Prabhat leads the NERSC Data and Analytics Services Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His main research interests include Big Data analytics, scientific data management, parallel I/O, HPC, and scientific visualization. He is also interested in atmospheric science and climate change. Quincey Koziol is the director of core software development and HPC at The HDF Group, where he leads the HDF5 software project. His research interests include HPC, scientific data storage, and software engineering and management.
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