Mary Thomas @ SDSU

Mary Thomas

Research Assistant Professor
Office: GMCS 613
Phone: (619) 594-1694
Email: mthomas@rohan.sdsu.edu
Founder, SDSU Advanced Computing Environments Lab

Mary Thomas, is a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at San Diego State University where she leads the Advanced Grid Computing Environments (ACE) Lab.

Her current research interests include computational science, ocean modeling, Cyberinfrastructure (CI) for scienctific computing as well as emerging distributed, Web, and portal technologies.

Mary is also a Ph.D student in the SDSU Computational Sciences Doctoral Program. Her dissertation program involves working with Dr. Jose Castillo and Dr. Carlos Torres where she will parallelize the General Curvilinear Ocean Model (GCOM) and employ distributed CI services in support of the workflow needed by othe ocean modeling community.

Courses

Areas of Research

Cyberinfrastructure for Computational Science
Computational Science
Campus Grids
Ocean Modeling
Grid-enabled Web Services
Middleware for Grid Portals
Grid Portal Toolkit
DOE portal development on the SciDAC Grid
Grid Portals Information Repository
Grid-Enabled Portals for Advanced Computing
NSF Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) or TeraGrid
Performance (MS Thesis)

Selected Publications

M. Pierce, J. Alameda, M. Christie, G. Fox, J. Futrelle, D. Gannon, M. Hategan, G. von Laszewsk, M. A. Nacar, E. Roberts, C. Severance, M. Thomas. The Open Grid Computing Enviroments Collaboration: Portlets and Services for Science Gateways. Accepted for publication in Spec. Edtn, Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, 2005.

M. P. Thomas, J. Burruss, L. Cinquini, G. Fox, D. Gannon, L. Gilbert, G. von Laszewski, K. Jackson, D. Middleton, R. Moore, M. Pierce, B. Plale, A. Rajasekar, R. Regno, E. Roberts, D. Schissel, A. Seth, and W. Schroeder. Grid Portal Architectures for Scientific Applications. Proceedings of SciDAC 2005, 26–30 June 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 16, 2005.

M. Thomas, J. Boisseau, M. Dahan, C. Mills, S. Mock, K. Mueller. "Development of NPACI Grid Application Portals and Portal Web Services," Journal of Cluster Computing, 6(3), 2003.

M. Thomas, J. Boisseau. Building Grid Computing Portals: The NPACI Grid Portal Toolkit. "Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Ch 28." F. Berman, G. Fox and T. Hey, eds. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester (2003). Available from http://www.grid2003.org.

G. Fox, D. Gannon, M. Thomas. Overview of Grid Computing Environments. "Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Ch 20." F. Berman, G. Fox and T. Hey, eds. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester (2003). Available from http://www.grid2003.org.

G. Fox, D. Gannon, and M. Thomas, "Editorial: A Summary of Grid Computing Environments." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 14, No. 13-15, pp. 1035-1044 (2002).

M. Thomas, M. Dahan, K. Mueller, S. Mock, C. Mills. Application Portals: Practice and Experience. Grid Computing environments: Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2002, 14:1427-1444.

Organizational Memberships/Professional Affiliations

Global Grid Forum, co-chair of the Grid Computing Environment Research Group

IEEE

ACM

Relevant Conference Presentations, Speaking Engagements

Please see http://acel.sdsu.edu for a list of current publications and presentations.

GlobusWORLD, 2004

Supercomputing, 2003- GridPort presentation at the NPACI Booth and Use of CSF within GridPort

NPACI All Hands Meeting, 2003- Overview of GridPort Toolkit and Overview of Portals

NPACI All Hands Meeting, 2002- Overview of Grid Portals

Education

M.S., Computer Science, San Diego State University

M.S., Optical Physics, San Diego State University

B.S., Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Background

Before joining SDSU she was a research scientist in the Distributed and Grid Computing Group and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research is focused on emerging grid and web technologies, including grid portal and middleware technologies. Ms. Thomas is a co-Principle Investigator (co-PI) on the GridPortal Toolkit project, as well as the PI/Co-PI on several funded research projects including the NSF NMI Portals, the NPACI Grid Portals, and the DOE Portals projects. She was also a co-PI on the TACC Extensible Terascale Facility (TeraGrid) Proposal. Before joining TACC, she spent more than 4 years at the San Diego Supercomputer Center where she started the GridPort Toolkit project, which has been used for several large grid portals such as the PACI HotPage, the UCSD Telescience Portal, and the GAMESS - General Atomic Molecular Electronic Structure Systems - Web Port al.

Coaster/Trolley Commute

Now that the San Diego Trolley has opened up a new line to SDSU, I am taking the train/trolley between Encinitas and SDSU. Although it takes 70 minutes, I plan ahead and work on my laptop or read some papers/books. It's better than fighting Southern California traffic! Here are links to the Coaster and Trolley timetables. I made my own customized table that matches up train-trolley times so you can see at a glance which one you need to catch. So far, there are no typos (note: this is an old schedule which I have not updated).

http://www.sdcommute.com/

Mary's Coaster-Trolley Table

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