Matt Wallis is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Specialist who has joined Systemethix to support their growing base of HPC customers.

 

Matt has been working in IT for more than 30 years, with 20+ of those being in HPC.

Starting with Windows support during the transition from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, Desktop Publishing on Macs, working with Novel Netware, Windows NT and Linux. In the late 90’s he moved into working for ISPs, and spent a lot of time troubleshooting networking and the various internet protocols,

 

After a stint at a Trinity College, and Open Source consulting firm Cybersource, Matt got a job at RMIT University supporting their Solaris/IRIX environments for engineering. When the School of Aerospace purchased a small number of Sun V20z for compute, Matt was tasked with turning them into a cluster. After consulting with the folks at the Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing (VPAC) he got the cluster up and running, and when VPAC later came looking for people to add to the team, he was happy to apply.

 

After 7 years as a Systems Administrator at VPAC, deploying and supporting HPC Systems, Matt took a leap into the vendor space, working for IBM Research as a High-Performance Storage specialist, DDN Storage as a pre-sales engineer, Dell Technologies as a presales engineer for HPC, and Datacore as a HPC Storage Technical Account Manager.

 

Storage, from his experience is the most challenging part of HPC and addressing that challenge has been the driver behind him working for different HPC storage companies over the years. The challenges of storing and accessing data at scale and the fact that HPC is often associated with leading edge research, Matt finds is the most rewarding part of his work.

 

He looks forward to bringing his passion for the HPC space to Systemethix and its customers.