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Kirk W. Cameron

Professor

Office: 2212 KWII
Email: cameron@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-4238
Website: http://scape.cs.vt.edu/
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Office Hours: McBryde 122-A: TR: 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
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Scape - SCAlable PErformance Laboratory

URL: http://scape.cs.vt.edu/
Contact: Kirk Cameron

The SCAlable PErformance (SCAPE) laboratory is directed by Professor Kirk W. Cameron. Our main research focus is the design, analysis and improvement of scalable systems and applications using emerging technologies.

2010
Cao, Z., D. R. Easterling, L. T. Watson, D. Li, K. W. Cameron, and W. C. Feng, "Power saving experiments for large-scale global optimization", Internat J. Parallel Emergent Distrib. Systems, vol. 25, pp. 381-400, 2010.
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Ge, R., X. Feng, S. Song, H. - C. Chang, D. Li, and K. W. Cameron, "PowerPack: Energy Profiling and Analysis of High-Performance Systems and Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21, issue 5, pp. 658 - 671, 05/2010.
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2009
Song, S., R. Ge, X. Feng, and K. W. Cameron, "Energy profiling and analysis of the HPC Challenge Benchmarks", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 23(3), pp. 265-276, 2009.
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Tolentino, M. E., J. Turner, and K. W. Cameron, "Memory MISER: Improving Main Memory Energy Efficiency in Servers", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, issue 3, pp. 336 - 350, 03/2009.
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Cameron, K. W., "Green Introspection", Computer, vol. 42, issue 1, pp. 101 - 103, 01/2009.
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Cameron, K. W., Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceDistributed Computing and NetworkingCG-Cell: An NPB Benchmark Implementation on Cell Broadband Engine, , vol. 4904, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 263 - 273, 2009.
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2008
Li, D., S. Huang, and K. W. Cameron, "CG-Cell: An NPB Benchmark Implementation on Cell Broadband Engine", Theoretical Computer Science, M. Conti, P. Das, N. Santoro (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008.
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Li, D., S. Huang, and K. W. Cameron, "CG-Cell: An NPB Benchmark Implementation on Cell Broadband Engine", International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2008), Kolkata, India, January, 2008.
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Blagojevic, F., X. Feng, K. W. Cameron, and D. Nikolopoulos, "Modeling Mulitigrain Parallelism on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors: A Case Study of the Cell BE", International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HiPEAC 2008), Goteberg, Sweden, January, 2008.
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Li, D., H. Pyla, and K. W. Cameron, "System-level, Thermal-aware, Fully-loaded Processor Scheduling", Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on High-performance, Power-aware Computing (HPPAC), Miami, FL, pp. 8 pgs, 2008.
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Blagojevic, F., X. Feng, K. W. Cameron, and D. S. Nikolopoulos, "Modeling Multi-grain Parallelism on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors: A Case Study of the Cell BE", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4917, Göteborg, Sweden, Springer, pp. 38-52, February, 2008.
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2007
Feng, W. - C., and K. W. Cameron, "The Green500 List: Encouraging Sustainable Supercomputing", IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 12, 2007.
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Cameron, K. W., R. Ge, and X. - H. Sun, "lognP and log3P: Accurate analytical models of point-to-point communication in distributed systems", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 56, no. 3, 2007.
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Cameron, K. W., H. K. Pyla, and S. Varadarajan, "Tempest: A portable tool to identify hot spots in parallel code", proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 07), Xi An, China, September, 2007.
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Ge, R., X. Feng, W. - C. Feng, and K. W. Cameron, "CPU Miser: A performance-Directed, Run-Time System for Power-aware Clusters", Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 07), Xi An, China, September, 2007.
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Tolentino, M., J. Turner, and K. W. Cameron, "Memory-MISER: A performance-constrained runtime system for powerscalable clusters", Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, May, 2007.
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Ge, R., and K. W. Cameron, "Power-Aware Speedup", Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 07), March, 2007.
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Feng, X., K. W. Cameron, B. Smith, and C. Sosa, "Building the Tree of Life on Tera-scale Systems", Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 07), March, 2007.
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Tolentino, M., J. Turner, and K. W. Cameron, "An Implementation of Page Allocation Shaping for Energy Efficiency", Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on High-performance, Power-aware Computing (HPPAC), 2007.
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Cameron, K. W., R. Ge, and X. Feng, "Designing Computational Clusters for Performance and Power", Advances in Computers, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science BV, 2007.
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Nikolopoulos, D., and K. W. Cameron, "Synthesizing Parallel Programming Models for Asymmetric Multi-Core Systems", Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, MIT Lincoln Lab, 2007.
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Nikolopoulos, D. S., and K. W. Cameron, "Synthesizing Parallel Programming Models for Asymmetric Multi-Core Systems", Abstracts of the Eleventh Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, Lexington, MA, pp. 1pp, September, 2007.
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2006
Cameron, K. W., X. Feng, and R. Ge, "The Argus Prototype: Aggregate Use of Load Modules as a High density Supercomputer", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 18, no. 1, 2006.
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Feng, X., K. W. Cameron, and D. A. Buell, "High Performance, Bayesian-based Phylogenetic Inference Framework", Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference (SC), 2006.
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2005
Cameron, K. W., R. Ge, and X. Feng, "High-Performance, Power-Aware Distributed Computing for Scientific Applications", IEEE Computer, vol. 38, no. 11, November, 2005.
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Byna, S., K. W. Cameron, and X. - H. Sun, "Memory-Aware Communication -An Experimental Study with MPI", Parallel Processing Letters, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. pp 357-365, December, 2005.
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Cameron, K. W., X. Feng, and R. Ge, "Performance-constrained Distributed DVS Scheduling for Scientific Applications on Power-aware Clusters", Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference (SC 2005), pp. 15 pgs., November, 2005.
