Presenter

Kent Milfeld: Over the last 18 years at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Kent has fulfilled many roles, including directing the HPC training programs, teaching Computational Chemistry in the UT Chemistry Department, organizing conferences, consulting, and collaborating on computational projects with fellow colleagues, within the DoD PET program, and at UT institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT). Kent enjoys collaborating with his colleagues in conference proceedings and papers on topics such as grid software and technologies (Cluster Computing Through an Application-Oriented Computational Grid), HPC management (Batch System Deployment on a Production Terascale Cluster), evaluation of the latest computing hardware (Performance Characteristics of Dual-Processor HPC Cluster Nodes Based on 64-bit Commodity Processors), and IO (Experiences with the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) in Linux Clusters), to name a few.