ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank Dr. Philip Jones of Los Alamos National Labs for his continuous guidance and time on this project. Without him, this project would not have been possible.
Debbie Prell for her encouragement and dedication to helping us obtain information and resources, her time and expertise was greatly appreciated by all of us
Keith Snuggerud for his help in figuring out the programming problems and setbacks
New Mexico Technet and the Supercomputing Challenge Committee for organizing this great challenge in supercomputing and teaching us about hard work