Robert Latham, as a Research Software Developer at Argonne

National Laboratory, strives to make scientific applications use I/O more

efficiently. After earning his BS (1999) and MS (2000) in Computer Engineering

at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), he worked at Paralogic, Inc., a Linux

cluster start-up.  His work with cluster software including MPI implementations

and parallel file systems soon led him to Argonne.  His research focus has been

on high performance IO for scientific applications and IO metrics.  He has

worked on the ROMIO MPI-IO implementation, the parallel file systems PVFS (v1

and v2), Parallel NetCDF, and Mochi I/O services.