Gary Kumfert came to ODU from Phildelphia as a freshman undergraduate in fall 1989. He graduated in spring 1993 cum laude with a B.S. in applied mathemathematics and a minor in computer science. In spring 1993 he was also awarded with the Meghan O'Connor award (Honors College), Kaufman Honors (ODU), and admission to the Ph.D. program in computer science at ODU. After spending summer 1993 in a pilot exchange program with the Deustsche Telekom Fachhochschule in Berlin, he started his graduate work and became a student of Alex Pothen's by summer 1994.
Gary successfully defended his dissertation in summer 1999 and has been at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ever since. His work includes developing software component architectures for high performance computing, parallel model coupling, and experimental programming models for future petaflop supercomputers.
In 2006, his main technical product, Babel, won a R&D 100 award in recognition of its superior performance in mixing multiple programming languages (C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90/95, Java, and Python) into a single application.
To learn more about Babel, high performance software componentry, and its increasing impact on computational science, Gary has a recent invited paper from SciDAC 2006: "How the common component architecture advances computational science" published by the Journal of Physics: Conference Series click here
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