POEMS/MASC Publications (partial list):

• "Push" and "Pull" Control Strategies for Multi-product Production Lines
  Krishnamurthy, A. , R. Suri, and M. K. Vernon, "Re-examining the Performance of MRP and Kanban Control Strategies for Multi-product Flexible Manufacturing Systems", Int'l. J. of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, to appear, 2004. (pdf)

• Analytic models of the "ns" dumbbell topology & edge router scheduling
  Rai, I., G. Urvoy-Keller, M. K. Vernon, and E. Biersack, "Performance of LAS-based Scheduling Disciplines in a Packet Switched Network", to appear in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2004/Performance 2004 Joint Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, New York, June 2004. (postscript, pdf)

• Exact Analytic Models of Fork/Join Stations
  Krishnamurthy, A. , R. Suri, and M. K. Vernon, "Analysis of a Fork/Join Station with Inputs from Coxian Servers in a Closed Queueing Network", Annals of Operations Research Special Volume on Stochastic Models of Production-Inventory Systems, Vol. 25, 2004, pp. 69-94. (postscript, pdf)

• Deterministic task graph analysis technique.
  Adve, V. S., and M. K. Vernon, "Parallel Program Performance Prediction Using Deterministic Task Graph Analysis", ACM Trans. on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 22, No. 1, Feb. 2004, pp. 94-136.

• Approximate analysis of Fork/Join Stations
  Krishnamurthy, A., R. Suri, and M. K. Vernon, "Two-Moment Approximations for Throughput and Mean Queue Length of a Fork/Join Station with General Input Processes", in Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Supply Chains, J. G. Shanthikumar, D. D. Yao, and W. H. M. Zijm (eds.), Kluwer, 2003, pp. 87-126. (postscript, pdf)

• Analytic model of TCP Vegas throughput
  Samios, C. (Babis) and M. K. Vernon, "Modeling the Throughput of TCP Vegas", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2003 Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics 2003) San Diego, June 2003. (postscript, pdf)

• Overview of MOL PDE Solver & Model-based Adaptive Control
  Adve, V., J. Browne, B. Ensink, J. Rice, P. Teller, M. Vernon, and S. Wright, "An Approach to Optimizing Adaptive Parabolic PDE Solvers for the Grid", Proc IPDPS 2003 Workshop on Next Generation Systems, Nice, France, April 2003.

• MVA model of shared memory system architectures for complex modern processors
  Sorin, D. J., J. L. Lemon, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Analytic Evaluation of Shared Memory Architectures for Heterogeneous Applications", Computer Sciences Technical Report No. 1404, University of Wisconsin-Madison, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2003. (postscript, pdf)

• Overview of Program Control Language (PCL): language extensions for adaptive distributed programs.
  Brian Ensink, Joel Stanley and Vikram Adve, "Program Control Language: A Programming Language for Adaptive Distributed Applications," Submitted for publication to Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, special issue on Computational Grids., April 2002. (pdf)

• Fine tuning interface relaxation methods for elliptic differential equations.
  J.R. Rice, P. Tsompanopoulou, and E. Vavalis, to appear in Applied Numerical Mathematics ,(2002).

• My Pythia: A recommendation portal for scientific software and services
  E.N. Houstis, A.C. Catlin, N. Dhanjani, J.R. Rice, N. Ramakrishnan, and V. Verykios. Research in Parallel Computing, (G. Fox and J. Dongarra, eds.), ACM Press (2002). (postscript)

• Model-based adaptive stochastic optimization; new Condor task scheduling algorithm
  Buaklee, D., G. Tracy, M. K. Vernon, and S. Wright, "Near-optimal Adaptive Control of a Large Grid Application", Proc. 16th Annual ACM Int'l. Conf. on Supercomputing (ICS 2002), New York, June 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Analysis of client balking probability, mean wait in queue with aggregation of clients waiting for the same data object
  Tan, H., D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and H. Guo, "Quality of Service Evaluations of Multicast Streaming Protocols", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2002 Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems Marina del Rey, June 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Techniques for using a compiler to greatly improve the scalability of simulation for parallel message-passing applications.
  Vikram S. Adve, Rajive Bagrodia, Ewa Deelman, and Rizos Sakellariou, "Compiler-Optimized Simulation of Large-Scale Applications on High Performance Architectures," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation, pp. 393-426. Mar. 2002. (postscript)

• Goals and preliminary design overview for Program Control Language (PCL).
  Vikram Adve, Vinh Vi Lam and Brian Ensink, Language and Compiler Support for Adaptive Distributed Applications, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Optimization of Middleware and Distributed Systems (OM 2001), Snowbird, Utah, June 2001.
  This is a preliminary version of the JPDC submission on PCL above.

• Improving Lookahead in Parallel Discrete Event Simulations of Large-Scale Applications using Compiler Analysis, Ewa Deelman, Rajive Bagrodia, Rizos Sakellariou and Vikram Adve, Proc. 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'01), Lake Arrowhead, California, USA, May 15-18 2001. (Best Paper Award, postscript)

• Overview of POEMS analysis & simulation capabilities
  V. S. Adve, R. Bagrodia, J. C. Browne, Deelman, E., A. Dube, E. Houstis, J. Rice, R. Sakellariou, D. Sundaram-Stukel, P. J. Teller, and M. K. Vernon, "POEMS: End-to-end Performance Design of Large Parallel Adaptive Computational Systems", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Section of invited papers from the WOSP '98 Workshop, Vol. 26, No. 11, Nov. 2000, pp. 1027-1048. (postscript, pdf) (WOSP'98 citation is (below.)

