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Meet Your Mentor!
We sat down with our 2024 Anvil REU Mentors to discuss their role at RCAC, what their REU students will be working on, and much, much more. Keep reading below to learn more about your mentor.
Amiya Maji
Please introduce yourself:
My name is Amiya Maji, and I am a Lead Computational Scientist at Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University. My research background is in Software Reliability and Security. My recent accolades include being a recipient of the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship (2022) and the Trusted CI Fellowship (2021).
What do you do?
Within RCAC, I lead scientific application deployment, build automation, and software testing on various HPC clusters, including Anvil. I am also a co-PI for the project titled “CCRI: ENS: Collaborative Research: Open Computer System Usage Repository and Analytics Engine,” funded by the NSF. Aside from that, I enjoy mentoring students and teaching HPC to researchers around campus.
What value does the REU program provide for students?
The Anvil REU program is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about HPC and get behind-the-scenes access to large-scale computing resources such as Anvil. They will get experience in developing scientific applications and tools, which will not only improve their skills but also enrich the national HPC ecosystem.
What will your REU students be working on specifically?
The REU students will be working on using agile technologies (e.g., Jenkins/Gitlab) to deploy scientific applications on Anvil. We will use the Spack package manager to automate software deployment tasks. Apart from CI/CD techniques, the students will also learn valuable lessons about the complexity of large scientific applications, software build systems, and software testing.
