CENTER FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
http://www.ece.nwu.edu/cpdc

ANNUAL REPORT

Sep. 1, 1996 - Aug. 31, 1997

Prof. Prith Banerjee
Director, Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Walter P. Murphy Chaired Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL-60208-3118
TEL: (847) 491-4118
FAX: (847) 467-4144
EMAIL: banerjee@ece.nwu.edu
WWW: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~banerjee

• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• PERSONNEL
  • Director
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Faculty
  • Other Staff
  • PostDoctoral Fellows
  • Graduate Students
  • Undergraduate Students
• RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
  • PARADIGM Compiler for Distributed Memory Message-Passing Multicomputers (P. Banerjee)
    • Funding
  • ProperCAD Environment for Parallel VLSI CAD Applications (P. Banerjee)
    • Funding
  • PASSION Project: Parallel and Scalable Software for Parallel I/O (A. Choudhary)
    • Funding
  • Design of High-performance Multimedia Servers (A. Choudhary)
    • Funding
  • Design, Development, Benchmarking and Evaluation of Parallel Applications for High-Performance Embedded Systems (A. Choudhary)
    • Funding
  • Modeling and Evaluation of I/O Architectures in Servers (A. Choudhary)
    • Funding
  • Performance of Parallel Scientific Applications (V. Taylor)
    • Funding
  • Hierarchical Processor and Memory Architecture: A Petaflop Point Design Study
    • Funding
  • Resource Management for Distributed Systems (V. Taylor)
    • Funding
• INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATION
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation
  • Cadence Design Systems
  • LSI Logic
  • Sierra Vista Research
  • IBM Corporation
  • Intel Corporation
  • AlliedSignal
  • Sandia National Lab
  • Argonne National Lab
  • Employment of Graduating Students
• ESTIMATE OF CENTER EXPENDITURES
• LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• PLANS FOR 1997-98
  • VLSI CAD on Scalable High-Performance Computing Systems, DARPA (P. Banerjee)
  • Efficient Compilation and Runtime Techniques for Distributed Memory Multicomputers, NSF (P. Banerjee and A. Choudhary)
  • A High-Performance Distributed Computing Infrastructure, NSF CISE, (P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, S. Hauck, D. T. Lee, P. Scheuermann, M. Sarrafzadeh, V. Taylor)
  • Architecture, Compilers, and Configuration Management for Mass Market Adaptive Computing, DARPA, (S. Hauck, P. Banerjee, M. Sarrafzadeh)
  • PASSION Project: Parallel and Scalable Software for Parallel I/O, DARPA, NSF, Sandia Labs (A. Choudhary)
  • Design, Development, Benchmarking and Evaluation of Parallel Applications for High-Performance Embedded Systems, Rome Labs (A. Choudhary)
  • PART Project: Mesh Partitioning for Scientific Applications, NSF (V. Taylor)
  • Systems Characterization of Large, Parallel Scientific Applications, NSF (V. Taylor)
  • Resource Management for Distributed Systems, Argonne National Laboratory (V. Taylor)
• HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CENTER DURING 1996-97
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