Presenter

Mark C Miller has helped to develop of a number of scientific database and data modeling technologies including Silo, ASCI-DMF, HDF5, ITAPS and most recently the MACSio scalable I/O proxy application. Mark has been the lead developer of Silo since the late 90's supporting scalable I/O requirements of LLNL HPC simulation codes. Mark's expertise includes data models and their impact on software interoperability, high performance I/O, Software Quality Engineering (Smart Libraries) for HPC libraries. In his view, a majority of his activities and experiences over the last 20 years of HPC are best described as those of a "Virtual Ramrod"