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0.1LevworksastheHPCandTrainingOfficerattheUniversityofMelbourne,anddo
thedaytodayadministrationoftheSpartanHPC/CloudhybridandtheEdwardHPC.
0.2PriortothatheworkedforseveralyearsattheVictorianPartnershipforAdvanced
Computing,whichhelookedaftertheTangoandTrifidsystemsandtaughtresearchers
at17differentuniversitiesandresearchinstitutions.Priortothatheworkedforthe
EastTimoresegovernment,andpriortothattheParliamentofVictoria.
0.3Heisinvolvedinvariouscommunityorganisations,collectdegrees,learns
languages,designsgames,andwritesbooksforfun.
0.4Youcanstalkhimat:http://levlafayette.comor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/levlafayette
1.1Asupercomputerisarathernebuloustermforanycomputersystemthatisatthe
frontlineofcurrentprocessingcapacity.
1.2TheTop500metric(http://top500.org)measurespurespeedoffloatingpoint
operationswithLINPACK.TheHPCChallengeusesavarietyofmetrics(floating
pointcalculationspeed,matrixcalculations,sustainablememorybandwidth,paired
processorcommunications,randommemoryupdates,discreteFouriertransforms,and
communicationbandwidthandlatency).
1.3Thetermsupercomputerisnotquitethesameas"highperformancecomputer",
andnotquitethesameas"clustercomputing",andnotquitethesameas"scientific(or
research)computing".
Image of CDC6600 by Jitze Couperus - Flickr: Supercomputer - The Beginnings, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19382150