RCE 43: PADB

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Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres Ashley Pittman of the padb (http://padb.pittman.org.uk) project, a 'Job Inspection Tool' for parallel computing.

Ashley Pittman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) is the main developer of padb and has been leading the project since it started in 2003.  He has worked in HPC since he was an undergraduate and considers himself unusual in being a computer scientist in a field dominated by physicists and chemists.  His experience is primarily in networking and MPI, which has afforded him access to a wide variety of clusters from the small to the very large.  His professional interests include novel approaches to parallel algorithms and research into programming paradigms.

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