Professor Cooperman researches high-performance computing and large applications in computational algebra. He developed Task-Oriented Parallel C (TOP-C/C++), a model for writing parallel software easily. More recently, his research concerns novel applications of transparent checkpointing, such as checkpointing symbolic debuggers and checkpointing the graphics desktop at the process level. His DMTCP checkpointing project provides a robust platform for this purpose, which does not require any kernel modules or kernel patches. His joint work on disk-based parallel computing, including the novel language Roomy, provides a traditional sequential programming API, which transparently makes use of many terabytes of parallel disk storage. Finally, the problem of converting many sequential processes into a single multi-threaded process is an important focus of his ongoing collaboration with CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), and that work is motivated by the needs for future many-core CPU chips.
Articles
DMTCP: transparent checkpointing for cluster computations and the desktop (with Jason Ansel and Kapil Arya), Computer and Information Science Faculty Publications (2009)
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing) is a transparent user-level checkpointing package for distributed applications. Checkpointing and...
Parallelization of Geant4 using TOP-C and Marshalgen (with Viet Ha Nguyen and Igor Maliutov), Computer and Information Science Faculty Publications (2006)
Geant4 is a very large, highly accurate toolkit for Monte Carlo simulation of particle-matter interaction....
Transparent adaptive library-based checkpointing for master-worker style parallelism (with Jason Ansel and Xiaoqin Ma), Computer and Information Science Faculty Publications (2006)
We present a transparent, system-level checkpointing solution for master-worker parallelism that automatically adapts, upon restart,...
Geant4 developments and applications (with J. Allison, K. Amako, J. Apostolakis, H. Araujo, P. Arce Dubois, M. Asai, G. Barrand, R. Capra, S. Chauvie, R. Chytracek, G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cosmo, G. Cuttone, G. G. Daquino, M. Donszelmann, M. Dressel, G. Folger, F. Foppiano, J. Generowicz, V. Grichine, S. Guatelli, P. Gumplinger, A. Heikkinen, I. Hrivnacova, A. Howard, S. Incerti, V. Ivanchenko, T. Johnson, F. Jones, T. Koi, R. Kokoulin, M. Kossov, H. Kurashige, V. Lara, S. Larsson, F. Lei, O. Link, F. Longo, M. Maire, A. Mantero, B. Mascialino, I. McLaren, P. Mendez Lorenzo, K. Minamimoto, K. Murakami, P. Nieminen, L. Pandola, S. Parlati, L. Peralta, J. Perl, A. Pfeiffer, M. G. Pia, A. Ribon, P. Rodrigues, G. Russo, S. Sadilov, G. Santin, T. Sasaki, D. Smith, N. Starkov, S. Tanaka, E. Tchemiaev, B. Tomé, A. Trindade, P. Truscott, L. Urban, M. Verderi, A. Walkden, J. P. Wellisch, D. C. Williams, D. Wright, and H. Yoshida), Computer and Information Science Faculty Publications (2006)
Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter....