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Fork in The Road

It’s with mixed feelings that I end my time at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). I’m very proud to have had the opportunity to experience such a unique and historical place, and to have made whatever small contribution to the lab’s success in my relatively short time there. I grew a lot as a researcher. And I made connections that I will treasure for the rest of my career.

But like most long surviving institutions, LANL is dynamic. The research topics and capabilities of interest change over time, and while the recent changes haven’t been as dramatic as some places in the Department of Energy, the focus of the lab has seemed to narrow.

I am very happy to report that I have found a new position at AiDash, where I can satisfy my passion for researching the impact of natural hazards on critical infrastructure. I’ll have more to say about my new position soon. Until then…

~~~Goodbye New Mexico~~~

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Los Alamos, Here I Come!

The Valles Caldera, near Los Alamos National Lab. No photography is allowed at the lab, so this was the next best thing. Photo by Peter Watson.

I’m very pleased to announce that I will be transitioning to a Scientist position at Los Alamos National Lab, in New Mexico, early in 2023.

I’m very excited about what the future holds. I’ll be able to work on projects of national importance there, and I hope I’ll be able to turn this opportunity into a career with real impact. Thanks to everyone who helped get to this point!

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ATPESC 2022

The Q Center, the venue of ATPESC 2022. Photo by Peter Watson

I was very happy to be selected for the 2022 cohort of the Argonne Training Program for Extreme Scale Computing (ATPESC), and intensive, two week workshop all about the current state-of-the-art in High Performance Computing, and its applications in scientific research.

I learned so much and was really happy to return to Chicago and meet so many dedicated and talented computational scientists. With the growing prevalence of GPU, the coming years will be an exciting and dynamic time for HPC.

An Intrepid Compute Node. Photo by Peter Watson

As a parting gift all participants were given a compute module from Intrepid, Argonne’s IBM Blue Gene system, which was decommissioned in 2011. It’s so neat that I designed a stand for it! [Link]