Contact

For general questions or comments, please contact info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

HPC Advisory Council Chairman
Gilad Shainer - gilad@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Gilad Shainer is an HPC evangelist that focuses on high-performance computing, high-speed interconnects, leading-edge technologies and performance characterizations. Mr. Shainer holds an M.Sc. degree (2001, Cum Laude) and a B.Sc. degree (1998, Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. He also holds patents in the field of high-speed networking.

HPC Advisory Council Media Relations and Events Director
Brian Sparks - brian@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Brian Sparks is responsible for the promotion, education, and outbound communication of the HPC Advisory Council's activities, workshops, and events. In addition, Mr. Sparks is co-chair of the InfiniBand Trade Association's Marketing Working Group, and an active member of the OpenFabrics Alliance Marketing Working Group. Mr. Sparks hold a B.S. Communication Studies from San Jose State University.

HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center Manager
Tong Liu - tong@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Tong Liu is responsible for application performance characterization and benchmarking with high-speed interconnects. Before joining the HPC Advisory Council, Mr. Liu was a senior software design engineer at Hewlett-Packard where he led distributed data warehouse development. Prior to HP, he was a systems engineer and advisor in the Scalable Systems Group at Dell Inc. He has published more than 20 publications in the High Performance Computing field. Mr. Liu holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University.

HPC Advisory Council Director of Educational Outreach
Scot Schultz – scot@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Scot Schultz is a technology specialist with broad knowledge in operating systems, high speed interconnects, processors technology, clustering and applications characterizations such as bioinformatics, electronic design, engineering, entertainment & media, financial services, and oil & gas. Scot is also a board member of OpenFabrics Alliance and the HyperTransport consortium, among many others.

HPC Advisory Council Workshop Program Director
Eric Lantz – eric@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Eric Lantz is a HPC specialist, with a broad knowledge of the Message Passing Interface libraries, high-performance networking, and overall security. He is also a program manager for Microsoft High-Performance Computing (HPC). Prior to this, Eric worked at Microsoft in software engineering, Windows Mobile device management and security, and file management software. Before joining Microsoft, Eric was an aerospace stress and dynamics engineer, where he worked on NASA’s space shuttles, global positioning system (GPS) satellites, and laser technology.

HPC Advisory Council Research Steering Committee
Cydney Stevens - Cydney@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Cydney Stevens, with over 15 years experience at leading technology companies, has been integral in guiding development and publication of hundreds of technical Best Practice articles, conference proceedings and books. Cydney has been privileged to worked alongside a wealth of industry-wide IT experts, provide guidance and direction on content and topics, as well as providing SME authors with the forums and delivery mechanisms for their expertise - and is pleased to be able to continue those endeavors as part of the HPCAC Research Steering Committee.

HPC Advisory Council HPC|Cloud Sub-group Chair
William Lu – william@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
William Lu has 20 years of experiences in high performance computing. In early years, William worked at CERN as a scientist and in the past 15 years with Platform Computing. William spent number of years leading a team of solution architects helping users improving efficiency and increase throughput in HPC environment. He has been working with top commercial companies and leading research institutes in implementing grids and cloud solutions. William holds a Ph.D. degree of high energy physics.

HPC Advisory Council India Outreach
Goldi Misra – Goldi@hpcadvisorycouncil.com
Goldi Misra is heading the High Performance Computing Solutions Group and Group Coordinator of C-DAC, Under Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT, Govt. of India, responsible for PARAM Series systems, HPC Clusters & ecosystem outreach, Application Porting and Parallelization, Development of software tools, Infrastructure integration & management services. The group caters to the HPC requirements throughout India and abroad on behalf of Government of India. Mr. Misra has more than 12 years experience in the field of High Performance Computing.