High Performance Computing Engineer
High Performance Computing Engineer

Biography

Evan Felix is a high performance computing engineer with theAdvanced Scientific Computing team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. With over 21 years of experience, he excels in system administration, software development, and large storage system design. Evan's expertise ensures the smooth operation of EMSL's Tahoma and Compass supercomputers, enhances performance metrics and displays, and facilitates collaboration across research institutions. He is a vital asset to EMSL, continually pushing the boundaries of computational science in molecular research. 

 

Research Interest

  • Linux File Systems, Lustre, Ceph, BeeGFS, and other parallel file systems 

  • Creating, maintaining, and monitoring large scale computational systems for scientific research using high performance computing systems. 

  • Large scale dataset visualization 

Education

  • BS in Computer Science in Utah State University, 1999 

  • AS in Computer Science, Snow College, 1997 

  • AAS in Computer Information Systems, Snow College, 1997 

Affiliations and Professional Service

Awards and Recognitions

  • Storcloud Challenge Award for Most Innovative Use of Storage, 2004 

Publications

2016 

Kidd T., R.M. Farber, B. Liviero, and E.J. Felix. 2016. "Power Analysis for Applications and Data Centers." In High Performance Parallelism Pearls: Multicore and Many-core Programming Approaches, edited by J Jeffers and J Reinders. 487-510. Waltham, Massachusetts:Morgan Kaufmann. PNNL-SA-111459. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803819-2.00014-8 

2011 

Allcock, W., E. Felix, M. Lowe, R. Rheinheimer, and J. Fullop. 2011. “Challenges of HPC Monitoring.” State of the Practice Reports, SC'11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2063348.2063378. 

2009 

Grider G., J. Nunez, J. Bent, R. Ross, L. Ward, S. Poole, and E.J. Felix, et al. 2009. "Coordinating Government Funding of File System and I/O Research through the High End Computing University Research Activity." Operating Systems Review 43, no. 1:2-7. PNNL-SA-64854. 

2007 

Piernas Canovas J., J. Nieplocha, and E.J. Felix. 2007. "Evaluation of Active Storage Strategies for the Lustre Parallel File System." In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (SC'07), 240-249. New York, New York:Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). PNNL-SA-56242. doi:10.1145/1362622.1362660 

2006 

Felix E.J., K.M. Fox, K.M. Regimbal, and J. Nieplocha. 2006. "Active Storage Processing in a Parallel File System." In Proceedings of the 6th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution, April 25-28, 2005, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Albuquerque, New Mexico:Linux Clusters Institute. PNNL-SA-44975.