Research Computing Centre

Mr Jake Carroll

Director & Director, Research Computing Centre
Research Computing Centre
+61 7 334 66407

Jake has been involved in advanced and high-performance computing since his post-grad’ in computer science in 2004.

He has held appointments in health, defence and the tertiary education and research sector in consultancy, technical and senior management roles.

Jake has maintained long-standing senior technical management appointments inside the University of Queensland research institutes cluster (AIBN, QBI, IMB) as a strategic advisor to research enablement through advanced computing infrastructure and services. From 2017 to 2019, Jake was Associate Director of Research Computing for UQ’s institutes.

His primary experience is within high-performance and accelerated computing, computer architecture, design and performance optimisation of hardware and software systems. He has specialist knowledge in storage engineering and design.

Jake has been responsible for the architecture and design of UQ’s most advanced storage and supercomputing infrastructure initiatives as well as advisory to several national initiatives involving federated storage and cloud computing design.

Jake is a TOGAF practitioner, UQ post-grad’ alumnus (UQ MBA, 2019), and is a graduate of computer science—a postgraduate in HCI [human computer interaction] design and graphical interface cognition from Southern Cross University (2004).

He has held various board appointments for state government advisory initiatives in Artificial Intelligence infrastructure.

Jake is a current member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Article (1)
Conference Papers (4)
Working Paper (1)

Book Chapter

Abramson, David, Carroll, Jake, Jin, Chao, Mallon, Michael, van Iperen, Zane, Nguyen, Hoang, McRae, Allan and Ming, Liang (2019). A Cache-based data movement infrastructure for on-demand scientific cloud computing. Supercomputing frontiers. (pp. 38-56) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18645-6_3

Journal Article

Jin, Chao, Abramson, David, Carroll, Jake, Liu, Zhengchun and Kettimuthu, Rajkumar (2023). Moving small files in a networked environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 139, 167-180. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2022.09.016

Conference Papers

Carroll, Jake, Abramson, David and de Supinski, Bronis R. (2024). An Analysis of Research Data Storage Systems. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/e-science62913.2024.10678706
Abramson, David, Barkauskas, Deborah S., Carroll, Jake, Condon, Nicholas D, Modhiran, Naphak, Nguyen, Hoang, Springfield, James, Watterson, Daniel and Jin, Chao (2022). Democratising large scale instrument-based science through e-Infrastructure. IEEE 18th International Conference on E-Science (E-Science), Salt Lake City, UT USA, 10-14 October 2022. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/escience55777.2022.00033
Abramson, David, Jin, Chao, Luong, Justin and Carroll, Jake (2020). A BeeGFS-based caching file system for data-intensive parallel computing. SCFA: Asian Conference on Supercomputing Frontiers, Singapore, Singapore, 24-27 February 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-48842-0_1
Abramson, David, Carroll, Jake, Jin, Chao and Mallon, Michael (2017). A metropolitan area infrastructure for data intensive science. Annual IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), Auckland, New Zealand, 24-27 October 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/eScience.2017.37

Working Paper

Abramson, David, Carroll, Jake, Betbeder-Matibet, Luc, Bird, Stephen, Francis, Rhys, Goscinski, Wojtek, Soo, Ai-Lin, Swan, Garry, Walsh, Carmel, Wightwick, Glenn and Wilkinson, J Max (2024). A reference architecture for research data. Research Computing Centre, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/1c8e79c