J. Robert “Rob” Neely is the Associate Director for Weapon Simulation and Computing (WSC) in the Strategic Deterrence (SD) Principal Directorate. He has responsibility over the development and delivery of simulation and modeling capabilities in support of the weapons program at LLNL. This includes procuring, siting, and managing world-class high-performance computing (HPC) platforms and the supporting infrastructure at the Livermore Computing Center, and development of cutting-edge applications and software to perform simulation and modeling of complex systems on those platforms. He is also the Director of the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program at Livermore. ASC is a national program supported at the three NNSA labs to provide global leadership in HPC for the national security mission.

Prior to this role, Rob was a member of the Computing Directorate in CASC where he had several technical and leadership roles, always with an eye toward supporting cross-discipline teams cultivating innovative computing research in service to the national security mission. He was on the management team for the DOE Exascale Computing Project from 2016-2020 working in the Software Technologies thrust. Earlier in his career, he was a developer in B-Program and was architect of the first scalable parallel version of ALE3D in the 1990's and 2000's.

Neely has over 30 years of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) and scientific software development. He received his MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and joined LLNL shortly after as an HPC application developer in the ASCI (now ASC) Program.

M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S., Computer Science, The State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

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