Steve Plimpton

I'm a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy lab. For many years I was in the Parallel Computational Sciences group. In 2001, I moved to a new Computational Biology group. In 2007, I became part of the Scalable Algorithms group.

My work involves implementing and using scientific simulations designed for parallel supercomputers. Often this includes the creation of efficient parallel algorithms. The applications I work on typically use particles, finite elements, or partial differential equations. Some of these simulation tools are now being applied to biology problems.