Pradeep Kumar Si
Suliapada
Summary
Senior Analyst with extensive experience at Merck, specializing in HPC cluster management and cloud integration. Demonstrated success in establishing hybrid solutions and optimizing performance through job scheduling and automation. Strong problem-solving skills and expertise in Linux environments contribute to successful project outcomes and improved user satisfaction.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Analysist
Merck
Bangalore
03.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Merck HPC is a Hybrid HPC environment for On-premises and AWS cloud Cluster. Job scheduler SLURM is use with a common slurm-database for both the cluster. The SUSE15 and RHEL-7.8 are used in the On-premises and AWS Cloud Parallel Cluster environment respectively.
- Manage HPC account and on-boarding new HPC user.
- Installation, configuration and module creation of new applications.
- Updating apps version as per the user's requirements.
- Manage license for all commercial application.
- Compilation, porting, testing and benchmarking for opensource software.
- Configure and manage GUI applications.
- Manage Slurm as a scheduler.
- Creating of automation shell script if needed.
- Scheduled OS Patching for mitigating vulnerability.
- Monitoring HPC cluster using Grafana and icinga.
- Utilization report creation for GPUs and CPUs.
- Handling incidents and requests of Level 3 tickets.
- Merck HPC is a Hybrid HPC environment for On-premises and AWS cloud Cluster. Job scheduler SLURM is use with a common slurm-database for both the cluster. The SUSE15 and RHEL-7.8 are used in the On-premises and AWS Cloud Parallel Cluster environment respectively.
- Achievement: Setup Hybrid HPC solution, parallel Cluster setup on AWS.
HPC System Architecture
TCS LTD
Bangalore
09.2016 - 02.2022
- Integration of new hardware's like adding compute nodes on the hpc cluster.
- LINPAC benchmarking for new hardware.
- Provisioning login node for interactive session.
- On-boarding of new HPC user.
- Installation, configuration and module creation of new applications.
- Installing compiler, libraries, dependencies packages, module creation for interactive node.
- Updating apps version in HPC cluster as per the user's requirements.
- Managing MYHAL job submission GUI portal.
- Manage PBSPro as a job scheduler.
- Creating automation shell script for reducing manual effort and time.
- Configure JOB submission portal for new version of applications.
- Scheduled OS Patching for mitigating vulnerability.
- Compilation of upgraded opensource software's.
- Managing license for all commercial software.
- Providing access for interactive node and application to user.
- Monitor resources utilization and manage fair-share policy.
- Monitor luster file system.
- Manage storage quota of users as per their requirement.
- Handling incidents and requests of Level 3 tickets.
- Configure & manage Gnome/KDE desktop in NiceDCV/Exceed on Demand.
- Monitor Production server in AWS cloud.
- Achievement: Part of the core team that executed a large-scale data center migration.
Sr. System Admin
CMC LTD
New Delhi
06.2007 - 09.2015
- Actively worked as team member.
- Complete HPC Hardware mounting - Rack mounting, Servers, Storage and cabling.
- Installation of System software - Operating System - RHEL, Cluster Software - PHPC, Compiler -PGI/Intel, job scheduler - Pbs-Pro, MPI - OpenMPI and MPICH.
- Successfully run benchmark using Linpack for both CPU & GPU.
- Provided zero down time & energy efficient feature.
- Application testing and benchmarking.
- Installation of application, dependencies, libraries and compilers.
- Achievement: zero down time & provide energy efficient feature.
Project Associate
CAS IIT Delhi
Delhi
08.2005 - 05.2007
- Technical Support to Scientists & research scholar at CAS, IITD for system libraries, compilation & configuration HPC applications, job scheduling, MPI Implementation & tuning and Administration & Monitoring the HPC system.
- Worked as Team Leader for the turnkey project starting from supply of HPC Hardware equipment's, mounting in racks, Operating system installation, Rocks cluster, Compiler Installation-PGI/Intel, Sun Grid Engine job scheduler, MPI installation (OpenMPI, MPICH) and program testing in parallel environment.
- Also successfully worked on Porting/Installation user Applications and libraries (WRF, WRF-CHEM, CAM, Matlab, Grads, NCL, NETCDF, HDF5, FORTRAN) and other many weathers prediction software.
Education
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATION (MCA) - Computer And Information Sciences
Utkal University
Bhubaneswar Odisha01.2004
Skills
- Linux (RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu)
- AIX
- Windows families
- gcc
- Intel
- Pgi compiler
- OpenMPI
- Intel MPI
- mpich
- MVAPICH
- PHPC
- rocks
- Moab suit
- Sun Grid Engine
- aws parallel cluster
- pbspro
- lsf
- Moab Workload Manager
- Torque
- Lustre
- GPFS
- NFS
- Gluster
- ganglia
- Nagios
- Grafana
- NetCDF
- HDF5
- MKL
- BLAS
- LAPACK
- cuda
- Weather model - WRF
- Mom
- Cam
- ROMS
- RegCM
- cesm
- Mechanical model - ANSYS
- Fluent
- cfx
- Dyna
- Abaqus
- Life science - Gromacs
- NAMD
- Quantum Espresso
- VASP
- Altair simulation
- Material Studio
- Schrodinger
- Display solution - Spartan
- Turbomole
- Gaussian
- Mathematical - Mathematica
- MATLAB
- Anaconda, Mamba
- EasyBuild/Spack
- PostgreSQL
- mysql
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- NetApp
- DDN
- Tivoli
- Bacula
- LINPAC benchmark
- ior
- InfiniBand
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- aws
- Altair
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Docker
- shell scripts
- Perl
- Python
- Lenovo
- HPE
- Fujitsu
- Dell
- ServiceNow
- SLURM scheduling
- HPC cluster management
- Cloud computing
- Linux operating systems
- Application installation
- System integration
- Server optimization
- Job scheduling methodologies
- Benchmarking performance
- Technical documentation
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
- Incident management
- User training
- Maintenance & repair
- Project planning
- Time management
- Flexible and adaptable
- Calm under pressure
- Customer service
- Computer skills
- Quality assurance
Disclaimer
I hereby certify that all the information provided above is to the best of my knowledge and any appointment given based on that can be revoked or terminated at any time in future.
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Oriya
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mr. Chandra Kanta Si
- Date of Birth: 05/05/77
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Sr. Analysist
Merck
03.2022 - Current
HPC System Architecture
TCS LTD
09.2016 - 02.2022
Sr. System Admin
CMC LTD
06.2007 - 09.2015
Project Associate
CAS IIT Delhi
08.2005 - 05.2007
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATION (MCA) - Computer And Information Sciences
Utkal University
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