Leader in research cyberinfrastructure with almost 20 years of experience enabling science. Continuous history of supporting researchers across several disciplines, funding agencies, and organizations using a variety of technologies. Engages stakeholders and seeks out diverse viewpoints to create optimal solutions. Open-source contributor at both the code and leadership levels.
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| Year | Degree |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Doctor of Philosophy: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA Dissertation: Fast Measurements of Two-Point Statistics in Simulations of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence Advisor: Professor Michael L. Norman |
| 2009 | Candidate of Philosophy: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2006 | Master of Science: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Science: Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA magna cum laude Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence, 2004 |
| 2002 | Associate of Arts: Transfer Studies San Diego Mesa College San Diego, CA with honors |
| Dates | Role and Organization |
|---|---|
| 2023-10 – Current | Chief Technology Officer San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2020-05 – 2023-09 | Principal Systems Integration Engineer Research IT University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2016-09 - 2020-05 | Globus Professional Services Manager Globus University Of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| 2012-06 - 2016-09 | HPC Systems Manager San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 2010-01 - 2012-06 | HPC Systems Engineer San Diego Supercomputer Center University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| 1999-02 - 2014-12 | IT Manager Sterling Corporate Custom Elevator Interiors National City, CA |
| 2005-01 - 2010-01 | Graduate Student Researcher Department of Physics University Of California San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| Dates | Role and Organization |
|---|---|
| 2023-01 – Current | Security Representative Project Jupyter Software Steering Council |
| 2022-01 – Current | Member InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board |
| 2020-01 – Current | President Herschel Condominiums Association La Jolla, CA |
| 2021-01 – 2021-12 | Fellow Trusted CI Fellows Program |
| 2016-10 – 2018-04 | Secretary Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. |
Making Common Fund data more findable: catalyzing a data ecosystem
Charbonneau, A. L., Brady, A., Czajkowski, K., Aluvathingal, J., Canchi, S., Carter, R., Chard, K., Clarke, D. J. B., Crabtree, J., Creasy, H. H., D’Arcy, M., Felix, V., Giglio, M., Gingrich, A., Harris, R. M., Hodges, T. K., Ifeonu, O., Jeon, M., Kropiwnicki, E., Lim, M. C. W., Liming, R. L., Lumian, J., Mahurkar, A. A., Mandal, M., Munro, J. B., Nadendla, S., Richter, R., Romano, C., Rocca-Serra, P., Schor, M., Schuler, R. E., Tangmunarunkit, H., Waldrop, A., Williams, C., Word, K., Sansone, S., Ma’ayan, A., Wagner, R., Foster, I., Kesselman, C., Brown, C. T., White, O.
GigaScience, 11, giac105 (2022) doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac105
Coordinating an operational data distribution network for CMIP6 data
Petrie, R., Denvil, S., Ames, S., Levavasseur, G., Fiore, S., Allen, C., Antonio, F., Berger, K., Bretonni’ere, P.-A., Cinquini, L., Dart, E., Dwarakanath, P., Druken, K., Evans, B., Franchist ́eguy, L., Gardoll, S., Gerbier, E., Greenslade, M., Hassell, D., Iwi, A., Juckes, M., Kindermann, S., Lacinski, L., Mirto, M., Nasser, A. B., Nassisi, P., Nienhouse, E., Nikonov, S., Nuzzo, A., Richards, C., Ridzwan, S., Rixen, M., Serradell, K., Snow, K., Stephens, A., Stockhause, M., Vahlenkamp, H., Wagner, R.
Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 629–644 (2021) doi:10.5194/gmd-14-629-2021
ENZO: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics (Version 2.6)
Brummel-Smith, C., Bryan, G., Butsky, I., Corlies, L., Emerick, A., Forbes, J., Fujimoto, Y., Goldbaum, N., Grete, P., Hummels, C., Kim, J., Koh, D., Li, M., Li, Y., Li, X., OShea, B., Peeples, M., Regan, J., Salem, M., Schmidt, W., Simpson, C., Smith, B., Tumlinson, J., Turk, M., Wise, J., Abel, T., Bordner, J., Cen, R., Collins, D., Crosby, B., Edelmann, P., Hahn, O., Harkness, R., Harper-Clark, E., Kong, S., Kritsuk, A., Kuhlen, M., Larrue, J., Lee, E., Meece, G., Norman, M., Oishi, J., Paschos, P., Peruta, C., Razoumov, A., Reynolds, D., Silvia, D., Skillman, S., Skory, S., So, G., Tasker, E., Wagner, R., Wang, P., Xu, H., Zhao, F.
JOSS, 4, 1636 (2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01636
Energy Cascade and Scaling in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
JFM, 729, R1 (2013) doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.342
Flux Correlations in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Wagner, R., Falkovich, G., Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L.
