Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Kirk W. Cameron, Rong Ge, Xian-He Sun, lognP and log3P: Accurate analytical models of point-to-point communication in distributed systems, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers.[pdf]

Xizhou Feng, Rong Ge, and Kirk W. Cameron, The Argus prototype: Aggregate use of load modules as a high-density supercomputer, accepted by Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)

S. Byna, K. W. Cameron, and X.-H. Sun, Memory-Aware Communication -An Experimental Study with MPI, Parallel Processing Letters, Volum 15, Issue 4, Dec 2005, Pages 357-365

Kirk W. Cameron, Rong Ge, Xizhou Feng ,High-Performance, Power-Aware Distributed Computing for Scientific Applications, Computer, Volume 38. No. 11, 2005, Pages 40-47. [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, Xian-He Sun, Surendra Byna, Rong Ge Incorporating Memory Hierarchy in Models of Communication, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, November 2004. [pdf]

Surendra Byna, Kirk W. Cameron, and Xian-He Sun, Isolating Costs in Shared Memory Communication Buffering Parallel Processing Letters,Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2004.

Xian-He Sun, Kirk W. Cameron, Dongmei He, and Yong Luo, Adaptive Multivariate Regression for Advanced Memory System Evaluation.Journal of Performance Evaluation, Volume 45, Issue 1, May 2001, Pages 1-18. [pdf]

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

X. Feng, and K.W. Cameron, PBPI: A High Performance Implementation of Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, IEEE/ACM the 18th High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference (SC), 2006. [Best Student Paper Nominee]

R. Ge, X. Feng, and K. W. Cameron , Performance-constrained, Distributed DVS Scheduling for Scientific Applications on Power-aware Clusters, Proceedings of 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (SC 2005), November 2005. (Seattle, WA) [pdf]

X. Feng, R. Ge, and K. W. Cameron , Power and Energy Profiling of Scientific Applications on Distributed Systems, 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 05), April 2005. (Denver, CO) [pdf]

R. Ge, X. Feng, and K. W. Cameron ,Improvement of Power-Performance Efficiency for High-End Computing, 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - HPPAC '05 Workshop, April 2005. (Denver, CO) [pdf] [slides-pdf]

X. Feng, R. Ge, and K. W. Cameron, ARGUS: Supercomputing in 1/10 Cubic Meter. Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005), February 2005. [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, Rong Ge, Xizhou Feng, Drew Varner, and Chris Jones, POSTER: High-performance, Power-aware Distributed Computing Framework. Proceedings of 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (SC 2004), November 2004. [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron and Rong Ge, Predicting and Evaluating Distributed Communication Performance, Proc. of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (SC 2004), November, 2004. (Pittsburgh, PA) [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron and Xian-He Sun, Quantifying Locality Effect in Data Access Delay: Memory logP, Proc. of 2003 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), April, 2003. (Nice, France) [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron and Xian-He Sun, Memory logP and its implications. USC CSCE TR-2002-001. Short paper presented at Work in Progress Session at The 11th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-02), September, 2002.(Charlottesville, VA) [pdf]

Surendra Byna, Kirk W. Cameron and Xian-He Sun, Memory-Aware Communication -An Experimental Study with MPI. The 1st International Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (SPDSEC02) in conjunction with The 11th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-02), September, 2002. (Charlottesville, VA) [pdf]

Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale Mutable Functional Units and Their Applications on Microprocessors. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design 2001 (ICCD), September, 2001. (Austin, Texas) [pdf]

Xian-He Sun, and Kirk W. Cameron, A Statistical-Empirical Hybrid Approach to Hierarchical Memory Analysis. Proceedings of Euro-Par 2000, August, 2000. (Munich, Germany) [pdf]

Dominique Lavenier, Kirk W. Cameron, Yan Solihin, Integer/Floating Point Reconfigurable ALU. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on New Machine Architectures (SympA'6), June 19-22, 2000. (Besancon, France) [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, Empirical Performance Modeling Using Synthetically Built Assemble Directives (SynBAD). (Poster) 10th International Conference of High Performance Computing and Communications (SC99), November, 1999. (Portland, OR) [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, and Yong Luo, Instruction-level Microprocessor Modeling of Scientific Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1615, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on High Performance Computing, May, 1999. (Kyoto, Japan) LA-UR-98-5788 [pdf] [slides-pdf]

Xian-He Sun, Dongmei He, Kirk W. Cameron, and Yong Luo, A Factorial Performance Evaluation for Hierarchical Memory Systems. Proceedings of the 13^th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS/SPDP '99), April, 1999. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) [pdf]

Xian-He Sun, Kirk W. Cameron, Dongmei He, and Yong Luo, A Memory-Centric Characterization of ASCI Applications Via A Combined Approach of Statistical and Empirical Analysis. Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (SIAM PP '99), March, 1999. (San Antonio, TX) [pdf]

Yong Luo, Kirk W. Cameron and Olaf Lubeck, Instruction-level Characterization of Computational Physics and Multimedia Applications Using Performance Counters. Proceedings of the CAECW '99 at the 5^th International Symposium for High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-5), January, 1999. (Orlando, FL) [pdf]

