William G. Wichser

Senior Director, Advanced Systems, Research Computing PICSciE

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

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

Manage a number of clusters and high performance computing resources on campus. Most are under the TIGRESS banner.

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

Personal links

My weather station, a Davis VantageVue, is online and supplying data to a number of sites. View current information here now online and supplying data
Weather Underground link
Favorite science fiction. Always open for recommendations though.
My alma mater, Penn State
NOLS

Computing links

Community Enterprise Linux, CentOS
Beowulfery/MPI stuff.
Linux.org
Mathematica tutorial.
Systems Administrators Guild (LISA)
C numerical analysis programs.
Port number assignments, IANA

Music

One of my favorite musicians, Ronnie Earl Horvath.
Jonny Meister's Blues Show on WXPN Saturday nights.
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.

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.