Nicholas Balthaser

Nick joined the Storage Systems Group in 2007 supporting the Mass Storage System, a large Hierarchical Storage Management System (HSM) built on the HPSS software platform. The NERSC Mass Storage System holds hundreds of petabytes of scientific data from as far back as the 1970s, and is one of the largest HPSS systems deployed in the U.S. His responsibilities include overall direction and architecture of the system, including design, deployment, and DevOps support, as well as membership on the HPSS Executive Committee to provide input on future direction for the HPSS Collaboration. He also serves as one of several deputy project leads on the NERSC-10 project. Nick's prior work at NERSC includes Linux compute platform and Center infrastructure support in the Computational Systems and Infrastructure Services groups. Prior to NERSC Nick worked on real-time weather data collection and content distribution systems for online weather forecast providers.