Faculty Research

Joel Adams developed Microwulf, a portable, 8-core, Beowulf-class supercomputer. (see the Microwulf homepage).

Our faculty are actively engaged in a variety of forms of research (see the faculty page for details). Here are some of the larger projects:

• Digital Libraries – Harry Plantinga built and maintains the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, a digital library of well-known Christian literature that is one of the five top Christian sites on the world-wide-web. This work is funded by commercial sales, private benefactors, and employs a number of students throughout the year.

• Security – Earl Fife is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE®), and a Certified Forensic Examiner (CCE®). He is a special deputy at the local sheriff department where he serves as their head computer forensic examiner, and he serves as a security consultant to the College. He has also built a security attack cart that he uses in his computer security course (see CS 386).

• SuperComputing – Joel Adams designs and builds high performance Beowulf clusters (see Dahl & Microwulf), and applies their computational power to hard problems in the sciences. This work has been funded by the NSF, employs student interns, and serves as the basis for the high-performance computing course (see CS 374).