Publications

Modeling

The following are publications, grouped according to each corresponding research project:

Prophesy

Recent Papers and Presentations

Kernels versus Applications

J. Geisler and V. Taylor, Performance Coupling: Case Studies for Measuring the Interactions of Kernels in Modern Applications. Proc. SPEC Workshop on Performance Evaluation with Realistic Applications, April 1999.
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J. Geisler, Performance Coupling: A Methodology for Analyzing Application Performance using Kernel Performance. MS Thesis, March 1999.
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J. Geisler and V. Taylor, "Performance Coupling: A Methodology for Predicting Application Performance using Kernel Performance," Proc. 9th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 1999.
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PART

J. Chen, V. Taylor, "ParaPART: Parallel Mesh Partitioning Tool for Distributed Systems", to appear in Concurrency Practice & Experience.
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, "Mesh Partitioning for Effecient Use of Distributed Systems", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, "ParaPART: Parallel Mesh Partitioning Tool for Distributed Systems", in IRREGULAR'99, Sixth International Workshop on Solging Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, in Conjunction with IEEE IPPS/SPDP'99 (13th International Parallel Processing Symposium), San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999.
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, "Mesh Partitioning for Distributed Systems: Exploring Optimal Number of Partitions with Local and Remote Communication", 1999 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing.
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, "Mesh Partitioning for Distributed Systems", in Proceedings of Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, IL, July 1998.
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, "Identifying Good Metrics for Mesh Partitioning for Distributed Systems", in Eleventh International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, London, England, July, 1998.
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J. Chen and V. Taylor, "PART: an automatic mesh partitioning tool", in Proceedings of International Conference on Application Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors, Sweden, April, 1997
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J. Chen, V. Taylor, T. Canfield, and R. Stevens, "A Decomposition Method for Efficient Use of Distributed Supercomputers", in Proceedings of International Conference on Application Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors, Chicago, IL, August, 1996
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Scheduling

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~wsmith/papers.html

Petaflop Point Design Study

This project is done in conjunction with Purdue University, where the project has its own web site: http://yake.ecn.purdue.edu/~tools/HPAM/

Application Modeling

Transportation |

VSE |

FEA |

Dynamics

Transportation

M. Hribar, V. E. Taylor and D. E. Boyce, "Reducing the Idle Time of Parallel Shortest Path Algorithms," to appear in Journal on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
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M. Hribar, V. E. Taylor and D. E. Boyce, "Performance Study of Parallel Shortest Path Algorithms: Characteristics of Good Decompositions," Proceedings of the ISUG 1997 Conference, June, 1997.
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Visual Supercomputing Environments

V. E. Taylor, J. Chen, T. Disz, M. Papka and R. Stevens, "Identifying and Reducing Critical Lag in Finite Element Simulations," IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, Vol. 3:4, Winter 1996, pp. 46--54.
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T. Canfield, D. Diachin, T. Disz, L. Freitag, D. Heath, J. Herzog, J. Ku, M. Papka, M. Szymanski, M. Huang, J. Chen and V. Taylor, "Visualizing Engineering Applications in the CAVE," Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Systems Symposium, October 1996.
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V. E. Taylor, J. Chen, M. Huang, T. Canfield and R. Stevens, "Identifying and Reducing Critical Lag in Finite Element Simulations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July 1996, pp. 67-71.
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V. E. Taylor, M. Huang, T. Canfield, R. Stevens, D. Reed and S. Lamm, "Performance Modeling of Interactive, Immersive Virtual Environments for Finite Element Simulations," International Journal on Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing, Issue 10.2, 1996.
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V. E. Taylor, R. Stevens and T. Canfield, "Performance Models of Interactive, Immersive Visualization for Scientific Applications", Proceedings of the International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualization, July 1995, pp. 238-252.
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Finite Element Analysis

V. E. Taylor, B. K. Holmer, E. Schwabe and M. Hribar, "Balancing Load versus Decreasing Communication: Exploring the Tradeoffs", Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol.~1, January 1996, pp.~585--593.
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V. E. Taylor and B. Nour-Omid, "A Study of the Factorization Fill-in for a Parallel Implementation of the Finite Element Method," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 37, 1994, pp. 3809-3823.
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M. Hribar and V. E. Taylor, "Modeling Processor Wait Time for 2-D Parallel Finite Element Applications," Proceedings of the Mardi Gras 1994: Toward Teraflop Computing, February, 1994.
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M. Hribar and V. E. Taylor, "Practical Issues of 2-D Parallel Finite Element Analysis," Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1994.
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V. E. Taylor, "Sparse Matrix Computations: Implications for Cache Designs," Proceedings of the Supercomputing Conference, November 1992, pp. 598-607.
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V. E. Taylor, B. Nour-Omid and D. G. Messerschmitt, "The Effects of Communication Overhead on the Speedup of Parallel 3-D Finite Element Applications," Proceedings of the Sixth International Parallel Processing Symposium, March 1992, pp. 531-536.
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V. E. Taylor, A. Ranade and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Three-Dimensional Finite-Element Analyses: Implications for Computer Architectures," Proceedings of the Supercomputing Conference, November 1991, pp. 786-795.
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V. E. Taylor, B. Nour-Omid, and D. Messerschmitt, "A Mesh-Based Ordering Scheme for Finite-Element Applications," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, July 1991.
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Molecular Dynamics

V. E. Taylor, R. Stevens and K. Arnold, "Parallel Molecular Dynamics: Implications for Massively Parallel Machines," Journal on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 45:2, September 1997, pp. 166--175.
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V. E. Taylor, R. Stevens and K. Arnold, "Parallel Molecular Dynamics: Communication Requirements for Massively Parallel Machines", Proceedings of the Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, February 1995.
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M. Papka, T. Disz, R. Stevens, M. Pelligrino, and V. E. Taylor, "Virtual Reality Visualization of Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Proceedings of High Performance Computing Conference, 1995.
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