Megan Larko
OpenSFS President, Translucent
Megan Larko has involved in Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) for decades starting at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and continuing in the U.S. DoD environment with SGI at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and HP (now HPE) at Ft. Meade, both in Maryland. Megan is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and jokes that she also attended the college of “O’Reilly and Associates” based upon the knowledge she have gained reading books from that publisher. Megan has had Linux certifications from SAIR (one of the original Linux certs), RH, and CompTIA, and even “Lustre Administration and Support: Level One” dated July 2008 from Sun. Megan enjoys her career as well as a few hobbies such as running and dog training. Megan currently resides in western Pennsylvania, with her beloved spouse and goldendoodle mix.
Cameron Harr
Vice President, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Cameron Harr is a systems engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), where he serves as Livermore Computing’s I/O Strategist as well as leads their Lustre Operations team. Cameron has been in HPC for 25 years, starting with Alta Technology in 2000, a pioneer in Beowulf-class clusters that became Linux Networx. He served in various HPC and/or I/O-oriented roles there, and later at Fusion IO, a US Navy meteorological center and ultimately at LLNL. His first taste of Lustre was with version 1.4, being tasked with installing it for customers while at Linux Networx. Cameron has a B.S in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and an unofficial degree in dry humor: he enjoys witty humor, puns, and the fact that it took his wife a decade to realize he’s actually funny.
Leo Saavedra
OpenSFS Treasurer, LBNL/NERSC
Leonardo Saavedra (a.k.a Leo), is a Senior HPC Storage Systems Analyst at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab (LBNL), where he works as a member of the Storage Systems Group. His interests include parallel file systems, mass storage and Linux system administration. Leo’s career in HPC began at NRAO as system engineer maintaining and deploying new Lustre file systems for the observatory. Leo has been working with Lustre since 2017 with work including Lustre administration, file system performance tuning, and improving user performance for high-performance computing applications.
Tom Crowe
OpenSFS Secretary, Indiana University
Tom Crowe is the Manager of the High Performance File System team at Indiana University. His background is in storage and Linux administration, having over 25 years’ experience across multiple industries. He has worked with Lustre since 2013 with work including deployments, benchmarking, administration, performance tuning, acceptance testing and multiple file system migrations. Prior to joining Indiana University, Tom worked as a storage and virtualization engineer in the Health Care industry.
Brad Gipson
At Large Board Member, Jump Trading
Brad is a High-Performance Computing Storage Engineer for the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the Storage Subject Matter Expert for ORNL’s strategic partnership with the United States Air Force. One of his focus areas is the delivery and operation of multiple Lustre namespaces with a focus on High Availability. Since joining with the lab, Brad has been an active participant in OpenSFS, including presenting at LUG’24 as well as facilitating the first student volunteer program.
