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Nick Cardo

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Nicholas "Nick" P. Cardo
Computational Systems Group,
Phone: (510) 486-4765 , Fax: (510) 486-4316
1 Cyclotron Road
Mail Stop 943-256
Berkeley, CA 94720

Biographical Sketch

Nick Cardo is the IBM SP project lead. His previous experience includes system programmer and system analyst at NASA Ames Research Center and John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center in Princeton. Nick has developed a wide variety of utilities, kernel modifications, and algorithms for high performance systems, including one of the first full-production schedulers for the Portable Batch System (PBS). Nick earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Engineering at San Jose State University.

Journal Articles

D. Skinner, N. Cardo, “An Analysis of Node Asymmetries on seaborg. nersc. gov”, January 1, 2003,

Conference Papers

Zhengji Zhao and Nick Wright, “Performance of Density Functional Theory codes on Cray XE6”, A paper presented in the Cray User Group meeting, May 23-26, 2011, Fairbanks, Alaska., May 24, 2011,