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Registration: 05.09.2022

Vadim Malkin

Portfolio

Establishment of High Performance Section at Weizmann Institute

I established HPC Section at Weizmann Institute of Science which provides HPC services to about 1300 users from more than 150 research labs. Our infrastructure based on Infiniband network, IBM and Dell storage subsystems, HPC scheduler and various auxiliary ecosystem services. My role in this project was work with IBM, Dell, EMC, HPE and other companies to prepare system design, hire personnel, perform day to day section management and solve complex issues with different scientific applications.

The AWS WIS Platform

I initiated the idea of extending the High Performance Computing capabilities to external public clouds: AWS and Azure. We developed tight integration between AWS and WIS internal systems, like CRM, ESB, ERP in purpose to provide seamless as possible user experience in case of AWS workloads from WIS networks. Design and deployment including strict Information Security policies and tight integration with CSPM solution, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, etc. Scientific application runs using customized AWS Batch, Sagemaker and other solutions like S3, EC2, AWS Service Catalog.

Design and deployment of Artificial Intelligence Center Infra.

AI Center management contact me to assist with Infrastructure establishment of new AI center at Weizmann Institute of Science. This project which worth significant amount of money has been successfully deployed and serve these days hundreds of users running various AI simulation (both training and inference). Infrastructure based on top notch AI accelerators, ultra fast network, computation cluster and high performance storage subsystem.

Skills

AI ML/DL tools
HPC expert
InfoSec expert
Infrastructure expert
Linux
People engagement
Problem solver

Work experience

Head of Cloud & HPC Section
since 12.2018 - Till the present day |Weizmann Institute of Science
HPC, AI, ML/DL
Establishment of new Cloud and HPC Section from scratch.
Linux team leader
12.2012 - 11.2018 |Weizmann Institute of Science
Linux, Web, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, Nginx
Establishment of Linux team in Servers section. Team was in charge of more than 800 web sites infrastructure design and maintenance. We also addressed various issues raised by WIS scientists
HPC system administrator
09.2010 - 11.2012 |Weizmann Institute of Science
Linux, HPC, Web
scientists assistance with HPC infrastructure
IT manager
11.2007 - 08.2010 |Geomage
Linux, VMware
Geomage provides cutting-edge seismic processing solutions to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. I was in charge of the design, deployment, and delivery of high availability production IT infrastructure based on CPU/GPU HPC clusters (more than 200 physical servers), various storage systems in live production environment. I was hands-on as well as managing oriented of IT team and outsourced projects. • Manage all aspects of the Geomage IT in Israel and abroad located in different Data Centers. • Design and deployment of QA , R&D and production environments • Drove changes and improved the company’s production environment. Perform capacity planning for development and QA. Assist QA and R&D teams with new technologies evaluation. • Architecture design and implementation of HPC clusters include load and benchmarks tests. • Researched new technologies. Finding creative solutions for problems and production/R&D requests. • Practical experience in: Linux (Redhat, CentOS, SUSE), Networking, Bash scripting, Perl, XML, integrating external libraries, VMware deployment, blades servers.

Educational background

Technology management (Masters Degree)
2017 - 2019
Holon Institute of Technology
Electronics engineering (Bachelor’s Degree)
2002 - 2006
Tel Aviv Afeka college

Languages

RussianNativeHebrewNativeEnglishProficient