Presenter

Chris White is LLNL’s WSC DevOps Coordinator, focusing on program-wide DevOps efforts, such as unifying and improving build and automation processes and common tools, such as BLT, a streamlined CMake-based foundation for Building, Linking, and Testing large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications. He also leads the CS efforts on Serac, a high-order nonlinear thermomechanical simulation code, advising a multi-disciplinary team on software best practices. In addition, Chris is a Group Lead, supervising, hiring, and mentoring a team of computer scientists. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BS in Computer Science and has over 17 years of experience, including working at Borland Software, where he focused on streamlining and hardening DevOps for their IDE Tools division.