Presenter

Patrick Widener is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. He joined Sandia in 2012 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. During his career at Sandia, Patrick has worked on projects involving data fusion for enterprise and scientific data, efficient streaming middleware for data movement and storage, and performance effects of fault-tolerance protocols for large computational scientific applications. His current activities concentrate on the design and development of system software to support large-scale data-centric computational science, including interfaces with heterogeneous storage software and hardware, tools for examining performance interference caused by in-situ analytics, and software architectures for describing and exchanging data in computational science workflows.