startdate: "2020-10-29"

time: "03:00 pm - 04:15 pm EDT"

type: Online Panel Discussion

series:

- "Strategies for Working Remotely"

activities:

- "IDEAS-ECP"

link-id: panel006

panelists:

- name: Katie Antypas

affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

bio: "Katie Antypas is the Division Deputy and Data Department Head at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Katie was the Project Director of the NERSC-8 Cori supercomputer deployed in 2016 and served as the Project Director for the NERSC-9 Perlmutter system from 2017-2019. She is also the director of Hardware and Integration for the ECP project and a co-investigator on the ASCR research project titled, “Science Search: Automated MetaData Using Machine Learning” and is interested in how experimental science facilities can leverage High Performance Computing. Her interests include application readiness for advanced architecture systems, I/O performance, data movement and management and supporting experimental science on HPC systems. Before coming to NERSC, Katie worked at the ASC Flash Center at the University of Chicago on the FLASH code, a highly scalable, parallel, adaptive mesh refinement astrophysics application. She has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a bachelors in Physics from Wellesley College."

- name: David E. Bernholdt

affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

github-id: bernhold

bio: "David E. Bernholdt is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests are, broadly, in software environments for high-performance scientific computing. Over his 20-years at ORNL he has led and participated in many different projects focused variously on computer science or computational science research, nearly all “hybrid” in the sense of being multi-institutional and geographically distributed. He also has experience (pre-COVID) managing a “hybrid” group."

- name: Mark Miller

affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

github-id: markcmiller86

bio: " Mark C. Miller is a software engineer in the Applications, Simulation and Quality (ASQ) Division at Livermore Labs with 25+ years experience in high performance computing (HPC) visualization and data analysis applications. Mark is also member of the IDEAS-ECP project. For his entire career, management at LLNL has enabled Mark to have a hybrid schedule involving telecommuting and real commuting from his home in Davis, a distance of about 100 miles. For several years, he rented a room in the local Livermore area for routine overnight stays. "

- name: Hai Ah Nam

affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory

github-id: hnamLANL

bio: "Hai Ah Nam is a computational physicist in the Computational Physics & Methods (CCS-2) Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a background in low-energy nuclear physics, large-scale scientific computing and high-performance computing. Hai Ah is a member of the IDEAS-ECP project, the coordinator of the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program and an advocate for developer productivity and software sustainability. Most people only know Hai Ah by voice."

- name: Valerie Taylor

affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory

bio: "Valerie Taylor is the Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and a Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She has over 25 years of research experience in HPC, with a focus on performance analysis, modeling and tuning of parallel, scientific applications. Prior to joining Argonne, she a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Valerie is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow."

moderators:

- name: Ashley Barker

affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

bio: " Ashley Barker is the Section Head for Operations at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) located at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The Operations Section is responsible for facilitating access to OLCF resources, providing training, documentation, and technical support to users, collecting and reporting on user facility data, and acquainting the public with the work conducted at the OLCF through scientific highlights. The OLCF supports more than 1,200 users and 250 projects annually from a wide spectrum of science domains. Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change. Ashley is also currently involved in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity. "

- name: Mike Heroux

affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories

github-id: maherou

bio: " Mike Heroux has worked remotely for nearly 23 years from rural central Minnesota, briefly as Director of Applications at SGI/Cray, then as a staff member in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. Mike is presently the director of software technology for ECP and a Scientist in Residence at St. John’s University, MN."

- name: Elaine Raybourn

affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories

github-id: elaineraybourn

bio: " Elaine M. Raybourn is a social scientist in the Statistics and Human Systems Group (Applied Cognitive Science) at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research focuses on virtual teams, methods for software productivity, immersive virtual environments, scientific visualization, and transmedia learning. She was the SC21 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase Chair. Elaine has worked remotely for a combined total of 15 years while at Sandia National Laboratories: from the UK as a guest researcher at British Telecom; Germany (Fraunhofer FIT) and France (INRIA) as a Fellow of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), and most recently as Sandia’s Institutional PI for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS) productivity project. Elaine leads PSIP and the ECP panel series Strategies for Working Remotely. "