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This website is in a
perpetual state of construction...
About:
I am an
astrophysicist and
computer scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I
hold a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science
from the University of Tennessee in physics. I hope to one day enlist
in the army as a pastrychef. ;)
I am currently employed as a member of the Research Staff in the Computer Science Research Group for Al Geist. The focus of my work is on large-scale software design and implementation for energy systems.
I am currently employed as a member of the Research Staff in the Computer Science Research Group for Al Geist. The focus of my work is on large-scale software design and implementation for energy systems.
Interests and Projects:
My
scientific interests
are, I
think, pretty broad. I was almost exclusively interested in astronomy
and astrophysics when I entered college, but I slowly developed a
taste for other areas of physics. Most of the hours of my "day job" are
spent on energy projects, some of which I have described below.
I am the lead architect, developer and project manager of the NEAMS Integrated Computational Environment (NiCE) for the US Department of Energy's Advanced Modeling and Simulation Office in the Office of Nuclear Energy. The primary goal of NiCE is to create a unified, integrated and dynamically reconfigurable environment in which analysts and developers can perform modeling and simulation tasks without having to fight with command line tools or hacked-together utilities.
I have been the lead architect of Scale 7, a future release of Scale, since December 2010. Scale 7 will be the first release of Scale targeted for high-performance computing.
I am also a member of the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Lightwater Reactors (CASL). I am the principal investigator the CASL Workflow Environment.
I am engaged on many additional projects including, amongst others, fusion and solar energy, quantum information, biophysics and astrophysics.
I am the lead architect, developer and project manager of the NEAMS Integrated Computational Environment (NiCE) for the US Department of Energy's Advanced Modeling and Simulation Office in the Office of Nuclear Energy. The primary goal of NiCE is to create a unified, integrated and dynamically reconfigurable environment in which analysts and developers can perform modeling and simulation tasks without having to fight with command line tools or hacked-together utilities.
I have been the lead architect of Scale 7, a future release of Scale, since December 2010. Scale 7 will be the first release of Scale targeted for high-performance computing.
I am also a member of the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Lightwater Reactors (CASL). I am the principal investigator the CASL Workflow Environment.
I am engaged on many additional projects including, amongst others, fusion and solar energy, quantum information, biophysics and astrophysics.
While
I enjoy computational problems the most, I have been known to pick up a
wrench, pencil, guitar or trowel. Indeed, my most recent experiment was able to uncover
the secret
to my success.
Starscream:
Starscream
is a code that I have developed for creating progenitors of galaxies
for simulation with gravitational n-body codes. The code is currently
in limbo with two separate versions; the 1.x version and the
development version. Some resources related to Starscream can be found here, but most of the action has moved to the new Starscream Google Code
page. I'm hopeful that a new version that completely replaces the 1.x
version and works on Linux, Windows and Mac will be available by the
end of calendar year 2011.
Tools:
Contact:
Jay Jay Billings
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO BOX 2008 MS6016
Oak Ridge, Tn. 37831
Email: billingsjj <a> ornl <dot> gov
Phone: (865) 272-9420
... and, of course, on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn as "jayjaybillings"
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO BOX 2008 MS6016
Oak Ridge, Tn. 37831
Email: billingsjj <a> ornl <dot> gov
Phone: (865) 272-9420
... and, of course, on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn as "jayjaybillings"
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