About

Welcome to my Blog, an exposition on all things “Grid”. 

Well, not all things.  I’ll also write from time to time on other topics, including travels and hobbies - such as my volunteer work with junior high and high school students involved in robotics.

Disclaimer

This is my personal blog.  As such, it represents my personal views and impressions on various topics of interest to me as of the time of posting.  I reserve the right to be open-minded and to change those views!

Note in particular that the views expressed do *not* necessarily represent the views of my employer or other organizations with which I may affiliate.

About Me

Hi, I’m Bruce Moxon, Grid Guy.  I currently work at Network Appliance as Senior Director, Strategic Technology, where I have the privilege of working with a wide range of organizations deploying grid computing solutions.

I’ve been working with scale-out computing architectures for more than twenty years - in both scientific and commercial applications - and frequently write, speak, and teach on the continuing evolution of grid computing.

My experience spans “big compute, big data” problems in a wide range of both technical and business computing disciplines, including bioinformatics, digital media, earth and space sciences, simulation, and data warehousing and business analytics.  It includes work on technical, data, and enterprise computing grids (see “Grid Computing Defined”) employing scale-out architectures.

Prior to joining Network Appliance, I was Chief Solutions Architect at Panasas, where I worked with customers deploying scalable storage solutions for large Linux clusters.  I previously held roles as architect and lead designer of a number of high throughput production computing systems, including Perlegen Sciences’ SNP discovery system, NASA’s Earth Observing System, and, through consulting engagements with IBM, multi-TB data warehousing and business analytics systems for CRM and targeted marketing applications.

I have built, managed, and maintained both Windows and Linux compute clusters and very large databases (VLDB) and continue to teach a number of related courses at UC Santa Cruz extension, including:

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