California institute of technology

Home page of my employer, which is ranked #5 nationally among all institutions of higher learning and boasts more Nobel Prize winners per capita than any other university!

Research links

Center for advanced computing research

An interdisciplinary research department affiliated with the Engineering & Applied Sciences division at Caltech, CACR brings together researchers who are applying high-performance computing to the world’s most challenging simulations and visualizations.

National center for computational sciences

Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NCCS is home to the Jaguar machine, a Cray XT4 that is the world’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to open science.  Jaguar is the main target platform for the software packages under development in the Center for Plasma Edge Simulation (CPES).

Advanced simulation and computing

The U.S. Department of Energy is performing its stockpile stewardship duties through the ASC program, using high-performance computing tools to predict the behavior of nuclear weapons in comprehensive, science-based simulations.  Caltech is an ASC Academic Strategic Alliance Program partner.

National Energy Research scientific computing center

Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC is the main computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy.  NERSC provides access to large amounts of computing time in support of the CPES project.

Sourceforge.net

SourceForge.net is the home of thousands of open-source software projects that provide users around the world with software tools in a wide variety of application areas.  Among the projects hosted on SourceForge is Blitz, a C++ array library with support for an array syntax and computational speed similar to Fortran 90.  I have maintained Blitz for 4 yrs.

Contact information:

Phone: 626-395-2543

Fax: 626-584-5917

E-mail: cummings@cacr.caltech.edu