Biography
Frank Würthwein is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He holds faculty appointments at UC San Diego in the Physics Department and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1995, he held appointments at Caltech, MIT and Fermi National Laboratory, before joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2003. His research focuses on globally distributed compute and data systems (e.g., OSG, NRP, OSDF), experimental particle physics and distributed high-throughput computing. As an experimentalist, he is interested in instrumentation and data analysis. In the last couple decades, this meant developing, deploying and operating worldwide distributed computing systems that support processing and analysis of large data volumes. In 2010, "large" data volumes were measured in Petabytes. By 2030, they are expected to grow to Exabytes.
