Max Katz is a senior solutions architect at NVIDIA. Max works with the US Department of Energy on the deployment and use of their GPU-powered supercomputers, including Summit at ORNL, Sierra at LLNL, and the forthcoming Perlmutter at LBNL. Max is a computational astrophysicist who researches explosions of stars using fluid dynamics simulations. He holds a PhD in physics from Stony Brook University.