Nicholas Wright
NERSC Chief Architect and Advanced Technologies Group Lead
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
HPC Technology Dept.
Advanced Technologies Group
Nick Wright is the Advanced Technologies Group lead and the NERSC chief architect. He focuses on evaluating future technologies for potential application in scientific computing. He is chief architect for the NERSC-10 procurement, targeted for delivery in 2026. Previously, he led the effort to optimize the architecture of the Perlmutter machine, the first NERSC platform designed to meet the needs of both large-scale simulation and data analysis from experimental facilities. His research interests are in performance analysis of HPC applications and architectures, with special focus on the applicability of new technologies to meet the needs of NERSC and its users. He has published more than 40 papers in these areas. He earned both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in chemistry at the University of Durham in England.
Education
Phd - University of Durham, United Kingdom
Recent Publications
An automated and portable method for selecting an optimal GPU frequency
Authors: Ali, G; Side, M; Bhalachandra, S; Wright, NJ; Chen, Y
December 2023, Future Generation Computer Systems
Not all applications have boring communication patterns: Profiling message matching with BMM
Authors: Groves, T; Ravichandrasekaran, N; Cook, B; Keen, N; Trebotich, D; Wright, NJ
July 2023, Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience
Performance characterization of scientific workflows for the optimal use of Burst Buffers
Authors: Daley, CS; Ghoshal, D; Lockwood, GK; Dosanjh, S; Ramakrishnan, L; Wright, NJ
September 2020, Future Generation Computer Systems
Performance characterization of scientific workflows for the optimal use of Burst Buffers
Authors: Daley, CS; Ghoshal, D; Lockwood, GK; Dosanjh, S; Ramakrishnan, L; Wright, NJ
September 2020, Future Generation Computer Systems
Cori: A Pre-Exascale Supercomputer for Big Data and HPC Applications
Authors: Wright Nicholas J., ; Dosanjh Sudip S., ; Andrews Allison K., ; Antypas Katerina B., ; Draney Brent, ; Canon R. Shane,
December 2015, Advances in Parallel Computing
Cori: A Pre-Exascale Supercomputer for Big Data and HPC Applications
Authors: Wright Nicholas J., ; Dosanjh Sudip S., ; Andrews Allison K., ; Antypas Katerina B., ; Draney Brent, ; Canon R. Shane,
December 2015, Advances in Parallel Computing
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