Glenn Lockwood
Principal Technical Strategist
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenn Lockwood is a Principal Technical Strategist with 13 years designing extreme-scale HPC and AI infrastructure, currently shaping large-scale storage and system strategies at VAST Data. He combines a Ph.D. in materials science and early molecular dynamics research with deep practical experience building and optimizing some of the world’s largest supercomputers, notably leading NERSC’s 120 PB all‑NVMe file system design. At Microsoft he translated AI training workload requirements into reliability and system models for Azure’s largest training clusters, and he brings a workload-informed approach to balancing compute, network, and storage for LLM training. A hands-on contributor to community benchmarks like IOR/mdtest, he improves tooling and CI to make performance evaluation more robust. He’s also an effective communicator and advisor who publishes, speaks, and consults to help organizations make informed HPC and AI infrastructure decisions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (13)
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performance-testing10
build-automation9
mpi9
testing8
posix7
hdf7
bash7
posixct7
digest6
ggplot6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hpc/ior
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
IOR and mdtest
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 4 reviews, 101 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily focused on enhancing the IOR (IO performance benchmark) project by addressing various issues related to file I/O, configuration, and release processes. They implemented bug fixes, specifically addressing incorrect API usage and invalid API specifications in configuration files. Additionally, they improved the build and testing infrastructure by integrating fixes to the testing scripts and implementing checks in the Travis CI environment. These changes resulted in a more robust build process and improved overall software quality.
benchmarkinghpc-applicationsrustbenchmarkhpc
glennklockwood/sdsc
May 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:112 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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