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August 15, 2013
Jeff Broughton
Jeff Broughton has been named as the new NERSC Division Deputy for Operations. The announcement was made Aug. 15 by NERSC Division Director Sudip Dosanjh.
“Rather than this being a new position, the Division Deputy title is a fitting recognition of the duties and responsibilities Jeff has taken on since he joined NERSC four years ago,” Dosanjh wrote in his announcement. “When he was hired as head of the Systems Department in 2009, Jeff brought 30 years of HPC and management experience to the position. His experience on both the vendor side and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory give him a very broad perspective on how we can procure the critical systems to meet the needs of our large user community. His ability to build effective partnerships with both hardware and software vendors will be critical as NERSC moves into the realm of exascale computing.”
In addition to his nine years at LLNL, Broughton has worked for a number of industry leaders, including Amdahl Corporation, Sun Microsystems (where he was awarded five system architecture patents), and PathScale Inc., which was acquired by QLogic in 2006. He has been recognized for his work in compliers, InfiniBand-related products and cluster systems.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility that serves as the primary high performance computing center for scientific research sponsored by the Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC serves almost 10,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in climate, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a DOE national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. »Learn more about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab.
