Frank Würthwein

Member of the CalCompute Consortium.

Institution: UC San Diego
Title: Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Role: Runs the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the two shared computing systems that come closest to showing what public AI infrastructure looks like in practice

Background

SDSC’s page names him “Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center”, with faculty posts in UC San Diego Physics and HDSI (Würthwein SDSC leadership).
His research is on “globally distributed compute and data systems”: OSG, NRP and OSDF (Würthwein SDSC leadership).
HDSI also calls him “executive director of the Open Science Grid (OSG)” (Würthwein HDSI profile).
CENIC’s board page lists him as “Science Advisor” (Würthwein CENIC board of directors).
NRP is one of his research platforms. It pools GPUs across “more than 70 institutions”, free to U.S. nonprofit research and education (Würthwein National Research Platform homepage).

SDSC’s page says “Director”, and CENIC’s page already lists him as Science Advisor (Würthwein SDSC leadership; Würthwein CENIC board of directors).