Jaap Dijkshoorn
HPC Principal Engineer at SURF
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJaap Dijkshoorn is an HPC Principal Engineer with over 27 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale supercomputing environments for SURF and its predecessors. He has deep expertise in Linux systems engineering, cluster design, automation, and storage (IBM Spectrum Scale/Protect), and has shepherded pioneering projects such as the Dutch LISA Beowulf cluster and historic systems like IBM SP2 and SGI Origin2000. As lead of Cluster Computing and now through the Experimental Technologies Platform, he combines technical leadership with an experimental mindset to evaluate next-generation ICT for data-driven science. Comfortable with low-level UNIX work from AIX to IRIX and advanced automation (CFEngine, scripting), he translates researcher needs into robust, scalable infrastructure. Based in Almere, he is known for blending institutional memory of legacy HPC with a practical drive to future-proof research computing.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics at Hogeschool Rotterdam
English
Github Skills (33)
json-template10
apptainer9
cfengine8
singularity-container8
singularity8
driver7
linux7
science7
dkms6
hpc6
metadata4
debian4
subtitle4
two-factor-authentication3
opencl3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Jaapdijkshoorn/cf_surfsara_lib
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
CFengine SURFsara Library for mustache/json templates
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
cfenginejson-template
Jaapdijkshoorn/slurm-utils
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
A few utilities for use on a SLURM cluster
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
slurmslurm-clusterpartitioningclusterhpc
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