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Feng, X., R. Ge, and K. W. Cameron, "Power and Energy Profiling of Scientific Applications on Distributed Systems", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 05), pp. 10 pgs, April, 2005.
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Feng, X., R. Ge, and K. W. Cameron, "ARGUS: Supercomputing in 1/10 Cubic Meter", Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005), February, 2005.
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Ge, R., X. Feng, and K. W. Cameron, "Improvement of Power-Performance Efficiency for High-End Computing", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 05) - HPPAC '05 Workshop, Denver, CO, April, 2005.
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2004
Cameron, K. W., and R. Ge, "Predicting and Evaluating Distributed Communication Performance", Proceedings of the 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (SC 2004), November, 2004.
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Byna, S., K. W. Cameron, and X. - H. Sun, "Quantification of Memory Communication", High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing: Hardware/Software Support, Boston, MA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. pp. 31-44, 2004.
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2003
Cameron, K. W., and X. - H. Sun, "Quantifying Locality Effect in Data Access Delay: Memory logP", Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 03), pp. 8 pgs, April, 2003.
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Ashby, S., D. H. Bailey, M. Blackmon, P. Bohrer, K. W. Cameron, C. DeTar, J. Dongarra, D. Dwoyer, P. Freeman, A. Gheith, et al., "Performance Modeling, Metrics and Specifications", Workshop on The Roadmap for the Revitalization of High-End Computing,, Washington, DC, Computer Research Association, pp. 59-68, 2003.
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2002
Maxwell, M. T., and K. W. Cameron, "Optimizing Application Performance: A Case Study Using LMBench", ACM Crossroads, September, 2002.
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Byna, S., K. W. Cameron, and X. - H. Sun, "Memory-Aware Communication -An Experimental Study with MPI", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (SPDSEC02), September, 2002.
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2001
Sun, X. - H., K. W. Cameron, D. He, and Y. Luo, "Adaptive Multivariate Regression for Advanced Memory System Evaluation", Journal of Performance Evaluation, vol. 45, no. 1, May, 2001.
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Solihin, Y., K. W. Cameron, Y. Luo, D. Lavenier, and M. Gokhale, "Mutable Functional Units and Their Applications on Microprocessors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design 2001 (ICCD 2001), pp. 234-239, September, 2001.
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2000
Lavenier, D., K. W. Cameron, and Y. Solihin, "Integer/Floating Point Reconfigurable ALU", Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on New Machine Architectures (SympA'6), pp. 12 pgs, June, 2000.
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Sun, X. - H., and K. W. Cameron, "A Statistical-Empirical Hybrid Approach to Hierarchical Memory Analysis", Proceedings of Euro-Par 2000, pp. 141-148, August, 2000.
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Sun, X. - H., and K. W. Cameron, "A Statistical-Empirical Hybrid Approach to Hierarchical Memory Analysis", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1900, New York, NY, Springer Verlag Publishers, pp. 141-148, 2000.
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1999
Cameron, K. W., and Y. Luo, "Instruction-level Microprocessor Modeling of Scientific Applications", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC 99), pp. 29-41, May, 1999.
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Sun, X. - H., K. W. Cameron, D. He, and Y. Luo, "A Memory-Centric Characterization of ASCI Applications Via A Combined Approach of Statistical and Empirical Analysis", Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PPSC 1999), March, 1999.
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Luo, Y., K. W. Cameron, and O. Lubeck, "Instruction-level Characterization of Computational Physics and Multimedia Applications Using Performance Counters", Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), pp. 12, 1999.
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Cameron, K. W., and Y. Luo, "Instruction-level Microprocessor Modeling of Scientific Applications", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1615, New York, NY, Springer Verlag Publishers, pp. 29-41, 1999.
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Luo, Y., and K. W. Cameron, "Instruction-level Characterization of Scientific Computing Applications Using Hardware Performance Counters", Scientific, Engineering and Desktop Workloads of Workload Characterization: Methodology and Case Studies, Los Alamitos, CA, IEEE-CS Press, pp. 90-98, 1999.
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Sun, X. - H., D. He, K. W. Cameron, and Y. Luo, "A Factorial Performance Evaluation for Hierarchical Memory Syst", Proceedings of the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS/SPDP 99), pp. 70-74, April, 1999.
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1998
Y. Luo, O. M. Lubeck, H. Wasserman, F. Bassetti, and K. W. Cameron, "Development and Validation of a Hierarchical Memory Model Incorporating CPU- and Memory-operation Overlap", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP '98), pp. 152-163, October, 1998.
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Lubeck, O., A. Hoisie, F. Bassetti, K. W. Cameron, Y. Luo, and H. Wasserman, "ASCI Application Performance and the Impact of Commodity Processor Architectural Trends", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems, October, 1998.
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CAREER: High- Performance, Power-Aware, Distributed Computing

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $231,012

CRI: Miser: A High Performance Power Aware Cluster

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $453,911

CSR - AES Thermal Conductors: Runtime Software Support For Proactive Heat Management In Advances Execution Systems

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:

CSR: Large: Collaborative Research: A Multi-core Application Modeling Structure

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $750,000

CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: GridPac: A Resource Management System for Energy and Performance Optimization on Computational Grids

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $180,000

High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing Workshop

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $5,000

Metrics And Methodologies for High Performance System Energy Benchmarking

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $200,000

Scalable Performance Modeling and Analysis Framework

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $25,000

Thermal Conductors: Runtime Software Support For Proactive Head Management In Advances Execution Systems

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $69,992

Ultra-Scale Memory Analysis for High-End Computing

Granting Institution: Department of Energy
Amount: $230,204

 
 
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