William T.C. Kramer
NERSC Facility General Manager and Division Deputy

1. Professional Preparation

• Purdue University, Computer Science B.S., 1975
• Purdue University, Computer Science M.S., 1976
• University of Delaware, Electrical Engineering M.E. , 1986
• University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science PhD Candidate, 1999-present

2. Appointments

• NERSC Facility General Manager, Division Deputy, and High Performance Computing Department Head, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1996-present
• Director, Advanced Air Transportation Technologies Program, NASA AATT Program Office, 1995-1996
• High Speed Processor (Cray) Manager; Branch Chief, Computational Services, Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center, 1986-1994
• Project Leader, Academic Computing, Systems Department, University of Delaware, 1978-1985
• Programmer/Analyst, Research Department, Inland Steel Corporation, East Chicago, Indiana, 1976-78

3. Selected Publications and Presentations

1. Kramer, William; Shalf, John, Strohmaier, Erich, The NERSC Sustained System Performance (SSP) Metric , September 18, 2005, LBNL Technical Report number LBNL-58868
2. Skinner, David and William Kramer, Understanding the Causes of Performance Variability in HPC Workloads , 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-2005), October 6-8, 2005, Austin, Texas
3. Horst D. Simon, William T. C. Kramer, David H. Bailey, Michael J. Banda, E. Wes Bethel, Jonathon T. Carter, James M. Craw, William J. Fortney, John A. Hules, Nancy L. Meyer, Juan C. Meza, Esmond G. Ng, Lynn E. Rippe, William C. Saphir, Francesca Verdier, Howard A. Walter, Katherine A. Yelick. Science-Driven Computing: NERSC's Plan for 2006-2010 , May 18, 2005 , LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-57582. http://www-library.lbl.gov/docs/LBNL/575/82/PDF/LBNL-57582.pdf
4. Kramer, William T.C. Creating Science Driven Architectures, Report for the Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology , Reading England , October 2004, Workshop proceedings 2005.
5. Kramer, William, Deborah A Agarwall, Arie Shoshani, Brent Draney, Guojin Jin, Gregory Butler and John Hules, Deep Scientific Computing Requires Deep Data , featured article in the IBM Journal on Research and Development, Volume 48, Number 2, March 2004.
6. Adrian T. Wong, Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Kramer, Teresa L. Kaltz, and David H. Bailey, Evaluating System Effectiveness in High Performance Computing Systems , Proceedings of SC2000, November 2000.
7. William Kramer, Building Network Testbeds for High Performance Applications , IEEE Computer Magazine, June 2002 (cover article).
8. Paxson, Vern, Steven Lau, James Rothfuss and William Kramer, Trends in Computer Security for Open Scientific Facilities , - a full-day Tutorial at SC 2002, November 16-22 in Baltimore, MD. Updated half day versions for the Global Grid Forum 8, June 22-27 in Seattle , WA , and SC2003 in Phoenix .
9. C. William McCurdy, Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, Robert F. Lucas, William E. Johnston, David H. Bailey, Future Directions in Scientific Supercomputing for Computational Physics , Computer Physics Communications, 147, 34.39, August 2002.
10. William Kramer and Clint Ryan, Performance Variability on Highly Parallel Architectures . The International Conference on Computational Science 2003, Melbourne, Australia/St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2-4, 2003.

4. Synergistic Activities

1. Co-created the NERSC Science Driven System, Service and Architecture strategies, which includes the NERSC Global Filesystem — a single high performance filesystem integrated with all architecture and a large archive.
2. As one of the first employees of the relocated NERSC in 1996, led the re-implementation of NERSC at LBNL with an expanded mission and 20% reduction in funds, including reinstallation of all systems and hiring over 70 technical staff on a rapid schedule. Established an integrated service and systems architecture. Introduced project planning and metrics for the division.
3. Led the installation, test, and introduction of the first large T3E, the largest I/O configuration on a T3E, early IBM Power 3+ and Power 5 SPs, early J-90s, HPSS, first use of checkpoint/restart in a MPP production environment, the first to demonstrate the ability to manage very large MPPs with utilization over 90%, and many other technical innovations.
4. General Chair for SC|05 in Seattle, responsible for all aspects of the conference including conception of the HPC Analytics program.
5. Co-PI for the DOE Science Grid Project and the Open Science Grid Council Chair.
6. Co-PI for two DOE SciDAC-2 projects.

5. Collaborators & Other Affiliations

• Philip Andrews, San Deigo Supercomputing Center.
• Arthur Bland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory.
• James Bottum, Purdue University.
• Larry Davis, DOD Modernization Program.
• David Dixon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• Thomas Dunning, National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
• Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Dennis Gannon, Indiana University.
• John Grosh, DOD.
• Micheal Levin/Ralph Roskies, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
• Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology.
• Robert Pennington, National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
• Larry Rahn, Sandia National Laboratories.
• David Schissel, General Atomics.
• Gary Strand, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
• Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory.

6. Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

• LBNL: Dr. C. William McCurdy, Dr. Horst Simon
• NASA: Dr. Gregory Condon, Dr. David Cooper, Dr. F. Ron Bailey, Dr. Arthur Cullati
• Delaware: Dr. David Robinson, Dr. David Farber Dr. Jane Caviness, Dr. Daniel Grimm, Mr. Robert Rahe, Mr. John Falcone
• UCB: Dr. David Culler, Dr. James Demmel
• Purdue: Dr. Samuel Conti, Dr. Peter Denning, Dr. John Rice, Sr.

7. Honors, Awards, and Certifications

• Four LBNL Outstanding Performance Awards
• NASA Group Achievement Award
• HPCWire "People to Watch in 2005"
• DECUS (Digital Equipment Computer User Society) Board of Director's Medal
• DECUS Outstanding Contributor Award
• DECUS Outstanding Unit Award
• Certified Private Pilot
• Open Water Scuba Instructor
• Emergency Medical Technician
• Certified Fire Fighter
• Eagle Scout
• U.S. Military Academy (West Point) appointment