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Research Interests
Dr. Miller's research interests include
Cyberinfrastructure, Parallel Algorithms and Architectures,
High-Performance Computing, Grid Computing,
Computational Crystallography, Computational Geometry, and Image Analysis.
For many years, Dr. Miller and colleagues (most notably, Prof. Quentin
F. Stout, U. Mich), explored the boundaries of
producing efficient and optimal algorithms for fundamental problems in
computational geometry and image analysis on traditional parallel
architectures, including the mesh, pyramid, hypercube, and PRAM, as well
as innovative architectures, such as the reconfigurable mesh.
A number of seminal papers have been published in these areas.
Since 1988, Dr. Miller has had the pleasure of working on a large project
in direct methods of crystal structure determination with a world-class
group of scientists at the
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute,
including Nobel Laureate
Herbert A. Hauptman
and
Drs.
Weeks and
DeTitta.
The development of the
Shake-and-Bake method,
and the
SnB
computer program has increased the size of molecular structures routinely
amenable to direct methods from 100 to 1000 atoms. Further, it has been shown
to be applicable to much larger proteins if they contain the amino-acid
methionine labeled with a selenium atom.
More recently, Dr. Miller has focused his reasearch efforts on
cyberinfrastructure.
The ACDC-Grid was developed as an
experimental grid to serve as a platform
for developing an integrated data and compute grid, as well as to provide a
platform for work on a grid monitor, grid portal, node swapping system,
predictive scheduling environment, and resource management system.
The follow on Western New York Grid (WNY Grid) was
designed and deployed as a heterogeneous grid in Western New York.
This led to the design and deployment of the New York State Grid
(NYS Grid), a production level grid based on the OSG software stack.
This work was used by Grid3+, Open Science Grid, the IBM NE BioGrid, and serves
as the cornerstone of the New York State Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
(NYSGrid.org).
His group has been responsible for grid-enabling a number of
critical applications in the areas of structural biology, bioinformatics,
ground water modeling, earthquake engineering, and computational chemistry,
to name a few.
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