Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.
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Show Notes:
- LLNL’s Website
- LLNL on GitHub
- Spack
- Exascale
- NumFOCUS
- Livermore Computing
- DOE National Laboratories
- ASC program
- LDRD
- SBIR
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07/12/17 • 63 min
Request For Commits - Open source and supercomputers (Spack)
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Todd, you work for the government... Tell us what your actual job is.
Todd Gamblin:Okay, so I work for a specific part of government... I work for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - it's part of the department of energy. I'm a computer scientist, that's my job title (we don't really have official job titles here). Effectively, I'm a researcher, I'm a project lead, and I'm also a developer. I work on
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