Distinguished Scientist
San Diego Supercomputer Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
858-534-5120
pfeiffer@sdsc.edu
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WAYNE PFEIFFER Distinguished Scientist San Diego Supercomputer Center 9500 Gilman Drive |
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| Currently I am doing research and development in bioinformatics at SDSC, and I serve as project manager for Gordon, a data-intensive supercomputer. All of my research now is collaborative. Together with colleagues at the Scripps Translational Science Institute and UCSD, I am analyzing DNA sequences to more quickly identify the species and drug resistance of bacteria that infect people. Using similar techniques with colleagues at the San Diego Zoo, I am determining how closely related the bacteria are that infect birds in the zoo's collection. In addition, I help maintain and enhance the CIPRES science gateway, which is used by researchers around the world to infer phylogenetic trees.
Previously I did research in supercomputer performance analysis. I was principal investigator for NSF- and DARPA-funded studies to evaluate the Tera MTA, a novel computer with a multithreaded architecture. I also co-led the Joint NSF-NASA Initiative on Evaluation of scalable parallel computers. During the early years of my tenure at SDSC, I held various senior management positions. For several years I was Deputy Director of NPACI, the NSF-funded national partnership led by SDSC. In that capacity I coordinated operation and support of the computational resources within NPACI. In addition, I was Deputy Director at SDSC, responsible initially for the entire research program and subsequently its technology components. Before helping found SDSC, I worked at General Atomics as a computational physicist in fission and fusion energy research and development. I have a PhD in engineering science from the California Institute of Technology and belong to the American Physical Society. |
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