Presenter

Miron Livny joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1983 and is the founding Director of the Center for High Throughput Computing. As a Morgridge Investigator and the Institute's founding Chief Technology Officer, Livny's PhD work laid the groundwork for communities of autonomous computers to advance scientific discovery through network leveraging. His pioneering efforts in High Throughput Computing methodologies led to the creation of the HTCondor Software Suite. This suite is widely adopted for its ability to build mutual trust, facilitate sharing, and manage large task ensembles, fostering global research computing communities. These communities range from national computing service providers like the OSG consortium, where Livny serves as founding Technical Director, to campus-wide and large international science projects, contributing to two Nobel Prizes in Physics. With over 200 publications cited more than 45,000 times, Livny’s principles have profoundly shaped research computing at UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institute’s mission.