SC 2022 Workshop

Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer
HPC & AI Business Group
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Trish Damkroger joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in April 2022 as Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer for the HPC & AI business unit. In this role, she leads the end-to-end product strategy for the organization, driving efforts to scale the business to enable the next wave of growth and innovation.

Prior to joining HPE, Trish was Vice President and General Manager of the HPC group at Intel, responsible for setting the technical HPC strategy from exascale to department level supercomputers.

Before Intel, Trish was the Acting Associate Director of Computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory leading a group of more than athousand supercomputing engineering and scientific experts. She has also served as Program Manager for the Advanced & Exploratory Weapon System Program at Sandia National Laboratories where she managed technical programs related to advanced weapon technology. Since 2006, Trish has been a leader of the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC) series, the premier international meeting for high performance computing.

Trish holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University and a Master of Science degree inElectrical Engineering from Stanford University.a

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Kate Carter is a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She has 20 years of experience working in the field of technical recruiting.  For the past 13 years she has focused on recruiting scientific and technical staff and leadership within HPC and other areas of computing.  She spends most of her time hunting passive candidates and partnering with hiring managers to fill their positions. In her spare time she enjoys running and fitness activities and spending time with her family.

Principal Member of Technical Staff
Acting Manager of the Software Engineering and Research Department

Jay’s research interests focus around large scale data management and trusting scientific computing. In particular, he works on storage, IO, metadata, workflows, reproducibility, software engineering, machine learning, and operating system-level support for any of these topics.  He has also continues to dedicate his time to mentorship projects and increasing diversity and inclusivity in HPC, serving as this year’s SC22 Inclusivity Chair.

Dr. Lofstead received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010.

Professor of Computer Science
CISO and Director of IT

Helena founded her first digital start-up company at the age 18, while still studying Computer Science. She started her Intel career in 2005 as an Application Engineer within the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), developing good understanding of software products and the ISV market. She moved on building a SW lab supporting internal engineering community as well as external customers.

Since 2010 Helena was leading the HPC Market in Germany for almost a decade.

In 2018 Helena received the prestigious Intel Achievement Award, Intel’s highest Honour, for her contribution to HPC. She has Doctorate in Economics (“Strategic change management in post crisis environment”) as well as formal education in Business Administration and Computer Science.

In 2018 Helena received a tenured position as a Professor of Computer Science at her Alma Mater, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), where she build the first European “HPC and Quantum Computing” master program at the DIT in autumn 2021 with a high demand of students followed by a new bachelor Program on “Data Center Management” starting in 2022.

Helena is also the CISO and Director of the IT-Centre in charge of University IT.

Director of Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
Technical Director, N8 Centre for Computationally Intensive Research (N8-CIR)

Alan Real is the Director of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) at Durham University, Technical Director of the N8 Centre for Computationally Intensive Research (N8-CIR) that is established as a chapter of WHPC, and Director of its EPSRC Tier-2 service, Bede.

Beginning his career as a Beowulf system administrator after a PhD in Molecular Biophysics, Alan has undertaken roles in HPC user support before moving towards developing and managing research computing units both within IT organisations and as a dedicated department within research division.

Alan held Executive roles within the High Performance Computing Special Interest Group for several years and has recently concluded his term as Chair of the committee that assists STFC with its oversight of DiRAC.

Outreach, Diversity, and Education Team Lead
SC21 Inclusivity Chair

AJ Lauer is the Outreach, Diversity, and Education Team Lead in the Computational and Information Systems Lab at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She focuses on inclusion and workforce development in HPC. AJ served as the SC21 Inclusivity Chair and continues to work with the conference through the Steering Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion. AJ holds a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters in Higher Education Administration from Florida International University, and a Doctor of Education degree in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University.

Program Manager
Change Management and New Technology Adoption

With over 15 years of experience in Enterprise technology and 6 within HPC, Cristin brings to the table a diverse set of skills aimed at assisting clients in balancing the platforms, tools, and technology required to make their HPC service build successful.  At Alces Flight Cristin has focused on subscription-based HPC projects ranging on-premises, mixed and hybrid stacks, open-source, and cloud native HPC.

