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The results of some parallel global illumination calculations performed on the IBM SP2s at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research and the Cornell Theory Center. Click on these images for the full size versions (they look best in 24 bit color). Models provided by Greg Ward and Anat Grynberg, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, by Jim Arvo (butterfly), and Eric Haines (SPD database).
Scalable Photorealistic Rendering of Complex Scenes.
A Parabolic Load Balancing Method.
(Click here for a related talk by Y.F. Hu).
I am the organizer for the informal C.A.C.R. Journal Club.
It looks like I will graduate very soon, here is an abstract of the dissertation defense.
Here is a bibliography of Diffusion in Parallel Computing
NSF Center for Research on Parallel Computation.
Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, NSF project ASC-9523483.
Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research.
Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA contract N00014-91-J-1986.
Program Committee Member, Parallel Rendering Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1997.
Program Committee Member, ISATA dedicated conference on simulation, diagnosis and virtual reality applications in the automotive industry, Florence, Italy, June 1997.
Program Committee Member, ISATA dedicated conference on computational fluid dynamics and supercomputing in the automotive industry, Florence, Italy, June 1996.
"Outstanding paper", 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, student member, 1992.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1989.
Honors in Computer Science, The University of Michigan, 1986.
Regents Alumni Scholar, The University of Michigan, 1978.
National Merit Finalist, 1978.
Finalist, Michigan Mathematics Competition, 1977.
Rogues Gallery: some places I have worked
Presented at the 1996 Center for Research on Parallel Computation Annual Meeting
Multibody fluid dynamics (with O. Schreiber)
Topological Search
Recursive search
for fixed points of functions of two parameters
or one complex parameter.
Applications include nonconvex optimization,
roots of polynomials,
and geometric intersection.
Immune to roundoff.
Skeptical that topology has relevance to computer programs? Check this out.
Nonlinear Scaling and Speedup
Some non-obvious sources in numerical calculations.
Mapping, Sorting, and Load Balancing
CS-TR-94-04: Dynamic Load Balancing
(Lengthy!)
To read a brief summary of CS-TR-94-04
Press Here.
Revenge of the humanists
A rebuttal to a silly talk by L.A. Times/Wired columnist
Michael Schrage.
California Institute of Technology
Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
Caltech Department of Computer Science
Caltech Department of Applied Mathematics
Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research