Bio
Ashley Barker serves as the Program Director for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Barker oversees day-to-day operations of the OLCF, including progress on the OLCF-6 Project, to deliver the lab’s next supercomputer. The OLCF, a DOE Office of Science user facility, has deployed 4 of the world’s fastest supercomputers in its 29-year history. The facility is managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences division at ORNL, which offers expertise in high performance computing, data, storage, training, and user support for a global user community.
Ashley Barker served as the Section Head for HPC Operations and the Group Leader for User Assistance and Outreach in the National Center for Computational Resources Division. The HPC Operations Section, formerly the User Assistance and Outreach Group, is responsible for facilitating access to OLCF resources, providing training, documentation, and technical support to users, collecting and reporting on user facility data, and acquainting the public with the work conducted at the OLCF through scientific highlights. The OLCF supports more than 1,700 users and 350 projects annually from a wide spectrum of science domains.
Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change.
Ashley was also involved in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as Deputy Director and as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity.
Ashley earned her Master of Science degree in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee.