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Richard Gerber

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Richard A. Gerber , Ph.D.
HPC Consultant , User Services Group,
Phone: (510) 486-6820 , Fax: (510) 486-4316
1 Cyclotron Road
Mail Stop 943R0256
Berkeley, CA 94720 US

Biographical Sketch

Richard Gerber is a High Performance consultant in NERSC's User Services Group. In addition to helping scientists use NERSC's high performance computing and storage resources, Richard is the NERSC Lead for Training, Web, and User Outreach. These duties include overseeing and contributing to the NERSC web site, coordinating NERSC's training efforts, managing NERSC's trouble ticket system, and  designing and conducting NERSC's annual user survey. Richard is keenly interested in automatic collection of HPC performance and runtime data and making it available on the web to help users monitor, debug, and optimize their applications.

Richard is an expert in understanding broad science communities' needs for high performance computing, storage, and services. He and Harvey Wasserman coordinate and facilitate the  HPC Requirements Reviews for Production Computing run by NERSC, the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, and the DOE Office of Science program offices.

Richard has a Ph.D. in physics, specializing in computational astrophysics, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a National Research Council  postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Ames Research Center. His specialty is N-body and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics of colliding galaxies, "ring" galaxies in particular. He also has an interest in N-body realizations of equilibrium galaxies and validation of computational simulations.

Professional Activities

  • Reviewer, Berkeley Lab Internships for Precollegiate Scholars program, 2011.
  • Mentor,  DOE Academies Creating Teacher Scientists program, Summer 2010.
  • National Science Foundation Merit Review Panels, 2010, 2011, 2012.
  • Mentor, Berkeley Lab Internships for Precollegiate Scholars program, 2009.
  • President, IBM High Performance Scientific Computing User Group (ScicomP), 2007-2010.

Journal Articles

Richard A. Gerber, “Global Effects of Softening n-Body Galaxies”, Astrophysical Journal, August 1, 1996, 466:724-731,

Gerber, R.A. & Lamb, S.A., “A Stellar and Gas Dynamical Numerical Model of Ring Galaxies”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 8, 1996, 278:345,

Richard A. Gerber and Susan A. Lamb, “A Model for Collisionally Induced Disturbed Structure in Disk Galaxies”, Astrophysical Journal, August 20, 1994, 431:604-616,

Susan A. Lamb, NORDITA and Neils Bohr Institute; Richard A. Gerber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Dinshaw Balsara, Johns Hopkins University, “Galactic Scale Gas Flows in Colliding Galaxies: a-Dimensional, N-bodyjHydrodynamics Experiments”, Astrophysics and Space Science, May 1994, 216:337-346,

Richard A. Gerber, Susan A. Lamb, and Dinshaw Balsara, “A Model of Ring Galaxies: Arp 147-Like Systems”, Astrophysical Journal, November 1, 1992, 399:L51-L54,

Conference Papers

Nathan C. Hearn, Susan A. Lamb, Robert A. Gruendl (Univ. of Ill.), Richard A. Gerber (NERSC/Berkeley Lab), “The Colliding Galaxy System Arp 119: Numerical Models and Infrared Observations”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, January 17, 2000, 215:46H,

Lamb, S. A.; Hearn, N. C.; Gerber, R. A., “Velocity Fields in Impacted Gaseous Galactic Discs: A Numerical Survey using N-body/SPH Simulations”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 17, 1999, 31:829,

Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Rudnick, G. H.; Dewing, M., “Starbursts in Collisionally Produced Ring Galaxies: Comparisons Between Numerical Models and Observed Systems”, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Serie de Conferencias, May 3, 1997, 6:151,

Smith, B.F.; Gerber, R.A.; Steiman-Cameron, T.Y.; Miller, R.H., “The Response of Disks to Oscillatory Modes in Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, June 17, 1996, 28:1189,

Rudnick, G. H.; Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Dewing, M., “A Comparison between Numerical Models of Collisionally Produced Ring Galaxies and Observed Systems”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 13, 1996, 28:826,

Gerber, R. A.; Smith, B. F.; Steiman-Cameron, T. Y., “The Response of Disks to Oscillatory Modes in Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, December 11, 1995, 27:1353,

Gerber, Richard A, “Some Consequences of Using Gravitational Softening to Model N-body Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, June 12, 1995, 27:1201,

Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Balsara, D. S., “Off-Center Collisions Involving Rotating Disk Galaxies: 3-D Numerical Simulations”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, December 12, 1994, 26:1430,

Gerber, Richard A., “Some Consequences of Using Gravitational Softening to Model N-body Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, March 1994, 27:885,

Susan A. Lamb, Richard A. Gerber, Dinshaw S. Balsara, “Galaxies in Collision: The Formation of Rings and Arcs”, Astron. Ges., Abstr. Ser, June 1, 1993, 8:56,

Gerber, R. A.; Lamb, S. A., “Models for Collisionally Induced Disturbed Structure in Disk Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 18, 1992, 24:811,

Gerber, R. A.; Lamb, S. A.; Balsara, D. S., “A Model for Ring Galaxies: Arp 147-Like Systems”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, September 17, 1991, 23:1391G,

R.A. Gerber, S.A. Lamb (Univ. of Ill.), and D.S. Balsara (JHU), “Ring Formation in Off-Axis Collisions of Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, March 11, 1991, BAAS 23:953G,

Gerber, Richard A.; Balsara, Dinshaw S.; Lamb, Susan A, “Dynamical experiments on models of colliding disk galaxies”, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Paired and Interacting Galaxies: International Astronomical Union Colloquium, November 12, 1990, 124:737-742,

R.A. Gerber, S.A. Lamb (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), D.S. Balsara (Johns Hopkins Univ.), “Combined Hydrodynamical and N-Body Studies of Colliding Galaxies: The Formation of Ring Galaxies”, 177th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, July 9, 1990, 22:1243G,

Gerber, R. A. and Lamb, S. A. and Miller, R. H., and Smith, B. F., “Models of colliding galaxies: kinetic energy and density enhancement”, Dynamics and Interactions of Galaxies, Proceedings, Springer, Berlin (Germany, F.R.), June 4, 1990, 223,

Gerber. R. A.; Lamb, S. A.; Miller, R. H.; Smith, B. F., “Potential Sites for Star Formation in Colliding Galaxies”, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Workshop of the Advanced School of Astronomy, February 12, 1990, 160:366G,

Lamb, S. A.; Miller, R. H.; Gerber, R. A.; Smith, B. F., “Models of Colliding Galaxies: Kinetic Energy and Density Enhancements”, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Kona Symposium of Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy, January 8, 1990, 158:235L,

R. A. Gerber, D. S. Balsara, and S. A. Lamb (Univ. of Ill.), “Potential Sites of Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies: Numerical Experiments”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, September 11, 1989, 21:1163G,

S.A Lamb, R.A. Gerber (U. Illinois), R.H. Miller (U. Chicago), B.F. Smith (NASA/Ames), “Models of Colliding Galaxies: Kinetic Energy and Density Enhancements”, 173rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, September 10, 1988,

Presentation/Talks

Richard A. Gerber, Batch Strategies of Maximizing Throughput and Allocation, NERSC Users Group Monthly Webinar, October 2012, October 4, 2012,

Richard A. Gerber, Uses for High Performance Computing, June 12, 2012,

Who uses High Peformance Computing and what do they do with it? Presented for LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to High Performance Computers, June 12, 2012,

Introduction for High Performance Computers. Presented to LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Richard A. Gerber, Challenges in HPC, June 12, 2012,

Challenges in High Performance Computing. Presented to LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Debugging and Optimization Tools, Presented to UC Berkeley CS 267 Class, Applications of Parallel Computer, February 16, 2012,

