Publications

This is a selection of my papers and technical reports which are potentially of broad interest. If you are looking for a specific paper not on this list, or need more detailed information on these topics, please contact me at jaspal@cs.uh.edu.

And a technical note. Some of the older postscript files may appear corrupted on some viewers and printers. Please contact me if you have problems.

Reverse Chronological Order (aka New Stuff First)

2010-2014

Hien Nguyen, Eshwar Pedamallu, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Qian Wang, Margaret S. Cheung and and David Anderson, 'An Execution Environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids', Proceedings of the The 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2012), Pittsburgh, PA, Sep 2012. pdf
T Tuna, J Subhlok, L Barker, V Varghese, O Johnson, S Shah, 'Development and Evaluation of Indexed Captioned Searchable Videos for STEM Coursework', Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 2012. pdf, talk.
G Nandagudi, J Subhlok, E Gabriel, J. Gimenez, 'Estimation of MPI Application Performance on VolunteerEnvironments', (Presented at Heteropar 2011 Workshop at Euro-Par 2011 Bordeaux, France, August 2011.) Proceedings of the workshops of the 17th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2011. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7155. 2012. pdf talk.
Tayfun Tuna, Jaspal Subhlok, Shishir Shah, 'Indexing and Keyword Search to Ease Navigation in Lecture Videos', 2011 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, Washington, DC, Oct 2011. pdf, talk
Eshwar Rohit, Hien Nguyen, Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Qian Wang, Margaret S. Cheung, and David Anderson, 'A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids', The 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing , Newport Beach, CA, May 2011. pdf
Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel and Jaspal Subhlok, 'Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes', In Proc. The 17th EuroPVM/MPI 2010 Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, Sep 2010. pdf
Qiang.Xu, Jaspal Subhlok, and Nathaniel Hammen, Efficient Discovery of Loop Nests in Execution Traces, The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2010), Miama, Florida, June, 2010. pdf talk
T. Leblanc, J. Subhlok, and E. Gabriel, A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments. 4^th Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2010), Melbourne, Australia, May 2010. pdf

2005-2009

N. Kanna, J. Subhlok, E. Gabriel, E. Rohit, and D. Anderson, A Communication Framework for Fault-tolerant Parallel Execution.The 22nd International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing Newark, Delaware, Oct 2009 pdf talk
Q. Xu, J. Subhlok, S. Voss, and R.Zheng, Logicalization of Communication Traces from Parallel Execution, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Austin, TX, Oct 2009. pdf talk
T. LeBlanc, R. Anand, E. Gabriel, and J. Subhlok. VolpexMPI: an MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes. In Proc. The 16th EuroPVM/MPI 2009 Conference, Espoo, Finland, 2009. Published as Springer-Verlag LNCS,5759. pdf talk
Q. Xu and J. Subhlok, Construction and Evaluation of Coordinated Performance Skeletons, The 15th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India, December 2008. Published as Springer-Verlag LNCS 5374, pp 73-86. pdf talk (Earlier version published as Q. Xu and J. Subhlok., Construction and Evaluation of Coordinated Performance Skeletons, Technical Report UH-CS-08-09, University of Houston, May 2008 pdf )
Q. Xu, J. Subhlok, R. Zheng, and S. Voss, Logicalization of MPI communication traces, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX, Nov 2008. pdf (Poster submission)
Q. Xu and J. Subhlok., Efficient discovery of loop nests in communication traces of parallel programs, Technical Report UH-CS-08-08, University of Houston, May 2008 pdf
Q. Xu, R. Prithivathi, J. Subhlok, and R.Zheng, Logicalization of MPI communication traces, Technical Report UH-CS-08-07, University of Houston, May 2008 pdf
J. Subhlok and Q, Xu, Automatic Construction of Coordinated Performance Skeletons, The NSF Next Generation Software Workshop at IPDPS 2008, Miami, FL, April 2008, pdf slides
K. Leigh, P. Ranganathan and J. Subhlok, Fabric Convergence Implications on Systems Architecture, The 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, (Industrial Session), Salt Lake City, UT, Feb 2008 pdf
S. Sodhi, Q. Xu and J. Subhlok, Performance Prediction with Skeletons, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, Volume 11, No 2/June 2008. Source pdf
A. Ali, L. Johnsson, and J. Subhlok, Scheduling FFT Computations on SMP and Multicore Systems,
21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Seattle, WA, June 2007. pdf
K. Leigh, P. Ranganathan and J. Subhlok. General-purpose blade infrastructure for configurable system architectures, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 21, Numbers 2-3 / June 2007, Source , pdf
J. Subhlok, O. Johnson V. Subramaniam R. Vilalta and C. Yun, Tablet PC Video based Hybrid Coursework in Computer Science: Report from a Pilot Project , SIGCSE 2007: The 38th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, March 2007. pdf
J. Subhlok, O. Johnson, V. Subramaniam, R. Vilalta, and C. Yun, Experience With Tablet PC Video Based Hybrid Coursework in Computer Science, Technical Report UH-CS-06-12, University of Houston, pdf
D. Vyas and J. Subhlok, Volunteer Computing on Clusters, 12th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Saint Malo, France, June 2006. pdf , talk
Q. Xu and J. Subhlok, Automatic Clustering of Grid Nodes, 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov 2005. pdf , powerpoint
M. Ghanesh, S. Kumar and J. Subhlok, Empirical Evaluation of Shared Parallel Execution on Independently Scheduled Clusters, 1st International Workshop on Grid Performability at CCGRID 2005: The IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Cardiff, Wales, May 2005. pdf , powerpoint
T. Huang and J. Subhlok, Fast Pattern-Based Throughput Prediction for TCP Bulk Transfers, Grids and Advanced Networks Workshop (GAN'05) at CCGRID 2005: The IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Cardiff, Wales, May 2005. pdf , powerpoint
S. Sodhi and J. Subhlok, Automatic Construction and Evaluation of Performance Skeletons , 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, April 2005. abstract , pdf , powerpoint

