James took up his post in January 2012 and is based at the University of Glamorgan. Before joining HPC Wales, James was Condor Project Manager and Application Support Engineer in the Advanced Research Computing centre at Cardiff University (ARCCA)..
James took up his post in January 2012 and is based at the University of Glamorgan. Before joining HPC Wales, James was Condor Project Manager and Application Support Engineer in the Advanced Research Computing centre at Cardiff University (ARCCA) and, prior to that, Condor Project Manager for Cardiff University’s Information Services.
During his time in ARCCA, James was responsible for growing and creating the largest academic condor pool in the UK with over 8,000 processor cores, as well as helping users with a range of requests on both the Condor and Merlin systems, Merlin being a 2048 core High Performance Computer. For the last 2 years of his time in ARCCA, he was also responsible for developing and organising the ARCCA training programme.
James obtained his BSc in Computer Science in 2001, and his PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Visualisation and Grid Computing in 2005, both from the University of Hull.
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