linux container orchestration, and storage management on cloud platforms. Prior to Nimbix, Leo was co-founder and CTO of Virtual Bridges, an early innovator in the server-based computing space, where he led product development teams and evangelized the company’s platform and technology vision. Prior to Virtual Bridges, he served in various advisory, development, and customer-facing engineering roles in the telecommunications industry, including a technical leadership assignment at GTE (now Verizon) in the late 1990’s. Leo is an expert in cloud computing architecture, as well as Agile software development methodologies. |
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Daniele Salpietro
Senior Technical Advisor - Data Center and Cloud, Maticmind 30+ Years Experience Solution Development. My professional role is in business development, design, engineering and delivery support of innovative solutions on Data Center Infrastructure Modernization (Storage, Server and Networking). I’m a Private Pilot (PPL/A SEP LAND) and fly for fun. |
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Ty Schmitt
Dell Fellow, Dell Technologies Ty Schmitt is a Vice President and Dell Fellow in Dell/EMC’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) CTO organization. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Texas A&M and has 29 years of experience in manufacturing, IT hardware, thermal and acoustical design/testing, engineering management, advanced data center thermal simulation and cooling solutions, and modular data center design and manufacturing. Ty has worked at Dell for 27 years and has 61 patents. |
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Gilad Shainer
SVP Marketing, NVIDIA Gilad Shainer serves as senior vice-president of marketing for networking at NVIDIA, focusing on high- performance computing, artificial intelligence and the InfiniBand technology. Mr. Shainer joined Mellanox in 2001 as a design engineer and later served in senior marketing management roles since 2005 at Mellanox and now NVIDIA. Mr. Shainer serves as the chairman of the HPC-AI Advisory Council organization, the president of UCF and CCIX consortiums, a member of IBTA and a contributor to the PCISIG PCI-X and PCIe specifications. Mr. Shainer holds multiple patents in the field of high-speed networking. He is a recipient of 2015 R&D100 award for his contribution to the CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology and the 2019 R&D100 award for his contribution to the Unified Communication X (UCX) technology. Gilad Shainer holds a MSc degree and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. |
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Wim Slagter
Director of HPC and Cloud Alliances, Ansys Wim is director of HPC and cloud alliances at Ansys. In his role, he is also responsible for the overall design and execution of the global HPC and cloud alliance partner program within Corporate Development and Global Partnerships at Ansys. Wim has 27 years of experience in the business of engineering simulation software with management positions in software development, consulting, sales, and product management. Wim holds a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. |
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Robert Stober
Product Manager, Bright Computing Robert Stober is the Product Manager for Bright Computing in San Jose, California. Robert specializes in planning and implementing High Performance Computing clusters and has broad experience integrating applications and workload management systems. Since joining Bright, Robert has been involved with extending Bright Cluster Manager beyond traditional HPC with Bright’s Auto Scaler and Bright’s Edge. Prior to joining Bright, Robert was a senior solutions architect at Platform Computing for more than 10 years. He was responsible for the design and implementation of computing grids for customers in the electronics, aerospace, life sciences, and government sectors. |
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Marcus Weber
HPC Strategy and Planning, Caterpillar Marcus has 35 years of industry experience, with 33 of those years at Caterpillar Inc. He has spent that time at the intersection of computing and engineering in various roles as a developer, integrator and leader in the development, application, and deployment of systems for data acquisition, data analysis, product modeling and simulation as well as HPC. Marcus has been involved with HPC for 15 years as a user, a leader of the operations team, and currently in the role of HPC Strategy and Planning. Marcus received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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Luke Wilson, Ph.D.
Chief Data Scientist & Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies Luke is the Chief Data Scientist in Dell Technologies HPC & Innovation Lab and a Dell Technologies Distinguished Engineer. He leads the engineering and design of Dell EMC’s AI Solutions, works with customers and partners to develop state-of-the-art AI models and new techniques for reducing time-to-value of AI projects, and co-leads the open-source Omnia project for simplifying the deployment of high-performance clustered solutions. |
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