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Papers & Research

A Unified Framework for Numerical and Combinatorial Computing
By John R. Gilbert, Viral B. Shah and Steve Reinhardt
   Reprint from Combinatorics in Computing, Mar. 2008

Tackling the Challenges of Exploratory Data Analysis on Large-Scale Data
By Steve Reinhardt and Viral Shah
   Reprint from Scientific Computing, Nov. 2007

Thermodynamic Calculations for Molecules with Asymmetric Internal Rotors. II. Application to the 1,2-Dihaloethanes
By Bryan M. Wong, Maria M. Fadri, Sumathy Raman
   Reprint from Wiley InterScience

Four Steps to Parallelization
By Ilya Mirman
   Reprint Desktop Engineering

Making a Supercomputer Do What You Want: High-Level Tools for Parallel Programming
By Sudarshan Raghunathan
   Reprint From IEEE Computer Society

An Interactive System for Combinatorial Scientific Computing with an Emphasis on Programmer Productivity
A Dissertation by Viral B. Shah, June 2007
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Bridging the Desktop and Grid for Simulation
Reprinted from Desktop Engineering, October 2006
   http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/DE_Nov06HPC_IS_rep.pdf

Thermodynamic Calculations for Molecules with Asymmetric Internal Rotors
By Bryan M. Wong, Sumathy Raman
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/jcc20536.pdf

An Interactive Environment to Manipulate Large Graphs
By John R. Gilbert., Viral Shah, and Steven Reinhardt
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/icassp07-abstract_06sep29.pdf

Interactive Supercomputing’s Star-P Platform:
Classroom Study on High Level Language Productivity
(submitted for the High-Performance Embedded Computing 2006 conference at MIT's Lincoln Lab)
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/hpec06.pdf

Going Parallel the New Way
Reprint from Desktop Engineering, June 2006
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/de0606goingparallel_rep.pdf

Migrating Modeling and Simulation Applications on to High Performance Computers
By Mark Barnell & Brian Rahn
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/6227-22.pdf

Sparse Matrices in Matlab*P: Design and Implementation
By Viral Shah and John R. Gilbert
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/dsparse.pdf

High–performance graph algorithms from parallel sparse matrices
By John R. Gilbert, Steven Reinhardt, and Viral Shah
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/pgraph.pdf

Fast Sorting on a Distributed-Memory Architecture
By David R. Cheng, Viral Shah, John R. Gilbert, Alan Edelman
  http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/psort.pdf

Star-P: High Productivity Parallel Computing
By Ron Choy, Alan Edelman, John R. Gilbert, Viral Shah, David Cheng - June 9, 2004
  http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/reports/hpec04.pdf

Parallel MATLAB®: Doing it Right
By Ron Choy , Alan Edelman
Which appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 93, Issue: 2, February 2005
On page(s): 331- 341 and as a Computer Science AI Lab Memo at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Copyright: November 2003)
   http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/pmatlab.pdf

Parallel Matlab Survey
View a comprehensive survey on the state of parallel MATLAB® software. Summary: there are mainly 4 approaches to providing parallel functionalities to Matlab.
Original survey by Ron Choy and Alan Edelman.
October 2003
www.interactivesupercomputing.com/reference/ParallelMatlabsurvey.htm

Scientific Computing and Parallel Computing: A Decade of Published Reports of Alan Edelman
1994-2004
http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/Edelman/publications.htm

Industry Papers

HPCS Application Analysis and Assessment
Co-written by Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Lab
March 2003
The value of a HPC system to a user includes many factors, such as: execution time on a particular problem, software development time, and both direct and indirect costs.
http://www.highproductivity.org/kepner-HPCS.htm

Conference Papers and Presentations

Delivering Parallel Computing Power to the Desktop
SIAM Computational Science and Engineering
Coronado Springs - 2005
PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/images/stories//siamorlando05.ppt

Supercomputing 2004
PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/downloads/SCONov04.ppt

Parallel Computing Made Easy with STAR-P
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing
February 2004
Course Abstract: http://www.siam.org/meetings/pp04/edelman.htm