Publications

Professional Articles | Books Published | Government Reports
Published Popular Articles or Short Notes | Selected Media Profiles or Interviews | Abstracts Published

Professional Articles

(Published or submitted for publication)

  1. "Surface Geometry of Charged Rotating Black Holes," Phys. Rev., D7, 289-295, 1973.
  2. "Mass Formula for Kerr Black Holes," Phys. Rev. Lett., 30, 71-73, 1973.
  3. "Maximally Slicing a Black Hole," Phys. Rev., D7, 2814-2817, 1973, with S. Christensen, B. DeWitt, F. Estabrook, E. Tsiang, and H. Wahlquist.
  4. "Mechanisms for Inducing Synchronous Rotation and Small Eccentricity in Close Binary Systems," Ap. J. (Lett.), 202, L135-L137, 1975, with W. H. Press and P. Wiita.
  5. "The Binary Pulsar -- Physical Processes, Possible Companions, and Evolutionary Histories," Ap. J., 207, 574-588, 1976, with R. Blandford.
  6. "Collision of Two Black Holes: Theoretical Framework," Phys. Rev., D14, 2443-2452, 1976, with A. Cadez, B. DeWitt, and K. Eppley.
  7. Gravitational Radiation from Distant Encounters and Head-On Collisions of Black Holes: The Zero Frequency Limit," Phys. Rev., D15, 2069-2077, 1977.
  8. "Spacetimes Generated by Computers: Black Holes with Gravitational Radiation," Ann. N.Y. Acad. of Sciences, 302, 569-604, 1977.
  9. "Are There Geon Analogues in Sourceless Gauge-Field Theories?" Comm. Math. Phys., 56, 1-9, 1977, with. S. Coleman.
  10. "The Radiation Gauge in General Relativity," Phys. Rev., D17, 1945-1956, with J. W. York, Jr.
  11. "Kinematic Conditions in the Construction of Spacetime," Phys. Rev., D17, 2529-2551, 1978, with J. W. York, Jr.
  12. "Time Functions in Numerical Relativity: I. Marginally Bound Dust Collapse," Phys. Rev., D19, 2239-2259, 1979, with D. Eardley.
  13. "Basic Concepts in Finite Differencing of Partial Differential Equations," in Sources of Gravitational Radiation, 139-159, 1979, ed. L. Smarr (Cambridge University Press).
  14. "Gauge Conditions, Radiation Formulae, and the Two Black Hole Collision, in Sources of Gravitational Radiation, 245-274, 1979, ed. L. Smarr (Cambridge University Press).
  15. "Observations of X-Ray Sources in M31," Ap. J. Lett., 234, L45-L49, 1979, with L. Van Speybroeck, A. Epstein, W. Forman, R. Giacconi, C. Jones, and W. Liller.
  16. General Relativistic Hydrodynamics: The Comoving, Eulerian, and Velocity Potential Formalism," in Essays in General Relativity: A Festschrift for Abraham Taub, 157-183, 1980, ed. F. Tipler (Academic Press), with C. Taub and J. R. Wilson.
  17. "Rayleigh-Taylor Overturn in Supernova Core Collapse, "Ap. J., 246, 515-525, 1981, with J. R. Wilson, R. T. Barton, and R. L. Bowers.
  18. "Hydrodynamical Formation of Twin-Exhaust Jets," Ap. J., 247, 52-58, 1981, with M. L. Norman, M. D. Smith, and J. R. Wilson.
  19. "Can the Twin-Exhaust Model Explain Radio Jets?" Nature, 293, 277-279, 1981, with M. D. Smith, J. R. Wilson, and M. L. Norman.
  20. "Dumbbell Galaxies and Precessing Radio Jets," Astron. J., 87, 602-615, 1982, with J. S. Gallagher and A. Wirth.
  21. "The Extended Radio Source in the Center of M31," Ap. J. Lett., 257, L13-L18, 1982, with R. M. Hjellming.
  22. "Structure and Dynamics of Supersonic Jets," Astron. & Astrophys., 113, 285-302, 1982, with M. Norman, K.-H. Winkler, and M. Smith.
  23. "Bubbles, Jets and Clouds in Active Galactic Nuclei, " Ap. J., 264, 432-445, 1983, with M. D. Smith, J. R. Wilson, and M. L. Norman.
  24. "Gravitational Waves and Red Shifts: A Space Experiment for Testing Relativistic Gravity Using Multiple Time-Correlated Radio Signals," Gen. Rel. and Grav., 15, 129-163, 1983, with R. F. C. Vessot, C. A. Lundquist, R. Decker and T. Piran.
  25. "Propagation and Morphology of Pressure-Confined Supersonic Jets," in Astrophysical Jets, 227-251, 1983, ed. A. Ferrari and A. G. Pacholczyk (D. Reidel: Dordrecht), with K.-H. Winkler and M. Norman.
  26. "A Numerical Study of Nonspherical Black Hole Accretion. I. Equations and Test Problems," Ap. J., 277, 296-311, 1983, with J. Hawley and J. R. Wilson.
  27. "A Numerical Study of Nonspherical Black Hole Accretion. II. Finite Differencing and Code Calibration," Ap. J. Suppl., 55, 211-246, 1984, with J. Hawley and J. R. Wilson.
  28. "Shocks, Interfaces and Patterns in Supersonic Jets," in Fronts, Interfaces and Patterns, 1984, ed. A. R. Bishop, L. F. Campbell, and P. J. Channel (North Holland), and in Physica 12D, 83-106, 1984, with M. Norman and K.-H. Winkler.
  29. "The Contribution of Bryce DeWitt to Classical General Relativity," in Ahead of His Time: Bryce S. DeWitt. Essays on the Quantum Theory of Gravity in Honor of his 60th Birthday, 1984, ed. S. Christensen (Adam Hilger, Lmt.: Bristol, England).
  30. "Computational Relativity: Numerical and Algebraic Approaches," in The Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, 163-183, 1984, ed. B. Berotti et al. (Reidel: Dordrecht).
  31. "General Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Accretion Physics: A Numerical Approach," in Problems of Collapse and Numerical Relativity, 256-269, 1984, ed. D. Bancel and M. Signore (Reidel: Dordrecht), with J. Hawley.
