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Articles (28)

Teaching HDFS/MapReduce Systems Concepts to Undergraduates

Proceedings of the NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (2014)

Linh B Ngo, Amy W. Apon and Edward B Duffy

This paper presents the development of a Hadoop MapReduce module that has been taught in a course in distributed computing ...

Assessing the Effect of High Performance Computing Capabilities on Academic ...

Empirical Economics (2014)

Amy Apon, Linh B Ngo, Michael E Payne and Paul W Wilson

This paper uses nonparametric methods and some new results on hypothesis testing with nonparametric efficiency estimators and applies these to ...

JUMMP: Job Uninterrupted Maneuverable MapReduce Platform

Presentations (2013)

William Clay Moody, Linh B. Ngo, Edward Duffy and Amy Apon

In this paper, we present JUMMP, the Job Uninterrupted Maneuverable MapReduce Platform, an automated scheduling platform that provides a customized ...

On Modeling Contention for Shared Caches in Multi-Core Processors with ...

Natural Computing (2013)

Amy Apon and Wesley Emeneker

Multi-core x86_64 processors introduced an important change in architecture, a shared last level cache. Historically, each processor has had access ...

Large-scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Forward Flux Sampling on Hadoop

Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium (GRADS) (2013)

Pengfei Xuan, Yueli Zheng, Sapna Sarupria and Amy Apon

Simulating rare events is extremely difficulty and requires massive computational resources and complex data processing workflow, which is determined by ...

An Infrastructure to Support Data Integration and Curation for Higher ...

Poster presented at the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience (2012)

Linh B Ngo, Amy W. Apon, Pengfei Xuan, Kimberley Ferguson, et al.

The recent challenges for higher education call for research that can offer a comprehensive understanding about the performance and efficiency ...

A Component-Based End-to-End Simulation of the Linux File System

Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (2011)

Amy Apon and Hai Nguyen

The Linux file system is designed with components utilizing a layered architecture. The upper components hide details of the lower ...

Accelerating Image Feature Comparisons using CUDA on Commodity Hardware

Symposium on Application Acceleration in High Performance Computing (2010)

Amy Apon, Seth Warn, Wesley Emeneker, John Gauch, et al.

Given multiple images of the same scene, image registration is the process of determining the correct transformation to bring the ...

Community Funding Models for Computational Resources

Publications (2010)

Amy Apon, Jeff Pummill and Dana Brunson

As scientific research has extended far beyond the practicality and abilities of laboratory experiments, computational simulations have become the mainstay ...

High Performance Computing Instrumentation and Research Productivity in U.S ...

Journal of Information Technology Impact (2010)

Amy W. Apon, Linh B Ngo, Stanley Ahalt, Vijay Dantuluri, et al.

This paper studies the relationship between investments in High-Performance Computing (HPC) instrumentation and research competitiveness. Measures of institutional HPC investment ...

Accelerating SIFT on Parallel Architectures

Cluster 2009 (2009)

Amy Apon, Seth Warn, Wesley Emeneker and Jackson Cothren

SIFT is a widely-used algorithm that extracts features from images; using it to extract information from hundreds of terabytes of ...

A Performance and Productivity Study using MPI, Titanium, and Fortress

HiPC08 Student Symposium (2008)

Amy Apon, Chris Bryan and Wesley Emeneker

The popularity of cluster computing has increased focus on usability, especially in the area of programmability. Languages and libraries that ...

Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National Facilities ...

EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group and Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (2008)

Amy Apon, Patrick Dreher, Vijay Agarwala, Stan Ahalt, et al.

A fundamental goal of cyberinfrastructure (CI) is the integration of computing hardware, software, and network technology, along with data, information ...

Capacity Planning of a Commodity Cluster in an Academic Environment ...

Proceedings of the Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) International Conference on High Performance Cluster Computing (2008)

Linh B Ngo, Amy W. Apon, Baochuan Lu, Hung Bui, et al.

In this paper, the design of a simulation model for evaluating two alternative supercomputer configurations in an academic environment is ...

Shibboleth as a Tool for Authorized Access Control to the ...

Journal of Software (2007)

Linh B Ngo and Amy W. Apon

Shibboleth is an architecture and protocol for allowing users to authenticate and be authorized to use a remote resource by ...

A Case Study on Grid Performance Modeling

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (2006)

Amy Apon, Baochuan Lu, Larry Dowdy, Frank Robinson, et al.

The purpose of this case study is to develop a performance model for an enterprise grid for performance management and ...

The Great Plains Network (GPN) Middleware Test Bed

Journal of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (2006)

Amy Apon, Gregory Monaco and Gordon Springer

GPN (Great Plains Network) is a consortium of public universities in seven mid-western states. GPN goals include regional strategic planning ...

Inital Starting Point Analysis for K-Means Clustering: A Case Study

Proceedings of ALAR 2006 Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology (2006)

Amy Apon, Frank Robinson, Denny Brewer, Larry Dowdy, et al.

Workload characterization is an important part of systems performance modeling. Clustering is a method used to find classes of jobs ...

Classroom Exercises for Grid Services

Proceedings of the Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) International Conference on High Performance Computing (2004)

Amy Apon, Jens Mache, Yuriko Yara and Kurt Landrus

AmpNet - A Highly Available Cluster Interconnection Network

Proceedings of IPDPS 2003 (2003)

Amy Apon and Larry Bilbur

Cluster Computing in the Classroom: Topics, Guidelines, and Experiences

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001) (2001)

Amy Apon, Rajkumar Buyya, Hai Jin and Jens Mache

With the progress of research on cluster computing, more and more universities have begun to offer various courses covering cluster ...

MPI Collective Operations over IP Multicast

Proceedings of the 15th IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing (2000)

Amy Apon, H A Chen and Y O Carrasco

Many common implementations of Message Passing Inter- face (MPI) implement collective operations over point-to-point operations. This work examines IP multicast ...

Evaluation of Real-Time Fiber Communications for Parallel Collective Operations

Proceedings of the 14th IPDPS 1999 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing (1999)

Amy Apon and Parvathi Rajagopal

Real-Time Fiber Communications (RTFC) is a gigabit speed network that has been designed for damage tolerant local area networks. In ...

Load Dependent Single Chain Models of Multichain Closed Queueing Networks

Seventh International Conference on Telecommunication Systems (1999)

Amy Apon and Lawrence Dowdy

The Circulating Processor Model of Parallel Systems

Publications (1997)

Amy Apon and Lawrence Dowdy

This paper introduces the circulating processor model for parallel computer systems. The circulating processor model is a product form queuing ...