Current Projects

The High-Performance Computing Group at James Madison University is working on a variety of different projects in a variety of different disciplines.

Information Security

InfoSec Illustration

The group is working on several different cryptography projects. Some projects involve the development of components to support secure high-performance computing systems (e.g., secure distributed file systems). Other projects involve the use of high-performance computing in encryption/decryption.

For more information, contact Prof. Jason Martin.

 

Personal Navigation Systems

Navigation Illustration

Currently, virtually all personal navigation systems use simple single-core processors. However, if the past is any indication of the future, that is likely to change. This project is looking at ways in which different high-performance computing technologies might be used in these systems in the near (and distant) future.

For more information, contact Prof. David Bernstein.

 

Ordinary Differential Equations

ODE Illustration

The Modified Picard Method (sometimes called the Parker-Sochacki Method) is known to be useful in the generation of Taylor series solutions, root finding, and the computation of Maclaurin polynomials. This project is exploring parallel versions of this method.

For more information, contact Prof. Jim Sochacki.

 

Continuum Routing

Continuum Routing Illustration

A great deal of attention has been given to network-based routing. However, considerably less attention has been given to the computational aspects of continuum-based routing. This project is considering the ways in which different high-performance computing technologies can be used to find routes on 3-dimensional surfaces.

For more information, contact Prof. David Bernstein.