  32. "The Missing Bulge Globular Clusters in M31: New Optical Candidates," Ap. J. 290, 140-153, 1985, with A. Wirth and T. L. Bruno.
  33. "Fluid Dynamical Mechanisms for Knots in Astrophysical Jets," in Numerical Astrophysics, 88-126, 1985, ed. J. Centrella, J. LeBlanc, and R. Bowers (Jones and Bartlett: Boston), with K.-H. Winkler and M. Norman.
  34. "General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics," in Numerical Astrophysics, 52-68, 1985, ed. J. Centrella, J. LeBlanc, and R. Bowers (Jones and Bartlett: Boston), with J. Sloan.
  35. "Numerical Models of Fat Disks: New Scenarios for Fluid Accretion into Black Holes," in Numerical Astrophysics, 30-51, 1985, ed. J. Centrella, J. LeBlanc, and R. Bowers (Jones and Bartlett: Boston), with J. Hawley.
  36. "Hot Spots in Radio Galaxies: A Comparison with Hydrodynamic Beam Cap Simulations," Mon. Not. Roy. Astro. Soc., 214, 67-85, 1985, with M. Smith, M. Norman, and K.-H. Winkler.
  37. "Knot Production and Jet Disruption via Nonlinear Kelvin-Helmholtz Pinch Instabilities," in Physics of Energy Transport in Extragalactic Radio Sources, 150-168, 1985, ed. A. Bridle and J. Eilek (NRAO: Green Bank), with M. Norman and K.-H. Winkler.
  38. "Why Dominant Cluster Jets are Different," in Physics of Energy Transport in Extragalactic Radio Sources, 168-181, 1985, ed. A. Bridle and J. Eilek (NRAO: Green Bank), with D. Sumi.
  39. "An Approach to Complexity: Numerical Computations," Science, 228, 403-408, 1985.
  40. "New Paradigms for Black Hole Accretion from High Resolution Supercomputer Experiments," In American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 144: Magnetospheric Phenomena in Astrophysics, 263-290, 1986, ed. R. I. Epstein and W. C. Feldman (American Institute of Physics: New York), with J. Hawley.
  41. "Are the Inner Cores of Galaxy Clusters Dominated by Dark Matter?" in Inner Space Outer Space: The Interface Between Cosmology and Particle Physics, 226-227, 1986, ed. E. Kolb, M. Turner, D. Lindley, K. Olive, and D. Seckel (Univ. of Chicago Press: Chicago), with D. Sumi.
  42. "Numerical Relativistic Gravitational Collapse with Spatial Time Slices," in Astrophysical Radiation Hydrodynamics, 481-519, 1986, ed. K.-H. Winkler and M. Norman (Reidel: Dordrecht), with C. Evans and J. R. Wilson.
  43. "The Computational Science Revolution: Technology, Methodology, and Sociology," in High-Speed Computing: Scientific Applications and Algorithm Design, 1988, ed. R. B. Wilhelmson (Univ. of Illinois Press: Urbana).
  44. "Degenerate Dwarf Binaries as Promising, Detectable Sources of Gravitational Radiation," Ap. J., 323, 129-139, 1987, with C. R. Evans and I. Iben, Jr.
  45. "Radio Jets as a Probe of the Cooling Flow Environment," in Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies, 1987, ed. A. C. Fabian (D. Reidel: Dordrecht), with D. M. Sumi and M. L. Norman.
  46. "Supercomputers, Workstations, and Visualization," in NCAR-41 Proceedings 1987, xxx-xxx, 1988, (Pechnomic Publishing Co., Inc.: Lancaster, PA).
  47. "Supercomputing and Numerical Relativity: A Look at the Past, Present and Future," in Frontiers in Numerical Relativity, 1-17, 1989, ed. C. Evans, L. Finn, and D. Hobill (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), with D. Hobill.
  48. "Black Hole Spacetimes: Testing Numerical Relativity," in Frontiers in Numerical RelativitY, 57-73, 1989, ed. C. Evans, L. Finn, and D. Hobill (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), with D. Bernstein and D. Hobill.
  49. "Shedding Light on Black Holes," Future Generation Computer Systems, 5, 225-242, 1989, (Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.: Amsterdam), with D. Hobill and D. Bernstein.
  50. "Numerical Relativity: Black Hole Spacetimes," Visualization State of the Art, 49, 1989, SIGGRAPH Video Review, with D. Hobill, D. Bernstein, D. Cox, and R. Idaszak.
  51. "Supercomputing Opportunities for the Protein Sciences," in Protein Folding: Deciphering the Second Half of the Genetic Code, eds. L. M. Gierasch and J. King (AAAS: Washington D.C., 1990).
  52. "White Paper of the Computing and Data Processing Panel," in Working Papers: Astronomy and Astrophysics Panel Reports, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, National Research Council (National Academy Press: Washington D.C., 1991).
  53. "Astronomical Computing in the 1990s: The Bahcall Committee Report," Computers in Physics, Mar/Apr, 180-190, 1991, with W. H. Press.
  54. "Extraterrestrial Computing: Exploring the Universe with a Supercomputer," in Very Large Scale Computation in the 21st Century, 100-117, ed. J. P. Mesirov (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Philadelphia, 1991).
  55. "Life After Internet: Making Room for New Applications," Harvard University Information Technology Quarterly issue on Building an Information Infrastructure, Summer 1991, Vol. IX, No. 2, 12-21, with C. C. Catlett.

