Lynn Parnell, Senior Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Heliophysics and Solar System Divisions

GSFC Code:

606.2

Mailing Address:

NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
Building 28, Room W230
NASA GSFC, Code 606.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 286-2320

Fax:

Email:

Lynn.Parnell@nasa.gov

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Biography:

Dr. Lynn Parnell received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (1974) and a BS (1967) from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, and a MS in Biological and Agricultural Engineering (1969) from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. His PhD dissertation is on the vibration of beams with attached mass. After a tour of duty in the U.S. Army leading an engineering team conducting systems analysis of the tactical fire control system, TACFIRE, he led and directed research in the hydromechanics of Naval systems at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC Pacific) and its predecessor laboratory organizations for 20 years. During that time his research focus was on theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of ship hull design, undersea vehicle propulsion, combustion, drag reduction technologies and missile airframe design and analysis. Dr. Parnell then served for 15 years as program director and coordinator for HPC at SSC Pacific. He was the laboratory's leading expert and national representative on HPC technology and directed its HPC Center whose primary focus was on advanced parallel computational methods for command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. He was responsible for acquisition, operation and management of the Center's HPC systems - scalable parallel supercomputing servers and clusters at multiple classification levels - in support of the full breadth of science and engineering disciplines at the laboratory. He served for many years as a member and leader of research and fellowship award panels for SSC Pacific and the Department of Defense HPC Modernization Program.