Hank Childs
Henry
"Hank"
R.
Childs
, Ph.D.
Analytics Group,
Phone: (510) 486-4154 ,
1 Cyclotron Road
Mail Stop 50F1650
Berkeley,
CA
94720
US
Biographical Sketch
Hank Childs is a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and also a professional researcher at UC Davis. He is most well known as the architect of VisIt, a popular visualization and analysis tool for very large data. Hank is a member of the NERSC Analytics team, as well as the Chief Software Architect of VACET, the SciDAC center devoted to visualization and analysis. Hank received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from UC Davis. His website can be found here.
Journal Articles
H. Childs, D. Pugmire, S. Ahern, B. Whitlock, M. Howison, Prabhat, G. Weber, E. W. Bethel, “Extreme Scaling of Production Visualization Software on Diverse Architectures”, Computer Graphics and Applications, May 2010, 30 (3):22 - 31,
M. Isenberg, P. Lindstrom, H. Childs, “Parallel and Streaming Generation of Ghost Data for Structured Grids”, Computer Graphics and Applications May/June 2010, May 2010, 30 (3):50 - 62,
Conference Papers
David Camp, Christoph Garth, Hank Childs, David Pugmire, Kenneth Joy, “Streamline Integration using MPI-Hybrid Parallelism on Large Multi-Core Architecture”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, December 7, 2010,
M. Howison, E. W. Bethel, H. Childs, “Hybrid Parallelism for Volume Rendering on Large, Multi-Core Systems”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Proceedings of SciDAC 2010, Chattanooga TN, July 2010,
T. Fogal, H. Childs, S. Shankar, J. Kruger, R. D. Bergeron, P. Hatcher, “Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters”, High Performance Graphics 2010, Saarbruken, Germany, Saarbruken, Germany, June 2010,
J. Meredith, H. Childs, “Visualization and Analysis-Oriented Reconstruction of Material Interfaces”, Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), Bordeaux, France, June 2010,
Mark Howison, E. Wes Bethel, and Hank Childs, “MPI-Hybrid Parallelism for Volume Rendering on Large, Multi-Core Systems”, Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV’10),, Norrköping, Sweden, May 2, 2010,
Oliver Rübel, Sean Ahern, E. Wes Bethel, Mark D. Biggin, Hank Childs, Estelle Cormier-Michel, Angela DePace, Michael B. Eisen, Charless C. Fowlkes, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann, Min-Yu Huang, Soile V. E. Keränen, David W. Knowles, Cris L. Luengo Hendriks, Jitendra Malik, Jeremy Meredith, Peter Messmer, Prabhat, Daniela Ushizima, Gunther H. Weber, Kesheng Wu, “Coupling Visualization and Data Analysis for Knowledge Discovery from Multi-Dimensional Scientific Data”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2010, May 2010,
