| Principal Investigator | Students/level | Collaborators/Affiliation | Department | Type of Computing | Research Topics |
| Apuzen-Ito, Garrett | Eric Mittelstaedt/grad Todd Bianco/grad |
Geology and Geophysics | Large numbers of Cells, Long time scale, Complex visualization needs | Formation of ocean island chains, Mantle, magmatic and tectonic processes of the ocean basins, | |
| Businger, Steven | Tiziana Cherubini/post-doc Michael Murphy/grad |
Meteorology | Large number of cells, Requires 24/7 operation and dependability, Large data transfer and visualization | Destructive Atmospheric Storms, Arctic Hurricanes | |
| Cassanova, Henri | Joshua Wingstrom/grad Mark Stillwell/grad Richard Huang/UCSD Post-doc |
ICS | Rarely requires more than 128 nodes, Does development work, needs access to large machines for testing | Parallel and distributed computing, grid computing, theoretical and practical aspects of scheduling, modeling and simulation of computing platforms | |
| Chen, Yi-Leng (David) | DaNa Carlis/grad Hiep van Nguyen/grad Yang Yang/post-doc I. Shiro Jayawardena/grad Chuan-Chi Tu/grad |
Meteorology | Large number of cells | Weather Models of Hawaiian Islands and Taiwan | |
| Cheung, Kwok Fai | Volker Roeber/grad | ORE | Requires 24/7 operation and dependability | Tsunami Modeling, Storm-induced Coastal Flooding, Wind-wave Predictions, Hydroelasticity | |
| Erdogan, Sevki | Donald Tripp/ugrad | ICS/UHH | Development | handwritten word recognition using Neural Networks and implementation of a parallel re-configurable architecture. | |
| Fryer, Patricia | Tom Fedenczuk/grad | Geology and Geophysics | Large numbers of Cells, Long time scale, Complex visualization needs | Mud volcanoes, Determination of undersea volcanic movement using Bathymetric data. | |
| Gaidos, Eric | Jillian Ward/grad | Astrobiology | Data intensive, Storage is critical, Also I/O issues | Searching for early life forms by DNA analysis of Deep Water organisms | |
| Hamilton, Kevin | IPRC | Large number of cells, Requires 24/7 operation and dependability, Large data transfer and visualization | Observations and modeling of the global-scale circulation of the atmosphere, Climate modeling and climate change, Meteorology and chemistry of the stratosphere and mesosphere, Atmospheric and oceanic waves and tides | ||
| Head, John | Bing Fu/grad | Chemistry | Many Cycles, Large problems, but not necessarily storage intensive | Properties of Si nanoclusters, Predicting new materials, Theoretical, computational chemistry. | |
| Kim, Albert | Nam Vu/grad Yuewei Liu/grad |
CEE | Large matrices, Fast cycles, Rarely needs more than 96 processors at one time. | Particles, Aggregates, Membranes (PAM): Environmental Soft Matter Physics: Theory and Simulations, Computational Environmental Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Hydrodynamics of Colloids, Biocolloids, and Fractal Aggregates. | |
| Kobayashi, Marcelo | Hugo Pedro/grad | Mechanical Engineering | Development of Code | UAV design using Genetic Algorithms | |
| Kin Wai Leung/grad | 128 to 256 processors | Tsunami Modeling | |||
| Non-linear dynamical systems. | |||||
| Kumashiro, Kristin | Jhonsen Djajamuliadi/grad | Chemistry | Many Cycles | ||
| Large problems, but not necessarily storage intensive | |||||
| Li, Tim | Christopher Chambers/grad | Meteorology | IPRC | ||
| PET Project | |||||
| Climate, Weather, and Ocean modeling | |||||
| Magnier, Eugene | Paul Price/post-doc | Institute for Astronomy | PAN-Starrs project | ||
| John Tonry/IfA | |||||
| Istvan Szapudi/IfA | |||||
| Martindale, Mark | Casey Dunn/post-doc | Pacific Biosciences Research Center | Data intensive | Genomics | |
| Kewalo Marine Lab | Storage is critical | ||||
| Also I/O issues | |||||
| Pawlak, Geno | Kumar Rajagopalan/grad | Oceanography | Large number of cells | Flow over rough bathymetry | |
| Large data transfer and visualization | |||||
| Phillips, Vaughan | Meteorology | Large number of cells | |||
| Requires 24/7 operation and dependability | |||||
| Large data transfer and visualization | |||||
| Poisson, Guylaine | Brandon Sutherlin/ugrad | ICS | Data intensive | Bioinformatics | |
| Storage is critical | |||||
| Also I/O issues | |||||
| Qu, Weillin | Ruey Hwu/grad | Mechanical Engineering | Development of Code | Fuel Cell Design | |
| 128 to 256 processors | Heat Transfer | ||||
| Richards, Kelvin | Paolo Calil/grad | Oceanography | Large number of cells | Island wakes | |
| Large data transfer and visualization | |||||
| Siegfried, Steven | Cell and Modecular Biology | Data intensive | Handwritten word recognition using Neural Networks and implementation of a parallel re-configurable architecture. | ||
| Storage is critical | |||||
| Also I/O issues | |||||
| Stevens, Duane | Guangxia Cao/post doc | Meteorology | Large number of cells | Weather prediction | |
| Kevin Roe/MHPCC | Requires 24/7 operation and dependability | Flood and major event prediction in Hawaiian islands | |||
| Large data transfer and visualization | |||||
| Swanson, Sandra (ret.) | ICS/Maui Community College | Development | System Architecture | ||
| Teaching | Parallel Programming | ||||
| Wessel, Paul | Seung-Sep Kim/grad | Geology and Geophysics | Large numbers of Cells | ||
| Long time scale | |||||
| Complex visualization needs | |||||
| Timmerman, Axel | Fabian Schloesser/grad | Oceanography | Ocean circulation and climate research | ||
| Wang, Bin | Xiaqiong Zhou/grad | Meteorology | Hurricane, climate models, COAMPS, WRF | ||
| Yun, David Y.Y. | EE | advanced computing and communication; bio-medical engineering; intelligent system; 3D imaging and modeling; resource management; tele-health systems and remote telemedicine delivery |