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Bibliography

The number of papers pertaining to Clumps is expanding rapidly. If you have a paper that you would like us to add (and/or read), please send us a pointer, preferably to a page that includes a PostScript version.

• B. Alpern, L. Carter, J. Ferrante, "Modeling Parallel Computers as Memory Hierarchies," in Proceedings of Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers 1993. (PostScript version)

• D. A. Bader, J. Já Já, "SIMPLE: A Methodology for Programming High Performance Algorithms on Clusters of Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMP's)," UMIACS Technical Report 97-48, May 1997. (PostScript version)

• S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, "Non-Uniform Partitioning of Finite Difference Methods Running on SMP Clusters," submitted for publication. (PostScript version)

• S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, "Runtime Support for Multi-Tier Programming of Block-Structured Applications on SMP Clusters." (PostScript version)

• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke, "The Nexus Approach to Integrating Multithreading and Communication," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 37, August 1996, pp. 70-82. (PostScript version)

• W. W. Gropp, E. L. Lusk, "A Taxonomy of Programming Models for Symmetric Multiprocessors and SMP clusters," in Proceedings of Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers 1995, October 1995, pp. 2-7. (HTML Abstract)

• M. Haines, D. Cronk, P. Mehrotra, "On the Design of Chant: A Talking Threads Package," in Proceedings of Supercomputing 1994, Washington, D.C., November 1994, pp. 350-9. (PostScript version)

• J. Philbin, J. Edler, O. J. Anshus, C. C. Douglas, K. Li, "Thread Scheduling for Cache Locality," in Proceedings of Architectural Support for Programming Language and Operating Systems, October 1996. (PostScript version)
  N.B. This paper is not about Clumps per se, but the work could be extended for use on Clumps in a reasonably straightforward manner.

• S. Toledo, "Improving Memory-System Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication," submitted for journal publication. (PostScript version)

• S. Toledo, "Improving Memory-System Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication," in Proceedings of the 8th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 1997. (PostScript version)

• P. R. Woodward, "Perspectives on Supercomputing: Three Decades of Change," IEEE Computer, Vol. 29, October 1996, pp. 99-111. (HTML Abstract)

People

Faculty:

• David E. Culler
• James Demmel
• Katherine Yelick

Students:

• Mark Adams
• Tzu-Yi Chen
• Etienne Deprit
• Eun-Jin Im
• Melody Y. Ivory
• Arvind Krishnamurthy
• Steve Lumetta
• Alan Mainwaring
• Girija Narlikar
• Howard Robinson
• Noah Treuhaft
• Frederick Wong

Staff:

• Eric J. Fraser

Papers

• Quarterly Status Reports

• S. S. Lumetta, D. E. Culler, "Managing Concurrent Access for Shared Memory Active Messages," to appear in Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Symposium, Orlando, Florida, April 1998. (PostScript version)

• S. S. Lumetta, A. M. Mainwaring, D. E. Culler, "Multi-Protocol Active Messages on a Cluster of SMP's," Proceedings of Supercomputing '97, San Jose, California, November 1997. (PostScript and HTML available)

Related Projects

• Multi-tier Programming at UCSD

• SVM/AURC at Princeton (has ties to SHRIMP)