Research: Computational Astrophysics /
Globular Cluster Evolution
Electronic Mail: kim@galileo.physics.drexel.edu
Drexel Phone: (215) 895-2720/895-6957
Office: 12-611
Fax number: (215) 895-5934
Advisor:
Dr. Steve McMillan
I'm a member of the
American Physical Society (APS).
"Ooooh...there's so much I don't understand about astrophysics! I wish I read that book by that wheelchair guy." -H.J.S.
My current research includes computer simulations of globular cluster evolution using the Fokker-Planck equation and Nbody simulations. Since this research requires a great deal of computing power, I have become involved in high-performance and special-purpose computers.
One of the computer projects I'm involved with is the Beowulf project here at Drexel. Beowulf is a parallel computer built using 17 PCs with Pentiums processors. The machines communicate via a network box running at 100 mbps and contain two fast PCI network cards per ``node''. Our system supports both PVM and MPI, and we obtain speeds about a tenth that of Cray's T3D for about a 100th of the cost. If you'd like information on how to use beowulf, check out the beowulf user's page.
I'm also involved with CASC, the Consortium for Application-Specfic Computing.
Since computer skills are a necessity these days, I'm the system administrator for various UNIX/Linux machines in the Department of Physics.
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