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Preston Smith

Decision Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1998

Publications

43

Citations

335

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1998

Research summary
AI-generated

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.

High-performance computing (HPC) infrastructureCloud and hybrid-cloud computing for researchResearch data management and storageMeasuring value/impact of computing facilitiesResearch computing workforce development

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 5 publications522232024: 1 publication242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • 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
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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