    also published in:

    "Life After Internet: Making Room for Applications," in Building an Information Infrastructure, xx-xx, 1992, ed. B. Kahin, (McGraw-Hill: New York), with C. C. Catlett.
  56. "Visualization Captures the Imagination of Physicists," Computers in Physics, Nov/Dec, 564-567, 1991.
  57. "Numerically Generated Black Hole Spacetimes: Interaction with Gravitational Waves", Andrew Abrahams, David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr, Physical Review D45, 3544, (1992).
  58. "Computing Dynamical Black Hole Spacetimes", David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and John Towns,in Proceedings of Supercomputer Symposium '92, Ottawa, Ontario, (1992).
  59. "Metacomputing," Charlie Catlett and Larry Smarr, Comm. ACM, 35 (6) 44-52. 1992.
  60. "Numerically Generated Black Hole Spacetimes", David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr, in Proceedings of the 6th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, (1993).
  61. "Visualizing Black Hole Spacetimes", Peter Anninos, Mark Bajuk, David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 13, 12, (1993).
  62. "Gravitational Waves from Oscillating Black Holes", Peter Anninos, David Bernstein, David Hobill, John Towns, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr, to appear in Computational Astrophysics, Springer-Verlag, (1994).
  63. "The Collision of Two Black Holes", Peter Anninos, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr, and Wai-Mo Suen, Physical Review Letters, 71, 2851 (1993).
  64. "Initial data for the black hole plus Brill wave spacetime" David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel and Larry Smarr. Physical Review D50, 3760, 1994
  65. "Dynamics of Black Hole Apparent Horizons", Peter Anninos, David Bernstein, Steven R. Brandt, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr,Physical Review D50, 3801, 1994
  66. "Numerically gererated axisymmetric black hole spacetimes: Numerical methods and code tests", David Bernstein, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and John Towns, Physical Review D50, 5000, 1994
  67. "The Head-On Collision of Two Equal Mass Black Holes: Numerical Methods" Peter Anninos, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and Wai-Mo Suen, National Center For Supercomputing Applications Technical Report 024, 1994.
  68. "Dynamics of Apparent and Event Horizons", Peter Anninos, David Bernstein, Steven Brandt, Joseph Libson, Joan Masso, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, Wai-Mo Suen and Paul Walker. Physical Review Letters, 74, 630 (1995)
  69. "The Head-On Collision of Two Equal Mass Black Holes", Peter Anninos, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, and Wai-Mo Suen. Physical Review D 52 2044 (1995)
  70. "Geometry of a Black Hole Collision", Richard Matzner, Edward Seidel, Stuart L. Shapiro, Larry Smarr, Wai-Mo Suen, Saul Teukolsky, Jeff Winicuor, Science 270, 941, 1995.
  71. "Event Horizons of Numerical Black Holes", Peter Anninos, David Bernstein, Steve Brandt, Joseph Libson, Joan Massó, Ed Seidel, Larry Smarr, and Paul Walker, Proceedings of the 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Ed. R. Ruffini and M. Keiser, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995.
  72. "Oscillating Apparent Horizons in Numerically Generated Spacetimes", Peter Anninos, David Bernstein, Steve Brandt, David Hobill, Ed Seidel, Larry Smarr, Australian Journal of Physics, 48, 1027-43 (1995).
  73. Larry Smarr, "Computational Infrastructure: Toward the 21st Century," Comm. ACM, 40 (11) 28-32 (1997) Also guest editor; issue: Blueprint for the Future of High Performance Computing.
  74. "A Nationwide Parallel Computing Environment," Ken Kennedy, Charlie Bender, John Connolly, John Hennessy, Mary Vernon, and Larry Smarr, Comm. ACM 40 (11): 62-72 (1997).
