Students Xin Huo, Vignesh Ravi, and Wenjing Ma with their advisor, Gagan Agrawal, garnered a best paper award at the 17th International IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2010). The paper, "Approaches for Parallelizing Reductions on Modern GPUs," is part of ongoing work in Agrawal's group on understanding systematic mechanisms for porting applications with specific types of communication patterns on modern general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs). This particular work considers reduction computations arising from the data mining domain, and develops and evaluates several methods for parallelizing them on modern GPUs. Another piece of work from the same authors, which has focused on irregular reductions, is a finalist for the best paper award at International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), May 2011.
A second year Ph.D. student, Xin Huo received a bachelor and a masters degree from Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interest is in High Performance Computing. Currently he is focusing on GPGPU.
Vignesh Ravi, 4th year Ph.D. candidate, received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. His research interests include Runtime Systems for Heterogeneous Clusters and GPU Virtualization in the cloud.
A 6th year candidate, Wenjing Ma focuses her research on GPGPU, high performance computing, parallel computing and compiling. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Professor Gagan Agrawal leads the Data-intensive and High-performance Computing Lab. His recent research ventures have been into the areas of data mining algorithms, parallel data mining and OLAP algorithms, compiling scientific data intensive computations, compilation and application development for multithreaded architectures, and program analysis for object-oriented software. Dr. Agrawal received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees University of Maryland, College Park (1994 and 1996) and his undergraduate B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1991.
HiPC is an international conference on all aspects of high performance computing. It serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the high performance computing area. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world.