Michael Brim
Research And Development Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brim is a Research and Development Staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 13 years of focused experience advancing operating, runtime, and file system resilience on production HPC systems. He specializes in scalable system software, tools, and middleware for exascale computing, with a track record of improving HPC tool offerings and scalable storage and analysis for scientific big data. Michael’s work bridges deep academic research—anchored by a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison—with hands-on production improvements at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. He is known for diagnosing and resolving subtle runtime and filesystem deficiencies at extreme scale, and for turning research prototypes into tools that benefit large HPC user communities.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Ohio Northern UniversityPh.D. Computer Sciences, Ph.D. Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (22)
filesystem10
multicast9
harness6
data-services6
macos5
hpc5
linux5
windows5
python5
event-driven4
scientific-computing4
rpc3
c-library3
smithy3
networking3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelBrim/UnifyFS
May 2018 - Sep 2025
UnifyFS: A file system for burst buffers
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1475 pushes in 7 years 5 months
fsunicornsburstbufferskeybase
MichaelBrim/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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