Storage Systems Group Staff

Jason Hick came to NERSC from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was the acting lead of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) team. Jason also served as the LANL representative on the HPSS Executive Board. Jason graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, with a B.Sc. in computer science.

Matthew Andrews joined the Lab after one and a half years with Intuit. Matt attended Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he earned his degree in electrical and computer engineering. He also worked at the university, gaining experience in AFS and distributed file storage systems.

Nick's experiences in managing large systems, integrating hardware into large production systems, working to identify and solve problems, and knowledge of system components help the storage group manage and improve the HPSS production systems.

Greg Butler has over 25 years experience in the computing field, with over 20 years experience in high performance scientific computing at DOE, DOD, and US EPA installations. His management experience has included responsibility for managing technical groups; geographically remote software development groups; the development and implementation of project, strategic, and technological plans; writing of white papers; and procurement activities. Greg has over 10 years experience in OS development on multiple high performance scientific computing platforms and operation systems, and over 20 years experience in system administration, software maintenance, and upgrades of high performance production scientific computing systems. His experience also includes technology assessment and recommendations for technical direction and implementation. Greg has a B.A. in Astronomy from Northwestern University.

Wayne Hurlbert shares responsibility for the continued development of storage systems and environments at NERSC. Prior to his position at NERSC, Wayne built storage systems at Berkeley Lab and Sybase Inc., and did compiler development at Ana Systems Inc. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from the State University of New York and a B.S. in computer science from San Francisco State University.

Mike came to NERSC from the Future Technologies Group in CRD, where he worked on two projects: porting GASNet via PORTALS to the Cray XT3/4 and performance optimizations on a class of multigrid solvers for AMR used in combustion and type 1a supernovae simulations. Mike's experiences in HPC software development, multi-threaded C programming, and complex software debugging directly apply to NERSC's involvement in the HPSS software development collaboration. Mike primarily helps the group in its efforts to define a specific and more major role in HPSS development.