John C. Linford

I am Ph.D candidate in the Computational Science Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. My dissertation research concerns heterogeneous high-performance computing applied to large-scale multiphysics models, such as weather prediction, air quality, and computational fluid dynamics. Visit the menu links to see my publications and research projects.

I am a modeling and cluster computing systems specialist at AVID LLC. My job involves writing a powerful library for general-purpose optimization in engineering problems, running and optimizing CFD codes, and maintaining our 32-core Xeon cluster.

I was an adjunct professor and systems administrator for the Department of Computer Science at Weber State University. I taught UNIX and Windows Server 2000/2003 system administration (CS 3040).

I am a triathlete. I have been a member of the Virginia Tech Triathlon Team since 2005 and have competed at the 2007 USA national competition. I have done nine triathlons, two half-marathons, and the Marine Corps Marathon.

I am a German-speaker. I spent the summer of 2007 at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Jülich Germany on a CESRI fellowship.

I love music by Rachmaninoff, books by C.S. Lewis, toys made by Lego, and the Silence of the Lambs.

I am but a humble mushroom.

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