Eastman Kodak Co. has joined the Cornell Theory Center Corporate Partnership Program (CPP) to access strengths in algorithm development as well as the center's 512-node IBMRS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP).

"Kodak is working on a number of uniquely interesting scientific problems having to do with making good photographic emulsions that lend themselves to computational modeling," said Malvin H. Kalos, Theory Center director. "We are delighted to be able to explore with them the ability of our SPcomputers to accelerate their designs. With Kodak's base in Rochester, we're also happy to help a New York State industry stay at the leading edge of the latest technology."

"In our first project, we plan to run a new MultiMATLAB implementation onthe IBM RS/6000 SP to simulate photo electron-hole processing by silver halides," said Peter Castro, Eastman Kodak's supervisor of applied mathematics. "We're not only interested in the IBM SP, but in close interactions between Kodak researchers and Cornell scientists in the areas of mathematical analysis and new algorithm development," Castro said. "These areas are critical in the effective modeling of charge carrier processing."

A second Kodak project expected to benefit from interactions with CTC is the visualization of time-dependent charge transport in solid state image sensors. This capability will help Kodak better understand and control the electronic processes that are central to high-quality electronic imaging.

Rajinder Khosla, technical associate to the chief corporate technical officer at Eastman Kodak, is spending a year at Cornell as the liaison between Kodak and Cornell. His mission is to enhance the overall scientific interactions between the two institutions.

"The Theory Center looks forward to accelerating Eastman Kodak's research and development efforts," said Peter M. Siegel, director of the CPP. The corporate program has grown to 17 members, several of whom are working in materials science research. "The growth of our corporate program reflects not only the robustness of the IBM RS/6000 SP, but recognition by the materials science research community of our expertise in algorithm development and performance optimization," Siegel said.

The Cornell Theory Center is one of four high performance computing and communications centers supported by the National Science Foundation. Activities of the center are also funded by New York State, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health, IBM, and other members of CTC's CorporatePartnership Program.