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Henry M. Tufo III


Scientific Computing Division

National Center for Atmospheric Research

1850 Table Mesa Drive

Boulder, CO 80305

303.497.2462

(fax) 303.497.1286

tufo@ucar.edu

Department of Computer Science

University of Colorado at Boulder

Engineering Center, 430 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309-0430

303.492.2771

303.492.2844 (fax)

tufo@cs.colorado.edu


Education

Brown University, Providence, RI Applied Mathematics Ph.D. May 1998
Brown University, Providence, RI Applied Mathematics M.S. May 1994
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Mathematics M.S. May 1992
(Completed course requirements for M.S. in Computer Science)
Duke University, Durham, NC Physics B.S. May 1986 (Cum Laude)

Research

(Additional details available on the Computational Science Center's Web site.)

Computational Science.
High-Order Numerical Methods with Applications.
Discontinuous and Continuous Galerkin Methods; Finite-Element Methods.
Scalable Solvers.
Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Simulation of Incompressible Flows.
Weather and Climate Models.
Heat Transfer Enhancement.
High-Performance Computing.
Algorithms for Petascale Applications; Large-Scale Parallel Computations.
Emerging Parallel Architectures.
Linux Cluster Development, Design, and Deployment.
Lightweight, Robust, and Easy-to-Use Software Tools.
Grid Technology.
Hexahedral Mesh Generation and Adaptive Mesh Refinement.
Scientific Visualization.

Professional Experience

9/04-present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
4/04-present CS Group Head, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research
8/02-present Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
8/02-present Scientist II, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research
8/02-present Faculty Guest, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
1/00-present Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
9/01-8/02 Assistant Computer Scientist, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
9/00-8/02
9/00-8/02 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
6/98-9/01 Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago (Member of the DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes)
6/98-9/01

Visiting Research Fellow, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory

1/98-6/98 Teaching Fellow, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
9/94-1/98 Research Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
6/93-9/97 Teaching Fellow, Summer Studies Program, Brown University
9/89-6/92 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Math. and Statistics, U. of Vermont

Awards

07/05 IBM Faculty Award.
06/05 Dean's Award for Professional Progress.
11/00 Gordon Bell Prize for FLASH.
11/99 Gordon Bell Prize for NEK5000.

