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In 1998 Brett joined the Scalable Computing Laboratory at Ames Laboratory as an Assistant Scientist. In September 2000 he was promoted to Associate Scientist. In 2007 he was promoted to Scientist. His research in the SCL was focused on delivering more usable computing cycles to scientific applications. In particular his work examined two significant problems on today's parallel computing systems. First is communication performance through technologies such as OpenFabrics. Second is the management software for parallel computer systems including node configuration and batch systems.

In September 2008 Brett joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. At NCSA he started as the manager of the system and tools software development for the Blue Waters project. In 2012 he took the role of division director for the newly formed Advanced Digital Services Directorite.