The Team

The PPF team consists of Noel Keen (pictured on the left) and Martin Casado (on right). Both worked together during the summer of 1999 at LLNL where Noel Keen, who is a full time employee of LLNL, acted as mentor to Martin who was interning. During the course of the summer they worked together on a number of projects including:

Shared memory parallelization of single dimensional transport slowdown problem.
- Using pthreads
- Using OpenMP
Shared memory parallelization of the Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) package written by Nick Gentile.
Rudimentary domain decomposition (only 2 domains) of IMC package

Bios

Name:Martin Casado
Reason for Choosing Project: Over the summer I developed an interest for parallel computing especially the parallelization of particle transport packages. As well, I really enjoy working on big machines and with LLNL. Plus, working on the PPF may give me an excuse to head up to the Bay Area so I can go play with Noel ;-).
Suggestions: Alaskan Snowshoe cocktails(1 shot Yukon Jack and 1 shot Rumplemintz) on snowy days and of course looser accounts on StarCraft.
People Not as Good as Me at Half-Life: Rob Allred, Doug Stallman, Abe Pralle, Trent De'Hoodge, Anthony Rivera
Programming Languages: C/C++, Java

Project Roles

Martin Casado:

Document Writer
Design
Program architecture
Development
Recorder

Noel Keen:

Document Editer
Design
Program architecture
Development
General Guru on all things dealing with radiation transport and Monte Carlo

Any questions, comments, discussion or suggestions regarding the PPF project can be sent to Martin Casado at mc8@cet.nau.edu or Noel Keen at ndk@llnl.gov.

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