Presenter

A Senior Vice President with the consulting engineering firm ESD, Mike has engaged with 30+ TOP500 clients on the long-range planning, data center design, commissioning, and optimization of their HPC environments. Mike has presented on the topic of data center planning and design best practices for HPC centers at forums ranging from PRACE to the annual SC Supercomputing Conference. Early definition of institutional success criteria, stakeholder wants and needs, and budget and schedule expectations—these are as critical as cooling and power strategies to successful outcomes based on Mike’s experience. His engagements range from the design for both NCSA’s Petascale Computing Facility and Indiana University’s Cyber Infrastructure Building, to the commissioning of the new infrastructure for Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora deployment, to most recently, working with TOP500 sites planning major HPC deployments to develop their data center modernization and total-cost-of-ownership roadmaps.