Charles Norton

Charles' work with the Quakesim team involves adding parallelization and adaptive mesh refinement capabilities to the GeoFEST tectonic finite element modeling code. He is a principal member of the Earth science data systems section staff and the Earth science and technology directorate staff for special projects. Prior to joining JPL in 1998 he was a National Research Council resident scientist at the lab from 1996-1998.

Charles received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and his M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and technology development covers scientific software modernization and re-engineering techniques, parallel/cluster computing technologies, and modeling/simulation applied to parallel adaptive mesh refinement, plasma particle simulation, and other areas. He is on the editorial board of the journal Scientific Programming, the IEEE technical committee on parallel processing, and a senior member of IEEE.

• Quakesim Computational Technology project
• Development of Pyramid parallel finite element adaptive mesh refinement software
• Programmatic activites in high performance computing for engineering and science

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 169-315
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 90089-8099

Phone
818.393.3920
818.393.4802 (fax)

Email
Charles.D.Norton@jpl.nasa.gov

• Norton, C.D., Lyzenga, G.A., Parker, J.W., and Tisdale, E.R. Developing Parallel GeoFEST(P) using the PYRAMID AMR Library, to appear in proceedings NASA ESTC, 2004.

• NASA New Technology Awards (1998-2004)

• NASA NOVA Award (1999)

JPL
Section 3810 -- Earth Science Data Systems
Division 38 -- Observational Systems

Directorate 830 -- Earth Science Research and Advanced Concepts Office (AD)
Directorate 800 -- Earth Science and Technology (AD)

Other
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society