Dr. Kaiser joined the Scientific Computing Services group at SDSC in January of 1998. Tim has been director of training and manager of the Parallel Tools Group. He is currently working with a geoscience group enabling large scale earthquake simulations from a web portal. He is responsible for the actual running of the earthquake simulation as well as pre and post processing. He has added numerous enhancements to the simulation, including new boundary conditions and MPI output. He has also developed a Python MPI module that is being used by numerous groups wishing to merge Python and HPC. The module is compatible with C and Fortran and includes support for MPI-2 dynamic process management. Dr. Kaiser is currently studying the use of MPI-2 dynamic process management to enable more fault tolerant applications. He is also helping the NBCR project improve the performance of a number of biological applications.