Parallel Computing Applications and Implementations

Blaise Barney, Introduction to Parallel Computing,
Future Hardware Architectures Will Make Development of Higly-Parallel Software Easier – AMD.

Research Interests: 

  • Converting sequential computer programs to parallel programs 
  • Development of parallel algorithms suitable for parallel computing on clusters and supercomputers
  • Massively parallel processing applied for neural network training
  • FPGA based parallel hardware implementations

Related publications and papers: 

Journals:

  • Shuhui Li, Don C. Wunsch, Edgar O’Hair, and Michael G. Giesselmann, “Extended Kalman filter training of neural networks on a SIMD parallel machine”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 62, No. 4, April 1, 2002, Academic Press. 

Book chapters:

  • Shuhui Li, Don C. Wunsch, Edgar O’Hair, and Michael G. Giesselmann, “Multi-stream Extended Kalman Filter Training of Neural Networks on a SIMD Parallel Machine”, in Smart Engineering Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining and Rough Sets, ASME Press, November 1999, (ANNIE’99).

Conferences:

  • Donald B. Batchelor, Lee A. Berry, Wayne A. Houlberg, E. F. Jaeger, David E. Bernholdt, Wael R. Elwasif, Ed F. D’Azevedo, James A. Kohl, and Shuihui Li, Applying Component Technology to Coupled Fusion Simulations, in CompFrame 2005 Workshop on Component Models and Frameworks in High Performance Computing, 22-23 June, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2005.
  • Wael R. Elwasif, Donald B. Batchelor, David E. Bernholdt, Lee A. Berry, Ed F. D’Azevedo, Wayne A. Houlberg, E. F. Jaeger, James A. Kohl, and Shuhui Li, Coupled Fusion Simulation Using the Common Component Architecture, in Vaidy Sunderam, Geert Dick van Albada, Peter M. A. Sloot, and Jack J. Dongarra, editors, Computational Science – ICCS 2005 5th International Conference, Atlanta, USA, May 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part I, volume 3514 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 372-379, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2005, Springer.