During my education at CalPoly Humboldt, I was able to help program the supercomputer "Fusion" and build its successor "Helios". Aptly named, the first scientific research supercomputer was originally built to compute simulations of fusion. And now Helios has been built to throw more compute power at the problem, as well as other problems we want to try!

Fusion's hardware consisted of 192 CPU cores, and 11 Tesla k20 GPU's. And Helios consists of 512 CPU cores, and 16 k80 GPU's. That is to say, that the super computers have super amounts of compute power behind it. I am privileged to be able to have helped program and build Fusion and Helios. So I am writing these write-ups and docs for you future people to be able to do the same or at least make use of the raw compute power it provides!