  75. "Supercomputers: Directions in Technology, Architecture, and Applications", Larry Smarr, in Proceedings of Supercomputing '98 in Mannheim, Germany (1998).
  76. "Grids in Context", Larry Smarr, Chapter 1 in The Grid: A Blueprint for the New Computing Infrastructure, edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman (MKP, 1998).
  77. "The Emergence of Grid Information Infrastructures", Larry Smarr, Chapter 23 in AAAS Science and Technology Yearbook 2000, editors Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Ceilia McEnaney, Stephen J. Lita.
  78. "The OptIPuter," Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Philip Papadopoulos, Comm. ACM, 46 (11) 58-67 (2003)
  79. "Data-Intensive e-Science Frontier Research," Comm. ACM 46 (11) 68-77, Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Philip Papadopoulos (2003).
  80. "Teleimmersion and Visualization with the OptIPuter," Thomas DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Daniel Sandin, Oliver Yu, Chong Zhang, Rajvikram Singh, Eric He, Javid Alimohideen, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Robert Grossman, Marco Mazzucco, Larry Smarr, Mark Ellisman, Phil Papadopoulos, Andrew Chien, John Orcutt, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2002), The University of Tokyo, Japan, December 3-6, 2002. Also in Telecommunication, Teleimmersion and Telexistence, (Susumu Tachi, editor), Ohmsha/IOS Press, 2003, pp. 25-71 (2003)
  81. "Grids in Context" in The Grid: A Blueprint for the New Computing Infrastructure, 2nd Edition, Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman (editors), Morgan Kaufmann Pub (2003).
  82. "An Integrated Approach to Ocean Observatory Data Acquisition/Management and Infrastructure Control using Web Services," Bill St. Arnaud, Alan Chave, Andrew Maffei, Ed Laszowka, Larry Smarr, Ganesh Gopalan, Mar. Tech. Soc. J., 38, 155-163, 2004.
  83. "A Management Concept for Ocean Observatories Based on Web Services," Alan Chave, Bill St. Arnaud, Mark Abbott, John Delaney, Ron Johnson, Ed Lazowska, Andrew Maffei, John Orcutt, and Larry Smarr. In Oceans '04, 2187-2193, 2004.
  84. Maffei, John Orcutt, and Larry Smarr, A Management Concept for Ocean Observatories Based on Web Services, Proc. Oceans’04/Techno-Ocean’04, Kobe, Japan, 9-12 Nov 2004, 7 (in press)
  85. "The OptIPuter: a new Approach to Volume Visualization of Large Seismic Datasets," Graham Kent, John Orcutt, Larry Smarr, Jason Leigh, Atul Nayak, Debbie Kilb, L. Renambot, S. Venkataraman, Tom DeFanti, Y. Fialko, Phil Papadopoulos, Greg Hidley, David Hutches, Maxine Brown, Ocean Technology Conference, May 2004.
  86. "The Emerging Role of Biogrids,", Mark Ellisman, Michael Brady, David Hart, Fang-Pang Lin, Matthias Müller, Larry Smarr, Comm. ACM, 47 (11) 52-57 (2004).
  87. "A Framework for Middleware Supporting Real-Time Wide-Area Distributed Computing," Kane Kim, Steve Jenks, Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, and Liang-Chen Zheng, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2005), Sedona, AZ, February 2-4, 2005, pp. 231-240.
  88. "The OptIPuter, Quartzite, and Starlight Projects: A Campus to Global-Scale Testbed for Optical Technologies Enabling LambdaGrid Computing" (invited paper), Larry Smarr, Joe Ford, Phil Papadopoulos, Shaya Fainman, Thomas DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, Anaheim, California, March 6-11, 2005, CD ROM.
  89. "Introduction--The Cyberinfrastructure Backplane: The Jump to Light Speed," Larry Smarr and Phil Papadopoulos, Guest Editors, Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch (CTWatch) Quarterly, vol. 1, #2 May 2005, pps 2-4.
  90. Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti, Cees de Laat, Larry Smarr, Guest Editors of a special iGrid issue of the Elsevier journal FGCS: The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, to appear in mid 2006.

