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Senior Research Programmer with the Theoretical Biophysics Group B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1990, Case Western Reserve University Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 2002 (Expected), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: 3043 Beckman Institute Phone: (217)244-5883 Email: rbrunner@uiuc.edu See also: Unofficial Home Page

Research Projects

• BioCoRE, an environment for collaborative structural biology. If you have a BioCoRE login and are a member of the "BioCoRE Development" project, you can view our short-term goals here.
• The interoperable parallel system, Converse, and the parallel programming language Charm, developed by the Parallel Programming Laboratory
• A framework for automatic load balancing in parallel programs
• Development of the molecular dynamics program NAMD

Publications

• NAMD: A Case Study in Multilingual Parallel Programming
• Load Balancing in Parallel Molecular Dynamics
• Multilingual, Multiparadigm Interoperability: Experience with Converse
• Avoiding Algorithmic Obfuscation in a Message-Driven Parallel MD Code
• Flexibility and Interoperability in a Parallel Molecular Dynamics Code
• NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics
• Adapting to Load on Workstation Clusters [PDF]
• Application Performance of a Linux Cluster using Converse