David Halstead
Biography
David Halstead is the CIO for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. After obtaining a PhD in the computational simulation of surface catalysis in 1990, he moved to HPC research at the DOE Scalable Computing Laboratory in Ames Lab, implementing commodity parallel processing cluster solutions to benefit research in surface science, chemistry, physics and biology. In 2002 he moved into industry with Celera Genomics to drive the Strategic Platform Initiative; transitioning away from the costly leased computer systems used to sequence the human genome, to scalable HPC systems supporting proteomics and therapeutics research.
Since joining NRAO in 2008, his responsibilities are divided between Data Management for the Observatory’s HPC infrastructure in support of multiple radio telescopes, and the general IT support for NRAO’s 500+ employees. He has served on the committees for SC94, SC99, SC05, SC10; SC13; SC14; SC16 and is a founding member of the ACM’s SIGHPC Education Chapter.
Since joining NRAO in 2008, his responsibilities are divided between Data Management for the Observatory’s HPC infrastructure in support of multiple radio telescopes, and the general IT support for NRAO’s 500+ employees. He has served on the committees for SC94, SC99, SC05, SC10; SC13; SC14; SC16 and is a founding member of the ACM’s SIGHPC Education Chapter.
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