Jay Boisseau, widely credited with bringing the University of Texas from Nowheresville to near the front of the pack in the world of supercomputing, "is a force of nature," says UT Earth scientist Omar Ghattas.
One beautiful Fall day seventeen years ago I wandered into an office and my life profoundly changed. I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and was looking for a thesis advisor. Jadwin Hall was an intimidating place. Plenty of names familiar from my textboo