Steve Simms, OpenSFS President, Indiana University
Stephen Simms manages the High Performance File Systems group at Indiana University.  He has been in HPC for 20 years and has spent 14 of those years working with his team to use the high performance Lustre file system in production and pioneer its use across wide area networks.

Peter Jones, LWG Chair, Director of Engineering, Whamcloud
Peter Jones runs the Whamcloud engineering division at DDN. He has been active in the Lustre community for 15 years and is currently co-lead of the OpenSFS Lustre Working Group and a Director of the Administrative council for EOFS.

James Simmons, ORNL
James Simmons has been an active Linux kernel developer since 1999. This development has been from small embedded systems to large super computers. James Simmons has been active in the Lustre community since joining ORNL in 2008.

Gabriel Verdejo Alvarez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Mr. Gabriel Verdejo Alvarez is the IT manager at the Research and Development Lab (/rdlab) since 2010, and full-time staff at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Computer Science Department (CS), after 2003. Previously, worked as a senior IT consultant for innovation and database processes.

The /rdlab provides specific IT support for the UPC research groups, fellow universities and research centers in their national and European projects in order to foster their technology transfer initiatives. Nowadays, over 160 researchers and 18 research groups make use of our High Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud services.

Christopher Brumgard, ORNL
Chris Brumgard is an HPC systems engineer for the Technology Integration group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His work includes a myriad of different storage areas, including utilizing NVMe performantly and seamlessly in HPC and local and distributed file systems. He has been instrumental in the deployment of Summit’s filesystem, as well as working diligently for Frontier’s upcoming filesystem. His current projects include augmenting the functionality of ZFS for HPC and new initiatives in edge computing.

Ross Miller, ORNL
Ross Miller is a software developer at the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.  He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Baylor University and has worked on everything from embedded microprocessors for avionics up to the largest supercomputers in the world.  He has been working for NCCS for the last 12 years on a variety of projects, including filesystems and telemetry monitoring systems for supercomputers.

James Coomer, DDN
James is Sr. Vice President of Products at DataDirect Networks, and responsible for the technology direction, roadmap and performance analysis of DDN solutions. One of his main tasks is engaging with, and understanding the issues of organisations that are exploring the extremes of IO performance across the range of industries from Life Sciences through to Finance with use cases from Cloud, Enterprise Big Data though to AI and HPC.

Adam Disney, ORNL
Adam Disney has worked as an HPC Storage System Engineer at Oak Ridge National Lab since 2018. He has a background in neuromorphic computing, erasure codes, HPSS development, and recently has started in Lustre development.

Alex Kulyavtsev, ANL
Alex is a Principal High-Performance Computing Systems Administration Specialist at ALCF. He manages Lustre files systems at ANL and has been involved with Lustre since 2008 and also with distributed storage and data archival systems for the last 20 years. In a previous life he has been busy catching views  of Double Charm Hyperons which are also obviously Strange and some other High Energy Physics exotics.

Gordon McPheeters, ANL
As the file system technical lead for HPC storage, Gordon McPheeters has been instrumental in architecting and supporting HPC storage facilities with the ALCF.  The systems he is responsible for include the parallel file system clusters for Mira, Theta and Cooley.  Gordon also lends his expertise to the Aurora project, as he excels at identifying, testing and assessing emerging technologies.  Gordon joined the ALCF from IBM, where he worked on GPFS parallel file system development.

Prethvi Kashinkunti, NVIDIA
Prethvi is a deep learning systems software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale GPU clusters for AI and HPC applications. He began at NVIDIA as a solutions architect supporting enterprise customers with deep learning inference optimization. Prethvi received his M.S. and B.S. in computer engineering from Northwestern University in Illinois, where he specialized in HPC and parallel computer architecture.

Julie Bernauer, NVIDIA
Julie Bernauer is Director for Dacenter Systems Engineering and Applied Systems at NVIDIA Corporation. Her team focuses on several aspects of deep learning systems including performance and large scale deep learning and deployments for hyperscale and cloud services. The team builds and operates High Performance and Deep Learning platforms. One example is the Selene SuperPod who was ranked 5th in the top500 supercomputers recently and is amongst the most energy efficient. 

