Selected Publications - Peter Strazdins

Computing Education

• Peter Strazdins, Applying the Community of Practice Approach to Individual IT Projects , [01/08] [CR]
• Peter Strazdins, Research-Based Education in Computer Science at the ANU: Challenges and Opportunities , [08/07] [TR]

Computer Simulation

• Daniel Robson and Peter Strazdins, Parallelisation of the Valgrind Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Framework, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, pages 113-121, Sydney, Dec 2008
• Andrew Over et al, A Comparison of Two Approaches to Parallel Simulation of Multiprocessors [04/07] [CR]
• Peter Strazdins et al, Efficient Cycle-Accurate Simulation of the UltraSPARC III CPU 01/07 [CR]; 05/05 [TR]
• Andrew Over et al, Cycle Accurate Memory Modelling: A Case-Study in Validation 09/05 [CR]
• Bill Clark et al, Implementation Aspects of a Sparc V9 Complete Machine Simulator , (01/02) [CR]
• Peter Strazdins, A Survey of Simulation Tools for CAP Project Phase III (10/00) [TR]

Distributed Shared Memory

• Jie Cai, Alistair P. Rendell, Peter E. Strazdins, Hsien Jin Wong, Performance Models for Cluster-Enabled OpenMP Implementations, Proceedings of The Thirteenth IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2008), pages 1--8, Hsinchu, August 2008
• H.J. Wong, J. Cai, A.P. Rendell, and P. Strazdins, Micro-benchmarks for Cluster OpenMP Implementations: Memory Consistency Costs, R. Eigenmann and B.R. de Supinski (Eds.): IWOMP 2008, LNCS 5004, pp. 60--70, Springer-Verlag Berlin, April, 2008

Cluster Computing amd Virtualization

• Muhammad Atif and Peter Strazdins, Optimizing Live Migration of Virtual Machines in SMP Clusters for HPC Applications, Proceedings of the 6th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2009), pp. 51-58, IEEE, Gold Coast, October 2009.
• Jie Cai, Alistair P. Rendell, Peter E. Strazdins, Non-threaded and Threaded Approaches to MultiRail Communication with uDAPL, Proceedings of the 6th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2009), pp 233--239, IEEE, Gold Coast, October 2009.
• Muhammad Atif and Peter Strazdins, An Evaluation of Multiple Communication Interfaces for Virtualized SMP Clusters, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing, European Conference on Computer Systems, pp 9-16, Nuremburg, Apr 2009, ISBN:978-1-60558-465-2 [CR]
• Peter Strazdins, Richard Alexander, and David Barr. Performance Enhancement of SMP Clusters with Multiple Network Interfaces using Virtualization. (12/06) [CR]
• Peter Strazdins and John Uhlmann, Local Scheduling out-performs Gang Scheduling on a Beowulf Cluster (01/04) [CR,TR]

Data Mining

• Peter Christen et al, Towards a Parallel Data Mining Toolbox} (04/01) [CR]
• Peter Christen et al, Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Surface Fitting and Data Mining (06/00) [J]

Communication Libraries

• Wi Bing Tan and Peter Strazdins, The Analysis and Optimization of Collective Communications on a Beowulf Cluster (12/02) [CR]
• Jeremy Dawson and Peter Strazdins, Optimizing User-Level Communication Patterns on the Fujitsu AP3000 (12/99) [CR]

Electromagentic Compatibility Analysis

• K. Homma et al, Frequency Interpolation Methods for Accelerating Parallel EMC Analysis (04/01) [CR]
• P.E. Strazdins et al, Efficient Parallel Electromagnetic Field Analysis Exploiting Symmetry (06/01) [BC]

Symmetric Indefinite Solvers

• Peter E. Strazdins, Issues in the Design of Scalable Out-of-core Dense Symmetric Indefinite Factorization Algorithms, (06/03) [CR]
• Peter E. Strazdins & John G. Lewis, An Efficient and Stable Method for Parallel Factorization of Dense Symmetric Indefinite Matrices , (09/01) [CR]
• Peter. E. Strazdins, Accelerated Methods for Performing the LDLT Decomposition , (09/99) [J,CR]
• Peter. E. Strazdins, Parallelizing Dense Symmetric Indefinite Solvers , (12/99) [CR]
• Peter. E. Strazdins, A Dense Complex Symmetric Indefinite Solver for the Fujitsu AP3000 (05/99) [TR]

Sparse Parallel Solvers

• K. Skinner, P.E. Strazdins and B.B. Zhou, Development of a Sparse Direct LLT Solver for the Fujitsu AP3000 (09/98) [CR]
  

Parallel Matrix Factorization

• Peter. E. Strazdins, High Performance Dense Linear Systems Solution on a Beowulf Cluster (09/01) [CR]
• P.E. Strazdins, Optimal Load Balancing Techniques for Block-Cyclic Decompositions for Matrix Factorization (12/98) [CR,TR]
• P.E. Strazdins, Lookahead and Algorithmic Blocking Techniques Compared for Parallel Matrix Factorization (10/98) [J,CR,TR]
• P.E. Strazdins, Matrix Factorization using Distributed Panels on the Fujitsu AP1000 (04/95) [CR]

Distributed BLAS and LAPACK

• P.E. Strazdins, Transporting Distributed BLAS to the Fujitsu AP3000 and VPP-3000 (09/98) [CR]
• P.E. Strazdins, Software Overhead and Blocking Issues in Parallel BLAS (03/98) [CU]
• P.E. Strazdins, Reducing Software Overheads in Parallel Linear Algebra Libraries (09/97) [CR,TR]
• P.E. Strazdins, A High Performance, Portable Distributed BLAS Implementation (11/96) [CU]
• P.E. Strazdins and H. Koesmarno, A High Performance Version of Parallel LAPACK: Preliminary Report (11/96) [CU]
• P.E. Strazdins, Prototyping Parallel LAPACK using Block-Cyclic Distributed BLAS (11/94) [CU]
• R.P. Brent and P.E. Strazdins, Implementation of BLAS level 3 and LINPACK benchmark on the AP1000. (03/93) [J]
• P.E. Strazdins and R.P. Brent, Implementation of BLAS level 3 the Fujitsu AP1000: Preliminary Report. (11/91) [CU]

Singular Value Decomposition Algorithms

• A. Czezowski and P.E. Strazdins, Optimisations for the memory hierarchy of a Singular Value Decomposition Algorithm implemented on the MIMD Architecture (April 1994) [CR]
• A. Czezowski and P.E. Strazdins. Ways of enhancing performance of a Singular Value Decomposition Algorithm on the AP 1000 Array Multicomputer} Fifth Australian Transputer and OCCAM User Group Conference, Melbourne, November 1992. [CR]

Programmable Systolic Arrays

• H. Schroder and P. Strazdins. Program compression on the instruction systolic array. Parallel Computing , 17:207-219, 1991. [J]
  
  
• P.E. Strazdins. Control Structures for Mesh-Connected Networks . PhD thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra, February 1990. viii+297pp.
  
  
• P. Lenders, H. Schroder and P. Strazdins. Microprogramming Instruction Systolic Arrays. In MICRO-22: Proceedings 22nd Conference on Microprogramming , Dublin, August 1989. [CR]