The specialists below can be engaged as HPC contractors and consultants to assist you with your HPC strategies.
Please not carefully that INTJ works only with Australian corporate clients and is unable to provide contractors to any Australian government agencies
January 2000 - Present (16 years) Fishermens Bend Melbourne, Victoria AUSTRALIA
High Performance Computing System Administrator (Cray & Hewlett Packard HPC systems).
Excellent knowledge and technical skills administrating Super-Computing Infrastructure used to support computational fluid dynamics studies
Skills include hands on system administration, technical management, vendor liaison and all aspects of system support. Advanced technical skills in Linux Cluster System Administration, Compute Node configuration and management, storage server/login node/management node management, shell scripting, cluster startup and shutdown management, license server management, user administration and support. Excellent knowledge of Crays ACE (Advanced Cluster Engine) management software used to administer Cray Supercomputers. Knowledge of Cray hardware support including Mellanox Infiniband network cards and switches.
Additional skills in Network Administration, Server & Storage Administration, ICT Support, Team Leadership, Business Analysis and Client Liaison.
Accomplished, results oriented ICT Professional with 16 year’s Information & Communication Technology experience in the public sector in Network Administration, Server & Storage Administration, ICT Support, Team Leadership & Client Liaison roles.
KEY STRENGTHS
Strong written and oral communication skills
Bilingual – Intermediate level Thai (spoken & written)
Excellent problem solving skills
Analytical ability and attention to detail
Customer focused and solutions driven
Leadership
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Employment experience (16+ years): ICT Services Company, Large Financial Services Company, Prominent Australian University
Highly experienced, high profile HPC Computational Scientist (PhD) with an extremely impressive, outstanding skillset and exceptional experience. Must remain anonymous due to being well known in the HPC field (where required contractor will at his discretion disclose his identity to employers who wish to contract his services).
It would be very difficult if not impossible to find a contractor with this individuals knowledge, education, skills and experience anywhere else in Australia.
INTJ CEO Clarke Towson personally believes this contractor (one of the best and brightest) will make an exceptional contribution to your business.
Contractors services:
Compile and Build open source software onto your Linux platform
Port legacy Fortran77 code to modern Fortran 2xxx
Port Matlab, Python, and other scientific languages to Fortran.
Coding Machine Learning and Data Analytics algoritms
Optimize Fortran code
HPC (High Performance Computing) application development
Parallelize Fortran code using OpenMP - for multicore, multi CPU, SMP machines
Optimize / Vectorize scientific / engineering algorithms
Creating portable (DLL) mathematical functions for your library
Platform: Windows, Linux
Industry: Finance, Engineering, Gaming, Audio Visual
This list of services is really just the tip of the iceberg - please contact Clarke for more information about this exceptional contractors skills, knowledge and experience to discover more about how Clarke believes this contractor can help you.
Please note: This contractor works exclusively offsite and is only available to work for corporations, universities and other non government related entities or entities that do not require onsite, in person work. Think of him as a "hired gun" to help work with you to solve those difficult problems you are working on which require significant investment of "uninterruptible" time and programming effort to solve.
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SKILLS
Hardware and Software upgrade planning
OS: SLES, HP-UX, Solaris
Multi Unit operations management
Programming Languages: Java, C, SQL
Troubleshooting and problem solving Scripting Languages: K-Shell, Perl Windows
Linux administration
Batch scripts
HPC Scheduling software: LSF and PBS Pro
WORK HISTORY
Technical Project Lead: HPC Cluster Management (Client: GM USA), 12/2009 to 10/2014
Mphasis an HP Company – Pune, India
Architected, developed, implemented as well as lead a group of HPC SMEs to develop & maintain GM's
HPC Job Submission Scripts for key applications like ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, FLUENT, STARCCM+,
OPTISTRUCT as well as GM's custom applications to run smoothly in HPC environment.
Developed comprehensive and robust GUI based application to submit HPC batch simulation of jobs of
30 plus diverse CAE applications to GM's High Performance Computing environment.
Developed scripts to automate GM's hardware validation benchmarks for performance, scalability with
cores, and measure cluster wide job variation as part of GM's acceptance criteria of new hardware.
Developed application to monitor the health and availability of high performance computing Linux
servers.
Managed and administered High Performance Computing Job Scheduling environment using LSF on a
daily basis for North America and global regions.
Evaluated PBS Pro and made recommendations during GM's initiative to replace the existing LSF job
scheduling software.
Developed, enhanced and deployed application that monitors and alerts the license usage patterns for
various High Performance Compute (HPC) CAE applications in a graphical form which saved GM over
$0.5M/year.
Acquired extensive domain knowledge of GM environment, IT Architecture standards, ITSM processes
and methodologies thus facilitating the timely deployment of numerous critical initiatives in the North
America and India regions.
Actively participated in the planning and deployment of GM's High Performance Computing systems in
North America, Asia Pacific and India
Programmer Analyst (Client: GM USA), 10/2003 to 11/2009
Hewlett Packard – Michigan, USA
Developed tools to monitor the license usage of 30 plus computer aided engineering applications
installed on the environment.
Enhanced existing tools with GUI interface to enhance the experience of the application users.
Worked with other developers to pinpoint and address performance issues during prototyping, design
and testing phase
Responsible for following the full development lifecycle process, using best practices for source control,
unit testing, and application deployment
Discussed and gathered user requirements from business users and/or business analysts. Provided L3/L2
production support for computer aided engineering applications.
Collaborated with geographically diverse cross functional teams and vendors to analyse, investigate and
diagnosis root cause of problems, as well as completion of corrective actions.
Coordinated activities by Incident management, change management, business continuation, vendor
management and problem management for return to service and problem mitigation and assured 24/7
service availability.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Oct 2014 to Dec 2014 - Completed ITIL Foundations Certification
Jan 2015 to April 2015 - Completed PRINCE2 Practitioner certification
May 2015 to Current - Travelling across India and Australia
Australian Permanent Resident
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