Troy Baer, HPC Operations Manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center

Troy Baer, HPC Operations Manager
Ohio Supercomputer Center

(614) 292-9701

Selected Papers, Publications, and Presentations

• "Integrating a Linux Cluster into a Production High-Performance Computing Environment", Linux Journal, July 2001
• "Parallel I/O Experiences on an SGI 750 Cluster", Cray User Group 2002
• "A Parallel I/O Mechanism for Distributed Systems", IEEE Cluster 2004 (with Pete Wyckoff)
• "Scheduling on Heterogenous Clusters", ClusterWorld, June 2005.
• "Share and Share Alike: The State of Cluster Resource Management and Scheduling", Today's HPC Clusters Resource Center, Linux Magazine, June 2007
• "Comparison of Scheduling Policies and Workloads on the NCCS and NICS XT4 Systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory", Cray User Group 2009 (with Don Maxwell)
• "Using Quality of Service for Scheduling on Cray XT Systems ", Cray User Group 2010
• "Scheduling Diverse High Performance Computing Systems with the Goal of Maximizing Utilization", MoabCon 2012
• "GPU Scheduling at NICS: The Good, The Bad, and The Weird", MoabCon 2012 (with Stephen McNally and John Wynkoop)
• "Revolutionizing Climate Modeling – Project Athena: A Multi-Institutional, International Collaboration", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2013 (with Jim Kinter, et al.)
• "NICS, Adaptive Computing, and Intel: Leadership in HPC", MoabCon 2013
• "Data Analysis and Visualization in High-Performance Computing", Computer, May 2013 (with Amy Szczepanski, et al.)
• "Bimodal Scheduling to Balance Capacity & Capability Workloads on Kraken and Keeneland", Supercomputing 2013
• "pbsacct: A Workload Analysis System for PBS-Based HPC Systems", XSEDE'14, July 2014 (with Doug Johnson)
• "Integrating Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors into a Cluster Environment", High Performance Parallelism Pearls, October 2014 (with Paul Peltz, et al.)
• "Integrating Apache Spark into PBS-Based HPC environments", XSEDE'15, July 2015 (with Paul Peltz, et al.)