User Requirements Gathered for the NERSC7 Procurement, February 3, 2012,

HPC I/O in Scaling  to  Petascale  and  Beyond:  Performance  Analysis  and  Optimization  of  Applications, SC11, November 13, 2011,

Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to HPC Systems, NERSC New User Training, September 13, 2011,

Richard A. Gerber, Experiences with Tools at NERSC, Programming weather, climate, and earth-­‐system models on heterogeneous mul-­‐core platorms, NCAR, Boulder, CO, September 7, 2011,

NERSC Overview for Environmental Energy Technologies, Berkeley Lab, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Berkeley, CA, June 2011,

Getting Started at NERSC, NERSC Training Webinar Berkeley Lab OSF, Oakland, CA, June 7, 2011,

NERSC Overview for the Joint Genome Institute, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, May 2, 2011,

Richard Gerber, Computers - BSA Merit Badge, March 2011,

Richard Gerber, Debugging and Optimization Tools, Presented to CS267 class at UC-Berkeley, February 11, 2011,

Richard A. Gerber, Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics, NUG 2010, Cray Quarterly, NERSC OSF, Oakland, CA, October 28, 2010,

Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to Computing at NERSC, October 20, 2010,

Submitting and Running Jobs on the Cray XT5, Joint XT Workshop, Berkeley, CA, February 1, 2010,

Computing and Storage Requirements for Biological and Environmental Researchj, NUG 2009, Boulder, CO, October 7, 2009,

Richard A. Gerber, Breakthrough Science at NERSC, Cray Technical Workshop, Isle of Pines, SC, February 25, 2009,

Richard A. Gerber, Franklin File Systems and I/O, NERSC Users Group, Oakland, CA, October 2, 2008,

Richard A. Gerber, Running Jobs on Franklin, September 19, 2007,

Richard A. Gerber, Bassi - NERSC's New IBM POWER 5, NUG 2006, Princeton, NJ, June 13, 2006,

Richard A. Gerber, Experiences Configuring, Validating, and Monitoring Bassi, NUG 2006, Princeton, NJ, June 13, 2006,

Reports

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Nuclear Physics”, Workshop, March 26, 2012, LBNL LBNL-5355E

Report of the user requirements workshop for lattice gauge theory and nuclear physics computation at NERSC that took place May 26, 2011

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Advanced Computational Science Research”, Workshop, January 2012, LBNL LBNL-5249E

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Fusion Energy Sciences”, Workshop, December 2011,

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Basic Energy Sciences”, Workshop, June 10, 2011, LBNL LBNL-4809E

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics”, Workshop, November 15, 2010,

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Biological and Environmental Research”, Workshop, October 19, 2009, LBNL LBNL-2710E

W. Allcock, R. Carlson, S. Cotter, E. Dart, V. Dattoria, B. Draney, R. Gerber, M. Helm, J. Hick, S. Hicks, S. Klasky, M. Livny, B. Maccabe, C. Morgan, S. Morss, L. Nowell, D. Petravick, J. Rogers, Y. Sekine, A. Sim, B. Tierney, S. Turnbull, D. Williams, L. Winkler, F. Wuerthwein, “ASCR Science Network Requirements”, Workshop, April 15, 2009,

ESnet publishes reports from Network and Science Requirement Workshops on a regular basis.  This report was the product of a two-day workshop in Washington DC that addresses science requirements impacting operations of networking for 2009.

Richard Gerber, “Franklin Interactive Node Responsiveness”, June 9, 2008,

Thesis/Dissertations

Stellar and gas dynamics of interacting ring galaxies, Richard A. Gerber, Ph.D., October 1, 1993,

Stellar and Gas Dynamics of Interacting Ring Galaxies: Front Material, Richard A. Gerber, May 1993,

Stellar and Gas Dynamics of Interacting Ring Galaxies: Chapter 1 - Introduction, Richard A. Gerber, May 1993,

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