James G. Foucar

Software Engineering & Research

(505) 284-8801

Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1318

Biography

James Foucar is currently an employee of Sandia National Labs working as a software developer. He has a wide variety of experience in the computing field: he spent time in academia, worked for many years as an intern at Sandia, and worked as a full-time developer at Sandia on multiple teams. He has experience in everything from DevOps to scientific computing.

Currently working as member of the new software engineering (SE) dept, with most of his time being funded by E3SM (climate). The E3SM work is split between SE support, development of ESMCI/CIME (shared climate infrastructure with NCAR), and SCREAM/Eamxx (high resolution, cloud resolving model using C++/Kokkos).

Education

University of New Mexico, Student in the Computer Science PhD Program, 2006-2007
University of New Mexico, Masters program, graduated 2006
University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate, graduated 2003

Publications

Eldred, C., Taylor, M.A., Bradley, A.M., Guba, O., Hillman, B.R., Bertagna, L., Foucar, J.G., Steyer, A., Clevenger, T.C., & Clevenger, T.C. (2023). Global convection permitting climate simulations with the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2430383 Publication ID: 125328
Berger-Vergiat, L., Rajamanickam, S., Loe, J.A., Kelley, B., Harvey, E.C., Foucar, J.G., Ellingwood, N.D., Dang, V., Liegeois, K., Pearson, C., & Pearson, C. (2022). Kokkos Kernels Math Library [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2003140 Publication ID: 111976
Berger-Vergiat, L., Rajamanickam, S., Dang, V., Kelley, B., Ellingwood, N.D., Loe, J.A., Harvey, E.C., Pearson, C., Foucar, J.G., Liegeois, K., & Liegeois, K. (2022). Kokkos Kernels (Sake project) [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2003182 Publication ID: 112132
Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Bradley, A.M., Salinger, A.G., Taylor, M.A., Foucar, J.G., & Foucar, J.G. (2020). Performance-Portability Results for the Non-Hydrostatic Atmosphere Dycore of E3SM at Cloud-Resolving Resolutions [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1831385 Publication ID: 71711
Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Taylor, M.A., Foucar, J.G., Larkin, J., Bradley, A.M., Rajamanickam, S., Salinger, A.G., & Salinger, A.G. (2020). A performance-portable nonhydrostatic atmospheric dycore for the energy exascale earth system model running at cloud-resolving resolutions [Conference Poster]. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85102338627&origin=inward Publication ID: 74689
Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Bradley, A.M., Taylor, M.A., Salinger, A.G., Foucar, J.G., Rajamanickam, S., Larkin, J., & Larkin, J. (2020). A performance-portable nonhydrostatic atmospheric dycore for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model running at cloud-resolving resolutions [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1830973 Publication ID: 71253
Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Foucar, J.G., Taylor, M.A., Bradley, A.M., Salinger, A.G., & Salinger, A.G. (2020). Performance-portability progress for the ultra-high resolution non-hydrostatic atmosphere model in E3SM [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1822651 Publication ID: 70995
Hillman, B.R., Caldwell, P., Salinger, A.G., Bertagna, L., Beydoun, H., Peter, B., Bradley, A.M., Donahue, A., Eldred, C., Foucar, J.G., Golaz, C., Guba, O., Jacob, R., Johnson, J., Keen, N., Krishna, J., Lin, W., Liu, W., Pressel, K., … Yuan, X. (2020). SCREAM: a performance-portable global cloud-resolving model based on the Energy Exascale Earth System Model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1807360 Publication ID: 73705
Golaz, J.C., Caldwell, P.M., van Roekel, L.P., Petersen, M.R., Tang, Q., Wolfe, J.D., Abeshu, G., Anantharaj, V., Asay-Davis, X.S., Bader, D.C., Baldwin, S.A., Bisht, G., Bogenschutz, P.A., Branstetter, M., Brunke, M.A., Brus, S.R., Burrows, S.M., Cameron-Smith, P.J., Donahue, A.S., … Zhu, Q. (2019). The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(7), pp. 2089-2129. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001603 Publication ID: 104440
Foucar, J.G. (2014). Converting Projects from STK Classic to STK. https://doi.org/10.2172/1171561 Publication ID: 38310
Noble, D.R., Sjaardema, G.D., Clausen, J., Thomas, J.D., Foucar, J.G., Franko, K., Heinstein, M., Williams, A.B., Miller, J.D., & Miller, J.D. (2013). Sierra Transition Team Sprint Review 4.29-8 [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1673232 Publication ID: 35844
Hensinger, D.M., Drake, R.R., Foucar, J.G., & Foucar, J.G. (2008). Pamgen, a library for parallel generation of simple finite element meshes. https://doi.org/10.2172/932881 Publication ID: 13065

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Projects

Trilinos

E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model

Kokkos

Software

CIME

E3SM

Kokkos