Huw Lynes

Current

Sysadmin at Advanced Research Computing, Cardiff University

Past

Grid Technologies Specialist at Cardiff University, Welsh eScience Centre
Deputy Systems Manager at MPC
System Administrator at MPC

PhD Student at MRC Clinical Sciences Centre

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Education

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

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Huw Lynes’s Summary

Linux sysadmin with particular expertise in managing render-farms and compute clusters. Partial to a bit of Solaris 10 also. Pretty good at knocking together solutions in less than ideal circumstances.

Increasingly involved in machine room design and management. More familiar with APC InfrastuXure than is really healthy.

Huw Lynes’s Specialties:

Operating Systems: Linux,Irix,Solaris
Render farms and clusters with Condor, Sun Grid Engine or PBS
HPC applications: OpenMP, MPI, LS-DYNA
Monitoring: APC ISX, Nagios, SNMP

Huw Lynes’s Experience

Sysadmin

Advanced Research Computing, Cardiff University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Helping to get a new department and compute centre of the ground. EU Journal tenders are an astonishingly large amount of work. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll be looking after a new cluster. Then maybe I won't spend my entire life in meetings.
Grid Technologies Specialist

Cardiff University, Welsh eScience Centre

(Higher Education industry)

February 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Deputy Systems Manager

MPC

(Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

September 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 5 months)
System Administrator

MPC

(Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

August 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 2 months)

MPC is one of the UK's leading visual effects houses.
I started a a jumior admin in a department of 3, installing linux workstations and swapping people's broken keyboards. By the end I was writing a lot of house-keeping scripts and the department had grown to 10. Fun times.
PhD Student

MRC Clinical Sciences Centre

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

September 1999 — August 2001 (2 years )

Worked for Nial Dillon in the Gene Regulation & Chromatin Group.
I'm so not cut out to be a scientist. Fracturing my spine didn't help.

Not a happy time.