ARCHER2 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Quality and Feedback Function Lead. Impact Function Lead
Anne is the lead on the various ISO certifications that EPCC maintains in quality, information security and with business continuity and disaster recovery coming soon. She is a member of the service desk and uadmin team, dealing with user support, and leads on feedback and impact activities. In her spare time Anne is a keen potter.
Job Titles:
- Applications Consultant
- Member of the Service Desk
Caoimhín is a member of the Service Desk and CSE teams. He also occasionally helps out with EPCC's MSc, Training, and Student Support.
Member of the ARCHER2 Service Desk and User Administration team, dealing with user support. Also part of the team who manage the eCSE programme, as well as the feedback, impact and benefits realisation team. She has an unconventional background among EPCC staff, having a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages."
Outside of work, Clair loves doing word puzzles and cryptic crosswords, and photography in the great outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Service Director for the SP Service. Service Director for the CSE Service
Alan joined EPCC after completing a PhD in Computational Physics and has taken leading roles in national HPC services since 1994. As ARCHER2 Service Director, he has overall responsibility for delivery of the service to users.
My main role as CSE Architect in the ARCHER2 service is to try to make the service as useful as possible for researchers. I help the team prioritise work to improve the service and try to anticipate future requirements for researchers on ARCHER2. I strongly believe that we can achieve more in research by working together openly in a collegial way and so think that having strong links between the ARCHER2 service and the wider community are vital; and where the critical mass of the ARCHER2 service can have a large impact. To help achieve this I try to maintain strong links with various organisations, such as the Society of Research Software Engineering, the UK HPC-SIG, DiRAC, The Carpentries and various user communities. In my spare time, I can be generally be found out in the countryside somewhere: either under it (caving), over it (bikepacking) or though it (wild swimming).
Chris is the function lead for the ARCHER2 eCSE programme. He is also a Technical Assessment reviewer.
Since joining EPCC in 2018, I've been involved in a number of eCSE projects, with a particular interest in supporting users from the environmental and life sciences domains. I'm a course organiser on the MSc that we run, as well as being involved in lecturing on a range of other MSc modules and ARCHER2 training courses, and have recently been awarded a NERC training grant. I also help manage aspects of the ARCHER2 outreach programme, to help explain to the public why ARCHER2 is so important.
David is involved in a range of training activities around parallel programming and performance optimisation. His technical work is mainly in the area of parallel performance for both computation and IO.
Job Titles:
- Training Function Lead [ Servicedesk, CSE, Training
I have a background in computational physics and have ongoing interests in atomistic simulation and various flavours of fluid dynamics. I help out with the helpdesk, and also lead courses on Fortran, and GPU computing.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director for the CSE Service. Web and Documentation Function Lead. Outreach Function Lead
Deputy Director for the CSE service. Web and Documentation function lead. Outreach function lead [ CSE , eCSE , Outreach , Web & Docs , Quality & Feedback , Coordination ] As the CSE Service deputy director, I tend to be involved in most aspects of the service delivery. However I have a particular role within the eCSE programme, around documentation, outreach and understanding and monitoring emissions as we look towards Net Zero services. Out with work you can find me in my garden or enjoying the chaos of being a Beaver Scout leader.
Stephen has a PhD in physics and has contributed to the HPC services Edinburgh since 1994. He is the primary developer of the SAFE administration and accounting software.
Kieran is the function lead for System Development. Kieran has worked with EPCC since 2013 and works primarily as a project manager supporting development of new services and capabilities.
Paul has overall responsibility for our Supercomputing Data Centre, the Advanced Computing Facility (ACF), along with all of the systems and services we run. Overall responsibility for the team who provide the technical systems administration for the SP service, along with the accommodation services for the hosting of ARCHER2.
Job Titles:
- Systems Specialist - Senior Systems Administrator
Job Titles:
- Director of EPCC and Dean of Research Computing. Senior Responsible Owner ( SRO ) for EPCC
Prof. Mark Parsons joined EPCC, the supercomputing centre at The University of Edinburgh, in 1994 as a software developer working on several industrial contracts following a PhD in Particle Physics undertaken on the LEP accelerator at CERN in Geneva.
Xu is the function lead for ARCHER2 CSE Service Desk. She is also a member of the ARCHER2 eCSE team, a Technical Assessment reviewer and a course helper