2000-2004

A. Toomula and J. Subhlok, Replicating Memory Behavior for Performance Prediction, LCR 2004: The Seventh Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Support for Scalable Systems. Houston, TX, Oct 2004. pdf , powerpoint
S. Sodhi and J. Subhlok, Skeleton Based Performance Prediction on Shared Networks, Grids and Advanced Networks Workshop (GAN'04) at CCGRID 2004: The IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Chicago, IL, April 2004. abstract pdf , postscript
S. Venkataramaiah and J. Subhlok , Performance Estimation for Scheduling on Shared Networks, 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Seattle, WA, June 2003. pdf , postscript , powerpoint
S. Goteti and J. Subhlok, Communication Pattern Based Node Selection for Shared Networks, Autonomic Computing Workshop: The Fifth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2003), Seattle, WA, June, 2003. abstract , pdf , postscript , powerpoint
M. Zu and J. Subhlok, Home Based Cooperative Web Caching, Seventh Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2003. pdf
P. Desai and J. Subhlok. An Adaptive Hierarchy Management System for Web Caches, The 4^th International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 2003. pdf , postscript , powerpoint
P. Du and J. Subhlok. Evaluation of Performance of Cooperative Web Caching with Web Polygraph, 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, Boulder, CO, July 2002. pdf , postscript , powerpoint
A. Singh and J. Subhlok, Reconstruction of Application Layer Message Sequences by Network Monitoring, IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks 2002, Cambridge, MA, November 2002 pdf , powerpoint
S. Venkataramaiah and J. Subhlok Performance Prediction for Simple CPU and Network Sharing, LACSI Symposium 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 2002. pdf , postscript , powerpoint
J. Subhlok, S. Venkataramaiah and A. Singh Characterizing NAS Benchmark Performance on Shared Heterogeneous Networks. 11th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, (HCW '02), held with IPDPS '02, Fort Lauderdale, April 2002. pdfabstract , pdf , postscript , powerpoint
J. Subhlok and P.Steenkiste Airshed Pollution Modeling in an HPF Style Environment . Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, June 2000. abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok and G. Vondran Optimal Use of Mixed Task and Data Parallelism for Pipelined Computations . Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, March 2000 abstract , postscript

