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Referred Papers

• VCCP: A Transparent, Coordinated Checkpointing System for Virtualization-based Cluster Computing, with N. Saragol, K. Chanchio, and Chokchai Leangsuksun, Proceedings of the IEEE Cluster Computing (Cluster-09), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009.
• An Extensible I/O Performance Analysis Framework for Distributed Environments, with B. Eckart, X. He, and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the The 15th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar-09), Delft, The Netherlands, 2009.
• Performance Comparison of Two Virtual Machine Scenarios Using an HPC Application, with A. Tikotekar, S. Alam, G. Vallee, T. Naughton, C. Engelmann and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on System-level Virtualizationi for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt-09), in conjuction with EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, 2009.
• Evaluating the Shared Root File System Approach for Diskless High-Performance Computing Systems, with C. Engelmann and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing (LCI-09), Boulder, Colorado, 2009.
• The Case for Modular Redundancy in Large-Scale High Performance Computing Systems, with C. Engelmann and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the 27th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN-09), Innsbruck, Austria, 2009.

• Experimental Evaluation of Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Multi-core Systems, with S. Alam, P. Agarwal, and S. Hampton, Proceedings of the International Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC-08), Bangalore, India, 2008.
• Enhancing Reliability in Grid Systems with Virtual Machine Checkpointing Mechanism, with K. Chanchio, C. Leangsuksun, and V. Ratanasamoot, Proceedings of Thai Grid Computing Conference (TGCC-08), Thailand, 2008.
• Virtual System Environments, with G. Vallee, T. Naughton, C. Engelmann, and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the 2nd DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management (SVM-08), Munich, Germany, 2008.
• An Analysis of HPC Benchmark Applications in Virtual Machine Environments, with A. Tikotikar, G. Vallee, T. Naughton, C. Engelmann, and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC-08), in conjunction with EuroPar-08, Canary Island, Spain, 2008.
• An Efficient Virtual Machine Checkpointing Protocol for Hypervisor-based HPC Systems, with K. Chanchio, C. Leangsuksun, and A. Shafi, Proceedings of the High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop (HPACW-08), Denvar, Colorado, 2008
• Effects of Virtualization on a Scientific Application, with A. Tikotekar, T. Naughton, C. Engelmann, and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of 2nd HPCVirt Workshop (HPCVirt-08), in conjunction with the EuroSys 2008, Glasgow, UK, 2008
• Impact of Multicores on Large-scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, with S. Alam, P. Argawal, S. Hampton, and J. Vetter, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB-08), Miami, Florida, 2008
• System-level Virtualization Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with S. L. Scott, G. Vallee, T. Naughton, A. Tikotekar, and C. Engelmann, Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS), 2008
• System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing, with C. Engelmann, S. L. Scott, G. Vallee, and T. Naughton, Proceedings of 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and network-based Processing (PDP'08), Toulouse, France, 2008
• A Visualization Environment for Nematic Liquid Crystal Materials, with P. A. Farrell, A. Ruttan, and Y-M Zhu, Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007
• Middleware in Modern High Performance Computing System Architectures, with C. Engelmann and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'07), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN 978-3-540-72585-5, Beijing, China, 2007
• Configurable Virtualized Environments for High Performance Computing, with C. Engelmann, S. L. Scott, G. Vallee, and T. Naughton, Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN, Beijing, China, 2007
• Checkpoint/Restart of Virtual Machines Based on Xen, with G. Vallee, T. Naughton, and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop (HPACW), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006
• IPM-based Efficient Notification Framework for High End Computing, with C. Leangsuksun, T. Rao, S. L. Scott, R. Libby, J. Vetter, Y. C. Fang, Proceedings of IEEE Cluster Computing and the Grid (CGrid), Singapore, 2006
• Policy-based Access Control Framework for Grid Computing, with J. Wu, C. Leangsuksun and V. Rampur, Proceedings of IEEE Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Singapore, 2006
• Kernel-level Single System Image for Petascale Computing, with J. Vetter and S. Studham, ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), 2006
• Virtual Research Environment in UK: Sakai Demonstrator, with R. J. Allan, D. Chohan, X. D. Wang, X. B. Yang, R. Crouchley, A. Fish,M. Gonzalez, M. A. Baker, M. Dovey and F. Pinto, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Nottingham, UK, 2005
• OpenWLC: A Scalable Workload Characterization System, with R. Subramaniyan, S. Studham, and C. Leangsuksun, Proceedings of High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop (HPACW), Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2005
• Virtual Research in UK: Advance Portal Services, with M. A. Baker, R. J. Allan, and X. D. Wang, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), ISBN 1-904425-21-6, Nottingham, UK, 2004
• Factors involved in the performance of computations on Beowulf clusters, with P. A. Farrell, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), vol. 15, 2003
• VIA Communication Performance on a Gigabit Ethernet Cluster, with M. A. Baker, P. A. Farrell and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of EuroPar 2001, Springer-Verlag Lecture note in Computer Science, ISBN 3-540-42495-4, 2001
• Enabling High Performance Data Transfer on Cluster Architecture, with P. A. Farrell and S. L. Scott, Proceedings of IEEE Cluster Computing and Conference, Saxony, Germany, 2000
• Performance Comparison of LAM/MPI, MPICH, and MVICH on a Linux Cluster connected by a Gigabit Ethernet Network, with Paul A. Farrell, Proceedings of 4th Annual Linux Showcase Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2000
• Modeling liquid crystal structures using MPI on SMP workstation cluster, with P. A. Farrell and A. Ruttan, Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Application (PDPTA), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2000
• Communication Performance over a Gigabit Ethernet Network, with P. A. Farrell, Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000
• Modeling Liquid Crystal Structures using MPI on a workstation cluster, with P. A. Farrell and Arden Ruttan, Proceedings of IEEE/ACM MWPP, Kent, Ohio, 1999
• SMLib: A Toolkit for Shared Memory Programming in Heterogeneous Environments, with P. S. Wang, Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Application (PDPTA), Las Vegas, Nevada, 1999
• PvmJobs: A Generic Parallel Jobs Library for PVM, with I. Ajwa and P. S. Wang, Proceedings of IEEE NAECON, Dayton, Ohio, 1997
• A Generic Parallel Jobs Library for PVM, with I. Ajwa and P. S. Wang, Cluster Computing Conference (CCC'97), Atlanta, Georgia, 1997

