David Skinner

Current

Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley Lab at NERSC/LBL

Past

HPC Engineer at NERSC/LBL at NERSC/LBL

Education

University of California, Berkeley
University of Kansas

Recommended

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Connections

209 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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David Skinner’s Summary

Scientific research in theoretical chemistry and programming for scientific applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Performance tuning and analysis of parallel and distributed applications, architectures, and workflows. End to end testing of large scale calculation and data movement. Experience in many engineering and information management challenges in the operation of a High Performance Computing (HPC) facility.

David Skinner’s Specialties:

* Author of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, tools, and libraries.

* Delivering scalability and performance in parallel codes.

* Root cause analysis of performance issues in HPC systems and workflows.

* Author of papers on HPC applications and architectures

* Research in large scale chemical dynamics

* Quantitative representations of large data sets.

David Skinner’s Experience

Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley Lab

NERSC/LBL

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Group Leader for the Open Software and Programming group at NERSC.
HPC Engineer at NERSC/LBL

NERSC/LBL

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1999 — May 2006 (6 years 10 months)

David Skinner’s Education

University of California, Berkeley

Phd , Theoretical Chemistry , 1995 — 2000

Quantum and semiclassical aproaches to reaction dynamics

Hertz Fellow
University of Kansas

B.S. , Chemistry , 1992 — 1995

Activities and Societies:

Theory of semiconducting nanoclusters

Black-Babcock Scholar