Publications

Computational Science

1. Paul A. Farrell, Arden Ruttan, Finite Difference Minimization of the Landau - de Gennes Free Energy for Liquid Crystals in Ellipsoidal Regions, in ALCOM Symposium - Liquid Crystals: Surfaces and Finite Size Effects, pp. 51-56, (1992)
2. P.A. Farrell, E.C. Gartland, A. Ruttan, R.R. Zeller), Minimization of the Landau - de Gennes Free Energy for Liquid Crystals in Rectangular Geometries, in Proceedings of the ALCOM Symposium: Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals, Polymers and Ordered Fluids, pp. 57-62, (1992)
3. Paul A. Farrell, Arden Ruttan, R.R. Zeller, Finite Difference Minimization of the Landau - de Gennes Free Energy for Liquid Crystals in Rectangular Regions, Comput. & Appl. Math. I, pp. 137-146, (1992)
4. Paul A. Farrell, Arden Ruttan, R.R. Zeller, Application of Multigrid Methods to the Solution of Liquid Crystal Equations on a SIMD Computer,
   • in the informal electronic Proceedings of the Sixth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, 15 pages (1993)
   • Sixth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, NASA Conference Publication 3224, Part 1, N. Duane Melson, T.A. Manteuffel, S.F. McCormick eds., pp 191-206 (1993)
5. J. Baglama, D. Calvetti, P.A. Farrell, L. Reichel, A. Ruttan, A Numerical Method for Eigenvalue Problems in Modelling Liquid Crystals, Proc. of Copper Mountain Conf. on Iterative Methods, pp. 1-7, 1996.
6. Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Arden Ruttan, Modeling liquid crystal structures on an SMP workstation cluster, in the Proceedings of CC-TEA'2000 -- The 2000 International Workshop on Cluster Computing - Technologies, Environments, and Applications (sponsored by IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing), 6 pages, numbered in sessions.
7. Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Arden Ruttan, Modelling Liquid Crystal Structures using MPI on a Workstation Cluster, to appear in Proceedings of MWPP'99 -- Midwest Workshop on Parallel Processing (IEEE/ACM)
8. Paul A. Farrell, Xiaodong Hu, Irina V. Lomonosov, Michael A. Lee, Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm Performance in a Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation with Random Load, to appear in Proceedings of MWPP'99 -- Midwest Workshop on Parallel Processing (IEEE/ACM)

Visualization

1. Dan Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, Michael A. Lee, Arden Ruttan, A Low Cost Commodity Based System for Group Viewing of 3d Images, Proceedings of VDE2000, Visualization Development Environments 2000, pp 145--149. (2000) (invited poster)
   Local version
2. Yang-Ming Zhu, Paul A. Farrell, Vector Grouping Algorithm for Liquid Crystal Tensor Field Visualization, Liquid Crystals, 29(10), pp. 1259 - 1264, 2002.
   Local version

Computational Steering

1. Dan Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, Experiences Instrumenting a Distributed Molecular Dynamics Program, Proceedings of PACISE'O6, pp 45 -- 50 (2006)
2. Cara Stein, Daniel Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, Arden Ruttan, A Steering and Visualization Toolkit for Distributed Applications, The Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06), pp 451--457, (2006)
3. Dan Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, Cara Stein, A Chromium Based Viewer for CUMULVS, The Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06), pp 472--477, (2006)

Cluster and Interconnect Performance Evaluation

1. Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Communication Performance over a Gigabit Network, 19th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference -- IPCCC 2000, pp. 181--189, 2000.
2. Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Arden Ruttan, Modeling liquid crystal structures on an SMP workstation cluster, in the Proceedings of CC-TEA'2000 -- The 2000 International Workshop on Cluster Computing - Technologies, Environments, and Applications (sponsored by IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing), 6 pages, numbered in sessions.
3. Hong Ong, Paul A. Farrell, Performance Comparison of LAM/MPI, MPICH, and MVICH on a Linux Cluster connected by a Gigabit Ethernet Network, Proceedings of Linux 2000, 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Extreme Linux Track, Atlanta, 2000, pp 353--362.
   Local version
4. Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Stephen L. Scott, Enabling High Performance Data Transfer on Cluster Architecture, 2 pages, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2000), IEEE Computer Society, 2000.
5. Mark Baker, Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Stephen L .Scott, VIA Communication Performance on a Gigabit Ethernet Cluster, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of EuroPar2001, Vol 2150, pp. 132--141, Springer-Verlag, 2001. Local Copy
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