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World domination at all costs

Starting June 2009 I joined Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) as a Software Engineer. I am also a part time doctoral student. While graduate school is mostly about research, I still prefer the teaching side of things. That said, I have been involved in a number of research projects here at Purdue. Under the direction of David Meyer I am currently pursuing my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Below is a time-line leading up to my collaboration and ultimate alliance with the evil empire.
RCAC can probably best be described as the research arm of ITaP (Information Technology at Purdue). In this capacity I work with the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), a National Science Foundation (NSF) infrastructure and research network established in September 2002 and comprised of six universities. NCN's mission is "to support the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by designing, constructing, deploying, and operating a national cyber-resource for nanotechnology theory, modeling and simulation."

More specifically, I am developing a distributed virtual operating system. I lovingly refer to it as "Skynet," though that is not its official name. Divulging information related to this project would hinder its ultimate evolution. Therefore, you should instead stare at this beautiful NCN logo:

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Someday I may end up with a PhD. Until then, I am content furthering the progress of digital systems and their ultimate domination over mankind.
My research project and thesis topic involves research into distributed, virtual operating systems. As time progresses more information regarding my thesis will become available.

In the mean time, feel free to check out NCN's website. In particular, my research relates fairly closely to nanoHUB. Assisted in the development and testing of storage area network (SAN)-related devices, software, and firmware. Sadly, a good portion of this project is covered by a NDA. Managed various aspects of a grid computing project involving Sun Microsystems and Purdue University. This involved developing and implementing scripts allowing interoperability between ASIC design software and Sun's GridEngine as well as collecting and analyzing hardware usage data to evaluate the effectiveness of GridEngine and Sun Ray Server software.

Here is a presentation that Dr. Johnson gave on the project. Assisted in the development of low power SRAM cache, utilizing Cadence Virtuoso to perform transistor-level design of clock subsystem (implemented as a ring oscillator) as well as hSpice to simulate and test for errors.