William G. Wichser

Lead HPC Analyst, PICSciE

342 Peter B Lewis Library
Ivy Lane and Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544

(609) 258-1127 (work)
(609) 751-3268 (cell)

High performance parallel computer clusters for which I am responsible, solely or partially:

Cluster for Research on Complex Computations (CROCCO) - a 128 node dual Xeon (256 processor) Myrinet cluster
Computational Chemistry machine, cadillac, a 32 node dual Xeon processor cluster.
Atlas - an 86 node Dell cluster owned by the Chemical Engineering Department (Chris Floudas)
Hydra - a 92 node dual Xeon cluster owned by the Astrophysics Department
Joshy - an 9 node dual Opteron cluster owned by MAE (Clancy Rowley)
Sampo - a 16 node dual Intel cluster owned by MAE (Mikko Haataja & davbid Srolovitz)
Eyring - a 75 node dual Opteron cluster + 2 quad nodes owned by the Chemistry Department.
The Princeton TIGRESS facility with a 384 node/768 core Dell Intel cluster (della), a 192 node/768 core Dell Intel cluster with Infiniband (woodhen), an IBM BlueGene with 2048 CPUs, 1 rack (orangena), a 96 node/768 core SGI ICE cluster (artemis), an SGI Altix SMP with 192 Itanium CPUs and 1 TB of memory (hecate), and PVFS2, GPFS, and Lustre parallel filesystems.

Some of the departments I work with include: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computational Chemistry, Astrophysics, Geophysics, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Genomics, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Physics, Plasma Physics Lab, Gas and Fluid Dynamics Lab, Molecular Biology, Financial Engineering, Economics, and Cognitive Sciences.

Personal links

Weather at my house. Real weather maps from the Ocean Prediction Center of the NWS. The weather for Barnegat Bay.
Favorite science fiction. Always open for recommendations though.
My alma mater, Penn State
NOLS
Biking catalogs: Nashbar and Performance.
O Gauge trains: Classic Toy Trains magazine, Dr Tinker, and OGR

Music

One of my favorite musicians, Ronnie Earl Horvath.
Jonny Meister's Blues Show on WXPN Saturday nights.
Local Trenton scene and the Philly blues scene. The place to be on Thursday night, AJ's. Lambertville Station is a good jazz and blues venue (sometimes)
Local bands: Paul Plumeri, Ron Kraemer & the Hurricanes, and Blues Deluxe.
And of course, the best harp player in the world, Steve Guyger (sound bite)
Where I spend too much money on CDs: Princeton Record Exchange and Positively Records in Levittown.

Woodworking

Furniture I've built
Scary Sharp blade preparation.
Cabinet scrapers
Willard Brothers - where I buy most of my hardwoods.
Curtis Lumber Co.

A partial Wichser family tree.

Spare Time

Sailing, woodworking, gardening, stained glass, biking, hiking, cooking, reading, traveling, antiques.

Ann Schnappauf Higgins - you're in my thoughts and in my heart, always.