Timothy Williams

Tim Williams is a Principal Project Specialist, Computational Science at the ALCF, where he works with large-scale projects using the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer. He is manager of the Early Science Program, which is preparing scientific applications for early use of the facility’s next-generation IBM Blue Gene/Q computer, Mira. His Ph.D. Physics research was in statistical turbulence theory, and he conducted subsequent research in plasma physics, groundwater flow simulation, and climate modeling---with a nine-year interlude writing pricing and risk codes in the financial industry. He has focused on high-performance parallel computing since 1989 at LLNL, NERSC, LANL, and now ANL.