Technical Reports

• Lustre: A How-To Guide for Installing and Configuring Lustre 1.4.1, with R. Alexander, C. Kerner, J. Kuehn, J. Layton, P. Lucas, S. Oral, L. Stein, J. Schroeder, S. Woods, S. Studham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 2005
• Grid Services in the UK and Beyond, with M. A. Baker and R. J. Allan, DL Technical Report DL-TR-2006-006, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2005
• Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) Installation Guide for RedHat 9.0 Linux HOWTO, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2004
• OGSA Prerequisite Software Installation and Configuration on Linux RedHat 9.0 HOWTO, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2004
• A Study of Java Networking Performance on a Linux Cluster, with M. A. Baker and A. Shafi, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2004.
• Design and Implementation of Java Embedded Microkernel Software Architecture, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2003
• A Java Embedded Micro-kernel Infrastructure, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2002
• A Quantitative Study on the Communication Performance of Myrinet Nework Interfaces, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2002
• Grid Enabled Liquid Crystal Structure Modelling and Visualization Web Portal, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2002
• A Status Report on Developing a Grid Enabled Web Portal using Commodity Toolkits, with M. A. Baker and G. Smith, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2001
• A Report on Experiences Operating the Globus Toolkit though a Firewall, with M. A. Baker and G. Smith, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2001
• Fianna Cluster: Current Performance Status, with P. A. Farrell, ICM/KSU Technical Report, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 2000
• VI vs TCP Performance On Gigabit Ethernet Network, with P. A. Farrell, ICM/KSU Technical Report, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 2000
• Communication Performance of a PC-Cluster over Local Gigabit Ethernet Network, with P. A. Farrell, ICM/KSU Technical Report, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 2000
• Performance Evaluation of Fibre Channel on a Cluster of Workstations, with P. A. Farrell, ICM/KSU Technical Report, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1999

Book Chapters

• Cluster Computing Fundamental, chapter in The Handbook of Computer Networks, Hossein Bidgoli (Editor-in-Chief), ISBN 978-0-471-78461-6, Wiley and Sons, 2007

Posters

• KVM on Clusters: Tackling the Disk I/O Bottleneck for HPC Virtualization, with B. Eckart, X. He, and S. L. Scott, the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST-09), San Francisco, California, USA, 2009.
• Enhancing Fault Resiliency via Virtual Machine Migration, with K. Chanchio, C. Leangsuksun, and V. Ratanasamoot, Super Computing Conference (SC-08), Austin, Texas, USA, 2008.
• Resiliency for High-Performance Computing Systems, with S. L. Scott, C. Engelmann, G. Vallee, T. Naughton, A. Tikotekar, C. Leangsuksun, N. Naksinehaboon, R. Nassar, M. Paun, X. He, L. Ou, and X. Chen, the 1st High-Performance Computer Science Week (HPCSW-08), Denver, CO, USA, 2008.
• System-level Virtualization for for High-Performance Computing, with S. L. Scott, G. Vallee, T. Naughton, A. Tikotekar, and C. Engelmann, \textitthe 1st High-Performance Computer Science Week (HPCSW), Denver, CO, USA, 2008
• Integration and Operational Monitoring Tools for the Emerging UK e-Science Grid Infrastructure (poster), with D. Baker, M. A. Baker, and H. Xiang, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting ( AHM 2004), ISBN 1-904425-21-6, Nottingham, UK, 2004
• A Java Embedded Micro-kernel Infrastructure (poster), with M. A. Baker, Java Grande/ISCOPE (JGI'02), Seattle, Washington, 3-5 November, 2002
• Grid Enabled Liquid Crystal Simulation, with M. A. Baker, , The official Opening of the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), Edinburgh, UK, 25 April, 2002

Others

• Book Review: A Good Starting Point for XML, with M. A. Baker and G. Smith, IEEE DSOnline, Volume 3, Number 3, 2002
• Grid Enabled Liquid Crystal Structure Modelling and Visualization User Guide. Version 1.0, with M. A. Baker, DSG/UoP Technical Report, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK, 2002