Selected Publications

Journal and Book Chapters

  1. J.M. Dennis, R.D. Nair, H.M. Tufo, M. Levy, and T. Voran, "Development of a Scalable Global Discontinuous Galerkin Atmospheric Model", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, in press.
  2. J.M. Dennis, A. Fournier, W. Spotz, A. St.-Cyr, M. Taylor, S.J. Thomas, and H.M. Tufo, "High Resolution Mesh Convergence Properties and Parallel Efficiency of a Spectral Element Atmospheric Dynamical Core", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 26 pages, to appear.
  3. E.R. Jessup, H.M. Tufo, and M.S. Woitaszek, "Building an HPC Watering Hole for Boulder Area Computational Science", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3515, pp. 91-98, 2005.
  4. M. Hamady, T. Cheung, H.M. Tufo, R. Knight, "Using Structural Properties to Predict Behavior of Related Proteins: Does Protein Structure Influence Trypsin Miscleavage?", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine (http://emb-magazine.bme.uconn.edu/), 25 pages, to appear.
  5. E.R. Jessup and H.M. Tufo, "Creating a Sustainable High-Performance Scientific Computing Course", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3039, pp. 1242-1249, 2004.
  6. G. Dimonte, A. Dimits, S. Weber, D.L. Youngs, A.C. Calder, B. Fryxell, J. Biello, L.J. Dursi, P. MacNiece, K. Olson, P. Ricker, R. Rosner, F.X. Timmes, H.M. Tufo, Y.-N Young, M. Zingale, M.J. Andrews, P. Ramaprabhu, S. Wunsch, C. Garasi, and A. Robinson, "A Comparison of High-Resolution 3D Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) Instability: Alpha-Group Collaboration", Phys. Fluids, 16, pp. 1668-1693, 2004.
  7. S.J. Thomas, J.M. Dennis, H.M. Tufo, and P.F. Fischer, "A Schwarz Preconditioner for the Cubed-Sphere", SIAM J. Sci. Comp., 25(2), pp. 442-453, 2003.
  8. A.C. Calder, B. Fryxell, T. Plewa, R. Rosner, T. Dupont, J.O. Kane, H.F. Robey, B.A. Remington, R.P. Drake, G. Dimonte, M. Zingale, L.J. Dursi, F.X. Timmes, K. Olson, P. Ricker, P. MacNeice, and H.M. Tufo, "On Validating an Astrophysical Simulation Code", ApJS, 143, pp. 201-245, 2002.
  9. M. Greiner, P.F. Fischer, and H.M. Tufo, "Two Dimensional Simulations of Enhanced Heat Transfer in an Intermittently Grooved Channel", ASME J. Heat Transfer, 124, pp. 538-545, 2002.
  10. M. Greiner, P.F. Fischer, H.M. Tufo, and R.A. Wirtz, "Three Dimensional Simulations of Enhanced Heat Transfer in a Flat Passage Downstream from a Grooved Channel", ASME J. of Heat Transfer, 124, pp. 169-176, 2002.
  11. M. Greiner, P.F. Fischer, and H.M. Tufo, "Numerical Simulations of Resonant Heat Transfer Augmentation at Low Reynolds Numbers", ASME J. Heat Transfer, 124, pp. 1169-1175, 2002.
  12. H.M. Tufo and P.F. Fischer, "Fast Parallel Direct Solvers for Coarse Grid Problems", J. Par. & Dist. Computing, 61(2), pp. 151-177, 2001.
  13. Y.-N. Young, H.M. Tufo, and R. Rosner, "On the Miscible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Mixing Layer Width Scaling in 2- and 3-D", J. Fluid Mech., 447, pp. 377-408, 2001.
  14. M. Zingale, F.X. Timmes, B. Fryxell, D.Q. Lamb, K. Olson, A.C Calder, L.J. Dursi, P.M. Ricker, R. Rosner,P. MacNeice , and H.M Tufo, "Helium Detonations on Neutron Stars", ApJS, 133, pp. 195-220, 2001.
  15. B. Fryxell, M. Zingale, F.X. Timmes, D.Q. Lamb, K. Olson, A.C. Calder, L.J. Dursi, P. Ricker, R. Rosner, J.W. Truran, P. MacNeice, and H.M. Tufo, "Numerical Simulations of Thermonuclear Flashes on Neutron Stars", Nuc. Phys. A, 688, pp. 172-, 2001.
  16. P.F. Fischer, N.I. Miller and H.M. Tufo, "An Overlapping Schwarz Method for Spectral Element Simulation of Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flows", in Parallel Solution of Partial Differential Equations, P. Bjorstad and M. Luskin, eds., Springer-Verlag, pp. 159-180, 2000.
  17. M. Greiner, R.J. Faulkner, V.T. Van, H.M. Tufo, and P.F. Fischer, "Simulations of Three-Dimensional Flow and Augmented Heat Transfer in a Symmetrically Grooved Channel", ASME J. of Heat Transfer, 122 (4), pp. 653-660, 2000.
  18. F.X. Timmes, M. Zingale, K. Olson, B. Fryxell, P. Ricker, A.C. Calder, L.J. Dursi, H.M. Tufo, P. MacNeice, J.W. Truran, and R. Rosner, "On the Cellular Structure of Carbon Detonations", ApJ, 543, pp. 938-954, 2000.
  19. F.X. Timmes, K. Olson, P. Ricker, M. Zingale, B. Fryxell, P. MacNeice, H.M. Tufo, D.Q. Lamb, and R. Rosner, "FLASH: A Multidimensional Hydrodynamics Program for Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes" , ApJS, 131, pp. 273-334, 2000.
  20. R. Rosner, L.J. Dursi, B. Fryxell, D.Q. Lamb, C. Litwin, J. Niemeyer, K. Olson, H.M. Tufo, and Y.-N. Young, "Connecting Astrophysics to Laboratory Fluid Dynamics: Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes", Computing in Science and Engineering, 2 (2), pp. 33-41, 2000.

