Presenter

Adam Lavely is the User Environment Architect at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the supercomputing facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In this role, he focuses on creating effective programming environments for users to maximize performance using containers and bare-metal configurations. His experience includes developing, porting, and optimizing scientific codes to run efficiently on new hardware and at large scale. Adam brings a diverse background in HPC, having held positions in performance engineering in academic HPC at Penn State University and on the Frontier and El Capitan Centers of Excellence while working for Cray. He led the HPC team at Cerebras before transitioning to his current role at LBL. Adam also serves as the Deputy Director of the Better Scientific Software Fellowship program .