Background
Chris Fuson is the Group Leader for the User Assistance team at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) located at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The NCCS User Assistance provides technical support and promotes effective use of NCCS HPC resources through direct support, training, documentation, advocacy, communication, and usability tools/policies.
Chris is also the Program Manager for the National Climate-Computing Research Center (NCRC). The NCRC is a partnership between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide high performance computing (HPC) services and climate modeling support. The NCRC team has delivered and supports several HPC systems and infrastructure that have allowed the advancement of models and improved understanding of climate variability.
Education
Awards
2020 — UT-Battelle Awards Night, “Mission Support”
2019 — UT-Battelle Awards Night, “Mission Support”
2019 — UT-Battelle Significant Event Award, “Acceptance Testing of the Summit Supercomputer”
2015 — Cray User Group Best Paper Award, "Use of Continuous Integration Tools for Application Performance Monitoring"
2015 — UT-Battelle Significant Event Award, "Summit Supercomputer Acquisition Project"
Publications
Highlights
OLCF Reaches New Heights with Andes Cluster
OLCF Researchers, Staff, Recognized on UT-Battelle Awards Night
ORNL Staff Plug into Tech Day
OLCF Readies Users for Summit
