A Memorial for Lucy Nowell

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Thomas Sterling said: For me, personally this, this is sad. I only just learned within the last few days that Lucy Nowell passed away. Now for those of you in the U.S. and involved in HPC, you knew Lucy.  She was a person of singular value in our field. And she exhibited a personality that is remembered for her professionalism, really strong professionalism, and her passion for not just the field, but for the value of the field, and her ultimate integrity. You couldn’t fool Lucy.

I had the pleasure of interacting with her over a number of years before her retirement. She was a program manager at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, and I interacted with her frequently in that regard. Prior to that, she was at the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, and yet before that, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in eastern Washington state, she served in the Department of Defense as a program manager and earlier than that, she was a professor at Lynchburg College in in Virginia, a professor of computer science.

But if you knew her well you knew that her first love was theater. She was engaged in theater at an early age…and she brought a very rich perspective, not a single dimensional perspective but a rich perspective. And she had a wonderful sense of humor, and a laugh that I can still remember. Lucy we will miss you.