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Alan Sill serves as Managing Director of the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech University and holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Physics. He co-directs the NSF-funded Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC@TTU), a collaborative research center. His roles also include President of the Open Grid Forum and membership in international advisory boards for cloud/grid computing standards. Sill earned a Bachelors in Physics and Mathematics from Lewis and Clark College (1977) and a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from The American University (1987).
Research focuses on large-scale computing systems, distributed infrastructure design, renewable energy integration in data centers, and detector development for particle physics. He has pioneered standards for grid computing, autonomic systems, and cloud interoperability, contributing to projects like the Open Science Grid and SURAgrid.
His publications emphasize HPC monitoring frameworks (e.g., Monster, Redfish-Nagios), cloud standards, and energy-efficient computing. He has advised on over 600 scientific papers across particle physics and computational fields. Sill's visiting roles include Visiting Professor of Distributed Computing at the University of Derby (2016-2020) and guest scientist positions at Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is a key member of CERN's CMS Collaboration and past leader of high-energy physics detector teams.
