Student Cluster Competition        

The hardworking volunteer committee that makes the Student Cluster Competition possible is dedicated to students and mentoring the future of HPC at the SC conference. These individuals donate their time and energy to create a one-of-a-kind experience for undergraduates.

• Stephen Harrell, Purdue University
  Competition Chair
  Stephen is Teaching, Education and Outreach staff in Research Computing at Purdue. Before that, he was systems staff for Purdue's primary HPC resources. He has also been the staff advisor for seven Student Cluster Competition teams at Purdue.
  
  
• Dr. John Cazes, Texas Advanced Computing Center
  Competition Deputy Chair
  John leads the HPC Applications group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. He has over 20 years experience in HPC and is focused on providing high level support to the HPC user community. John began participating in the Student Cluster Competition program in 2010 and has advised five different teams.
  
  
• Jennett Tillotson, Indiana University
  Primary Technical Lead
  
  
• Paul Peltz, Los Alamos National Lab
  Secondary Technical Lead
  Paul Peltz is a Scalable Systems Engineer in the High Performance Computing Division at Los Alamos National Laboratories where he helps procure, test, and integrate the new HPC systems into production. He has almost 20 years of experience collaborating with vendors to evaluate and integrate pre-release hardware and software. Currently he is the systems technical lead on the Trinity project and is actively working with Cray to deploy their largest XC system to date, a 110 cabinet XC40 named Trinity.
  
  
• Kathleen Shoga, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Technical Team and Student Impact Team
  Kathleen Shoga works as a computer scientist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Livermore Computing Division. She works on multiple aspects of HPC, including performance tools, system administration, system monitoring, and big data databases. She also participated in the SCC in ’12 and ’13.
  
  
• Dr. Kris Garrett, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Reproducibility Lead
  Kris is a computational mathematician at Los Alamos National Lab working in the field of algorithmic and computational optimizations for kinetic equations. He has 5 years of experience in high performance computing and software development. This is his second year participating in the student cluster competition.
  
  
• Christopher Bross, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
  Applications Team
  
  
• Dr. Xiao Zhu, Purdue University
  Applications Lead
  
  
• Andy Howard, Cycle Computing
  Cloud Lead
  
  
• Dr. Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Student Impact Team
  ("Why I Brought an All-Female Team to the Student Cluster Competition at ISC16")
  
  
• Ramin Nosrat, IBM
  Student Impact Team
  
  
• Yashema Mack
  Student Impact Team
  
  
• Dr. Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retired
  Webmaster, night shift
  Sam is happily retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has never been busier, with volunteer tasks at SCC, the MSST mass storage conference, the Reno Air Races, the Air Race Classic, and other organizations. He has been on the SCC committee since 2007.
  
  

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• Dr. Brent Gorda, Intel
  
  
  
• Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting Group
  
  
  
• Dr. Hai Ah Nam, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
  
  
• Dustin Leverman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory