Siddhartha Jana (Ph.D.) is a research scientist at Intel Corporation and the conferences co-lead within the EE HPC WG (Energy Efficient HPC Working Group). He holds a doctorate from the University of Houston in energy efficiency and distributed memory programming models. At Intel, his research projects are driven towards leveraging hardware features to explore energy efficiency within the HPC software stack. His other research interests include programming models, High Performance Computing, compiler design and analyses, runtime systems, communication libraries, and distributed computing. As part of his research, he has collaborated with a number of organizations across academia, government, and the industry including Total, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Technische University, Dresden, Intel, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Cray Inc. With his two hats on - Intel and EE HPC WG, Sid is actively collaborating on HPC PowerStack, a community-wide effort to design a unified HPC system stack that will facilitate building system-wide power efficiency solutions for future large-scale machines.
Woong Shin (Ph.D.) is an HPC systems engineer and a computer scientist in the Analytics & AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is involved in R&D and engineering activities around designing and improving system software & system architectures for HPC systems. Currently he is serving as the technical lead in developing and maintaining operational data analytics systems that provide near-real time and long term insights for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. With this role, he has been actively participating in the operational data analytics team in the EE HPC WG.
Woong started his career as a software engineer in the enterprise sector, working for Samsung & TmaxSoft (South Korea) in the business of developing monitoring systems and business intelligence systems. Later in career, he pursued academic training in system software, distributed systems, and computer architecture specialized in NVRAM based storage systems. He joined ORNL in 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (M.S. and Ph.D. integrated course) in 2017 from Seoul National University, South Korea. He earned his B.S. in computer science in 2003 from Korea University, South Korea.
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Yuetsu Kodama is a senior scientist at RIKEN CCS (Center for Computational Science) from 2015. He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1986, 1988 and 2003, respectively. He was a professor at University of Tsukuba in 2011-2015, a senior researcher at AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in 2000-2011 and a researcher at ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratory) in 1988-1999. He has been engaged in the research on parallel computer architecture. He is a member of IEEE CS, IEICE and IPSJ.
Robert Schöne works as research associate at Technische Universität Dresden, where he also received his PhD. His research includes micro-architectural features of processors, as well as tools and methods for measuring and tuning performance and energy-efficiency of parallel applications. After he received his diploma, he worked in different projects that targeted the measurement and tuning of energy-efficiency. Among other things, he described interfaces that extend performance measurement frameworks for such cases. He was also part of the team that developed the Bull specific power and energy measurement framework HDEEM. After being scientific manager of the the Horizon2020 project READEX, he started teaching processor architecture and parallel programming at TU Dresdens Faculty of Computer Science. Since he received his diploma, he published more than 30 papers and organized and co-organized four workshops with a focus on auto-tuning and energy-efficiency.
Julita Corbalán received the PhD degree in computer science in 2002 from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain. Her research interests include processor management of parallel applications, parallel runtimes, and High Performance Computing scheduling policies. She is currently an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and associate researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. She is currently involved in three main projects, the BSC-Lenovo collaboration projects, leading the EAR system software for energy management project, and HEROES and REGALE from the EU.
Chris DePrater is a system engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with over a decade of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC). Specializing in building controls, mechanical systems and is an active member Energy Efficient HPC working Group (EEHPCWG). Chris has a certification in Industrial Maintenance Air Conditioning and a bachelor’s degree From DeVry University in Electronic Engineering. He has been involved in the planning and siting of multiple top 500 HPC systems, Sequoia, Sierra and currently working towards Exascale at LLNL. Chris values teamwork and collaboration with peers in and out of the workplace. Outside of work Chris is a devoted father of 7 and enjoys the outdoors.
David Grant graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2003 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He has been at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since 2009 and is a senior technical staff member. While at ORNL he has been involved with the design, construction, and operation of the mechanical systems supporting ORNL's 80,000SF+ of data centers which house the Summit and Frontier High Performance Computer Systems among others. He is currently a co-chair of the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group Infrastructure sub-team and is a corresponding member of the ASHRAE TC9.9. David is a registered Professional Engineer with the State of Tennessee and is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM - from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)) and a Data Center Energy Practitioner – Specialist (DCEP - from the Department of Energy (DOE)).
Terry Rodgers has over 39 years of progressive experience in Critical Facilities operations and management including strategic planning, critical infrastructure design, operations, and commissioning; business protection and recovery; preventive and predictive maintenance; technical training and professional training development.
Terry is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and a voting member of ASHRAE TC9.9 "Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces, & Electronic Equipment", ASHRAE SSPC 90.4 "Energy Standard for Data Centers”, ASHRAE SPC-127 "Method of Testing for Rating Computer Room Air Conditioners”, and GPC-1.6P “Commissioning Process for Data Centers”. He is on the Board of Directors of the Building Commissioning Association’s Southeast Region and has authored or co-authored books, whitepapers, and presentations on Critical Facilities, facilities management, and formal commissioning. He has developed and taught multiple training classes in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of critical facilities including commercial nuclear power plants, aerospace facilities, and large data centers.
Alessio Netti is a researcher at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, working on monitoring infrastructures and operational data analytics techniques for HPC systems. He has previously been a research fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering - University of Bologna, where in 2017 he obtained his M.Sc. title in Computer Science - Systems and Networks. In 2014, he has been an intern at the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA). His research interests range from operational data analytics, monitoring, resiliency and energy efficiency on HPC systems, to machine learning and signal processing.
Sagar Dolas is a program manager within the Innovation Labs at SURF. He contributes to shaping the initiatives, lab strategy and its culture. His work is focused on understanding the value and impact of trends & innovation in technology on the future of the research & research ecosystem. He is currently leading the Energy-Efficient Computing project for the National Supercomputer "Snellius". In this project, he is working to formulate green computing strategies for scientific applications to align with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on global warming.
His long term vision is to work towards reshaping scientific communication and strives towards making research accessible beyond the regular audience. He has a background in Applied mathematics and Computing sciences and has completed his MSc studies in Germany & The Netherlands. He is originally from India & currently lives with his wife in Eindhoven. He is passionate about green spaces, sustainable living, nutrition & wellbeing. He combines Indo - European cuisines and enjoys cooking with his friends & family.
Grant Stewart is a registered professional civil engineer (BSCE & MSCE, 35 years of experience) and currently serves as Utilities Project Director for Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a long-time friend of LANL’s Advanced Simulations & Computing Program, working at the interface between utility-scale power and growing HPC facilities. For LANL, he develops new sources of power supply and capital investment projects in utilities to serve the growing mission. He is also active in the EEHPC WG having served on several teams; his present focus is developing owner’s requirements guidance for electrical systems development and commissioning HPC facilities.