HPC architect, NIWA, New Zealand
“NIWA’s recent procurement of the largest supercomputer in New Zealand”
20 February 2025
Abstract
The NIWA Generation 3 supercomputer environment is approaching end of life. This talk will review at a high level the process to finalise recommendations for the Generation 4 environment. A summary of key decisions will be presented, in areas such as the archive approach, cloud/hosted, AMD/ARM/Intel, high-performance storage, interconnect, energy consumption. Detailed discussion on any or all of these topics will be possible during the Friday unconference day.
Bio
Since 2019, Jeff Zais has been the HPC Architect at NIWA watching over the computing and storage systems used for weather forecasting, climate studies, and other research on the oceans and waters of New Zealand. Jeff started as an HPC user in 1985, analysing the structures of weather and communication satellites for Ford Aerospace. This was followed starting in 1991 by a series of positions at HPC vendors (Cray Research, IBM, Lenovo) with a focus on benchmarking, performance measurements and estimates, and system architecture. Jeff has degrees from the University of Wisconsin (B.S) and from Stanford University (M.S., Ph.D.).
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