Director of Training and Engineering Services, Linux Networx Dr. Padmanabhan Iyer has over a decade of experience in the HPC arena and has worked on diverse, numerically intensive applications ranging from Reservoir Simulation, Inverse Problems in Oil Field Characterization and Seismic Imaging. He had principal roles in the evaluation and selection of parallel architectures for different application domains. More recently he was involved in teaching software methodologies for parallel programming and debugging. He started his career on the faculty at Princeton University and has a PhD from Northwestern University. He is currently Director of Training and Engineering Services at Linux Networx.