Mary Thomas, Ph.D.
Roles
- Computational Data Scientist - SDSC
- Lead - HPC Training, SDSC
- Co-Principal Investigator - CC* Compute: Triton Stratus, SDSC
Biography
Mary Thomas works in the Data-Enabled Scientific Computing Division, where she is leading education, outreach & training on HPC systems. In the past, Mary has led several portal and Web services projects for high-performance computing infrastructure. Mary holds a Ph.D. in computational science, and her primary research has been focused on HPC computing, coastal ocean modeling, cyberinfrastructure, web technologies, and Amazon Web Services. Mary is also a research faculty member in the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University. For fun, Mary has sponsored 2 teams at the annual student cluster competitions at the SC Conference (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis).
Expertise
- CyberTraining
- HPC software and programming
- Cyberinfrastructure and emerging technologies
- Portals and web programming
Current Projects
- CyberTraining - Developing educational and training materials to support the work of scientists running computational problems on HPC systems, including the SDSC Comet/Expanse and Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC/Stratus) systems.