Email: gavin@epcc.ed.ac.uk
I worked as a post-doc at Napier for 4 years, researching the simulation of turbulent fluid flow over a sphere. Pseudo-particle methods are used, namely Vortex Methods, which removes the problems of meshes. I have parallelised the simulation using my own MIMD many-body fast solver.
Hobbies: I enjoy travelling and the theatre (acting, dancing and singing). I also play bass and piano. Sports include badminton and swimming.
I joined EPCC in April, 1997. Currently, I am involved with the following projects.
DEISA: Task leader of the Cosmological Applications Joint Research Activity of DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Scientific Applications. This project is attempting to link European supercomputers into one gigantic meta-supercomputer. My work is also funded by VirtU.
HPC-Europa : Contact for visitors to EPCC under this transnational Access Visitor Programme.
MSc: Teaching MPI, MPI-2, HPF and FFTs on our MSc in HPC.
VASP: Profiling and optimising VASP, a code that simulations materials. PLATO: Parallelising a matrix diagonalistaion in a material science code called PLATO running on HPCx
MHD: HPC consultant to the UK MHD Consortium.
Met. Office: Optimisation work on the main weather forcasting code for the TV forecasts.
OCCAM: Incorporating real temperature/salinity data into a world's oceans simulator.
T3E: Supporting users on our T3E system.
TRACS: Visitor Contact and Acting Deputy Coordinator.