Books Published

Sources of Gravitational Radiation, ed. L. Smarr (Cambridge University Press, 1979).

Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science, William J. Kaufmann III,Larry L. Smarr. Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman and Company, ISSN 1040-3213. Copyright 1993 by Scientific American Library

Government Reports

  1. Report on NSF ANIR Experimental Infostructure Networks 2002 by Smarr, L., Clapp, G., DeFanti, T., Brown, M.
  2. Larry Smarr and Susan Graham (co-chairs), "Open Source Software For High End Computing", President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2000.
  3. Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future a Report to the President of the United States, 1999, Members of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.
  4. Larry Smarr and David Botstein (co-chairs), "The Biomed. Info. Science and Technology Initiative", Working Group on Biomedical Computing, Adv. Ctte. to Director, NIH, 1999.
  5. Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation’s Information Infrastructure 1995 Members of the Committee to Study High Performance Computing and Communications: Status of a Major Initiative, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council ("Brooks-Sutherland Report")
  6. Science and Technology in the Academic Enterprise: Status, Trends and Issues 1989 Members of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, National Academy of Sciences
  7. Report of the Panel on Science and Technology Centers, 1987 National Academy of Sciences [the "Zayre Report"-Led to the Formation of NSF Science and Technology Centers]
  8. Report of the NSF Subcommittee on Computational Facilities for Theoretical Research to the Advisory Committee for Physics 1981 [the "Press Report" Led to the Series of NSF Panels on High Performance Computing]

