PEARL - Parallel Emerging Architectures Research Lab

2008 PEARL Publications:

[TPDS] "Prediction-Based Power-Performance Adaptation of Multithreaded Scientific Codes. Matthew Curtis-Maury, Christos~D. Antonopoulos, Filip Blagojevic, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. To appear. [PDF]

[CCGRID08] " Scheduling Asymmetric Parallelism on a PlayStation3 Cluster. Filip Blagojevic, Matthew Curtis-Maury, Jae-seung Yeom, Scott Schneider and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Lyon, France, May 2008. To appear. [PDF]

[CF08a] "Cell-SWat: Modeling and Scheduling Wavefront Computations on the Cell/BE. Ashwin Aji, Filip Blagojevic, Wu-chun Feng, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 2008 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, May 2008. To appear. [PDF]

[CF08b] "DMA-based Prefetching for I/O Workloads on Cell Architecture. M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 2008 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, May 2008. To appear. [PDF]

[NSFNGS08] "VT-ASOS: Holistic System Software Customization for Many Cores. Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Godmar Back, Jyotirmaya Tripathi and Matthew Curtis-Maury. "Proceedings of the 2008 NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, held in conjunction with IPDPS'2008, Miam, FL, April 2008. To appear. [PDF]

[FAST08] "Supporting I/O-intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture. M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Systems, poster, San Jose, CA, February 2008. To appear. [PDF]

[HIPEAC08] " Modeling Multi-Grain Parallelism on Heterogeneous Multi-core Processors: A Case Study of the Cell BE. Filip Blagojevic, Xizhou Feng, Kirk W. Cameron and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, Göteborg, Sweden, February 2008. To appear. [PDF]

2007 PEARL Publications:

[PARALLEL-COMPUTING-07] " Runtime Scheduling of Dynamic Parallelism on Accelerator-Based Multi-core Systems. Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Alexandros Stamatakis, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Matthew Curtis-Maury. Parallel Computing, Vol. 33, pp. 700-719, November 2007. [PDF]

[GREENCOM07] " Identifying Energy-Efficient Concurrency Levels using Machine Learning. Matthew Curtis-Maury, Karan Singh, Sally McKee, Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Bronis A. de Supinski and Martin Schulz. "Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Green Computing, Austin, Texas, September 2007. To appear. [PDF]

[HPEC07] " Synthesizing Parallel Programming Models for Asymmetric Multi-Core Systems. Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and Kirk Cameron. "Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, MIT Lincoln Lab - Lexington, MA, September 2007. To appear. [PDF]

[NGG07] "Experience with Memory Allocators for Parallel Mesh Generation on Multi-core Architectures. Andrey Chernikov, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Nikos Chrisochoides, Scott Schneider and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. "Proceedings of the 10th ISGG Conerence on Numerical Grid Generation, Heraklion, Crete, September 2007. To appear. [PDF]

[JVLSI07] "Exploring New Search Algorithms and Hardware for Phylogenetics: RAxML meets the IBM Cell." Alexandros Stamatakis, Filip Blagojevic, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos.Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. 2007. To appear. [PDF]

[JOGC07] "Runtime and Programming Support for Memory Adaptation in Scientific Applications via Local Disk and Remote Memory." Richard Mills, Chuan Yue, Andreas Stathopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos.Journal of Grid Computing, 5(2):213-234, June 2007. [PDF]

[STMCS07] "Application-Specific Customization on Many-Core Platforms: The VT-ASOS Framework," Godmar Back and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems, in conjunction with the Code Generation and Optimization Conference, San Jose, CA, March 2007. [PDF]

[IPDPS07] "RAxML-Cell: Parallel Phylogenetic Tree Inference on the Cell Broadband Engine," Filip Blagojevic, Alexandros Stamatakis, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and Christos D. Antonopoulos, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 2007. [PDF]

[PPOPP07] "Dynamic Multigrain Parallelization on the Cell Broadband Engine," Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos Alexandros Stamatakis and Christos D. Antonopoulos, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, pp. 90-100, San Jose, CA, March 2007. [PDF]

[ACMSE07]" A Comparison of Online and Offline Strategies for Program Adaptation," Matthew Curtis-Maury, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Southeast Conference, pp. 162-167, Winston-Salem, NC, March 2007. [PDF]

2006 PEARL Publications:

[FHPM06]" Dynamic Program Stirring on Multiple Cores: How Hardware Performance Monitors Can Help Regulate Performance, Power, and Temperature Simultaneously. " Matthew Curtis-Maury, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and Christos D. Antonopoulos. 2006 Workshop on Functionality of Hardware Performance Monitors, held in conjunction with the 39th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Orlando, FL, December 2006, to appear. [PDF]

[VTHECC06]"Exploring Programming Models and Optimizations for the Cell Broadband Engine using RAxML," Filip Blagojevic and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. 2006 Virginia Tech High End Computing Challenge, first prize winner, to appear. [PDF]

[JOATC06]"On the Design and Implementation of Online Predictors for Autonomic Power-Performance Adaptation of Multithreaded Programs," Matthew Curtis-Maury, James Dzierwa, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, and Christos D. Antonopoulos Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Vol. 1(1), to appear. [PDF]

[QEST06]"PACMAN: A Performance Counters Manager for Intel Hyperthreaded Processors," Matthew Curtis-Maury, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, pp. 141-144, Riverside, CA, September 2006. [PDF]

[ICS06]"Online Power-Performance Adaptation of Multithreaded Programs using Hardware Event-Based Prediction," Matthew Curtis-Maury, James Dzierwa, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, pp. 157-166, Queensland, Australia, June 2006. [PDF]

[HPDC06]"Runtime Support for Memory Adaptation in Scientific Applications via Local Disk and Remote Memory. Chuan Yue, Richard T. Mills, Andreas Stathopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 183-194, Paris, France, June 2006. [PDF]

[ISMM06]"Scalable Locality-Conscious Multithreaded Memory Allocation," Scott Schneider, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, pp. 84-94, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006. [PDF]

[HPPAC06]"Online Strategies for High-Performance Power-Aware Thread Execution on Emerging Multiprocessors," Matthew Curtis-Maury, James Dzierwa, Christos D. Antonopoulos and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on High-Performance Power-Aware Computing, Rhodes, Greece, April 2006. [PDF]