Makia Minich

Makia Minich has over 16 years of experience in the high-performance computing world, Makia has designed, integrated, deployed, and run some of the largest computation and storage systems in the world. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he deployed the first production Linux computational clusters, provided development systems for the first versions of Lustre, and packaged and deployed early versions of Infiniband as well as the OpenFabrics software (OFED).

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Makia continued this work by deploying the first OpenFabrics Infiniband stack on the Cray XT3 and helping deploy their first center-wide Lustre filesystem. At Sun Microsystems, Makia designed Sun’s HPC Software Stack for Linux and helped deploy large-scale HPC systems in the field. Using that expertise, Makia moved to ClusterStor–a start-up that was acquired by Xyratex and then acquired by Seagate–where Makia designed a method for reliably and repeatedly deploying Lustre storage systems using Xyratex enclosures. Later called ClusterStor, these storage systems have been installed worldwide including some of the largest and fastest storage systems in the world.