Preston Smith
Decision Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
43
Citations
335
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
29
Publishing since 1998
Preston Smith's work centers on campus and institutional research computing infrastructure, including high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, cloud computing, and data storage systems for academic research. His publications discuss the practical operation and value of research computing facilities, such as measuring their impact on research productivity, managing secure and controlled data, and building cloud or hybrid-cloud extensions to campus computing clusters. This work is primarily oriented toward the practice of running and supporting research computing services at universities rather than theoretical computer science.
Publication activity has been relatively steady but modest over the last decade, with a peak in 2022, a gap in 2023, and continued but limited output through 2024-2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- The Value Proposition of Campus High Performance Computing Facilities to Institutional Productivity: A Production Function Model
SN Computer Science · 2024
- Azure-based Hybrid Cloud Extension to Campus Clusters
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
- Measuring the Relative Outputs of Computational Researchers in Higher Education
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
- Building the Research Innovation Workforce: Challenges and Recommendations from a Virtual Workshop to Advance the Research Computing Community
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
- Simplifying Scientific Application Access in Kubernetes with Push Button Deployments
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2022
- Research Computing on Campus - Application of a Production Function to the Value of Academic High-Performance Computing
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2021
- Defining Performance of Scientific Application Workloads on the AMD Milan Platform
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing · 2021
- The “Geddes” Composable Platform - An Evolution of Community Clusters for a Composable World
2020
- Managing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Research Institutions
2020
- Literacy in ENG 101: An Animated Video Lecture
Western CEDAR (Western Washington University) · 2020
- Community Clusters or the Cloud
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning) · 2019
- Trusted CI Webinar: REED+: A cybersecurity framework for research data at Purdue University
Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2019
- Mentoring Undergraduates into Cyber-Facilitator Roles
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing · 2018
- Windows-based Workflows on Linux-based Beowulf Clusters
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing · 2018
- There and Back Again
2017
- Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing×7
- Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning)×2
- Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing×2
- arXiv (Cornell University)×2
- Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics×2
- Jeremy Fischer
Decision Sciences · Indiana University
- David Y. Hancock
Decision Sciences · Indiana University
- John Michael Lowe
Decision Sciences · Indiana University
- Craig A. Stewart
Decision Sciences · Indiana University
- Rajesh Kalyanam
Decision Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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