Summary: Larry Smarr was an invited speaker at SC14, where he shared his experience studying the ecology of microbes inside his body using the XSEDE cluster Gordon of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Dr. Smarr is the director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and he holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering of the University of California in San Diego. Larry Smarr's spent his early career as an astrophysicist computing the dynamics of black holes. In the mid-1980s he led the proposal to the National Science Foundation that created the first national supercomputing center specifically for university researchers, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work there led to the creation of Mosaic, the world's first widely used graphical Web browser.
