Brett M. Bode is an Assistant Director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the New Frontiers Initiative. Brett is the Deputy Project Director for the Delta and DeltaAI Projects and the Deputy Project Director for the Blue Waters project. These projects provide leading edge computing and data capabilities to scientists around the country. Prior to joining NCSA in 2008 Brett spent nearly ten years as a scientist with the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University researching ways to deliver better performance to scientific applications from HPC cluster systems. Brett holds a BS in chemistry and physics from Illinois State University and a PhD in physical chemistry from Iowa State University.

• GAMESS: Long-time user and developer. Past contributions have included the 2nd derivative integral code and a complete rewrite of the Effective Core Potential code. Current projects focus on issues related to high-end parallel scalability and fault tolerance.

• MacMolPlt: Developer of a cross-platform program designed to visualize the output of computational chemistry applications to aid in the interpretation of program results and prepare input for further computations. Current research focused on simplifying the use of the more unique methods in the GAMESS program including Effective Fragment and Fragment Molecular Orbital methods.

• Code Development Skills: Experienced in the development of serial and parallel applications using threaded and distributed memory (MPI, PThreads, sockets, etc) approaches in C, C++ and Fortran.

• System Administration: Experienced in the system administration and user management on a variety of operating systems including Mac OS X, Tru64 Unix, IBM AIX, and many flavors of Linux. This has included the administration of a variety of small to large-sized parallel clusters utilizing a variety of interconnects from Ethernet to InfiniBand to Blue Waters.