Awards

• Innovative Supercomputing Award
  Coloma, K.; Choudhary, A.; Liao, W.-K.; Ward, L.; Tideman, S.;
  International Supercomputer Conference on 21-24 June 2005.

Publications

• Detailed analysis of I/O traces of large scale applications
  Nakka, Nithin; Choudhary, Alok; Klundt, Ruth; Weston, Marlow; Ward, Lee
  HiPC, International Conference On High Performance Computing on 17-19 December 2009
• On optimizing I/O through InfiniBand RDMA for commodity clusters
  Cluster Computing and Workshops, 2009 on August 21-September 4, 2009
  Allan, Benjamin; Chen, Helen; Cranford, Scott; Minnich, Ron; Rudish, Don; Ward, Lee
• Arbitrary Dimension Reed-Solomon Coding and Decoding for Extended RAID on GPUs
  Curry, Matthew L.; Ward, Lee; Skjellum, Anthony; Brightwell, Ron:
  3rd Petascale Data Storage Workshop held in conjunction with SC08, Austin, TX. Nov. 17, 2008.
• Accelerating Reed-Solomon coding in RAID systems with GPUs
  Curry, M.L.; Skjellum, A.; Ward, H. Lee; Brightwell, R.:
  Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on 14-18 April 2008 Pages:1 - 6
• Noncontiguous locking techniques for parallel file systems.
  Ching, Avery; Ross, Rob; Liao, Wei-keng Liao; Ward, Lee; Choudhary, Alok:
  Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing archive Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. Nov 14 2007
• Red Storm IO Performance Analysis
  Laros, James H.; Ward, Lee; Klundt, Ruth; Kelly, Sue; Tomkins, James L.; Kellogg, Brian R.:
  Cluster Computing, 2007 IEEE International Conference on 17-20 Sept. 2007 Pages: 50-57
• An Implementation and Evaluation of Client-Side File Caching for MPI-IO
  Liao, W.-K.; Ching, A.; Coloma, K.; Alok Choudhary; Ward, L.;
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007. IPDPS 2007. IEEE International 26-30 March 2007 Pages:1-10.
• Cooperative Client-Side File Caching for MPI Applications
  Liao, W.-K.; Coloma, K.; Choudhary, A.; Ward, L.;
  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 2007, Vol 21, No. 2 Pages:144-154
• Scalable Design and Implementations for MPI Parallel Overlapping I/O
  Liao, W.-K.; Coloma, K.; Choudhary, A.; Ward, L.; Russell, E.; Pundit, N.;
  Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Nov. 2006 Volume:17, Issue:11 Pages:1264-1276.
• A New Flexible MPI Collective I/O Implementation
  Coloma, K.; Ching, A.; Choudhary, A.; Wei-keng Liao; Ross, R.; Thakur, R.; Ward, L.;
  Cluster Computing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on 25-28 September 2006 Pages:1-10.
• Efficient Data-Movement for Lightweight I/O
  Oldfield, R.A.; Widener, P.; Maccabe, A.B.; Ward, L.; Kordenbrock, T.;
  Cluster Computing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on 25-28 Sept. 2006 Pages:1-9.
• Lightweight I/O for Scientific Applications
  Oldfield, R.A.; Ward, L.; Riesen, R.; Maccabe, A.B.; Widener, P.; Kordenbrock, T.;
  Cluster Computing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on 25-28 Sept. 2006 Pages:1-11.
• Large files, small writes, and pNFS
  Hildebrand, D.; Ward, L.; Honeyman, P.;
  International Conference on Supercomputing; Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Supercomputing on June 2006 Pages:116-124
• Evaluating I/O characteristics and methods for storing structured scientific data
  Ching, A.; Choudhary, A.; Wei-keng Liao; Ward, L.; Pundit, N.;
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International 25-29 April 2006 Pages:10 pp.
• Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 12th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting, Sorrento, Italy, September 18-21
  Cooperative Write-Behind Data Buffering for MPI I/O
  Liao, W.-K.; Choudharay, A.; Ward, L.;
  19 October 2005 Pages:102-109
• Cooperative Write-behind Data Buffering for MPI I/O
  Liao, W.-K.; Choudhary, A.; Coloma, K.; Ward, L.; Tideman, S.;
  The Proceedings of the Euro PVM MPI Conference on September 2005.
• Power and performance in I/O for scientific applications
  Coloma, K.; Choudhary, A.; Ching, A.; Liao, W.-K.; Son, S.W.; Kandemir, M.; Ward, L.;
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International on 4-8 April 2005 Page:8 pp.
• Scalable high-level caching for parallel I/O
  Coloma, K.; Choudhary, A.; Liao, W.; Ward, L.; Russell, E.; Pundit, N.
  Center for Parallel & Distributed Comput., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA; Proceedings. 18th International 26-30 April 2004 Page:96
• Scalable Implementations of MPI Atomicity for Concurrent Overlapping I/O
  Liao, W.-K.; Alok Choudhary; Coloma, K.; Thiruvathukal, G.K.; Ward, L.; Russell, E.; Pundit, N.;
  Parallel Processing, Proceedings. 6-9 October 2003 International Conference Pages:239 - 246
• An Extensible, Portable, Scalable Cluster Management Software Architecture
  Laros, J.H.; III Ward, L.; Dauchy, N.W.; Brightwell, R.; Hudson, T.; Klundt, R.;
  Cluster Computing, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference 2002 Pages:287- 295

Talks

• Experiences in Developing Lightweight Systems Software for Massively Parallel Systems
  Maccabe, Barney; Bridges, Patrick; Widener, Patrick; Ferreira, Kurt; Brightwell, Ron; Oldfield, Ron; Reisen, Rolf; Ward, Lee; Kelly, Sue
  USENIX LASCO Workshop, June 23, 2008
• Some Open Problems in Supercomputing I/O
  Ward, L.
  January 29, 2008 in the UNM computer Science Department
• Efficacy of GPUs in RAID Parity Calculation
  Cury, Matthew, Ward, L.
  Carnegie Melon, August 8, 2007
• Red Storm IO Performance and Scaling
  Ward, L.; Laros, J.; Klundt, R.; Kellog, B.
• Design and Expressions of a Scalable Supercomputer
  Ward, L.;
  Sandia's MPP on 31 October 2006.

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