Published Popular Articles or Short Notes

  1. "Our Elastic Spacetime: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves," American Scientist, 66, 72-79, 1978, with W. H. Press.
  2. "Black Holes," in Academic American Encyclopedia (Arete, 1979).
  3. "Numerical Construction of Spacetime," Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 368, 15-16, 1979.
  4. "Einstein's Impact on the Contemporary World," available from Resident Associate Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1979.
  5. "Earthport," Future Life, 12, 50-52, 1979.
  6. "Earthport - An International Space Launch Site," Space Age Rev., Mar.-Apr., 1979.
  7. Gravity, Black Holes, and the Universe by Ian Nicolson, book reviewed by L. Smarr in Physics Today, 35, 78-79, 1982.
  8. "Black Hole Accretion: The Quasar Powerhouse," Energy & Tech. Rev., March 1983, with J. Hawley.
  9. "Some Examples of Supercomputing Projects," in The Report of the Panel on Large Scale Computing in Science and Engineering, P. D. Lax, Chairman, 1982.
  10. "The Supercomputer Famine in American Universities," in The Report of the Panel on Large Scale Computing in Science and Engineering, P. D. Lax, Chairman, 1982.
  11. Invited testimony appeared in the Congressional Record of the Joint Session of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, Committees on Science, Research, and Technology and on Energy Development and Applications, June 10, 1985.
  12. Invited testimony appeared in the Congressional Record of the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, March 24, 1988.
  13. Introduction in Supercomputers: Directions in Technology and Applications, 13-17, National Research Council (National Academy Press: Washington D.C., 1989).
  14. "How Supercomputers are Transforming Science," in Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook (1991).
  15. "Extraterrestrial Computing: Exploring the Universe with a Supercomputer". Chapter 8 of the book Very large Scale Computation in the 21st Century, edited by Jill P. Mesirov for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), (1991)
  16. "Infrastructure for Science Portals", Larry Smarr, IEEE Internet Computing Online (special issue: An Internet Millennial Forecast Mosaic," January/February 2000.

Selected Media Profiles or Interviews

  1. Included in the 1984 Esquire "Register of Outstanding Americans Under Age 40" (272 listed)
  2. Brief Bio in Fortune Magazine, Special Issue, Spring/Summer 1991, "The New Century" in the article "Twenty Five Who Help The U. S. Win".
  3. Subject of "The New Language of Science," Bill Kurtis video production for the PBS series New Explorers (1992).
  4. "A Free and Simple Link". Article by John Markoff, NYTimes December 8, 1993.
  5. "HPC in 1996 and 1997—An Interview with Larry Smarr," by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire January 10, 1997
  6. "Beyond 'Big Iron' in Supercomputing," by James Glanz, Science, 279, 2030-2032 , 27 March 1998
  7. Smarr, L., An Interview with Larry Smarr, 1998 in HPCwire.
  8. Profile "Larry Smarr Keeps The Peace Between Government, Academia, And Industry". Red Herring Magazine, November 1998.
  9. Extensive Quotes In "Impacts: Computing 2010: From Black Holes To Biology" Special Millennium Supplement to Nature 402, C67 (1999)
  10. "The Soul of the Ultimate Machine," NYTimes article by John Markoff December 10, 2000
  11. Interview with others "Dialing into the Long View," in The T-Sector, Issue 8 pps 48-58 (2002).
  12. "Planet Internet," Interview in Technology Review, March 2002
  13. "OptIPuter boots up," by Karen Heyman The Scientist Oct. 7, 2002
  14. "Supercomputer To Utilize Optical Fibers," NYTimes article by John Markoff November 18, 2002
  15. "Larry Smarr on the Shape of the Grid in 2003," by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief GridToday December 16, 2002: Vol. 1 #. 27.
  16. "Larry Smarr, Internet? Grandfather, Looking for an Encore," Om Malik’s Broadband Blog November 19, 2003
  17. Interview "Add Another Zero: An Interview with Larry Smarr," in Educause Review Nov/Dec 2003.
  18. "Interview with Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2," by Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire November 28, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 47.
  19. Interview with others "The View from the Top", Ken Howard, Contributing Editor, Nature 426, 696 - 697 (11 December 2003).
  20. "Five Questions: Larry Smarr," San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2003.
  21. "Luminary Smarr Touts Optical Networks as Nation’s Future," by Tim Curns, Editor HPCWire November 11, 2004
  22. "Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure," by Derrick Harris, Editor GridToday May 23, 2005
  23. "Larry Smarr: Pumping the Net up for Gigabyte Images". Posted by Dan Farber @ 3:33 pm 5/27/2005, ZDNet Podcast.
  24. "The List: R&D Projects that Must get Done," by Chappell Brown EETimes August 8, 2005.
  25. "Eye-Popping Streaming Film Debuts" by Xeni Jardin, Wired News, September 30, 2005.
    See also Xeni's related notes from iGRID2005, posted on Boing Boing (1) (2).
  26. "The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box!". Article by John Markoff, NYTimes October 5, 2005.

