User:J0hn

About me
Hi there! I'm John. I work as a HPC Specialist with the Texas Advanced Computing Center where I collaborate with the Performance Evaluation and Optimization group and research parallel and advanced computing techniques. We spend a lot of time optimizing large parallel codes written with MPI or OpenMP.

Other fun things I do at work:
 * Teach courses in scientific computing and utilizing HPC resources
 * Support users on clusters
 * Benchmark and test new hardware

I also do some research and publish papers in the areas of:
 * Scheduling large collectives using Artificial Immune System algorithms
 * Real-time Stereo Vision techniques
 * Nature inspired computing

Why Fedora?
I'm a big fan of the Fedora project, I got my start in the Unix/Linux world using FreeBSD in the late 90's working for an automotive supplier in Detroit and then progressed on to Fedora Core when I began developing software and hardware for remote environmental data collection systems in Texas and never looked back. Today I work in the world of large clusters which run some form of RHEL (typically centOS with http://www.rocksclusters.org).