Quinn Snell

Office:

3366 TMCB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602

Phone:

(801)422-5098

FAX:

(801)422-0169

email:

snell@cs.byu.edu

Office Hours:

by appointment

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1997
  • Dissertation: Parallel Hierarchical Global Illumination
• Masters of Science in Computer Science, Utah State University, 1993
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, minor in math, Utah State University, 1992

Research Areas and Interests

Parallel and distributed computing and programming.

• Photon - Parallel hierarchical rendering
• HINT - Universal benchmarking program
• NetPIPE - Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator including Windows NT code

Classes I Teach

• CS 345 Operating Systems
• CS 584 Parallel Processing

Accomplishments

• Research and Development (R&D 100) Award, 1995

Selected Publications

• Q.O. Snell, and J.L. Gustafson, "Parallel Hierarchical Global Illumination," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, August 1997.
  
• Q.O. Snell, and J.L. Gustafson, "An Analytical Model of the HINT Performance Metric," to appear in Proceedings of Supercomputing '96, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1996.
  
• Q.O. Snell, A.Mikler, and J.L. Gustafson, "NetPIPE: A Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator," IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Information Management and Systems, June 1996.
  
• J.L. Gustafson, and Q.O. Snell, "HINT: A New Way to Measure Computer Performance", Proceedings of the 28th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vol. 2, pages 392-401.