The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Mike Heroux as particular visitor to debate HPC software program usually and, specifically, his work because the Exascale Computing Challenge’s director of software program applied sciences., together with code utilized by the primary two American exascale-class supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora.
Subjects embody efficiency vs. portability and maintainability, heterogeneous {hardware}, the impression of AI on workloads and instruments, the emergence of the Analysis Software program Engineer as a wanted position and a profession path, the convergence of economic and HPC software program stacks, and what’s on the horizon.
Heroux is a senior scientist at Sandia Nationwide Laboratories and scientist-in-residence at St. John’s College in Minnesota. He’s been with each organizations for greater than 25 years.
Mike Heroux
A excessive level of his profession is his software program management position for the ECP. Whereas that venture has been accomplished, Heroux‘s software program work has continued to obtain funding. His present work contains the PESO* Challenge, a newly-funded five-year software-ecosystem stewardship effort. Its objective is to assist scientific software program with libraries and instruments that ship high-performance algorithms and capabilities for purposes at Division of Power nationwide labs and different services.
Earlier in his profession, Heroux was with SGI and Cray. His focus is on all points of scalable scientific and engineering software program for parallel computing architectures.
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