This page is about me. It’s really just where I keep bookmarks that I frequently have to look up. Better information about me is in my long-form bio (personal) or my LinkedIn (professional).
VAST portfolio
- VAST DataEnclave technical collateral (September 2026)
- Autonomous Science is Inheriting a Workflow Infrastructure Problem (August 2026)
- Race to the Top: The Case for Building an AI Cloud Your Customer Cannot Leave (June 2026)
- VAST Data’s Zero Trust Framework for Agentic AI (May 2026)
- Scaling Through Flash Scarcity with Purpose Built Architecture (January 2026)
- Optimizing Checkpoint Bandwidth for LLM Training (October 2025)
Presentations
| Date | Venue | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | ModSim | A Demand-Side Approach to Modeling Data Path Requirements for Training |
| July 2026 | PEARC | Failure is a Finding (not recorded, but Nicole and I recorded a podcast version of the talk) |
| July 2026 | HPDC | Taking the Seatbelts Out of the Supercomputer |
| July 2026 | HPDC / PERMAVOST | Workflow Performance Is Not the Sum of Its Parts |
| June 2026 | ISC | Rethinking Data Infrastructure Conventions for Modern AI and HPC |
| June 2026 | ISC / A2SD | Autonomous Science Is Inheriting a Workflow Infrastructure Problem |
| April 2026 | Salishan | AI doesn’t need giant supercomputers after all |
| November 2025 | SC | HPC Meets Hyperscale AI |
| October 2025 | CLSAC | From Exascale to Hyperscale: Insights for the Next Generation of Large-Scale Computing |
| June 2025 | ISC / SuperCompCloud | Even the cloud is still figuring out supercomputing in the cloud |
| April 2025 | Salishan | Unexpected challenges of training AI at unprecedented scale |
| November 2024 | SC / HPCSYSPROS | Beyond the Hype: Uncovering the Real I/O Needs of LLMs |
| September 2024 | Smoky Mountains Conference | Shaping post-exascale HPC with the design principles of AI supercomputers |
| May 2024 | ISC / HPC-IODC | The Guts of Large Language Model Checkpointing |
Panels
| Date | Venue | Title |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | SC / PDSW | Storage Architectures and I/O Optimizations for AI Applications |
| November 2025 | SC | AI Factory Supercomputers Are Not HPC Supercomputers |