Launching a New General Purpose Supercomputer
Greg Newby
Compute Canada
Gregory Newby is Compute Canada’s Chief Technology Officer. He has a passion for enabling diverse scientific, social and educational opportunities. Born in Montreal, Dr. Newby received his doctorate in Information Transfer from Syracuse University and most recently completed an M.B.A. in Sustainable Systems from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute of Pinchot University. Dr. Newby also obtained a Masters in Communications from University at Albany, State University of New York. Author of several books and numerous publications, Dr. Newby was a faculty member at two major US universities where he developed and taught courses in information systems, information security, and computer technology. His most recent roles include Manager of the Supercomputing Core Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Newby was Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he also served as a faculty member for 11 years.
Kamil Marcinkowski
University of Alberta
Site Lead, University of Alberta, WestGridKamil has been the WestGrid sitelead for the University of Alberta since 2013. He has led Compute Canada’s National Scheduling National Team since the deployment Cedar and Graham in 2017. This team is comprised of 10 people, from the regions across Canada with representatives from each national host site, the Platforms & Services National Team, the Research Support National Team and the RAC Admin Committee.
Maxime Boissonneault
Calcul Québec
Support Team Lead, Calcul QuebecMaxime has been working for Calcul Québec at Laval University for over 6 years. Prior to this, Maxime was a user of HPC infrastructure for nearly ten years, while doing his studies in physics at the University of Sherbrooke. He has been leading the Research Support National Team for Compute Canada since 2015. The team is comprised of 14 people, with representation from every region of Compute Canada as well as from every national host site. This team has three main areas of focus : helpdesk (user support), documentation, and application support, and is responsible for coordinating these three key aspects of user support for all of Compute Canada.
Bart Oldeman
Calcul Québec
Scientific Analyst, Calcul Québec Bart has worked as a Scientific Computing Analyst for McGill University within Calcul Québec since 2012. His background is in computational dynamical systems, a branch of applied mathematics that involves the analysis of solutions to mathematical equations as their parameters vary, which also involved the occasional use of HPC resources. In 2016 he joined the Research Support National Team at Compute Canada where, as the Software Installation Coordinator he is responsible for overseeing the centrally managed Compute Canada software stack. This involves collaborations inside and outside Canada, as well as being one of the ten maintainers of the EasyBuild software installation framework, a system used worldwide to install scientific software on HPC clusters.
Eduardo Fuenmayor
Compute Canada
Science Project Manager, Compute CanadaEduardo has been with Compute Canada since 2014, and is responsible for planning and managing many of the large national projects including account renewals and the Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC). As the Chair of the RAC Administrative Committee, Eduardo leads the implementation of allocations and RAC policies. As the Lead of the Compute Canada Database (CCDB) development team, he coordinates the efforts to maintain the CCDB, the primary tool responsible for the core functions of the national platform.
Abstract
After hosting sites are selected and systems are purchased, what’s next? Thispanel will describe the process of getting Canada’s new academic researchcomputing systems up and running. Compute Canada’s "general... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Greg Newby (Compute Canada)
- Kamil Marcinkowski (University of Alberta)
- Maxime Boissonneault (Calcul Québec)
- Bart Oldeman (Calcul Québec)
- Eduardo Fuenmayor (Compute Canada)
Topic Area
Research Computing: Advanced Research Computing
Session
D2-S4-04 » Tuesday Session 4 - 4 (14:15 - Tuesday, 19th June, DAC Lower Floor)
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