Eva Hocks
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr MC 0505
La Jolla, CA 92093
Business Tel. 858-822-0954
Home Tel. 760-757-8912
EMail : hocks@sdsc.edu

Summary of Qualifications:

Education:

Aachen University of Technology
Diploma of Mathematical Technical Assistant (1974)

IBM Certified Specialist
AIX 4.3 System Administrator (2001)
RS/6000 SP and PSSP V3 (2001)

Professional Affiliation:
2008 - 2012 SPXXL site representative, BlueGene working group lead
2006 - 2009 SDSC Security Committee Member
2006 IBM Information Center Customer Councilmember
2003 - 2009 AIX Technical Steering Committee Member
2001 - present IEEE Society Member
2000 - 2005 USERBlue Conference Program Committee Member
1996 - 2008 System Management Technical Steering Committee Member
1993 - present Internet Society Pioneer Member
1989 - 2002 SHARE Technical User Conference Project Manager

Publications  

Understanding and Using the SP Switch, IBM Redbook SG24-5161-00 (1999-04-08)
System Administration Magazin Mai 2001 Edition: The Logical Volume Manager in Large Data Storage Systems
Co-Author Papers:
SC15: Science Impatcs and Lessons Learned from Deploying Gordon, a Data-Intensive Supercomputer
XSEDE 13: Hadoop Development and Performance on Gordon Data Intensive Computing
XSEDE 13: Using Gordon to Accelerate LHC Service
ACM 2013: Using Gordon to Accelerate LHC Science
ACM 2012: Gordon: Design, Performance, and Experiences Deploying and Supporting a Sata-Intensive Supercomputer
ICCS 2012: Implementations of Urgent Computing on Production HPC Systems
XSEDE 12: Gordon, Performance, and Experiences Developing and Supporting a Data Intensive Supercomputer (co-author)

Professional Experience:

1999 - present   SDSC High Performance Computing Center / La Jolla, California, USA
HPC Systems Engineer
    • Experience in HIPPA Cluster mamagement with WMware, Ansible and zabbix
    • Integration of slurm scheduling into the Comet petascale supercomputer system design
    • Instatllation and configuration of OnDemand scheduling with Moab, Maui, Torque
    • Installation and maintenance of the Gordon Appro GreenBlade GB812X Intel EM64T Xeon E5 Cluster
    • Integration of ScaleMP's Versatile SMP (vSMP) Cloud Architecture into Rocks system managemnt
    • Research, installation and development of ScaleMP's Versatile SMP (vSMP) Architecture
    • Installation and maintenance of the Appro HyperGreen Cluster, ACE system management
    • Research with Cloud interaction via Eucalyptus on Rocks
    • Installation and maintenance of the Dell PowerEdge cluster (2.4 Tflops) and design of OnDemand capability with Rocks and SGE
    • Installation and maintenance of the Sun Triton system (250 quadcore nodes)
    • Maintenance of the SGI XE210 with 64CPU/32GB memory and 6.6TB filesystem running SLES10
    • Installation and maintenance of the IBM SP Parallel Power System (1152 processors)
    • Performance tuning on the AIX server machines and SP system
    • Problem determination and solving
    • System Procedure Documentation (Web based)
    • Maintaining the 5 TeraByte Parallel Filesystem GPFS
    • Installation of 4 TeraByte Storage Area Network (SAN-Sun T3) disks
    • Linux SuSe PPC and RedHat installation on PC, PowerPC and IA-64 systems
    • Linux application installation and configuration (MPICH)
    • HPC cluster scheduling installation, configuration (Loadlevler, PBS, SGE, torque, maui, moab, catalina, slurm)
    • Experience in Linux Cluster management tools (ROCKS,OSCAR,zCAT,CSM,cplant,Cluster Management,ACE)
    • Experience in AIX 5L and Linux affinity
    • Experience in AIX 6
1992 - 1999   Research Center for High Energy Physics / Darmstadt, Germany
Computer Scientist
    • Installation and maintenance of the IBM SP Parallel Power System (22 nodes)
    • Installation and administration of UNIX workstations, AIX, HP-UX, ULTRIX and Linux
    • Performance tuning on the AIX server machine and SP system
    • Design, installation and administration of server systems for file service,network-based services and data management (ADSM)
    • Design and installation of HACMP servers for file service and network services (mail, WWW, printing, bootserver)
    • Installation,configuration and testing of new software (DCE,PIOF,CATIA)
    • Installing and maintaining license server software
    • Network Installation Management for distributed systems
    • Problem determination and solving
    • Customer service and support, user consulting
1975 - 1992      Technical University of Darmstadt / Darmstadt, Germany
System Programmer/Analyst
    • Planning, installation and administration of mainframe systems and peripheral devices
      (IBM 370/168, IBM 3081-D32, 2 IBM 4381-P03/14 as coupled systems, IBM 3083, IBM 3090-200E, SIEMENS VP400)
    • Installation and maintenance of MVS (MVS/370, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA), VM/XA, AIX/370, AVM, VSP
    • Design and installation of networks (SNA and TCP/IP) and connection to the Internet (BITNET/NJE, Internet/TCP/IP)
    • Network management and system automation with the NetView and NetView/6000 products
    • Development and installation of X400 software (UCLA/400 mailer) in cooperation with the DFN (German Research Network Organization)
    • Integration of AIX workstations into the mainframe environment (AIX/370 and TCF AIX cluster)
    • Performance and capacity planning with SAS software
    • Software development and administration of a SERIE/1 system for interactive processing on the mainframe system
    • Installation of IBM mainframe systems at the University of Veszprem (Hungary) and
      Warsaw (Poland)
    • User consulting
Other Professional Experiences:

2008 - present SPXXL Site Representative

2008 - 2009 SPXXL BlueGene Project Lead

2000 - 2004 USERBlue Conference Program Committee member

1989 - 2002 SHARE Conference Project Manager

1975     Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt / Frankfurt, Germany

Development of software for student data statistics (COBOL, UNIVAC 1108)

1974     Medical Faculty of the Aachen University of Technology / Aachen, Germany
Statistical software development, maintenance of application software libraries
(SIEMENS 4004, Control Data 6400)

Computer Skills:  

MVS, VM, AVM, VSP, EDX, AIX/370, AIX/6000, Ultrix, HP-UX, Linux/IA64, Window95/98/XP
 
VTAM/NJE, TCP/IP, NetView, NetView/6000,  LoadLeveler, PBS, Maui, ADSM, NIM, PSSP, xCat, ROCKS, IForLS, HACMP, PIOF, GPFS, DCE
 
Script, C, HTML, Java script, TeX, FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, PL/1, Assembler, COMPASS,  CLIST, REXX

Miscellaneous Data:

Languages: German, English - fluent in reading/writing/speaking, French - less fluent
References: available upon request