1. Jeremy McMinis
“I love being a graduate student studying physics. I have some pressure to produce results, but how I do so is up to me. I get to work whenever I want on problems that are interesting to me. I have a boss, my advisor, but they provide oversight and guidance, not micro-managing. It's a low pay, low responsibility, high intellectual reward job. Of course the plan is to be a professor one day, and things will change then. For now I think it is pretty much the perfect job.”

2. Biography Born and raised in Panama City Florida
First degree was a BA in Economics from New College in Florida
Moved to San Diego and then Ann Arbor MI where he went back to school and got a BS from Eastern Michigan in Physics
Accepted into graduate program at the University of Illinois where he is currently working towards his PhD and received his Master’s Degree
Second time participating in Adopt-A-Physicist

3. Hobbies Rock climbing Chess Repairing cars Disk golf Running Swimming
Card/Board games
Table Tennis

4. Topics of Discussion Jeremy's work Jeremy's employer
Jeremy's background
Quantum Monte Carlo
The Kraken

5. Employer University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign
“Working at a national lab or at a research university is something few people have the opportunity to do. It is a great place to work if you love doing physics, solving problems, and spending time around intelligent and motivated people.”
Private/Government funded research
Loomis Laboratory
UIUC Department of physics

6. What does Jeremy do? Computational Physics
A: “I look forward to a cup of coffee and talking to the other people in my lab. I enjoy coding, but I do most of that at home. When I am at work I get to opportunity to talk to other people about their projects and the progress they are making.”
Q: When you go to work, what is the one thing you look forward to doing?
Computational Physics
Performs calculations on supercomputers
Thinks about computational algorithms
Writes computer code
Calculates properties of materials
Jeremy is a major contributor to the open source quantum Monte Carlo code QMCPACK

7. The Kraken Jeremy does computations on the Kraken and Jaguar
3rd largest supercomputer in the world
Calculatio ns require a supercom puter because they use about 120,000 CPU's for 4-6 hours which is about K hours per calculatio n
located at Oak Ridge National Laboratori es
Imagine 200,000 desktop computer' s networked together!
129 TB of compute memory
A 3.3 PB raw parallel file system of disk storage for scratch space (2.4 PB available)
8,256 compute nodes
System Specifications
Cray Linux Environment (CLE) 2.2
A peak performance of 1.03 PetaFLOP
99,072 compute cores

8. Quantum Monte Carlo Method of calculationsGc
Method of calculations
Method is flexible and can be modified to address many types of problems
For instance, calculating the energy of liquid water and solid water can determine where it freezes
This technique uses random numbers to calculate properties of solids, liquids, or gases

9. Minecraft Q: Does the Kraken have gaming capabilities?
A: “Hah! I think you could play any Linux game on Kraken. Maybe Minecraft, Tuxracer, or a text based game could be played on it, but you'd have to build it yourself and get it running. I bet you could write a pretty awesome AI for any game you knew the API for (chess, starcraft, Civ, 1st person shooters, etc).”
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10. Division of Group Work Joleen Wilhelm Matthew Mahuna
Jake Danger Arsenou
Mistress of PowerPoint
Master of Information
Master of Correspondence