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Troy Baer, HPC Systems Administrator
National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee
Bldg 5100 ORNL, # 219
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/
Phone: (865) 241-4233
Mr. Baer joined NICS as an HPC system administrator in September 2009. Troy's contributions to the NICS team have included scheduling and resource management, Cray XT5 administration, Verne x86 cluster administration, and monitoring infrastructure.
Prior to joining NICS, Mr. Baer worked as a supercomputing support engineer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) for over ten years. In addition to supporting users and teaching workshops, Troy managed the scheduling and resource management software on most of OSC's HPC systems as well as OSC's site-wide PVFS file system.
Education
B.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, the Ohio State University, 1995
M.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, the Ohio State University, 1998
Select Publications
T. Baer and D. Maxwell, "Comparison of Scheduling Policies and Workloads on the NCCS and NICS XT4 Systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory", Proceedings of CUG Summit 2009, May 2009.
T. Baer, "Stocking the Toolbox: Tools No Cluster Admin Should Be Without", Today's HPC Clusters, December 2007.
T. Baer, Share and Share Alike: The State of Cluster Resource Management and Scheduling", Today's HPC Clusters, June 2007.
T. Baer. "Scheduling on Heterogenous Clusters", ClusterWorld, June 2005.
T. Baer and P. Wyckoff, “A Parallel I/O Mechanism for Distributed Systems”, Proceedings of IEEE Cluster '04, September 2004.
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