Management
Organization
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing reports to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation.
Management
Richard Knepper
Director
Rich is the Director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, leading the planning and operations of the center, with a focus on meeting the evolving needs of Cornell researchers and the broader scientific community. Rich joined CAC in 2017 as Deputy Director, coming from Indiana University, where he previously led the Campus Bridging and Research Infrastructure team. Rich earned his PhD in Informatics at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Rich’s research interests include the establishment and governance of cyberinfrastructure organizations, high performance and cloud computing, application containerization, and ethnography of virtual organizations.
Hart Hancock
Associate Director, Systems & Operations
Hart and the systems team architect, deploy and support CAC high-performance computing clusters and Cornell’s on-demand cloud computing services, Red Cloud and Red Cloud Secure. His responsibilities include supporting Cornell faculty and researchers, federal agency awards and Partner Program projects. His expertise includes clustered, high performance and large capacity storage systems, design and architecture of HPC systems, data center networking and security, monitoring and configuration management tools.
He has participated in instrumentation and systems engineering projects for NASA, US Department of Energy, University of California Observatories, Keck Observatory, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Susan Mehringer
Associate Director, Consulting
Susan leads a team of professionals that provide programming, code improvement, cloud application enablement, web, database, and education and outreach consulting services. Her team is also responsible for providing training to our clients and the national HPC community. Susan was an early proponent of online learning and is an invited speaker on that topic and other advanced information technologies.
Paul Redfern
Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships
Paul manages campus and strategic relations for the Center, as well as Web communications, media relations, proposals, and the Partner Program. He is one of the authors of a national report on cloud computing. Previously, Paul held management positions in the real-time simulation industry, working on projects for NASA, the commercial airlines, and the healthcare industry. Prior to that, he provided communications and new business consulting to IBM, Chicago Pneumatic, and others businesses. Paul’s postgraduate studies were at Syracuse University. He may be reached at 607-227-1865 or by
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