A publication of the Advanced Simulation & Computing Division, NA-121.2, NNSA Defense Programs
March 2009
NA-ASC-500-09—Issue 10
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ASC Salutes Sue Kelly
For the past seven years, Sue Kelly has been a driving technical force behind the acquisition, development, bring-up, and sustainment of the Red Storm massively parallel processing supercomputer located in Albuquerque. Sue began working on the Red Storm project soon after the contract was awarded to Cray, Inc., in 2002. The project involved considerable engineering R&D, some of which was performed by Sandia and was led by Sue. Sandia provided the scalable run time system software, which included the operating system, its libraries, the application launch utility, and the node allocator.
This work on Red Storm was a natural follow-on to Sue’s prior assignment on the ASCI Red Supercomputer. When the contract with Intel ended, Sue stepped in to lead the system software effort on ASCI Red. Sue and her team assumed responsibility for the multiple million lines of source code that comprised the system software. They kept the system operational for three more years.
Prior to those HPC projects, Sue worked on various high performance storage systems used by Sandia scientific computing systems. She was an original HPSS developer.
Sue is now a member of the NM Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scales (ACES) team, which is tasked with acquiring ASC’s next capability computer system to replace Purple. The ASC Program is delighted to have her 20+ years of system software experience on this important acquisition.
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