Jeffrey Salmond
Co-director and Principal Solutions Architect
Jeffrey has a background in theoretical physics and completed an MPhil in Scientific Computing in 2012 at the Unveristy of Cambridge. He then went on to lead the Research Software Engineering team within the University of Cambridge's Research Computing Services, helping the university's researchers and industrial partners produce scientific software and machine learning solutions to make better use of the university's supercomputers, Wilkes2 and Peta4. He is the programming wizard of Cambridge Supercomputing and although we've never found a piece of code he couldn't conquer, he definitely has his favourites: OpenMP, MPI, python, Fortran, CUDA, C/C++, Julia and OpenStack.
Selected publications and talks:
MVAPICH User Group Meeting (Aug 2019): MVAPICH2 at Cambridge
Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning (April 2019)
University of Cambridge RSE Seminar Series (Jan 2019): Supercomputing at the University of Cambridge
Performance of HPC Benchmarks across UK National HPC services (June 2018)
Dr Elise Croft
Co-director and Mathematical Models Specialist
Elise has an MPhil in Scientific Computing (2011) and PhD in Physics (2017) from the University of Cambridge and has a background in both mathematics and theoretical physics. Her dissertation focussed on developing quick-to-solve mathematical models that made use of parallel computing for multimaterial CFD simulations. Before forming Cambridge Supercomputing she was teaching mathematics and computer science so understands how to communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences. Although she has a wealth of experience in improving codes, her favourite thing to do is sit down with some equations. We think this gives her a unique perspective in understanding our clients' problems at a fundamental level.
