About me
Afshin Eskandari Nasrabad
PhD, Physical Chemistry · System administrator, Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh
I keep the department's research compute cluster running: I install its nodes, keep their configuration in line, watch them, schedule the work on them, and help the people who use them. This is my tenth year doing it at Pitt.
Before that I sat on the other side of the queue. For thirteen years I wrote molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo codes and ran them on clusters at Pitt, McGill, Western Ontario, and Cologne.
The path here
From simulating fluids to running the machines.
- B.S. ChemistryIsfahan University, Iran
- M.S. Physical ChemistryTehran University, Iran
- PhD Physical ChemistryCologne University, Germany. Simulation of noble gases and their binary mixtures.
- Postdoctoral fellowPittsburgh, McGill, Western Ontario. 20+ papers; co-advised two PhD students.
- System administratorComputational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
Research · full section coming soon
Simulation codes I wrote.
All in C unless noted, written during my PhD and postdocs. Publications and the science behind them will get their own section here.
- PlatoConstant-stress molecular dynamics (Parrinello–Rahman) for crystals and glasses.
- DemocritusNVT and NPT molecular dynamics for atoms, small molecules and flexible polymer chains.
- ArchimedesMonte Carlo in the NVT and NPT ensembles for rigid molecules, mixtures and polymers.
- OdysseyGibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo for vapor–liquid equilibrium of small molecules.
- ChainsBuilds polymer chains grafted on flat, cylindrical or spherical surfaces, with or without nanoparticles.
- PyChainsPythonThe Python version of Chains, with a few more features.
Day to day
What I work with.
- Foreman
- Ansible
- pdsh
- Icinga
- Ganglia
- Slurm
- bash
- perl
- python
- C
- Fortran
Away from the terminal
Guitar, wood and resin.
- Guitar
- Songwriting
- Sound engineering
- Wood turning
- Resin art
- Fluid art