Dr Deniz Savas

Research Computing Officer

Technical Services

Telephone: (0114) 22 23023

email : d.savas@sheffield.ac.uk

Responsibilities

• Look after application packages on the ‘iceberg’ HPC cluster
• Deal with licensing, technical support and maintenance issues for software packages, compilers and libraries on the HPC/Linux, PC and Managed XP platforms
• Administer Floating License Management for various packages
• Distribute Academic Research related software through the IT centres
• Co-author and present the HPC & Grid Computing Research modules with Dr Mike Griffiths
• Maintain the Research Computing, White Rose Grid and HPC related Web pages
• Take part in White Rose Grid related work

Biography

Born: Ankara, 1951
BSc: Electrical & Electronic Engineering (London, 1973)
MEng: Control Engineering (Sheffield, 1975)
PhD: Chemical & Process Engineering (Sheffield, 2002)

In 1968, I was one of a handful of students awarded scholarship by the Turkish government to study abroad. So, the next five years were my happy 'hippie' years spent mainly in the west end of London until relocating to Sheffield in 1974 for a Masters degree. At the time, "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" was the right place for youngsters of my persuasion. I don't know what happened since, but as you can see I am still here. My personal web pages are at http://dsavas.staff.shef.ac.uk/ and contain various computing and other related tips. However, most of my web efforts go into http://www.shef.ac.uk/wrgrid now-a-days.