JFM, 713, 482 (2012) doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.470
Profiles of Dark Matter Velocity Anisotropy in Simulated Clusters
Lemze, D., Wagner, R., Rephaeli, Y., Sadeh, S., Norman, M. L., Barkana, R., Broadhurst, T., Postman, M., Ford, H.
ApJ, 752, 141 (2012) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/141
Quantifying the Collisionless Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxies in A1689
Lemze, D., Rephaeli, Y., Barkana, R., Broadhurst, T., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
ApJ, 728, 40 (2011) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/40
On the Density Distribution in Star-forming Interstellar Clouds
Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L., Wagner, R.
ApJL, 727, L20 (2011) doi:10.1088/2041-8205/727/1/L20
Turbulent Motions and Shocks Waves in Galaxy Clusters simulated with AMR
Vazza, F., Brunetti, G., Kritsuk, A., Wagner, R., Gheller, C., Norman, M.
A\&A, 504, 33 (2009) doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912535
The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P., Wagner, R.
ApJ, 665, 416 (2007) doi:10.1086/519443
The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project: I. Confusion and the WHIM in Upcoming Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Surveys
Hallman, E. J. , O’Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., Norman, M. L., Harkness, R., Wagner, R.
ApJ, 671, 27 (2007) doi:10.1086/522912
Cheap and FAIR: Building a Serverless Research Data Repository
Zonca, A., Wagner, R.
Gateways 2024 (2024) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13887292
Cheap and FAIR: A Serverless Research Data Repository for the Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment
Zonca, A., Wagner, R., Borrill, J.
PEARC ‘24: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing, 61, 1-4 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.367055
Active Research Data Management with the Django Globus Portal Framework
Saint, N., Chard, R., Vescovi, R., Pruyne, J., Blaiszik, B., Ananthakrishnan, R., Papka, M., Wagner, R., Chard, K., Foster, I.
PEARC ‘23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, 1, 43 (2023) doi:10.1145/3569951.3593597
An Open Ecosystem for Pervasive Use of Persistent Identifiers
Ananthakrishnan, R., Chard, K., D’Arcy, M., Kesselman, C., Foster, I., McCollam, B., Pruyne, J., Rocca-Serra, P., Schuler, R., Wagner, R.
PEARC ‘20, 1, 99 (2020) doi:10.1145/3311790.3396660
Petrel: A Programmatically Accessible Research Data Service
Allcock, W. E., Allen, B. S., Ananthakrishnan, R., Blaiszik, B., Chard, K., Chard, R., Foster, I., Lacinski, L., Papka, M. E., Wagner, R.
PEARC ‘19, 49, 1 (2019) doi:10.1145/3332186.3332241
Comet: Tales from the long tail: Two years in and 10,000 users later
Strande, S. M., Cai, H., Cooper, T., Flammer, K., Irving, C., von Laszewski, G., Majumdar, A., Mishin, D., Papadopoulos, P., Pfeiffer, W., Sinkovits, R. S., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R., Wang, F., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Wolter, N., Norman, M. L.
PEARC17, 38, 1 (2017) doi:10.1145/3093338.3093383
COSMIC2: A science gateway for cryo-electron microscopy structure determination
Cianfrocco, M. A., Wong-Barnum, M., Youn, C., Wagner, R., Leschziner, A.
PEARC17, 22, 1 (2017) doi:10.1145/3093338.3093390
User Managed Virtual Clusters in Comet
Wagner, R., Papadopoulos, P., Mishin, D., Cooper, T., Tatineni, M., von Laszewski, G., Wang, F.
XSEDE ‘16, (2016) doi:10.1145/2949550.2949555
Scaling in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
ASP Conference Series, 498, 16 (2015) URL
Storage utilization in the long tail of science
Lockwood, G. K., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R.
XSEDE ‘15, 32, 1 (2015) doi:10.1145/2792745.2792777
Opportunistic Resource Usage in CMS
Kreuzer, P., Hufnagel, D., Dykstra, D., Gutsche, O., Tadel, M., Sfiligoi, I., Letts, J., Würthwein, F., McCrea, A., Bockelman, B., Fajardo, E., Linares, L., Wagner, R., Konstantinov, P., Blumenfeld, B., Bradley, D., The CMS Collaboration
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 513, 6 (2014) doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062028
Gateways to Discovery: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science
Moore, R. L., Baru, C., Baxter, D., Fox, G. C., Majumdar, A., Papadopoulos, P., Pfeiffer, W., Sinkovits, R. S., Strande, S., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Norman, M. L.
XSEDE ‘14, 39, 1 (2014) doi:10.1145/2616498.2616540
SR-IOV: Performance Benefits for Virtualized Interconnects
Lockwood, G. K., Tatineni, M., Wagner, R.
