Meet our new Sysadmin and HPC specialist
26 May 2022
Several new colleagues have joined EPCC in the past six months. Here we meet Suyash Janoriya, a new Systems Administrator and HPC specialist at EPCC.
I am from India, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, which is a central state with a mixed culture of all the different flavours.
This is my first time in Edinburgh and I have started to like the surprising weather! People here are very helpful and kind. I like their enthusiasm, and the way I was welcomed and greeted by one and all.
I previously worked with AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd and Novartis Pharma India Pvt Ltd, both located in India.
Joining EPCC was a big career move, and one of the wisest decisions. I have got a chance to work with the UK’s most powerful supercomputer ARCHER2 and other very interesting supercomputers which are one of a kind like Tursa, Tesseract, NextGenIO and Cirrus.
I really appreciate the team and working culture here. All the cutting-edge technology in our day-to-day activities have given me a leap in the field of recent HPC developments and changes.
My roles and responsibilities include the HPC System team’s day-to-day operations as well as working on different projects at EPCC.
Currently I am working on developing and expanding the automation of standard service operation requests such as access automation, password resets and account creations so they are completed without human interaction.
The team has already done a lot of work on making these changes for ARCHER2, and expanding the rollout of automated service operation to our other services allows the HPC Systems team to focus on supporting more complex queries and providing a better service to our customers.
I am also involved in data science and computing support, getting a chance to work with the National Safe Haven service and Hydra are one-of-a-kind experiences. I am responsible for addressing user queries, problems, and platform support.
Being an HPC professional there is a lot to learn and upskill myself to deliver the best industrial standard.
I look forward to further exploring the work of supercomputers.
HPC services at EPCC
Read about the HPC services hosted at our Advanced Computing Facility:
www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/high-performance-computing-services
Photo shows Suyash with Tursa, an Extreme Scaling GPU-based DiRAC system hosted by EPCC’s Advanced Computing Facility.
