Kevin A. Huck

Faculty Research Associate
Oregon Advanced Computing Institute
for Science and Society (OACISS),
University of Oregon

• RAPIDS2: SciDAC Institute for Resource and Application Productivity through computation, Information, and Data Science
• OASIS: Organization for the Advancement and Stewardship of Integrated Software

• ECP PROTEAS-TUNE: Programming Toolchain for Emerging Architectures and Systems
• ECP CODAR: Co-Design Center For Online Data Analysis and Reduction at Exascale
• ECP WDMAPP: High-fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
• RAPIDS: SciDAC Institute for Computer Science and Data
• PHYLANX: A Distributed Array Toolkit
• SUPER: SciDAC Institute for Sustained Performance, Energy, and Resilience
• GlassBox: SI2-SSI: Collaborative Research: A Glass Box Approach to Enabling Open, Deep Interactions in the HPC Toolchain
• XPRESS: eXascale PRogramming Environment and System Software
• Eclipse PTP: A Productive and Accessible Development Workbench for HPC Applications Using the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform
• PERI: SciDAC Performance Engineering Research Institute

• The TAU Performance System (TAU GitHub public source mirror)
• Autonomic Performance Environment for eXascale (APEX)
• ZeroSum: Utility for monitoring process, thread, OS and HW resources, including GPU utilization.
• PerfStubs: Profiling API for adding external tool instrumentation support to any project
• TaskStubs: Profiling API for adding external tool instrumentation support to asynchronous tasking runtime projects

• Parallel performance measurement and analysis, particularly in the area of scientific applications on large scale, high performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Runtime introspection and autonomic runtime adaptation for improved performance and power/energy efficiency.
• User space monitoring of HPC simulations to validate user configuration settings and eliminate common misconfigurations.
• Software tool design, library integration, and software engineering.

• Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon, 2009
• M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon, 2004
• B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati, 1995

• University of Oregon as Research Faculty(2012-present)
• ParaTools, Inc. as a Computer Scientist(2011-2012)
• The Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a Senior Researcher / Postdoc in the Computer Sciences Department (2009-2011)
• The University of Oregon as a GTF/GRF in the Computer and Information Science Department (2002-2009)
• The University of Oregon as the summer, 2006 instructor for CIS 399, Introduction to Oracle and SQL (Summer, 2006)
• The University of California as a Visiting Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Summer, 2004)
• Southwest Financial Services (2000-2002)
• Hobsons Digital Media, Inc.(1999-2000)
• LexisNexis (1998-1999)
• IPAT (apparently bought by GovConnect, which was apparently bought by govONE, which is now under the umbrella of First Data Government Solutions) (1997-1998)
• Triple-I Systems (1997-2001)
• International Technegroup, Inc. (1993-1997)

• FAQ on TAU (in progress)