Stephen Simms
Computer Systems Engineer 4
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
HPC Technology Dept.
Advanced Technologies Group
Stephen Simms is a member of the Advanced Technologies Group at NERSC. His work is focused on the exploration and evaluation of computational storage solutions. Before joining NERSC, Simms spent over 20 years working in High Performance Computing at Indiana University. He founded and managed Indiana University’s High Performance File Systems group. He led two successful bandwidth challenge teams and pioneered the use of the Lustre file system across wide area networks. During that time, he served as project manager for and co-investigator on the NSF funded Data Capacitor project. Later, he served as TeraGrid site-lead for Indiana University. Simms has been an active member of the Lustre community, serving as the OpenSFS community board member for several years, eventually helping rewrite the organization’s bylaws to better reflect the needs of the broader user community.
Education
BA - Wabash College, United States
MM - Roosevelt University, United States
Recent Publications
Performance and quality of service of data and video movement over a 100 Gbps testbed
Authors: Kluge, M; Simms, S; William, T; Henschel, R; Georgi, A; Meyer, C
January 2013, Future Generation Computer Systems
High Performance Computing Enabled Simulation of the Food-Water-Energy System
Authors: Dennis, HEB; Ward, AS; Balson, T; Li, Y; Henschel, R; Slavin, S
July 2017
Demonstrating Lustre over a 100Gbps Wide Area Network of 3,500km
Authors: Henschel, R; Simms, S; Hancock, D; Michael, S; Johnson, T; Heald, N
November 2012, International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
A study of lustre networking over a 100 gigabit wide area network with 50 milliseconds of latency
Authors: Michael, S; Zhen, L; Henschel, R; Simms, S; Barton, E; Link, M
June 2012
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