About
Founded on December 28, 2006, insideHPC is a blog that distills news and events in the world of HPC and presents them in bite-sized nuggets of helpfulness as a resource for supercomputing professionals. As one reader said, we’re reading the news so you don’t have to!
If you would like to contact me with suggestions, comments, corrections, errors or new company announcements, please me an email at john@insidehpc.com.
InsideHPC is written and edited by a fine team of crack supercomputing professionals:
John E. West currently works in a large federal supercomputing program when he’s not editing and writing at insideHPC. He is a former Top 20 supercomputing center director, computational science researcher, and scientific visualization specialist. John is also the author of a leadership book for technology professionals that you can find at http://onlytraitofaleader.com/book.
Michael Feldman is the managing editor for HPCwire (www.hpcwire.com). Prior to his editorial gig, he spent over 25 years as a software engineer writing development tools, device drivers and board support packages. He lives and works in San Diego, California.
David J. Cuccia is CTO of a medical device startup company and technology addict. When he’s not writing grants and reports (or writing for insideHPC.com), he spends his time developing image acquisition, analysis, and visualization software. His current computing interests include GPGPU and SOA software design, and following hardware trends in the GPU and CPU industries. David recently graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.
Andrew Jones is a senior manager in an academic supercomputing centre in the UK, responsible in part for supercomputing service definition, procurement and delivery. He has a degree in Physics and has previously worked at defence labs in the UK, also related to supercomputing. Andrew’s current interests include the impact of both evolutionary and novel technologies on future HPC solutions and services, especially many-core architectures and the resulting requirements on programming methodologies. He also has a longstanding interest in the evaluation of supercomputing technologies and architectures including benchmarking.
John Leidel is a senior HPC architect and technical lead at a federal supercomputing laboratory and a chronic HPC geek. Having started his career as a classical software engineer, he participates in several open source projects centered around large enterprise computing/HPC environments. His recent interests include general purpose offload computing [FPGA/GPU/etc] in beowulf clusters. When he’s not writing for insideHPC.com or slinging code for various open source pursuits, you can find him spending time with his family or whittling away at homemade briar pipes. And yes, cowboy boots can be considered formal attire.
Chris Vaughan currently works for a leading provider of workload and resource management software and services for cluster, grid and utility-based computing environments. He is based in the UK and has deployed workload and resource management software for several top500.org clusters based in EMEA. When he’s not contributing to insideHPC.com he likes to cycle, listen to music, enjoy fine ales and play football (soccer). He has a personal weblog in the works.