Education

2014 ~ 2017 M.S. Computer Science, Midwestern State University

2000 ~ 2004 B.S. Marine Science and Field Biology, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

Research

2015 ~ 2017 M.S. Candidate, Graduate Research

Thesis: Temperature Dispersion: Many-Core Vs. Traditional Multi-Core Laplace Transform Implementation

• Proposed portability of current multicore based weather simulations to a GPGPU environment. The Cuda method performs comparably with an MPI implementation and showed significantly fewer energy requirements.
• Constructed a Cuda Laplace implementation along with visualization of weather simulation.
• Tools: Cuda, OpenGL, TACC-Maverick

Publications

B. Wei, A. Knowles, C. Silva, C. Mounce, and A. Enem, “When Asteroids Attack
the Moon: Design and Implementation of an STK-Based Satellite Communication
Simulation for the NASA-Led Simulation Exploration Experience,” in Information
Technology-New Generations, pp. 73-79, 2018.

E. Colmenares, A. Knowles, ”A gentle introduction to GPU programming: conference
tutorial,” in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, pp. 130, 32:4, 2017.

E. Colmenares, H. Wu, A. Knowles, ”The pedagogical value and importance of appli-
cable computational intensive scientific kernels in parallel computing: a case study,”
in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, pp. 5-12, 32:4, 2017.

A. Knowles, E. Colmenares, ”Temperature Dispersion: Many-Core vs. Multi-Core
Laplace Transform Implementation,” in PDPTA’17, pp. 184-187, 2017.

Experience

August 2017 – Present    CSE Instructor/ WiCS Coordinator,  New Mexico Tech

August 2014 – May 2017  Graduate Assistant, Midwestern State University