Shuichi Ihara
Sr. Systems Engineer, High Performance File System at DataDirect Networks
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShuichi Ihara is a senior systems engineer with 15+ years designing and benchmarking hyperscale HPC and large scale-out storage solutions, currently leading I/O benchmark efforts for DataDirect Networks. He has architected and deployed petabyte-scale Lustre and NAS/cloud storage systems across academic and enterprise environments, including the 1PB TSUBAME deployment and over 100PB designs at DDN. His expertise spans hardware (x86, SPARC), processors, memory and I/O, InfiniBand/Ethernet networking, multiple OSes, and parallel filesystems (Lustre, GPFS), coupled with hands-on programming in C, Perl, and Python. Shuichi combines deep operational experience—QA, virtualization of Lustre, management/monitoring tooling—and public speaking on advanced topics like Lustre QoS and LNET bonding. Based in Japan with a Master’s in Computer Science, he pairs pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration to solve extreme-scale performance challenges.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer science, Internet (TCP/IP), Master, Computer science, Internet (TCP/IP) at Kumamoto University
Github Skills (108)
filesystem9
hpc-applications8
monitoring8
filemaker8
dashboard8
libgit28
portability8
lustre8
mysql8
computational-science7
benchmark7
grafana7
centos7
elasticsearch7
cluster-computing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sihara/rpms
May 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
sihara/lustre-on-azure
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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