Michael J. Brim Dr. Michael J. Brim is an R&D staff member in the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Michael has over 20 years of research experience in scalable tools, middleware, and systems software for HPC systems. His research has spanned many domains, including system administration, communication and data processing middleware based on overlay networks, coordinated operations on groups of distributed files and processes, and advanced monitoring and data management in multi-tier file and storage systems.