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Éric Germaneau

Cloud & On Premise HPC expert

€800/day
Versailles, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Éric

With 20 years of experience in High-Performance Computing (HPC), I transitioned from academia to the private sector several years ago. I have worked extensively with numerous technologies and continuously strive to expand my knowledge. Proficient in both old and modern technologies, my expertise covers hardware, development, parallelization, cloud computing, and infrastructure deployment.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Versailles (up to 30km)

Experience

  • HPE
    HPC Expert
    TECH
    March 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)
    Orsay, France

    Context

    To maintain the optimal performance of the Jean Zay supercomputer and
    the storage environment, I am responsible for executing specialized on-site tasks,
    in addition to routine hardware and software maintenance.

    Missions

    Provide system-level support for the HPE stack, including:
    • Incident qualification and resolution.
    • Implementation of software updates.
    • Installation and maintenance of software, libraries (I/O, scientific computing, etc.), compilers, and tools for debugging and performance analysis, providing users with a high-performance and up-to-date development environment.
    • Recommendations, optimization, and improvement of the supercomputer and storage environment.
    • Maintaining the operational conditions and security of the installed systems and components.

    Environment

    Linux, Bash, Python, Gitlab, Ansible, Slurm, HPCM, DMF, Lustre, GPFS, XCAT, OPA
  • Aneo
    HPC Expert
    TECH
    January 2023 - March 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    Boulogne-Billancourt, France

    Context

    Migration of HPC environment to the cloud, development of infrastructure deployment tools.

    Missions

    Participation in the migration of some of Total Énergie's computations to Azure
    • Monitoring of Slurm jobs
    • Development of a simple API
    • Deployment of scripts via Ansible
    • Documentation writing
    POC of SEM3D software on GCP using AMD processors
    • Infrastructure deployment
    • Automation of runs
    Deployment of a Slurm cluster on AWS for a startup
    • Use of the hpccluster tool
    Experiments with the ElestiSlurm Multicloud concept
    • Infrastructure deployment via Terraform
    • Image construction with Packer
    • Python package development
    • Slurm installation and configuration
    • Development of CI/CD pipelines Azure DevOps & Github

    Environment

    Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, Bash, Python, Github, Ansible, Slurm, Packer, Terraform, Kubernetes
  • Renault Group
    HPC Engineer
    AUTOMOBILE
    January 2018 - January 2023 (5 years)
    Guyancourt, France

    Context

    Integrated into the team responsible for the smooth functioning of Renault Group's HPC computations, with activities within the ADAS and AD teams.

    HPC Activities

    Participation in the migration of computations to GCP
    • Monitoring of Slurm jobs
    • Application migration
    Job monitoring & automation
    • Use of InfluxDB & Grafana
    • Implementation of CI/CD pipelines GitLab
    • Monitoring of LSF jobs
    Containerization
    • Use of Singularity
    • Implementation of an automatic environment for generating and deploying images
    Application integration
    Support

    ADAS HPC Activities

    Development of a Python script chain to replay vehicle driving data embedding advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and software.
    • MySQL database querying
    • Execution of LSF jobs under Windows
    Development of a GUI to copy driving data to a MySQL database and S3-type storage.

    AD HPC Activities

    Generation & deployment of images on Azure

    Environment

    CentOS6/7/8, Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Bash,
    Python, GitLab, Windows, PowerShell, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Batch, LSF, Slurm, Singularity, Grafana, InfluxDB, S3, Scality

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Education

  • PhD Thesis
    EPFL
    2008
    Utilisation des méthodes de diffraction X et modélisation pour une meilleure description des mécanismes moléculaires d'un système incommensurable

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