Patrick Bridges
Center Director at University of New Mexico School of Engineering
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Bridges is a professor and director with over 20 years of experience designing system software for large-scale high-performance and data-intensive computing. He leads the University of New Mexico's Center for Advanced Research Computing and advises research IT strategy for the university, blending academic leadership with hands-on systems work. His research portfolio—often in collaboration with DOE national labs—covers virtualization for HPC, performance measurement and modeling, high-speed interconnect protocols, and OS design and implementation. An active open-source contributor, he has practical experience improving package management for HPC stacks (notably contributions to the widely used spack project enabling CUDA/ROCm and cross-package compatibility). Based in Albuquerque, he pairs deep research credentials (PhD in Computer Science) with operational experience running production-grade research computing infrastructure.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (7)
build-tools10
package-manager10
cmake10
hpc10
k9
python9
cuda8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the spack/spack repository by modifying package definitions, specifically focusing on the `cabana`, `kokkos`, `heffte`, and `beatnik` packages. Their work involved enabling and configuring dependencies like `hypre`, `heffte`, and `googletest`, fixing compiler wrapper issues, and adapting packages for new Cabana and Silo versions. The contributions included integrating CUDA and ROCm support and addressing version compatibility issues.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
patrickb314/janusSGX
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Fork of the GT/KAIST OpenSGX repository to better match expected real hardware and develop new APIs
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 months
kaisthardwarematch
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