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10 supercomputing center directors
These ten supercomputing center directors are current and former directors, executive directors and division directors of supercomputing and high-performance computing centers at national laboratories, universities and national research institutes. A reader can learn how supercomputing center directors approach their work from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Barr von Oehsen
LinkedInExperience: Director · Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 2023; his headline gives the title as executive director. Since 2023 he has also been Vice Chancellor of Research Computing at the University of Pittsburgh and a research professor at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, and since 2024 a senior advisor for research computing and data in Carnegie Mellon's research office.
Benjamin Pharr
LinkedInExperience: Director · Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research
Director of the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research in Oxford, Mississippi, since 2018. Pharr was a high performance computing specialist at the University of Mississippi from 2011 to 2018 and earlier worked at Global Technical Systems (2005–2011) as a computer scientist and operations manager.
Dirk Petersen
LinkedInExperience: Director of Supercomputing Center · Oregon State University
Director of the Supercomputing Center at Oregon State University since 2024, where the profile lists center operations, business model development and campus collaboration. Petersen was previously Strategic Research Computing Director at Oregon Health & Science University (2022–2024), Director of Scientific Computing at Moffitt Cancer Center (2020–2022) and Director of Scientific Computing at Fred Hutch (2011–2020).
Fumiyoshi Shoji
LinkedInExperience: Division Director of Operations and Computer Technologies Division · RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Division Director of the Operations and Computer Technologies Division at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe since 2018, after holding the same post at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (2014–2018) and serving as its deputy division director (2012–2014). The profile says Shoji worked on the K computer development project from 2006 to 2012 and was involved in the Fugaku project.
Jysoo Lee
LinkedInExperience: Director of Supercomputing Center · Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Former Director of the Supercomputing Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (2009–2012), and earlier of the supercomputing center at KIST (2004–2006). Lee then moved to KAUST in Saudi Arabia as Supercomputing Director (2016–2017) and Facilities Director of its Research Computing Core Labs (2017–2025). The profile cites work establishing national supercomputing initiatives in Korea.
Maxim V. Fedorov
LinkedInExperience: Director of HPC Centre ARCHIE-WeSt · University of Strathclyde
Director of ARCHIE-WeSt, which the profile describes as a regional academia-industry supercomputing centre at the University of Strathclyde, since 2012, and a professor in physics and life sciences there since 2011. Fedorov was earlier a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (2007–2011) and a research associate at the University of Cambridge (2005–2008).
Michael B. Sullivan
LinkedInExperience: Director, Chief Operations · National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
Director of Chief Operations at the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore since 2024, where his profile says he focuses on engaging the center's HPC user community. He has been at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing since 2004, as a department director (2011–2021) and since 2022 as Innovation Lead and Senior Principal Scientist.
Sudip S. Dosanjh
LinkedInExperience: Director of NERSC · Berkeley Lab
Director of NERSC, the supercomputing center at Berkeley Lab, since 2012. Dosanjh's headline describes the role as a division director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before Berkeley Lab, Dosanjh spent more than 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories (1986–2012) as a senior manager, and the profile says Dosanjh headed Sandia's extreme scale computing work.
Tiare Martin
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director for the Vanguard Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) · Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i
Executive Director of the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) at the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i since 2021, after four years as the center's program manager (2017–2021). Martin previously spent more than a decade at Oceanit (2005–2017), moving from software engineer to software manager and then Maui site manager.
William Gropp
LinkedInExperience: Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2017 and a professor there since 2007. His profile says he holds the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in computer science, was the founding director of the Parallel Computing Institute and helped create the Message Passing Interface used in parallel computing.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's center to your question, since a national laboratory facility, a national research institute and a university or regional center serve different users and answer to different funders. Consider the person's role, since directing a whole center and running its operations or systems division involve different day-to-day decisions.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which research groups get time on your systems?
- 02How do you plan the procurement and replacement of a major system?
- 03How do you staff and support the users who run work on your center's machines?
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