High Performance Computing Day 2008 Presenters

Bio:
Henry Gabb is a Principal Engineer in the Intel Software and Solutions Group. He has been working on parallel applications and parallel performance issues since joining Intel in 2000. Prior to joining Intel, Henry was Director of Scientific Computing at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center MSRC, a DoD high-performance computing site. Henry holds a BS in biochemistry from LSU and a PhD in molecular genetics from the UAB School of Medicine. He has several peer-reviewed research papers on high-performance computing and the computational life sciences.

Bio:
Jim Skirvin’s responsibility as President of the Holland Computing Center is to give leadership and direction toward the organization’s philosophy, mission, strategy and annual goals and objectives, as set forth by the Board of Directors. He provides pertinent information on activities and advice on areas of expertise with High Performance Computing operations and governance.

HCC is located in the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The center was established as non-profit computing facility.

Prior to moving to Omaha, Jim spent much of his career based in the Midwest, but often traveling around the country and internationally speaking on behalf of his former employer, Dell where he spent the last 8 years as a High Performance Computing architect and Business Development Manager for their Higher Education segment. He was at Accenture before Dell and worked as a Design Architect for their Business Integration Practice.

Jim has designed clusters small to very large for both academia and private industry. Additionally, he has assisted with the writing of business cases for universities seeking to implement supercomputer centers.

Bio:
Tim Carroll is responsible for Dell’s High Performance Computing Business Development in the U.S and Canada.  Dell’s ability to continue to deliver high performance clusters that meet the needs of the full breadth of HPCC customers is contingent upon a keen understanding of the needs of the entire market.  As such he works with HPC customers and vendors, along with Dell’s Product Group and Engineering teams to facilitate dialogue and build partnerships which leverage the collective strengths of industry, research and government.
 
Tim has spent the past nine years focused exclusively on compute clusters in the HPC environment at Dell, Platform Computing and Linux Networx.  Prior to HPC, Tim was early into the managed services space, having built Digex, now Verizon Data Services, one of the industry’s first managed web hosting companies.  As the HPCC industry continues to evolve and mature, Tim draws on many of the parallels between the two industries in charting future growth of both the technology and the business.