So You Want to Build a Cray
About the Speaker
Cyber Security Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab
Currently a Cyber Security Research Scientist for the Cyber Warfare Research Team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jeff Nichols has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Math Ecology) from the University of Tennessee. He was IT Director at Jewelry Television, and has been messing with computers since the age of 12. His research areas are high-performance computation, parallel computing, and data flow. This talk was originally given at PhreakNIC 17.
Presentation Resources
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is home to Cray's Titan, the world's fastest, open science supercomputer. Not far from ORNL is the local hacker space, KnoxMakers. At KnoxMakers, a cabinet left over from a previous generation Cray captured their imagination. "Could we restore the machine?", they wondered. And with this musing, a wild adventure began.