Derek Groen, CCS, University College London

This is a very rudimentary page about me, Derek Groen. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher working on the European MAPPER project at UCL.

A few peer-reviewed publications on topics I am currently working on:

MAPPER: A taxonomy of multiscale communities:
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/eScienceW.2011.11
We submitted an expanded article on this to CiSE, this article is currently being reviewed.

MPWide: A light-weight library for message passing over wide area networks:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1749-4699/3/1/015002

MAPPER: A first article on distributed multiscale simulation of nanocomposites:
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/eScienceW.2011.37

A few publications on topics I have been working on in the past:

SUSHI: A cosmological TreePM N-body code that runs distributed across multiple supercomputers:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1749-4699/4/1/015001
More recent conference paper on an improved version: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5559

The CosmoGrid Project: Simulating the universe on an intercontinental grid:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2009.419

The Living Application: a method to perform distributed multi-solver simulations dynamically and autonomously.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094342009347891

Global GRAPE Grid (G3) Project: Running N-body simulations of star clusters across a network of dedicated hardware sites:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2007.11.004

Posters

However, papers tend to be written with the intent to be read by other scientists, and might not be very useful for people without a similar background. Because poster presentations tend to be a little more accessible than scientific papers, I uploaded some of the posters I worked on as well during my PhD. Here they are:

Simulating star clusters on a global grid of PCs with GRAPE hardware
Simulating the Universe across two supercomputers, on in Amsterdam and one in Tokyo
Simulating the Universe across a planet-wide network of up to four supercomputers
A light-weight communication library for distributed computing

All of the posters relate directly to a journal article, so if you would like to know more feel free to check the papers. And if your thirst for knowledge on these topics is still insufficiently quenched after that, do not hesitate to contact me directly.

General information about my academic work

If you are interested about all my other publications, then I would recommend to take a look at my Google Scholar page.

For contact information, please refer to the main CCS site.