Abstracts Published

  1. "High Velocity Collision of Two Black Holes -- Initial Data," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 18, 643, 1973, with B. DeWitt.
  2. "Collision of Two Black Holes: Computer Generated Spacetimes," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 19, 68, 1974, with B. DeWitt.
  3. Minimal Shear and Maximal Slices, "Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 20, 544, 1975, with J. York.
  4. "Collision of Two Black Holes: Stabilizing the Constraints," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 20, 544, 1975, with K. Eppley.
  5. "Possible Companions of the Taylor-Hulse Pulsar," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 20, 632, 1975, with R. Blandford and J. P. Ostriker.
  6. Tidal Circularization Induced in Close Binaries by Turbulent Viscosity," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 7, 534, 1975, with W. H. Press and P. Wiita.
  7. "Gravitational Wave Generation Efficiency for Colliding Black Holes," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 8, 516, 1976.
  8. "Colliding Black Holes," GR8 Abstracts of Contributed Paper, p. 18, 1977.
  9. "Nonspherical Gravitational Collapse," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 10, 656, 1978.
  10. "Numerical Simulation of Fat Disks Around Black Holes," Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 14, 869, 1982, with J. Hawley and J. R. Wilson.
  11. "Wide-Angle-Tail Radio Sources, X-ray Cooling Cores, and Black Pits," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 14, 870, 1982, with D. Sumi.
  12. "Numerical Simulation of Fat Disks Around Black Holes," in Contributed Papers to the 10th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, 2, 709, 1983, with J. F. Hawley and J. R. Wilson.
  13. "The Shape of Radio Jets 3C278," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 15, 892, 1984, with T. J. Cornwell, R. D. Ekers, and W. Van Breugel.
  14. "Structure of the ICM in the Pit Potential," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 15, 893, 1984, with D. Sumi.
  15. "Nonlinear Reflecting Mode Pinch Instabilities in Supersonic Jets as a Mechanism for Emission Knots," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 15, 896, 1984, with M. L. Norman and K.-H. Winkler.
  16. "Fluid Dynamics Around Black Holes: Shocks, Vortices and Instabilities," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 15, 896, 1984, with J. F. Hawley.
  17. "Funnel Dynamics and Hollow Jets Near Black Holes," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 16, 461, 1984, with J. F. Hawley.
  18. "The Dynamic Effects of Angular Momentum on Accretion Flows near Black Holes," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 16, 964, 1984, with J. Hawley.
  19. "The Jet in M87: An Unstable Jet in a Cooling Inflow Atmosphere?" Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 16, 955, 1984, with D. Sumi.
  20. "Gravitational Waveforms Generated by Highly Nonspherical Core Collapse," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 16, 955, 1984, with C. R. Evans and J. R. Wilson.
  21. "Cosmic Jets," Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 16, 918, 1984.
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