The Parallel Applications Technologies (PAT) Group was first part of the Exploration Systems Automony Section (367) and later part of the Modeling and Data Management Systems Section (387) until it was dissolved in August 2005. It specializied in research and development of parallel applications in scientific data processing, visualization, simulation, and modeling. The group participated in a wide variety of projects including multi-disciplinary, multi-year projects, as well as small proof-of-concept, prototyping efforts. All of the PAT group's tasks, regardless of scope, required state-of-the-art technologies in computer and information systems.

Our mission was:
Creating, accessing, analyzing and visualizing extremely large data sets through the use of parallel and distributed computing.

More information is available about the PAT group's projects, the members of the PAT group, and papers and talks by the PAT group.

For more information, please contact the final PAT group supervisor, Daniel S. Katz.

A semi-random image from the PAT group: