Adam Seishas
Linux Systems Administrator
Email: aseishas@stanford.edu
Adam is well-known to the Stanford community, having spent more than a dozen years on the Service Desk. His primary responsibility in Research Computing is to manage and support the Farmshare and GSB Yen systems.
Addis O'Connor
High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator
Email: addiso@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-529-5782
Addis is a very hands-on, outgoing linux admin, who loves to network and help users. He came to Stanford from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and enjoys spending time with family in his spare time. At work, he is one of Nero's primary system engineers, spends a lot of time with GCP, and also manages a variety of other systems.
Brian Tempero
System Administrator
Email: btempero@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-724-8122
Brian is our HIVE Systems Administrator and specialist. He also manages ICME's HPC, storage and GPU systems.
Darren Travis
SRCF Data Center Engineer
Email: Dtravis@stanford.edu
Phone: 650 319-5881
Darren Travis is one of our facility engineers. He joined the SRCC in 2019 after spending almost seven years with LBRE where he was an HVAC Project Specialist Lead supporting research buildings, labs, and other facilities for almost seven years.
David Parker
Research Software Engineer
Email: davep@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 743-0299
David is the lead software developer for the SimVascular project.
Karl Kornel
High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator
Email: akkornel@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-736-9327
Formerly a member of the Authentication & Collaboration Solutions (ACS) team in Administrative Systems (AS), Karl provides support for several labs on-campus and is a part-time admin of the FarmShare environment. He is the resident Globus and Puppet person, supports a number of faculty research systems and is an unofficial liason with other groups in UIT.
Kilian Cavalotti
Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing
Email: kilian@stanford.edu
Kilian is a High-Performance Geek with a passion for putting petaflops together. He often brags about having his 4th system on the first page of the Top 500 list. He also loves to move petabytes around. A lot.
Mark Piercy
Research Computing Technical Liaison
Email: mpiercy@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-721-4040
Mark has been working at Stanford in research and software development for over 15 years. He has worked at The Genome Technology Center, HighWire Press, J. Craig Venter Institute, the Genetics Department, Stephen Montgomery's group and Vijay Pande's Lab on the Folding@home project. Mark is also an artist and teaches at the Ceramics Studio here on campus. Mark helps onboard and support research groups with our HPC systems.
Mark Yoder
Research Software Engineer & Computational Scientist
Email: myoder96@stanford.edu
Mark supports researchers in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences utilize HPC systems.
Neal Soderquist
Windows Systems Engineer
Email: neals@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-736-8103
Neal is our Windows Systems Engineer and also supports Nero and the Population Health Sciences (PHS) systems. Prior to joining our team, Neal worked with Engineering IT for more than 10 years.
Randy Melen
Senior Director – Research Computing
Email: randy@stanford.edu
Randy joined SRCC after working for SLAC and Stanford, and University of Waterloo before Stanford. His current role is Senior Director and he welcomes suggestions about how to better support computing for researchers..
Ruth Marinshaw
CTO - Research Computing
Email: ruthm@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-736-9372
Ruth mostly goes to meetings, leaving the real work of running lots of stuff and working with the fabulous end-user communities to the rest of the team. Active in various national HPC communities and projects, she is also currently co-chair of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure. She spends a lot of time with faculty and campus research IT leaders to learn about current and emerging needs, and welcomes the opportunity to partner with you to evolve cyberinfrastructure (data, storage, visualization, computation, networking and consultation - remember: we are NOT just HPC) services to accelerate research at Stanford.
Scott Prevost
HPC Data Center Manager
Email: sprevost@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-995-4398
Scott has many years experience operating HPC data centers. He has been with Stanford since 2013 when he was hired to manage the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF). Prior to Stanford, he held several HPC facility support positions at NASA / Ames Research Center.
Stephane Thiell
High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator
Email: sthiell@stanford.edu
Stephane (with a silent e) is a Lustre parallel filesystem specialist, storage guru, system engineer and cluster system tools developer (go check our GitHub!). He also likes to design innovative solutions to address the challenges of Research Computing, such as the Oak "cheap and deep" storage platform. He is active in the international Lustre community and is the go to person for any storage or filesystem oddities.
Taymoor Arif
HPC Sys Admin
Email: t-arif@stanford.edu
Taymoor manages the large complex of systems and storage that comprise the HPC resources for the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, working closely with Karl Kornel.
Valérie Méausoone
Research Data Architect and Consultant
Email: vmeau@stanford.edu
Valérie was originally a user of SRCC compute environments and in particular of Nero, Stanford’s environment for high-risk data. She enjoyed Nero so much that she decided to join the team and help other users get started and oriented with Nero. She has a data manager/analyst background, so she tends to ask a lot of questions to her SRCC peers and hopes to represent common questions from other users.
Ask her for a Nero demo !
Vanessa Sochat
Research Software Engineer
Email: vsochat@stanford.edu
Vanessa is a Research Software Engineer specializing in system engineering, infrastructure, and cloud development, and creating computational analyses and workflows. She is the primary developer at Stanford for Singularity, and lead developer of Singularity Hub, a framework optimized for deployment of container-based workflows and "science as a service" capabilities. She is active in a number of national communities and initiatives, including ask.ci and Research Software Engineering. Most recently, she initiated an RSE (Research Software Engineer) podcast series to highlight the work of RSEs around the world and to highlight the many ways in which they can help accelerate science.
William Law
Technical Lead and Architect, Cloud and Platforms
Email: wlaw@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-725-8134
William is interested in applying commodity and web-scale technologies to research and HPC systems. He loves learning about new and old systems architectures to drive Stanford's research capabilities forward. Much of his time these days is spent with the Nero platform and cloud technologies.
Zhiyong Zhang
Research Software Developer
Email: zyzhang@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-497-4860
Zhiyong is our resident expert in HPC code optimization.
Randy White
Computational Research Technical Consultant
Email: rcwhite@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-304-1933
Randy joined Stanford in late August after 5 years as a Team Lead for the Center for Research and Education on Aging at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. He stood up a few different clusters, wrote aging-based software simulations, and helped many different researchers within the organization accomplish their computational goals while there. He focuses both on Sherlock user consultation and engagement at Research Computing and on providing system administration for HPC clusters in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences.
