Ken Schmidt
IT Engineer
Ken Schmidt is an IT engineer with the Advanced Scientific Computing team and lead engineer for the high performance computing (HPC) capabilities. He joined PNNL in 2003 to help build one of the first top 10 Linux supercomputers in the world. He works in the HPC field focusing on networks and cluster administration, including multiple cluster deployments and developing routing novel routing algorithms for Infiniband networks. He became the lead engineer on Cascade, EMSL’s flagship HPC resource in 2017.
Research Interests
- High throughput computing
- Cluster administration
- Computer resource management
- Batch scheduling methods
- Visualization
Education
BS in Computer Science, Regis University
Publications
2019
Schmidt, K.P. and E.J. Felix 2019 The Road to Devops HPC Cluster management Denver, CO Supercomputing 2019
2011
Carr J.F., and K.P. Schmidt. 2011. DnUp Routing Algorithm Description. PNNL-20186. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. DnUp Routing Algorithm Description
2004
Mooney R.W., K.P. Schmidt, S.S. Studham, and J. Nieplocha. 2004. "NWPerf: A System Wide Performance Monitoring Tool for Large Linux Clusters." In 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Sept. 20-23 2004, San Diego, California, 11 pp. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-41640.