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Eric Boyd

Eric Boyd, Ph.D.

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Eric Boyd, Ph.D., is the director of networks with Information and Technology Services (ITS) at the University of Michigan. He leads the network operations, network engineering, and network software teams in the design, implementation, and operation of the campus network. He is responsible for the campus WiFi network, which includes over 15,00 access points campus-wide. In addition, Dr. Boyd works with research faculty in service to the research mission of the university and is co-lead of the open source perfSONAR project. He is the principal investigator for NetBASILISK, an NSF-funded grant that will explore network security and network performance that are critical to the research, teaching, and learning missions of the higher education community.

From 2002 to 2016, Dr. Boyd worked at Internet2 in a variety of positions, including senior director for Strategic Projects. While at Internet2, Dr. Boyd co-founded the widely deployed open source monitoring framework known as perfSONAR. During his nearly 15 years at Internet2, perfSONAR grew to become the global standard for network monitoring in the research and education community, with over 2,000 perfSONAR nodes deployed worldwide.

While at Internet2, Dr. Boyd also lead the development of the Open Exchange Software Suite (OESS) and FlowSpace Firewall (FSFW) by the GlobalNOC at Indiana University. OESS and FSFW served as the software underpinnings of the Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 Service (AL2S). Together, both software products formed the first nation-wide, OpenFlow deployment on a national network capable of network virtualization and have been used since 2012 to run the production Internet2 backbone service.

Dr. Boyd’s other efforts at Internet2 included leading development teams that built the OSCARS and DRAGON software suites (predecessors of OESS), and widely used performance tools such as BWCTL, OWAMP, and NDT.

At Internet2, Dr. Boyd was the PI for the DOE and NSF-funded perfSONAR workshop and Internet2 co chair of the Joint Techs program committee. Dr. Boyd was the PI for Internet2’s GENI-funded OpenFlow project (experimenting with OpenFlow on the backbone), Internet2’s NSF-funded DYNES (expanding the reach for the IDC circuit framework into Internet2-member regionals and campuses), Internet2’s NSF-funded IRIS project (developing perfSONAR software on the IRNC links) and Internet2’s NSF-funded DyGIR project (developing OSCARS/DRAGON software on the IRN links). Dr. Boyd coordinated Internet2’s involvement with OGF and DICE, and oversaw Internet2’s ION, performance, transport, and information services Working Groups.

Dr. Boyd earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan, under the direction of Dr. Edward Davidson (now retired), writing his thesis on the “Performance Evaluation and Improvement of High Performance Architectures and Applications.” He served as an engineering principal in the Unix Groups of both Compaq/Digital and Hewlett-Packard writing advanced performance analysis tools for enterprise-class servers. He led the research and development group at SolidSpeed Networks, creating such products as a content delivery network, a distributed peer-to-peer website performance measuring system, and a software-based global load balancer.

Mar 01 2016
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Jeremy Hallum

Jeremy Hallum

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Jeremy Hallum, M.A., is the research computing manager at Advanced Research Computing (ARC), a division of Information and Technology Services (ITS).

He serves as the ARC liaison to the IT staff at Michigan Medicine and is responsible for the following services:

Before joining ARC, Jeremy was the manager of high-performance computing for Medical School Information Services. He also served as the senior system administrator for the U-M Department of Astronomy. Prior to working at the University of Michigan, Jeremy was an associate systems manager at Boston University, Department of Astronomy.

Jeremy enjoys reading, RPGs, and working on projects around the house.

Feb 29 2016
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Matt Britt

Matt Britt

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Matt Britt is the high-performance computing (HPC) HPC Systems manager for Advanced Research Computing (ARC), a division of Information and Technology Services (ITS). 

He is responsible for the Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse HPC clusters job scheduling, day-to-day operations of the ARC HPC group, including hiring, employee reviews, and effort coordination.

Matt has been working in high-performance computing at the University of Michigan since 1998. He began his career at the U-M College of Engineering, and focused on the National Science Foundation’s National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NSF NPACI) that deployed HPC resources for advanced computing on a national scale and championed the Beowulf concept of clusters. U-M was also a host site for NPACI-funded services, including the Center for Advanced Computing of HPC, which later became ARC. 

He has designed increasingly complex scheduling, deployment, and accounting systems to provide HPC solutions for users, principal investigators, and the University of Michigan. He has also worked as an HPC systems administrator on batch compute systems, and on AIX, SGI, and Linux systems supporting HPC clusters.

He holds a degree from the University of Michigan in computer science (1998). 

Matt enjoys hacking on new technology, is an occasional photographer, and optimistic runner.