A brief introduction of myself

Modified by Amit Patel on April 07, 2010

Hi, I am Amit. I work as a System Administrator of a 6TFlop High Performance Computing Facility (Super Computer) at Centre for Computational Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research located in Bangalore, India.

I have obtained my Bachelor's Degree from Bilaspur University. Subsequently, I did a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from Manipal University. After that, I became a Red Hat Certified Engineer from Complete Open Source Solution at Hyderabad. I am a Microsoft Certified Professional. Since the April 2007, I have been working as a System Administrator at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.


Experience Summary


Centre for Computational Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Duration: April 2007 - Till Date
Designation: Linux System Administrator

  • Currently System Administrator of a 6TFlop high performance computing facility with parallel filesystem.
  • The system is a 512 core HP CP3000 cluster with an infiniband 4X DDR interconnect.
  • It has 1TB aggregate RAM and 32TB lustre fs based parallel storage.
  • Compiling/installation of various software and ensuring integration with the system provided parallel libraries.
  • Ensuring performance of various software on the parallel machine.
  • Fine tuning the queuing and job scheduling software of the cluster.
  • Writing scripts to report usage patterns and failures.
  • Scheduling, Configuring and taking backups.
  • Setting up computational labs for International Scientific Conferences.
  • Involved in the setting up of the facility beginning at the proposal stage up to installation and commissioning.
  • Primary contact for the vendor who supplied the HPC machine.

Courses and Certifications


  • PGDCA (Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications)
  • RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)
  • MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)
  • MCSE-2003 (Microsoft Certified Engineer)
  • PIX Firewall (Private Internet Exchange Firewall)
  • CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
  • MS-Exchange (Micro Soft Exchange Server)

Interests


  • High Performance Computing.
  • Computer Networking.
  • Virtualization Technologies.

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