High Performance Computing

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Background

• Ph. D. (Physics), University of New Mexico

Jim earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of New Mexico. He has over 35 years experience in high performance computing and computational physics, dating back to CDC 6600 and 7600 machines and the Cray-1. The last 25 of those years have concentrated on parallel processing. His work has ranged from the study of radiation impacts on astrophysical accretion flows, to MHD simulation of plasma implosions, to protein folding models. He completed a 20-year career with the United States Air Force, and spent 9 years working as a consultant to the Air Force Materials Laboratory. Prior to joining LSU, he spent 6 years in private industry. Since 2001 he has served as an affiliated faculty member with Regis University in Denver, CO.

Jim’s interests include grandkids (5!), digital photography, computers in general, and 2 slightly psychotic cockapoos.