Chris Samuel
High Performance Computing Systems Engineer at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Samuel is a High Performance Computing systems engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale Unix and Linux clusters for scientific research. After 15 years leading HPC operations in Australia—managing multi-million dollar facilities and several Blue Gene and Intel cluster deployments—he now contributes to NERSC’s Computational Systems Group in Berkeley, supporting national-scale computational infrastructure. His expertise spans systems administration, networking, storage (GPFS, Panasas, DDN), and operational security, with a track record of live migrations and major expansions that kept complex research platforms productive. Comfortable bridging research needs and production reliability, he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and deep institutional knowledge of scientific computing workflows.
26 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Fitzalan High SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with Planetary and Space Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with Planetary and Space Physics at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Github Skills (112)
co-simulation10
cluster-computing10
openmpi10
shifter10
fortran10
mpi10
manifold10
openpower9
linux9
provisioning9
yang9
slurm9
ipmi9
describe9
plugin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chrissamuel/slurm_showq
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
A modification to the slurm_showq code written by TACC.
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
slurmtaccmodification
chrissamuel/slurm-qog
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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