Ryan Cox
Director Of Research Computing at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Cox is a seasoned director of research computing with 13+ years designing, purchasing, and operating large HPC clusters and supporting infrastructure at Brigham Young University. He began as a systems administrator and progressed to lead an office that manages multi-thousand-core InfiniBand clusters, virtualization, and departmental services while supervising student teams. Technically broad, he combines expertise in HPC architecture, networking, databases, security, and custom tooling—authoring Slurm enhancements like Fair Tree, Level-Based fairshare algorithms, pam_slurm_adopt, and initial TRES billing. He publishes technical deep dives on his blog and has a practical knack for automating hardware health, replacement workflows, and advanced monitoring to improve uptime and fairness. Holding an MS in Information Security Engineering, he blends operational excellence with security-minded design. Colleagues know him for turning complex scheduling and resource problems into maintainable, open solutions that scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Security Engineering, Master of Science, Information Security Engineering at SANS Technology InstituteB.S., Information Technology, B.S., Information Technology at Brigham Young University
English, tagalog/filipino
Github Skills (7)
slurm10
hpc-applications7
gateway6
hpc4
resource-manager2
scalable1
scientific-computing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryanbcox/uvn
Dec 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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