Mark A. Taylor

Mark Taylor received his Ph.D. from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1992.  Mark worked as a software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 1992 to 1998.  From 1998 to 2004, he was a staff member in the Computer and Computational Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  In 2004, Mark joined the Center for Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics at Sandia National Laboratories, where he works on scalable numerical methods for climate and forecast modeling.  Mark is the lead developer of SEAM, a spectral element dynamical core for global atmospheric circulation modeling. Mark has extensive experience with massively parallel computers, recently using SEAM to perform a 1B node simulation of the stratospheric polar vortex using 10,000 processors on a Cray XT3.  At present, Mark is collaborating with NCAR on the integration and evaluation of cubed-sphere atmospheric models for the Community Climate System Model.

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