Adam Lavely

Dr. Adam Lavely is the User Environment Architect at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the supercomputing facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In this role, he focuses on creating effective programming environments for users to maximize performance using containers and bare-metal configurations. His experience includes developing, porting, and optimizing scientific codes to run efficiently on new hardware and at large scale. Adam brings a diverse background in HPC, having held positions in performance engineering in academic HPC at Penn State University and on the Frontier and El Capitan Centers of Excellence while working for Cray. He led the HPC team at Cerebras before transitioning to his current role at LBL. Adam serves as the Deputy Director of the Better Scientific Software Fellowship program and is also engaged in the broader open-source community with ties to the Linux Foundation, the Jupyter Batch Spawner and the HPSF. When Adam is not staring at a computer screen, he is likely with his wife, son and dog cross-country skiing, curling, and snowshoeing in the winter or hiking, playing soccer and pickleball in the summer.

Education

PhD - Pennsylvania State University, United States