XSEDE ‘14, 47, 1 (2014) doi:10.1145/2616498.2616537
Using Gordon to accelerate LHC science
Wagner, R., Tatineni, M., Hocks, E., Yoshimoto, K., Sakai, S., Norman, M. L., Bockelman, B., Sfiligoi, I., Tadel, M., Letts, J., Würthwein, F., Bauerdick, L. A.
XSEDE ‘13, 59, 1 (2013) doi:10.1145/2484762.2484834
Hadoop deployment and performance on Gordon data intensive supercomputer
Tatineni, M., Greenberg, J., Wagner, R., Hocks, E., Irving, C.
XSEDE ‘13, 45, 1 (2013) doi:10.1145/2484762.2484831
Gordon: design, performance, and experiences deploying and supporting a data intensive supercomputer
Strande, S. M., Cicotti, P., Sinkovits, R. S., Young, W. S., Wagner, R., Tatineni, M., Hocks, E., Snavely, A., Norman, M.
XSEDE ‘12, 3, 1 (2012) doi:10.1145/2335755.2335789
Exploring large data over wide area networks
Hereld, M., Insley, J. A., Olson, E. C., Papka, M. E., Vishwanath, V., Norman, M. L., Wagner, R.
Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 2011, 133 (2011) doi:10.1109/LDAV.2011.6092335
A RESTful catalog for simulations
Wagner, R.
Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 80, 365 (2009) URL
Scaling Laws and Intermittency in Highly Compressible Turbulence
Kritsuk, A. G., Padoan, P., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
AIP Conference Proceedings, 932, 393 (2007) doi:10.1063/1.2778991
Theory SkyNode
Wagner, R., Norman, M.L.
ASP Conference Series, 382, 289 (2007) URL
Simulating Cosmological Evolution with Enzo
Norman, M. L., Bryan, G. L., Harkness, R., Bordner, J., Reynolds, D., O’Shea, B., Wagner, R.
Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Ed. D. Bader, CRC Press LLC (2007) doi:10.1201/9781584889106
High resolution simulations of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds
Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P.
ASP Conference Series, 359, 84 (2006) URL
These videos are a good summary of my activities outside of astrophysics research and provide a chronology of my professional development.
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Science Gateways Community Gateways 2024 Tutorial: Cheap and FAIR: Building a Serverless Research Data Repository
Travis Talks Tech: Super Compute, AI, Physics, and Motorcycles? - with Rick Wagner
Trusted CI Webinar: Using the Trusted CI Framework to Create the CFDE Cybersecurity Program
JupyterCon 2020: The Streetwise Guide to JupyterHub Security, where I overproduced a tutorial during the COVID lockdown.
Jupyter for Science User Facilities and High Performance Computing: Advancing Jupyter, Kubernetes, and Globus at ALCF
Singularity User Group - SDSC 2019: Managing large-scale cosmology simulations with Parsl and Singularity, with a prescient opening about my eventual return to SDSC.
LUG 2018: What is Globus?, where you can jump to about 18 minutes in for one of the smoother Q&As I’ve delivered.
MVAPICH User Group Meeting 2016: User Managed Virtual Clusters in Comet, where my boss pretended during my introduction that he didn’t know I was about to go to work at U. Chicago.
LUG 2016: Lustre Data Mover: Because File Systems are Rooted Trees and rsync Must Die, with the conclusion: “..if you find something, we are going to fix it, because this is our users’ data, and that’s about the most precious thing that I have. I can lose compute nodes any time, but if I lose your data, I lose your work.” Even if this didn’t take over the storage world by storm, I’m still very proud of this work developing a simple architecture to solve a complex problem.
Dell Sponsored for SDSC: Comet: No Research Barriers
Dell and Intel Sponsored for SDSC: SDSC Big Data
LUG 2015: SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication. This is very likely the most technical talk I’ve ever given, involving manual InfiniBand routing, diving into Linux kernel performance counters, processor SIMD instructions, patching Lustre and ZFS, and driving peak performance from disk to client over two distinct networking technologies with a parallel file system.
insideHPC: SDSC Encourages Young Minds with Gaming at SC14
insideHPC: SDSC Wraps the Long-Tail Death Match at SC13
insideHPC: Rasberry Pi Cluster to Power Gaming Competition in SDSC Booth at SC13
CineGrid International Workshop 2011: Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization – Field Comparison: Density. This video was rendered in stereoscopic 4K and presented in 3D in the Qualcomm Institute Auditorium.
insideHPC: Research Team Does Galactic Volume Difference Rendering at SC11
insideHPC: Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization: Field Comparison: Ionization Fraction
insideHPC: Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization: Field Comparison: Density
insideHPC: Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionizatoin: Field Comparison:Temperature
The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community: Discussion Between SDSC and Argonne About the Challenges of Visualizing Large Data Sets