RCE - Super Computers

Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks, the company commercializing Apache Spark. He begun the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to do research in big data processing and computer systems. Apart from Spark, he has contributed to other open source projects including Apache Mesos, the SNAP sequence aligner, and Apache Hadoop.

http://spark.apache.org

http://databricks.com

Jeremy Freeman's talks on neuroscience with Spark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_5fWllfgA.

http://www.dursi.ca/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it/

Jonathan Dursi has worked in large-scale technical computing for nearly 20 years. He has worked at the DOE ASCI Flash Centre at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the team that won a 2000 Gordon Bell Award; the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, where he collaborated Canadian astronomy community as the co-author of a long-range plan white paper, to design a decadal plan for computing in this data-intensive field; SciNet, Canada’s largest academic supercomputing centre; Compute Canada; and most recently at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, in the Department of Informatics and Bio-computing. He has taught classes in HPC and technical computing techniques in three countries, to students in many disciplines.

Mike Place is a software engineer on the core development team at SaltStack. His background is in Linux systems engineering and open-source software development. Mike enjoys working on the internals of the SaltStack configuration management and orchestration platform.

A good place to direct folks to learn more about SaltStack would be this blog post www.saltstack.com/saltconf15-video which includes video from about 60 talks we recorded from our recent SaltConf15 user conference. Alternatively our website is www.saltstack.com and our docs are located at docs.saltstack.com.

Thomas Sohmers is the founder and CEO of REX Computing, a High Performance Computing startup that is focusing on developing a new processor architecture targeted at performance, energy efficiency, and scalability for modern HPC and supercomputing workloads. His experience includes working at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies for 3 years as both an end user of HPC systems, and later transitioning into designing and building them at the lab. This experience led to starting REX Computing in 2013 as a recipient of the Peter Thiel '20 under 20' Fellowship, where he leads the architectural design and business operations.

The Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. Libfabric is a software library instantiation of OFI.

http://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

Sean has been working on high-performance network software since the late 90s. He participated in the development of the original InfiniBand specification and has been an active member of OpenFabrics since its inception. He is a sub-maintainer of the Linux RDMA software tree, and is the major contributor to the RDMA CM, IB ACM, and rsockets. His current focus is on the design and development of libfabrics.

http://shodor.org/

Dr. Robert M. Panoff is founder and Executive Director of Shodor, a non-profit education and research corporation in Durham, NC, dedicated to reform and improvement of mathematics and science education through appropriate computational and communication technologies. Dr Panoff is the 2014 recipient of the SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education Award. As PI on several National Science Foundation (NSF) and US Department of Education grants that explore interactions between technology and education, he develops interactive simulation modules that combine standards, curriculum, supercomputing resources and desktop computers. In recognition of Dr. Panoff's efforts in college faculty enhancement and curriculum development, Shodor was named as a NSF Foundation Partner for the revitalization of undergraduate education. In 1998, Shodor established the Shodor Computational Science Institute, which was expanded with NSF funding in 2001 to become the National Computational Science Institute (NCSI). Shodor’s Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) serves more than 4 million webviews per month as a Pathway portal of the National Science Digital Library. Dr. Panoff consults at several national laboratories and is a frequent presenter at NSF workshops on visualization, supercomputing, and networking. Dr. Panoff received his M.A. and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Washington University in St. Louis, with both pre- and postdoctoral work at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Dr. Panoff received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Wofford College in 2005 in recognition of his leadership in computational science education.

http://www.maavumich.org/

Jose Gomez is currently a senior studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He chose the aerospace industry because of his interests in space exploration and his studies have given me a deep appreciation for propulsion and structural analysis. For the past three years he have been on the structures sub-team of Michigan's Autonomous Aerial Vehicles team; his work with the team has focused on designing and fabricating custom composite airframes. In his freetime I enjoy reading science fiction and doing amateur stand-up comedy.

Alec has been on MAAV for nearly two years doing a variety of computer science and mechanical design. In addition to designing a heatsink and

manufacturing various parts of the vehicle, Alec mostly focuses on Computer Vision techniques and optimizing the path planning algorithms.

Alec also manages the navigation software development as well as all of MAAV's IT infrastructure.

The Adaptable IO System (ADIOS) provides a simple, flexible way for scientists to describe the data in their code that may need to be written, read, or processed outside of the running simulation. By providing an external to the code XML file describing the various elements, their types, and how you wish to process them this run, the routines in the host code (either Fortran or C) can transparently change how they process the data.

Stanley Seibert is a software developer for Continuum Analytics working on the Numba project. He received a Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and worked as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Monte Carlo algorithms, Bayesian methods, optical simulation of particle detectors, and promoting the use of Python and GPUs in scientific computing.

The Adaptation Collaboratory is a resource for research, education, and collaboration in the area of adaptation and climate change. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Notre Dame. Our team at Notre Dame, and our outreach partners at The Nature Conservancy’s Great Lakes Project