High-Energy Nuclear
and Elementary Particle Physics
at the UNM CHPC
Timothy L. Thomas
University of New Mexico
Research Professor
The New Mexico Center for Particle Physics
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Deputy Director
UNM Center for High Performance Computing
Vice President
UNM Chapter
of
Sigma Xi
International Society for Multidisciplinary Science and Engineering
Introduction
My CV page
My current position
(2004 text) and
roles
Philosophy: Avoid
low-performance
computing
(or anything)
N.B. - Lots of stuff on this page is stale, a standard disclaimer...
About
High Energy (Nuclear) Physics...
The
PHENIX Experiment
, located at
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
,
home of the
RHIC Accelerator
.
(
PHENIX
: Pioneering High-Energy Nulcear Interaction eXperiment;
RHIC
: Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider)
PHENIX at UNM
(from the web pages of the
New Mexico Center for Particle Physics
)
PHENIX collaborators'
photos...
(WARNING: ~260 faces (~58%)! )
More PHENIX background material
here...
(PISA Monte Carlo page, below)
The
ATLAS Experiment
on the
LHC Accelerator
at the
Conseil Europeen pour le Recherche Nucleaire (CERN)
,
the Center for European Nuclear Research, in Geneva.
Overview Presentation to the 2002 Blue Ribbon HPC Review Panel
(.ppt)
TLT@HPC: background / supporting materials
(.ppt)
Grid computing
PHENIX Grid Testbed
BOSS test implementation
guest/Guest101 -->
BOSS main page
LosLobos BOSS statistics
Vanderbilt simulations page
U.S. ATLAS Grid Testbed
HPC participation
Grid2003
ATLAS Data Challange 2 participation
Press Releases
Press releases have been moved: please go
here
...
(
Exciting First Results from Deuteron-Gold Collisions...
-- local version )
(
Special colloquium
-- local version )
Summer 2001 --
"Publicity Stunts" I and II
PHENIX GEANT3 Simulations (PISA) at UNM HPC
(AAB proposal for HPC start-up grant; plus final status)
Proposals / Grants
Fall 2002:
NRAC grant (200K SUs)
Feb 2003:
NSF Medium ITR Proposal
(
references
)
Documents / publications
PHENIX Publications and preparations
(Los Alamos preprint archive)
HPC Tech Notes
May 5, 2002 White Paper: The
Wine Cellar
Talks
March 2003: Invited talk at
Internet2 Day
:
Grid Computing
(
New Mexico Business Weekly
:
Albuquerque to get I2 GigaPOP
)
May 2003:
Brief presentation
at the
Sante Fe PHENIX Muon meeting
PHENIX
overview talk
, Condor Week 2000, Madison, Wisconsin
HPC-related students
Venkata Kalyana Chakravarthy Banda's
Flatland
-based project:
Advanced visualization for complex, abstract particle physics analyses.
(Early snapshots:
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
.)
My General Ideas
Components of my personal magnum opus...
Other stuff
Body language simulation
...
asl lrp
|
hiphop
|
spock
|
tai chi
|
gamelan
|
tony hawk
|
Konami:DDR
|
mot cap
