Performance and Algorithms Research

Shoaib A. Kamil

Shoaib A. Kamil

Phone: +1 510 486 6257

Fax: +1 510 486 6900

Web: http://people.csail.mit.edu/skamil/

Journal Articles

Adam Lugowski, Shoaib Kamil, Aydın Buluç, Samuel Williams, Erika Duriakova, Leonid Oliker, Armando Fox, John R. Gilbert,, "Parallel processing of filtered queries in attributed semantic graphs", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), September 2014, doi: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.08.010

Shoaib Kamil, Oliker, Pinar, John Shalf, "Communication Requirements and Interconnect Optimization for High-End Scientific Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume (TPDS), January 1, 2010, 21:188-202,

Download File: tpds09-hfast.pdf (pdf: 8.3 MB)

S. Kamil, L. Oliker, A. Pinar, J. Shalf, "Communication Requirements and Interconnect Optimization for High-End Scientific Applications\", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2009,

David Donofrio, Oliker, Shalf, F. Wehner, Rowen, Krueger, Kamil, Marghoob Mohiyuddin, "Energy-Efficient Computing for Extreme-Scale Science", IEEE Computer, January 2009, 42:62-71, doi: 10.1109/MC.2009.35

S. Kamil, L. Oliker, A. Pinar, J. Shalf, "Communication Requirements and Interconnect Optimization for High-End Scientific Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2009,

Download File: TPDS09-comm.pdf (pdf: 8.3 MB)

K Datta, S Kamill, S Williams, L Oliker, J Shalf, K Yelick, "Optimization and performance modeling of stencil computations on modern microprocessors", SIAM Review, 2009, 51:129--159, doi: 10.1137/070693199

Download File: sirev09-stencil.pdf (pdf: 2.8 MB)

S Williams, J Shalf, L Oliker, S Kamil, P Husbands, K Yelick, "Scientific computing kernels on the cell processor", International Journal of Parallel Programming, January 2007, 35:263--298, doi: 10.1007/s10766-007-0034-5

Download File: ijpp07-cell.pdf (pdf: 1000 KB)

Conference Papers

Aydın Buluç, Erika Duriakova, Armando Fox, John Gilbert, Shoaib Kamil, Adam Lugowski, Leonid Oliker, Samuel Williams, "High-Productivity and High-Performance Analysis of Filtered Semantic Graphs", International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2013, doi: 10.1145/2370816.2370897

Download File: ipdps13-kdtsejits.pdf (pdf: 398 KB)

G. Hendry, J, Chan, S, Kamil, L. Oliker , J. Shalf, L. Carloni , K. Bergman, "Silicon Nanophotonic Network-On-Chip using TDM Arbitration", Hot Interconnects, August 2010,

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Testing

Shoaib Kamil, Cy Chan, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Samuel Williams, "An auto-tuning framework for parallel multicore stencil computations", International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), January 1, 2010, 1-12, doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2010.5470421

Download File: ipdps10-ast.pdf (pdf: 789 KB)

Shoaib Kamil, Cy Chan, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Mark Howison, E. Wes Bethel, Prabhat, "A Generalized Framework for Auto-tuning Stencil Computations", BEST PAPER AWARD - Cray User Group Conference (CUG), Atlanta, GA, May 4, 2009, LBNL 2078E,

Download File: cug09-autotune.pdf (pdf: 354 KB)

Best Paper Award

G. Hendry, S.A. Kamil, A. Biberman, J. Chan, B.G. Lee, M Mohiyuddin, A. Jain, K. Bergman, L.P. Carloni, J. Kubiatocics, L. Oliker, J. Shalf, "Analysis of Photonic Networks for Chip Multiprocessor Using Scientific Applications", International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS), 2009,

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Shoaib Kamil, Shalf, Erich Strohmaier, "Power efficiency in high performance computing", IPDPS, 2008, 1-8,

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Shoaib Kamil, Pinar, Gunter, Lijewski, Oliker, John Shalf, "Reconfigurable hybrid interconnection for static and dynamic scientific applications", Conf. Computing Frontiers, 2007, 183-194, LBNL 60060,

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L. Oliker, A. Canning, J. Carter, C. Iancu, M. Lijewski, S. Kamil, J. Shalf, H. Shan, E. Strohmaier, S. Ethier, T. Goodale, "Scientific application performance on candidate petascale platforms", Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM, 2007, doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370259

Download File: ipdps07-petascale.pdf (pdf: 4.4 MB)

S. Williams, J. Shalf, L. Oliker, P. Husbands, S. Kamil, K. Yelick, "The Potential of the Cell Processor for Scientific Computing", ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, 2006, doi: 10.1145/1128022.1128027

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S Kamil, K Datta, S Williams, L Oliker, J Shalf, K Yelick, "Implicit and explicit optimizations for stencil computations", Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness, MSPC 2006, 2006, 51--60, doi: 10.1145/1178597.1178605

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John Shalf, Kamil, Oliker, David Skinner, "Analyzing Ultra-Scale Application Communication Requirements for a Reconfigurable Hybrid Interconnect", Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2005, 17,

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S. Kamil, J. Shalf, L. Oliker, D. Skinner,, "Understanding Ultra-Scale Application Communication Requirements", IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2005,

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S Kamil, P Husbands, L Oliker, J Shalf, K Yelick, "Impact of modern memory subsystems on cache optimizations for stencil computations", Proceedings of the 3rd 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance, MSP 2005, 2005, 36--43, doi: 10.1145/1111583.1111589

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Book Chapters

J. Shalf, L. Oliker, M. Lijewski, S. Kamil, J. Carter, A. Canning, S. Ethier, "Performance Characteristics of Potential Petascale Scientific Applications", Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science, (CRC Press: 2007) Pages: 1

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Book Chapter

L. Oliker, A. Canning, J. Carter, C. Iancu, M. Lijewski, S. Kamil, J. Shalf, H. Shan, E. Strohmaier, S. Ethier, T. Goodale, "Performance Characteristics of Potential Petascale Scientific Applications", Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications. Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series (Hardcover), edited by David A. Bader, ( 2007)

Chapter

Presentation/Talks

John Shalf, Shoaib Kamil, David Skinner, Leonid Oliker, Interconnect Requirements for HPC Applications, 2007,

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John Shalf, Shoaib Kamil, David Bailey, Erich Strohmaier, Power Efficiency and the Top500, 2007,

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Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf, Power Efficiency Metrics for the Top500, 2007,

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Reports

Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf, "Measuring Power Efficiency of NERSC's Newest Flagship Machine", 2007,

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Posters

K. Datta, S. Williams, S. Kamil, "Autotuning Structured Grid Kernels", Parlab Winter Retreat, 2008,

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