Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.

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Featuring

• Todd Gamblin – Twitter, GitHub
• Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

• LLNL's Website
• LLNL on GitHub
• Spack
• Exascale
• NumFOCUS
• Livermore Computing
• DOE National Laboratories
• ASC program
• LDRD
• SBIR