The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Mike Heroux as special guest to discuss HPC software in general and, in particular, his work as the Exascale Computing Project’s director of software technologies., including code used by the first two American exascale-class supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora.
Topics include performance vs. portability and maintainability, heterogeneous hardware, the impact of AI on workloads and tools, the emergence of the Research Software Engineer as a needed role and a career path, the convergence of commercial and HPC software stacks, and what’s on the horizon.
Heroux is a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and scientist-in-residence at St. John’s University in Minnesota. He’s been with both organizations for more than 25 years.
Mike Heroux
A high point of his career is his software leadership role for the ECP. While that project has been completed, Heroux‘s software work has continued to receive funding. His current work includes the PESO* Project, a newly-funded five-year software-ecosystem stewardship effort. Its goal is to support scientific software with libraries and tools that deliver high-performance algorithms and capabilities for applications at Department of Energy national labs and other facilities.
Earlier in his career, Heroux was with SGI and Cray. His focus is on all aspects of scalable scientific and engineering software for parallel computing architectures.
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