HPVM/FM (Cluster) papers of CSAG

Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 2000 (G. Sampemane, S. Pakin, Chien)
Disk-to-disk Parallel Sorting on HPVM Clusters Running Windows NT Luis Rivera's M.S. Thesis, January 2000
Design and Implementation of a Cluster Messaging Layer: Illinois Fast Messages on Servernet Louis Giannini's M.S. Thesis, January 2000

Performance Enhancements for HPVM in Multi-Network and Heterogeneous Hardware. Proceedings of PDC annual conference, December, 1999. (Bruno, Chien, Katz, and Papadopoulos).
Feedback-based Synchronization for QoS Traffic in Cluster Computing. Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Parallel Interconnects(PI'99, formally known as MPPOI), October, 1999. (H. J. Song and A. Chien )
FM-QoS: A Quality of Service Messaging Substrate for Asynchronous Local-Area Networks with Hardware-Level Network Feedback. (Word Doc) Kay Connelly's M.S. thesis, May 1999 (Connelly)
Performance Evaluation of a Hardware Implementation of VIA. (Tech Report, Xin Liu)
A High Speed Disk-to-Disk sort on a Windows NT cluster running HPVM. (Rivera & Chien).
Design and Evaluation of an HPVM-based Windows NT Supercomputer. The International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 201-219. (A. Chien, M. Lauria, R. Pennington, M. Showerman, G. Iannello, M. Buchanan, K. Connelly, L. Giannini, G. Koenig, S. Krishnamurthy, Q. Liu, S. Pakin & G. Sampemane).
Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: the MPI over Fast Messages (FM) Experience. Cluster Computing 2 (1999), pp. 107-116. (M. Lauria, S. Pakin, A. Chien).

A Software Architecture for Global Address Space Communication on Clusters: Put/Get on Fast Messages. Proceedings of the 7th High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC7) conference (Chicago, Illinois), July 28-31, 1998. (Giannini & Chien).
Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: Fast Messages 2.x. Proceedings of the 7th High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC7) conference (Chicago, Illinois), July 28-31, 1998. (Lauria, Pakin & Chien).
Dynamic Coscheduling on Workstation Clusters. Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '98), March 30-April 3, 1998. (Sobalvarro, Pakin, Chien & Weihl).

Coordinated Thread Scheduling for Workstation Clusters Under Windows NT. Proceedings of USENIX Windows NT Workshop, August 1997 (Buchanan & Chien).
Dynamic Coscheduling for Workstation Clusters. Submitted for Publication (Sobalvarro, Pakin, Weihl & Chien), March 1997.
High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVM): Clusters with Supercomputing APIs and Performance. Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP97); March, 1997. (Chien, Pakin, Lauria, Buchanan, Hane, Giannini, and Prusakova)
Fast Messages (FM): Efficient, Portable Communication for Workstation Clusters and Massively-Parallel Processors. IEEE Concurrency, vol. 5, no. 2, April-June 1997, pp. 60-73. (Pakin, Karamcheti & Chien)
MPI-FM: High Performance MPI on Workstation Clusters Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 4-18, January 1997. (Lauria & Chien)

High Performance MPI Implementation on a Network of Workstations Lauria's M.S. thesis, Oct 96 (Lauria)
High Performance Messaging on Workstations: Illinois Fast Messages (FM) for Myrinet In Supercomputing '95, San Diego, California, (Pakin, Lauria & Chien)
Do Faster Routers Imply Faster Communication? Parallel Computer Routing and Communication Workshop, May 16-18, 1994 (Seattle, Washington) (Karamcheti & Chien)
Software Overhead in Messaging Layers: Where Does the Time Go? Architectural Support of Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VI) 1994 (Karamcheti & Chien)

For paper copies contact Prof. Andrew Chien <achien@cs.ucsd.edu.

Last updated May 2001