Paul Farrell received
his B.A.(Mod) degrees in Mathematics and Experimental Physics in 1974,
and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the field of Numerical Computation and Analysis
from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1978 and 1983 respectively. He
was a Lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (1983-1985) before
joining Kent State University as an assistant professor of Computer Science
in 1985. He has published a research
monograph, and over 50
papers. He has been funded by the National
Science Foundation, the European Union, the Ohio Board of Regents,
and the Cooperative Association for Internet
Data Analysis (CAIDA). In addition he has been funded for research
visits by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and by the Royal Society of New
Zealand. He has acted as a consultant to the
United
Nations Development Program and to the Irish Higher
Education Development Cooperation Organization (HEDCO). His early research
interests were in highly accurate numerical methods for convection dominated
flows.
His recent interests are in the effective use of parallel and distributed
numerical methods, on clusters of computers, to solve scientifically significant
problems from physics and biological sciences. This includes techniques
for interacting with the computations using scientific visualization and
computational steering, and for optimizing the communications libraries
on such clusters. The
Distributed Steering Computation and Visualization Group
(DiSCoV) was founded to develop the infrastructure in these areas and
to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations to apply these results to
real-world problems.
His other research interests include Quality-of-Service
for IP networks and performance evaluation for clusters and networks. He
is an associate member of the Institute
for Computational Mathematics and a member of the IMACS
Technical Committee on Partial Differential Equations. He has served as
departmental Director of Computer Systems, and has also served on university
committees conducting major reviews of University Network and Information
Systems, and Academic Computing Systems. He was the first Chairman of the
University
Council on Technology, is Applications Coordinator for Kent's Internet
2 initiative, Director of Electronic Publications for the Institute for
Numerical Computation and Analysis (INCA),
and a member of the OSC Statewide Users Group (SUG), which recommends policy
for the
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).
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Parallel and distributed computation, cluster computing, performance evaluation.
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Computational steering, scientific visualization.
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High speed networking, Quality of Service in IP networks.
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Computational biology, computational fluids, liquid crystal problems.
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Numerical solution of singularly perturbed differential equations.
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Cluster Based Computational Techniques for the Modelling
of Problems Involving Bifurcations. |
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Steering and Visualization Environments. |
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Scalable Communication Support on SMP Clusters for Network-Based
Computing. |
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QoS provisioning and traffic management in IP networks. |
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Cell Modelling Project. |
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Numerical Simulation of Semi-Conductor Devices, European
Union. |
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Advanced
Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials NSF STC. |
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Uniform Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Equations,
NSF. |
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Algorithms and Techniques for the Solution, Visualization
and Steering of the Solution of Large Nonlinear Problems on a High Bandwidth/Low
Latency Network of High Performance Workstations, Ohio Board of Regents
Research Challenge. |
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Ohio
Communication and Computing ATM Research Network, Ohio Board of Regents
Research Investment Fund. |
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DISCOVnet
- A High-Performance Network for Distributed Computation and Visualization,
NSF CISE Research Equipment. |
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vBNS
Connection for Kent State, NSF. |
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Steering and Visualization Environment, NSF CISE. |
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Internet Engineering & Teaching Laboratory, by CAIDA
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Quality of service provisioning in IP networks, by ITEC
and
Internet2
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Scalable Communication Support on SMP Clusters for Network-Based
Computing, Ohio Board of Regents Computer Science Enhancement Fund. |
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Cluster Based Computational Techniques for the Modelling
of Problems Involving Bifurcations, NSF ITR. |
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