Zhengji Zhao

Zhengji Zhao

HPC Architect and Performance Engineer

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

HPC Technology Dept.

Advanced Technologies Group

Zhengji Zhao is a member of the Advanced Technologies Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has nearly 20 years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC), with a broad portfolio that includes supporting materials science and chemistry applications, participating in system procurements, developing workload analysis tools, and porting applications to many-core and GPU-based systems. She has led the development of checkpoint/restart standards for HPC production workloads and specializes in power and energy analsyis and modeling to improve data center operational efficiency. She has authored more than 40 publications in these areas. Zhengji holds a Ph.D. in computational physics from New York University.

Education

Ph. D. - New York University, USA

Master of Science - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, United States

Recent Publications

OpenMP in VASP: Threading and SIMD

Authors: Wende, F; Marsman, M; Kim, J; Vasilev, F; Zhao, Z; Steinke, T

June 2019, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry


Preparing NERSC users for Cori, a Cray XC40 system with Intel many integrated cores

Authors: He, Y; Cook, B; Deslippe, J; Friesen, B; Gerber, R; Hartman‐Baker, R

January 2018, Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience


The linearly scaling 3D fragment method for large scale electronic structure calculations

Authors: Zhao, Z; Meza, J; Lee, B; Shan, H; Strohmaier, E; Bailey, D

July 2009, Journal of Physics : Conference Series


A divide and conquer linear scaling three dimensional fragment method for large scale electronic structure calculations

Authors: Zhao, Z; Meza, J; Wang, L-W

June 2008, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter


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