Julie joined NVIDIA in 2015 after fifteen years in academia as an expert in machine learning for computational structural biology. She obtained her PhD from Université Paris-Sud studying geometric and statistical models for modelling protein complexes. After a post-doc at Stanford University with Pr. Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013, she joined Inria, the French National Institute for Computer Science. While Senior Research Scientist at Inria, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at École Polytechnique and Visiting Research Scientist at SLAC, her work focused on computational methods for structural bioinformatics, specifically scoring functions for macromolecule docking using machine learning, and statistical potentials for molecular simulations.

Andreas Dilger, Lustre CTO, Whamcloud
Andreas has been involved in the development of Lustre since its inception in 2000, though several companies over the past twenty years.  In 2012, he took over the role of Lustre Principal Architect, and since 2018 is Principal Lustre Architect at Whamcloud/DDN.

Sebastien Buisson, Whamcloud
Sebastien Buisson has been working with Lustre for over a decade – initially solution and development activities for Bull, but in recent years focusing on Lustre development at DDN. He is a recognized expert in the area of Lustre security within the Lustre community and has presented various topics in this area at Lustre conferences over the years. He currently works in the Whamcloud engineering division at DDN and is based in Grenoble, France.

James Beal, Welcome Sanger Institute, UK
James has been a systems administrator for over 30 years and has been a member of the Informatics Support Group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for more than 13 years.

He has been supporting Lustre during that time and OpenStack for the last 5 years.

Pavlos Antoniou, Welcome Sanger Institute, UK
Pavlos is a principal software developer/informatician for the Human Genetics Informatics group. He works closely with the faculty of Human Genetics to develop informatics solutions to analyse and visualise genomic data from population studies utilising current technologies.

Elias G. Eldayrie, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Florida
Elias G. Eldayrie was named Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the University of Florida (UF) in 2010. Elias is responsible for the strategic planning and development of Information Technology (IT) at UF; including all policies, staff management and organizational development, central IT operations, and administration of all enterprise computing systems.

Erik Deumens, Director of Research Computing, University of Florida

Erik Deumens is the director of Research Computing, a department in Information Technology at the University of Florida. He has been in this position since 2011. Before that, he was a researcher in computational physics and chemistry. He designed software for computational chemistry and taught courses in parallel programming. He has worked as consultant to install, configure supercomputers throughout his career. Since 2015, he has been working on compliant systems for research on restricted data and has taught workshops on how to set up a compliant computing program at academic institutions.

Dominic Manno, OpenSFS Board Member, LANL
Dominic Manno is a Scientist in High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As HPC File System Technical Lead, Dominic is responsible for the design, procurement, and administrative team for all parallel file systems in LANL’s HPC data center. He has worked with the Lustre file system since 2014 with work including Lustre administration, file system performance tuning, and improving user performance for high-performance computing applications. Mr. Manno also co-leads a subset of storage research efforts at LANL’s Ultrascale Systems Research Center. 

Shawn Hall, OpenSFS Board Member, BP
Shawn Hall’s experience is in large scale system administration, having worked with high performance computing clusters in industry and academia. He has worked on many aspects of large scale systems and his interests include parallel file systems, configuration management, performance analysis, and security.  Shawn holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio State University.

Jon Akers, University of Florida
Jon Akers is a systems administrator for Research Computing at the University of Florida. He has been with the University of Florida for more than twenty years, performing a myriad of functions within the high performance and research computing fields. Mr. Akers is the current president of the DellXL HPC Consortium for large-scale Dell systems and an advisor to the AMD HPC User Forum.

Yu Fu, Systems Engineer, University of Florida
Yu Fu is a systems engineer for Research Computing at the University of Florida. His expertise includes high performance computing, secure computing and storage systems. He has worked on Lustre filesystem since 2005 with experience in designing, administrating and tuning up Lustre storage systems. He possesses a Ph.D. degree in high-energy physics.