Research

Patrick's job is primarily teaching. While he remains interested in the following topics, he is no longer conducting active research in these areas.

Patrick's research interests are in HPC export controls, heterogeneous computing, operating systems, scientific computing, and K-12 computing. He has been the primary architect of the Schooner Interconnection System, a tool to facilitate the construction of scientific applications from heterogeneous resources.

Schooner has been used in a number of collaborations. These include:

Sy Goodman (Georgia Tech), Peter Wolcott (U. of Nebraska-Omaha), and Patrick conducted a study in 1997-1998 for

concerning trends in HPC technology development and HPC national security applications, and their impact on the HPC export control regime.


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