Kent Winchell – CTO Office, Cray Inc. – USA

Kent Winchell

Presentation at III Multicore World

Scaling HPC applications in a core rich environment – Sponsored by Cray, Inc.

Kent Winchell – Cray, Inc.

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Core rich environments provide immediate help for scale out applications but not for scale up applications.  Many applications have time to solution requirements that depend on certain computational performance levels.  A case study of the computation intensity of Numerical Weather Prediction with respect to Xeon PHI and GPGPUs will be presented.

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Bio:

Kent has over 25 years of experience in high performance computing and I/T architecture with strong emphasis on scientific use of computers, high performance storage systems, data analytics, project management, large software projects, customer support, and multi-disciplinary problem solving.

Education:

B. Sc., Computer science, University of Wyoming, 1981.

MS Software Engineering, University of Houston, 1985.

Work Experience and Accomplishments:

June 1981 – Oct 2013 – IBM

Nov 2013 – present – Cray

  • Deep Computing Sales CTO, Distinguished Engineer
  • Manager of World Wide sales team, technical sales leader for High Performance computing responsible for Petro, CAE, Digital Media, Financial Services, Climate/Weather
  • Architect for IBM onDemand HPC services (SaaS)
  • Chief Architect, IBM Life Sciences, Analytics for Health Care
  • Project manager for GPFS and Lustre installations at numerous HPC sites
  • Architect for US, Canada, and European weather centers
  • Architected complete solution for New Polar Orbiting Earth Satellite System (NPOESS)
  • Designed and implemented bioinformatics clusters for mass spectrometry at several universities
  • Performed optimization and benchmarking of scientific applications software for customers
  • Lead HW/SW architect for DINPACS Medical Imaging systems

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