Abstract: As data volumes have increased over the past few years, it has become challenging for data scientists and researchers to analyze and extract insights from large datasets. One of the main challenges with existing software is the ability to achieve high performance, portability, and programmability across different platforms. At Voltron Data, we are building a unified computing infrastructure on top of the Apache Arrow ecosystem, that will allow developers in any domain to write code in multiple programming languages used in data science and scale their applications from personal computers to large compute clusters. In this presentation, we will talk about how we are integrating data analytics components and tools with existing open-source offerings in an effort to connect data producers to data consumers.
Biography: Fernanda is a Director of Developer Relations at Voltron Data specializing in data science and high-performance computing (HPC). She began her HPC career in graduate school, developing molecular dynamics applications and as an administrator of the Florida Laboratory for Materials Engineering Simulation (FLAMES) at the University of Florida. Following graduate school, she was HPC manager at an agricultural genomics company, Genus Plc. and moved to Oak Ridge National Lab’s Leadership Computing Facility, OLCF. While there she was the training coordinator for systems in the facility including Jaguar, Titan, and Summit, the latter two became #1 GPU-based supercomputers in the Top500, where she created the GPU Hackathon series. She was also part of the CORAL project in the programming environment team that selected Summit as the center's next supercomputer. She became an HPC Data Scientist within the Biomedical Sciences,
Engineering, and Computing group (BSEC) working on Pilot 3 of the CANDLE (Cancer Moonshot) project and was co-PI of Kokkos C++ library funded by Exascale Computing Project (ECP). After ORNL, Fernanda was a Developer Advocate and Alliance Manager for HPC + AI at NVIDIA where she helped to build an ecosystem to support GPU developers and users in the life sciences. More recently she helped support healthcare related efforts during COVID as a Sr Scientific Consultant at BioTeam and now at Voltron Data she helps build better tools for data scientists.
