I have had a pretty good career so far but like most techies I generally toil in obscurity. Here are some of the projects that I worked on that did get some external visibility.
Blue Gene/L was an IBM designed supercomputer that took first place on the TOP500 list in November 2004 and held it until June 2008 when it was displaced by the IBM Roadrunner system. BlueGene first broke into the TOP 500 list at #4 with a four rack system that we used for our early development. The first place system was a 16 rack system which eventually grew to a 64 rack system. Our customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/) eventually expanded it even further.
During my time on the project (2002 to 2006) I worked on everything from low-level debugging of the compute node kernel to the mpirun program, which was what end users used to submit jobs to the machine. When I started on the project hardware was a twinkle in somebody's eye ... by the time I left it was living in a confidential building at a national laboratory and simulating the effects of aging on the nuclear stockpile. (It is better to simulate bombs blowing up than to actually try it.)
Here are some Blue Gene/L publications that I contributed to:
The Cell BE was basically a supercomputer on a chip designed for use in the Sony PlayStation 3 but also used in IBM Blade servers. I came to the project after hardware was becoming available but before IBM had decided to try to build a full scale supercomputer from individual blades. My first major project was to led a small team that designed and implemented an FFT library that became part of the SDK. After that work I hit the road for a while doing support for our business partners, teaching classes on how to program and optimize code for the chip, and working directly with end customers on their projects.
Here are some Cell related publications that I contributed to: