Mary Thomas, is a member of the faculty in the Department of
Computer Science at San Diego State University
where she leads the Advanced Computing Environments (ACE) Lab.
Current Research:
In addition to her research and teaching activities, Mary is a Ph.D Candidate in the Joint Computational Sciences Doctoral Program with the Claremont Graduate University and the SDSU Computational Sciences Research Center (CSRC). Her dissertation program involves working with Dr. Jose Castillo parallelize the Unified Curvilinear Ocean and Atmospheric Model (UCOAM) and employ distributed CI services in support of the workflow needed by othe ocean modeling community. The title of her dissertation is "Parallel Implementation of the Unified Curvilinear Ocean and Atmospheric (UCOAM) Model and Supporting Computational Environment."
Courses:
Ph.D.
Candidate, Computational Science
Claremont Graduate University & San Diego State University (expected completion 2012)
M.S.
Computer Science
San Diego State University
M.S.
Optical Physics
San Diego State University
B.S.
Physics
University of Texas at Austin
Thomas' research interests include parallel programming, coastal ocean models, emerging technologies applied to cyberinfratstructure environments.
Thomas leads a project that is focussed on the development of the Cyberinfrastructure Web Application (CyberWeb) Framework, which is designed to facilitate developement of virtual environments (VOs), Web services, and portals associated with scientific and high-performance computing that utilize Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and emerging distributed, Web, and portal technologies.
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Education:
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Topics of Interest:
- Ocean Modeling
- Parallel Computing
- Performance
- Computational Science
- Cyberinfrastructure for Computational Science
- Pylons Web Application Frameworks for Computational Grids
- Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Portals for Advanced Computing
- Python Tools for Computational Grids
- Emerging Technologies
- Campus Grids
- CI-enabled Web Services
- Middleware for Grid Portals
- Grid Portal Toolkit
- XSEDE/TeraGrid
Selected Publications:
Thomas, M. P., Cheng, C., More, S., Shah, H. Integrating HPC Resources, Services, and Cyberinfrastructure to Develop Science Applications Using Web Application Frameworks. Manuscript in preparation (copy on file with author). April, 2012.
Thomas, M. P., Castillo, J. E., Parallelization of the 3D Unified Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model: Initial Results. The 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2012), June 18-21, 2012, in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Thomas, M. P., Castillo, J. E., Development of a Cyberinfrastructure-based Computational Environment for the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model. Proceedings of the 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010), December 2010, Singapore.
M. P. Thomas, J. E. Castillo (2009). Development of a Computational Environment for the General Curvilinear Ocean Model. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, v. 180, 2009.
M. P. Thomas (2008), Using the Pylons Web Framework for Science Gateways. rid Computing Environments Workshop, GCE'08 12-16 Nov. 2008.
W. Wu, R. Edwards, I. R. Judson, M. E. Papka, M. Thomas, R. Stevens. TeraGrid Open Life Science Gateway. To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd annual TeraGrid Conference, TeraGrid '08 (accepted), 2008. M. P. Thomas, Editorial, GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals, Editorial. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 19 Issue 6, 2007.
J. Alameda, M. Christie, G. Fox, J. Futrelle, D. Gannon, M. Hategan, G. Kandaswamy, G. von Laszewski, M. A. Nacar, M. Pierce, E. Roberts, C. Severance, M. P. Thomas, The Open Grid Computing Environments collaboration: portlets and services for science gateways. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 19 Issue 6, pg.1078, 2007.
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
- IEEE
- SIAM
- ACM
Background
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Before joining SDSU, THomas 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.
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