Director at HPC Systems Inc., Solutions Architect, Talentain
San Francisco Bay Area
Director at HPC Systems Inc., Solutions Architect, Talentain
San Francisco Bay Area
team leadership
product management
program management
high performance computing
x86 server technology
parallel file systems (IBRIX, Lustre, PVFS)
porting and optimization
enterprise storage (SAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Storage arrays)
high speed interconnects (infiniband, myrinet, PARAMNet)
virutalization
solution design
(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
lead team of engineers to develop, design and support solutions:
1. high performance compute clusters built with x86 processors, infiniband and gigabit ethernet interconnects
2. parallel file system solutions based on lustre and pvfs
3. virtualization solutions
4. high performance workstations for media, financial and scientific workloads
provide engineering assistance to end users in porting, optimizing and profiling their codes on large clusters, address issues related to performance analysis & scalability of applications, parallel file systems, networks and capacity planning.
port and use standard benchmarks, scientific codes, isv applications, media & rendering related applications on manycore clusters, multi core workstations
work with multiple vendors to asses, prototype, integrate emerging technologies with our high performance system products
drive quality and reliability through industry standard and in house tools
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)
(Public Company; DELL; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 10 months)
Engineering lead for HPC solutions team
manage solution design and delivery for IBRIX parallel file system
manage solution design and delivery for Platform OCS cluster management stack
port, tune, optimize and performance analysis of scientific and user applications, industry standard benchmarks on Dell HPC cluster solutions built on x86, IA64 processors, Myrinet, Infiniband, Gigabit interconnects, Dell & EMC storage units.
assist in user interactions - design cluster, interconnect, parallel file system architectures based on user requirements, educate customers on Dell HPC solutions, demonstrate Dell technologies
port and benchmark various scientific and commercial applications on Dell HPC clusters
develop automation tools for software validation on large clusters
worked with Infiniband, Dell EMC storage, IBRIX, ROCKS, Myrinet, Intel compilers, PVFS etc
Several invention disclosures
Two patent applications filed with USPTO
published conference papers and magazine articles
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 10 months)
Port scientific applications, benchmarks on large SMP clusters
Benchmark PARAM series of compute clusters based on SUN enterprise workstations, IBM p-series and x86 systems with standard codes like LLCBench, LMBench, STREAM, HPL etc
Assist application teams with performance aspects of their codes
Maintain HPC tools like MPICH, Jumpshot, C-DAC internal tools
Developed P-COMS cluster benchmark
Port MPICH to support C-DAC PARAMNet-II, a high speed interconnect developed based on VIA architecture
conduct hpc training workshops for various educational institutions and national level workshops
study POWER 4 micro-architecture for compiler and hand tune code optimization
published conference papers
B.Tech , Computer Sciences & Engineering , 1997 — 2001
BTech , Computer Sciences & Engineering , 1997 — 2001
My passion was & always is High Performance Computing.
HiPC