1995-1999

B. Lowekamp, N. Miller, T. Gross, P. Steenkiste, J. Subhlok and D. Sutherland A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications . In Cluster Computing 1999(2) , Baltzer Science Publishers. abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok, P. Lieu and B. Lowekamp Automatic Node Selection for High Performance Applications on Networks. In Proc. of the Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Atlanta, GA, May 1999. abstract , postscript
T. Gross, P. Steenkiste and J. Subhlok Adaptive Distributed Applications on Heterogeneous Networks Invited paper at the 8th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, (HCW '99), held with IPPS/SPDP '99, Puerto Rico, April 1999. abstract , postscript
B. Lowekamp, N. Miller, D. Sutherland, T. Gross, P. Steenkiste and J. Subhlok A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications In Proc. of the 7th International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok, P. Steenkiste, J. Stichnoth and P. Lieu Airshed Pollution Modeling: A Case Study in Application Development in an HPF Environment . In Proc. of the 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing abstract , postscript
T. Suzuoka, J. Subhlok and T. Gross A Performance Debugging Tool for High Performance Fortran Programs. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol.9(10),927-945,(October 1997) abstract , compressed postscript
J. Subhlok, and B. Yang A new model for integrated nested task and data parallel programming. In Proc. of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Las Vegas, NV, June 1997. abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok, T. Gross and T.Suzuoka. Impact of Job Mix on Optimizations for Space Sharing Schedulers . In Proc. Supercomputing '96, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 96. abstract , postscript . html .
J. Subhlok, and G. Vondran. Optimal Latency-Throughput Tradeoffs for Data Parallel Pipelines. In Proc. Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architecture (SPAA), Padua, Italy, June 1996. abstract , (postscript may not preview well but should print) postscript .
D. O'Hallaron, J. Webb, J. Subhlok. Performance Issues for Sensor-Based HPF Programs. To appear in Scientific Programming, Special Issue on HPF Implementations, 1996. abstract , postscript
P. Dinda, D. O'Hallaron, J. Subhlok, J. Webb, B. Yang, Language and run-time support for network parallel computing In Proc 8th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC95) abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok, and G. Vondran. Optimal Mapping of Sequences of Data Parallel Tasks. In Proc. of the Fifth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Santa Barbara, CA, July, 1995, pp. 134-143. abstract , postscript
J. Subhlok and K. Kennedy. Integer Programming for Array Subscript Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems June, 1995, pp. 662-668. abstract , postscript
T. Suzuoka, J. Subhlok, and T. Gross. Performance Debugging based on Scalability Analysis, In Proc. 5th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, McLean, VA, February, 1995, pp. 406-413. abstract , postscript
T. Gross, D. O'Hallaron, and J. Subhlok. Task parallelism in a High Performance Fortran framework. IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology, vol 2, no 2, pp 16-26. abstract , postscript

0-1994

J. Subhlok, D. O'Hallaron, T. Gross, P. Dinda, J. Webb, Communication and memory requirements as the basis for mapping task and data parallel programs . In Proc. Supercomputing '94, Washington, DC, Nov. 1994, pp. 330-339. abstract , postscript .
J. Subhlok, J. Stichnoth, D. O'Hallaron, and T. Gross, Exploiting task and data parallelism on a multicomputer, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, San Diego, CA, May, 1993, pp 13-22. abstract , postscript .
H. T. Kung and J. Subhlok. A new approach for automatic parallelization of blocked linear algebra computations. In Proceedings of Supercomputing '91, pages 122-129, Albuquerque, NM, November 1991. abstract . postscript ,
D. Callahan, K. Kennedy and J. Subhlok. Analysis of synchronization in a parallel programming tool. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Seattle, WA, Mar, 90. abstract . postscript ,
D. Callahan and J. Subhlok. Static analysis of low level synchronization. Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging, Madison, WI, May 88.

M. Zu and J. Subhlok, Home Based Cooperative Web Caching, Seventh Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2003. pdf
P. Desai and J. Subhlok. An Adaptive Hierarchy Management System for Web Caches, The 4^th International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 2003. pdf , postscript , powerpoint
P. Du and J. Subhlok. Evaluation of Performance of Cooperative Web Caching with Web Polygraph, 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, Boulder, CO, July 2002. pdf , postscript , powerpoint

Older Tech Reports

T. DeWitt, T. Gross, B. Lowekamp, N. Miller, P. Steenkiste, J. Subhlok and D. Sutherland ReMoS: A Resource Monitoring System for Network-Aware Applications, Technical Report CMU-CS-97-194, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Dec, 97. abstract , postscript .
T. Suzuoka, J. Subhlok, and T. Gross Evaluating job scheduling techniques for highly parallel computers, Technical Report CMU-CS-95-149, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug, 95. abstract , postscript .
P. Dinda, T. Gross, D. O'Hallaron, E. Segall, J. Stichnoth, J. Subhlok, J. Webb, and B. Yang, The CMU task parallel program suite , Technical Report CMU-CS-94-131, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1994. abstract , postscript .
J. Subhlok Solving integer programs from dependence and synchronization problems , Technical Report CMU-CS-93-130, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 93. abstract , postscript .