NEIL MCGLOHON is a research scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Computational Innovations (CCI). He received Ph.D and M.S. degrees in computer science from RPI in 2021 and 2016 respectively; in 2014 he received his B.S. in physics from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include parallel and distributed computation and high performance computing network simulation including the exploration of the effects of network congestion on application performance through simulation. He acts as the primary maintainer for an open-source massively parallel discrete event simulation framework for simulating HPC communication networks to facilitate research collaborations with internal and external partners. nmcglo.rpi@gmail.com, https://nmcglo.com