Ken Schumacher

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Ken Schumacher is a 35 year computing professional who has spent the last 17 years at Fermi National Accelerator Lab. He currently helps support several HPC compute clusters, monitoring and reporting resource usage against allocations. Previously he worked with teams supporting lab wide Unix systems, farm and grid systems as well as data storage systems (currently over 300 PB of tape).

Linked Presentation: 
HPC Resource Accounting: Progress Against Allocation—Lessons Learned