• Description of MOL
  John R. Rice and Mikel Lujan, "MOL: Method of Lines Application", Technical Report CSD-Tr#00-014, Computer Science Dept., Purdue University, Oct. 2000. (pdf)

• Compiler techniques for automatically extracting task graphs for data-parallel programs compiled to message-passing code.
  Vikram Adve and Rizos Sakellariou, "Compiler Synthesis of Task Graphs for Parallel Programs," 13th Int'l. Workshop on Languages and Compilers for High Performance Computing (LCPC '00),, Yorktown Heights, NY, August 2000. (postscript)

• MVA analysis of high service time CV & bursty arrivals
  Eager, D. L., D. J. Sorin, and M. K. Vernon, "AMVA Techniques for High Service Time Variability", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2000 Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000. (postscript, pdf)

• Static and dynamic task graph representations of parallel programs aimed at supporting multiple performance modeling techniques.
  Vikram Adve and Rizos Sakellariou, "Application Representations for Multi-Paradigm Performance Modeling of Large-Scale Parallel Scientific Codes," International Journal of High-Performance and Scientific Applications, vol. 14, no. 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 304-316. (postscript)

• A knowledge discovery methodology for the performance evaluation of scientific software
  V.S. Verykios, E.N. Houstis, and J.R Rice. Neural, Parallel and Sci. Comp,(2000), 115--132. Abridged version in Enabling Technologies for Computational Science, (E.N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, E. Gallopoulos, and R. Bramley, eds.), Kluwer, Boston, (2000), 171--185. (slides)

• Compiling techniques for improving the scalability of simulation for parallel message-passing applications.
  Vikram Adve, Rajive Bagrodia, Ewa Deelman, Thomas Phan and Rizos Sakellariou, "Compiler-Supported Simulation of Highly Scalable Parallel Applications," SC99: High Performance Networking and Computing, Portland, OR, November 1999.
  This is a preliminary version of the paper above, which appeared in JPDC in March 2002.

• LogGP analysis of MPI send/recieve and Sweep3D particle transport simulation
  Sundaram-Stukel, D. and M. K. Vernon, "Predictive Analysis of a Wavefront Application Using LogGP", Proc. 7th ACM SIGPLAN Symp. on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming (PPoPP '99), Atlanta, GA, May 1999, pp. 141-150. (postscript, pdf)

• POEMS methodology
  Deelman, E., A. Dube, A. Hoisie, Y. Luo, R. Oliver, D. Sundaram-Stukel, H. Wasserman, V. S. Adve, R. Bagrodia, J. C. Browne, E. Houstis, O. Lubeck, J. Rice, P. Teller, M. K. Vernon. "POEMS: End-to-end Performance Design of Large Parallel Adaptive Computational Systems", Proc. 1st Int'l. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP '98), Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1998.
  (One of three award papers invited for publication in IEEE TSE (above).

• MVA model of shared memory system architectures for complex modern processors
  Sorin, D., V. Pai, S. V. Adve, M. K. Vernon, and D. A. Wood, "Analytic Evaluation of Shared Memory Systems with ILP Processors", Proc. 25th Int'l. Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA '98), Barcelona, July 1998, pp. 180-191. (pdf)

  Technical report with detailed equations: Sorin, D., M. K. Vernon, V. Pai, S. V. Adve, and D. A. Wood, "A Customized MVA Model for ILP Multiprocessors", Computer Sciences Technical Report No. 1369, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 1998. (pdf)

• LoPC model definition & examples
  Frank, M. I., A. Agarwal, and M. K. Vernon, "LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms", Proc. PPoPP '97, Las Vegas, June 1997, pp. 276-287. (pdf)

Related & Prior Publications by POEMS/MASC Participants

• Krishnamurthy, A., R. Suri, and M. K. Vernon, "A New Approach for Analyzing Queueing Models of Material Control Strategies in Manufacturing Systems", Proc. 4th Int'l. Workshop on Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity (QNETs2000), West Yorkshire, U.K., July 2000. (postscript, pdf)

• Krishnamurthy, A., R. Suri, and M. K. Vernon, "Push Can Perform Better than Pull for Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Multiple Products", Proc. Industrial Engineering Research Conf., Cleveland, OH, May 2000. (postscript, pdf)

• Interface relaxation methods for elliptic differential equations
  J.R. Rice, P. Tsompanopoulou, and E. Vavalis.Appl. Num. Math.,(2000), 219--245.

• Recommender systems for problem solving networks
  N. Ramakrishnan, E.N. Houstis, and J.R. Rice, Recommender Systems , AAAI Rpt. WS-98-08, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, (1998), 91--95. (slides)

• Voelker, G. M., H. A. Jamrozik, M. K. Vernon, H. M. Levy, and E. D. Lazowska, "Managing Server Load in Global Memory Systems", Proc. ACM Sigmetrics '97, Seattle, June 1997, pp. 127-138. (pdf)

• T.T. Drashansky, E.N. Houstis, A. Joshi, J.R. Rice, and S. Weerawarana. Collaborating problem solving agents for multi-physics problems. 15th IMACS World Congress, Wissenschaft and Technik Verlag,(1997), 541--546. (slides)

• T.T. Drashansky, A. Joshi, and J.R. Rice. Multidisciplinary problem solving using agents in a cluster environment.Cluster Computing Conference), (1997), 4 pages.

• Jamrozik, H. A., M. J. Feeley, G. M. Voelker, J. Evans II, A. R. Karlin, H. M. Levy, and M. K. Vernon, Reducing Network Latency Using Subpages in a Global Memory Environment, Proc. ASPLOS-VII, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oct. 1996, pp. 258-267. (pdf)