Prior to Alces, Cristin has spent time working in financial filing initiatives focused on the digitisation of tax records, with SAP implementations in the US, UK, and EMEA, and in working within the Houston city council as campaign manager and grassroots fundraiser.  She was pleasantly surprised to learn that all these skills have managed to be quite useful in her current line of work.

Within the HPC community Cristin serves as the volunteer Social Media Editor for Women in HPC and the Supercomputing Conference (SC) series.  She is also an active member of the Society of Research Software Engineers.

Cristin graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Classics and fell into working in tech while living in Houston, Texas.  Currently, she resides in Oxford, England with her husband, son, and far too many animals.

Principal Software Engineer
BeeGFS

Presenting:

SUGAR: Speeding Up GPGPU Application Resilience Estimation with Input Sizing

Lishan Yang is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Evgenia Smirni. Her research interest falls in GPU architecture, reliability analysis, performance analysis, workload characterization of large-scale systems, reliability of HPC and large scale systems. Before coming to W&M, She got her bachelor degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016.

Presenting:

QuickSilver: A Distributed Policy Driven Data Management System

Anjus George is an HPC Systems Software Engineer at the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She primarily works on improving and enhancing Lustre file system, HPC storage performance and failures, and developing system software for scientific Edge ecosystems. Prior to joining ORNL, she earned her PhD from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He PhD was focused on designing and optimizing distributed systems that enable machine vision at the IoT Edge. Her research interests included distributed systems, machine learning, and Edge computing. She has also worked as a Software Product Developer with Robert Bosch India, where she worked on developing engine management software for European automobiles.

Presenting:

Runtime Solutions to HPC Applications’ Dynamic Imbalance

Cassandra has completed a double degree, a master’s degree in high performance computing at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France and a master’s degree in science computing at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada. After an internship of 6 months at Atos, she started her PhD in 2020 in HPC with support from Atos and the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne. Cassandra’s PhD subject is “How can we use all resources of a supercomputer with collaboration between different runtimes?”. She is now in her final year, which is being spent partly at the CEA in France. She was also proud to participate in the EU project DEEP-SEA.

Presenting:

Performance Optimizations within GPU Memory Constraints in Nyx Cosmology Code

Presenting:

Problem Solving Environment and Compiler Optimizations for High Performance Particle-Mesh Numerical Simulations

Nesrine Khouzami received her bachelor and master degrees from the Superior National Engineering School of Tunis (Ensit) respectively in June 2010 and February 2013. Her master thesis was about designing a decentralized approach for resources reservation in desktop grids. Then, she joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for a year and seven months, where she worked on leveraging high-performance in-memory key-value data stores to accelerate data intensive tasks. In 2017, Nesrine joined the Chair for Compiler Construction at TU Dresden in Germany as research assistant, she is working on domain specific languages and compiler optimisations (e.g, for computational biology) in the high-performance computing domain.

Presenting:

Optimizing the Bruck Algorithm for All-to-all Communication

Ke Fan is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the computer science department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, advised by Sidharth Kumar. Her research orientations are high-performance communication and I/O and scientific data analytics and visualization. Applications running on exascale systems must adapt to increasing degrees of parallelism that are going to put tremendous stress on overall data movement, be it over the interconnect network or to the parallel storage system. It becomes necessary to have systems that have highly scalable data exchange and I/O phases — any degree of load imbalance will lead to sub-optimal performance. Ke’s research focuses on developing solutions for managing imbalances in both parallel I/O and a sub-set of communication that have been traditionally overlooked by HPC users. In particular, she has developed 1) solutions for dealing with load-imbalance created by modern compression libraries and 2) optimization of both uniform and non-uniform all-to-all communication among processes. Ke is proudly a straight-A student in UAB, and has already published two conference papers at HiPC and HPDC, a workshop paper at IPDPS, and a poster at SC — all top-tier conference venues in high-performance computing (HPC). Ke is deeply committed to my research and will devote myself to HPC.