Professor Barba will be Faculty Director of GW's newly established Open Source Program Office (OSPO). The OSPO, funded by a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will coordinate and support open source software efforts across GW. An Open Source Program Office is an organizational structure used to coordinate and manage open source software... Continue »
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Valparaíso, Chile), where Prof. Barba received her degree in mechanical engineering, has awarded her the university's highest honorific: the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. The solemn award ceremony inaugurated the 2022 academic year, and was the first in-person event at the university post-pandemic. Only seven other people have been awarded this... Continue »
New Barba-group member Paulina Rodríguez has been awarded a coveted Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF). This program, running now for 30 years, confers fellows with unparalleled support and opportunities: full tuition and stipend, a twelve-week practicum experience at a DOE national laboratory, an annual fellows summit and program review, and a... Continue »
On May 19, 2021, Prof. Barba gave a keynote talk at IPDPS, a long-running technical conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. Her talk was titled "12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Irreproducible Results." Abstract Thirty years ago, David Bailey published a humorous piece in the Supercomputing Review magazine,... Continue »
Preprint: arXiv:2103.01048, 1 Mar 2021. Submitted: 22 Mar. 2021. Abstract Biomolecular electrostatics is key in protein function and the chemical processes affecting it.Implicit-solvent models expressed by the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation can provide insights with less computational power than full atomistic models, making large-system studies—at the scale of viruses, for example —accessible to more researchers. This paper... Continue »
Congratulations to Natalia Clementi, who successfully defended her thesis on February 16, 2021. Bravo! Natalia is from Argentina, with a degree in physics from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. She was recruited by Prof. Barba during the VI Latin American Symposium on High-Performance Computing (HPC-Latam) in July 2013, and arrived in Washington to join the Barbagroup... Continue »