Conference Proceedings (Peer Reviewed)

  1. J. Cope, C. Hartsough, S. McCreary, P. Thornton, H. M. Tufo, N. Wilhelmi, and M. Woitaszek, "Experiences from Simulating the Global Carbon Cycle in a Grid Computing Environment", proceedings of the Fourteenth Global Grid Forum, 10 pages, 2005.
  2. G. Almasi, G. Bhanot, D. Chen, M. Eleftheriou, B. Fitch, A. Gara, R. Germain, M. Gupta, M.C. Pitman, A. Rayshubskiy, J. Sexton, F. Suits, P. Vranas, B. Walkup, T.J.C. Ward, Y. Zhestkov, A. Curioni, W. Curioni, C. Archer, J.E. Moreira, R. Loft, H.M. Tufo, T. Voran, K. Riley, "Early Experience with Scientific Applications on the BlueGene/L Supercomputer", proceedings of Euro-Par 2005, 11 pages, 2005.
  3. J. Cope, C. Hartsough, H.M. Tufo, N. Wilhelmi, and M. Woitaszek, "GridBGC: A Grid-Enabled Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Modeling System", proceedings of Euro-Par 2005, 10 pages, 2005.
  4. J. Cope, M. Oberg, H.M. Tufo, and M. Woitaszek, "Shared Parallel File Systems in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environments", proceedings of the 6th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution, 21 pages, 2005.
  5. J.M. Dennis, M. Levy, R.D. Nair, H.M. Tufo, and T. Voran, "Towards an Efficient and Scalable Discontinuous Galerkin Atmospheric Model", proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, 8 pages, 2005.
  6. J.J. Heys, C. DeGroff, T. Manteuffel, S. McCormick, and H.M. Tufoa, "Modeling 3-D Compliant Blood Flow with FOSLS", proceedings of the 41st Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, 8 pages, 2004.
  7. M. Woitaszek, M. Oberg, and H.M. Tufo, "Selecting a Cluster for the Community Climate Systems Model", proceedings of the 5th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution, 13 pages, 2004.
  8. A.C. Calder, B.C. Curtis, L.J. Dursi, B. Fryxell, G. Henry, P. MacNeice, K. Olson, P. Ricker, R. Rosner, F.X. Timmes, H.M. Tufo, J.W. Truran, and M. Zingale, "High-Performance Reactive Fluid Flow Simulations Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Thousands of Processors", Proceedings of SC2000, 12 pages, 2000. (Gordon Bell)
  9. H.M. Tufo and P.F. Fischer, "Terascale Spectral Element Algorithms and Implementations", Proceedings of SC99, 14 pages, 1999. (Gordon Bell)
  10. H.M. Tufo, P.F. Fischer, M.E. Papka, and K. Blom, "Numerical Simulation and Immersive Visualization of Hairpin Vortex Generation", Proceedings of SC99, 10 pages, 1999.
  11. H.M. Tufo, P.F. Fischer, M.E. Papka, and M. Szymanski, "Hairpin Vortex Formation, a Case Study for Unsteady Visualization", Proceedings of the 41st CUG Conference, 10 pages, 1999.
  12. S.J. Sherwin, C. Evangelinos, H.M. Tufo, and G.Em. Karniadakis, "Development of a Parallel Unstructured Spectral/hp Method for Unsteady Fluid Dynamics", Proceedings of Parallel CFD'97, 8 pages, 1997.

In Progress

  1. A. St-Cyr, J.M. Dennis, S.J. Thomas, and H.M. Tufo, "An Adaptive Nonconforming Spectral Element Atmospheric Model", submitted to SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 10 pages.
  2. A. St-Cyr, J.M. Dennis, R. Loft, S.J. Thomas, H.M. Tufo, and T. Voran, "Early Experiences with the 360TF IBM BlueGene/L Platform", submitted to International Journal of Computational Methods, 12 pages.
  3. G. Bhanot, J.M. Dennis, J. Edwards, W. Grabowski, M. Gupta, K. Jordan, R.D. Loft, J. Sexton, A. St-Cyr, S.J. Thomas, H.M. Tufo, T. Voran, R. Walkup, and A.A. Wyszogrodski, "An Atmospheric General Circulation Model for BG/L", in preparation, 12 pages.

Selected Presentations

Professional Service

Department, College, and University

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Teaching

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