Olaf Lubeck, Adolfy Hoisie, Federico Bassetti, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, and Harvey Wasserman, ASCI Application Performance and the Impact of Commodity Processor Architectural Trends. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems, October, 1998. (Maui, Hawaii)

Yong Luo, Olaf M. Lubeck, Harvey Wasserman, Federico Bassetti and Kirk W. Cameron, Development and Validation of a Hierarchical Memory Model Incorporating CPU- and Memory-operation Overlap. Proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP '98), October, 1998. (Sante Fe, NM) [pdf] [slides-pdf]

TUTORIALS:

Yong Luo, Kirk W. Cameron, Josep Torrellas, and Yan Solihin, Performance Modeling using Hardware Performance Counters. 6^th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-6), Jan, 2000. (Toulouse, France) [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, and Yong Luo, Performance Evaluation using Hardware Performance Counters. 26^th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 26), May,1999. (Atlanta, GA) [pdf]

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Kirk W. Cameron, R. Ge, and X. Feng, Reducing Power and Energy While Maintaining Performance in Computational Clusters, to appear in Advances in Computers. Elsevier Science BV. Amsterdam, 2007

S. Byna, Kirk W. Cameron, and X.-H. Sun, Quantification of Memory Communication, High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing: Hardware/Software Support, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, MA, (2004) page 31-44.

Surendra Byna, Kirk W. Cameron, and Xian-He Sun, Analyzing Memory Communication, Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, Laurence Tianruo Yang and Yi Pan (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers,in print for 2003.

S. Ashby, D. H. Bailey, M. Blackmon, P. Bohrer, K. Cameron, C. DeTar (U. Utah), J. Dongarra, D. Dwoyer, P. Freeman, A. Gheith, B. Gorda, G. Hammer, W. Felter, J. Kepner, D. Koester, S. McKee, D. Nelson, J. Nichols, M. Vahle, J. Vetter, T. Windus, P. Worley, Performance Modeling, Metrics and Specifications, Workshop on The Roadmap for the Revitalization of High-End Computing, Computer Research Association, Washington, DC, (2003) pp. 59-68.

 X.-H. Sun, and K. W. Cameron, A Statistical-Empirical Hybrid Approach to Hierarchical Memory Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1900. Springer Verlag Publishers, New York, NY, (2000) pp. 141-148. (from EuroPAR 2000)

K. W. Cameron, and Y. Luo, Instruction-level Microprocessor Modeling of Scientific Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1615, Springer Verlag Publishers, New York, NY, (1999) pp. 29-41. (from ISHPC 99)

Yong Luo and Kirk W. Cameron, Instruction-level Characterization of Scientific Computing Applications Using Hardware Performance Counters Chapter 5: Scientific, Engineering and Desktop Workloads of Workload Characterization: Methodology and Case Studies, L. John and A. Maynard (eds.) IEEE-CS Press, 1999, pp. 90-98. [pdf] [slides-pdf]

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

Kirk W. Cameron, Xian-He Sun, Surendra Byna, and Rong Ge, Prediciting and Evaluating Memory Communication Performance. USC CSCE TR-2003-021. September, 2003. [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, Vidya Kolipaka, Tyler Maxwell, and Aurovinda Ganga Benchmarking Softswitches: Issues and Challenges. USC CSCE TR-2003-020. September, 2003.

Kirk W. Cameron, Xizhou Feng, Rong Ge, and Duncan Buell The Argus Prototype: Aggregate use of load modules as a low-power network supercomputer. USC CSCE TR-2003-019. September, 2003.

Kirk W. Cameron, Jiangbo Dang, Xizhou Feng, and Rong Ge Power-performance evaluation of a distributed system USC CSCE TR-2003-018. September, 2003.

Kirk W. Cameron and Jiangbo Dang, On the experimental use of hardware counters. USC CSCE TR-2003-017. September, 2003.

Steven Ashby (LLNL), David H. Bailey (LBNL), Maurice Blackmon (UCAR), Patrick Bohrer (IBM), Kirk Cameron (U. SC), Carleton DeTar (U. Utah), Jack Dongarra (U. Tenn.), Douglas Dwoyer (NASA Langley), Peter Freeman (NSF), Ahmed Gheith (IBM), Brent Gorda (LBNL), Guy Hammer (DOD-MDA), Wesley Felter (IBM), Jeremy Kepner (MIT/LL), David Koester (MITRE), Sally McKee (Cornell), David Nelson (DOE), Jeffrey Nichols (ORNL), Michael Vahle (Sandia), Jeffrey Vetter (LLNL), Theresa Windus (PNNL), Patrick Worley (ORNL),Performance Modeling, Metrics and Specifications: Report of HECRTF Working Group Six USC CSCE TR-2003-016. August, 2003. [pdf]

Kirk W. Cameron, Research Directions in Power-performance Efficiency USC CSCE TR-2003-015. August, 2003.

Kirk W. Cameron and Xian-He Sun, Memory logP and its implications. USC CSCE TR-2002-001. August, 2002. [pdf]

Yan Solihin, Yong Luo, and Kirk W. Cameron, Memory Hierarchy Model Validation. Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, 99-5539, 1999. [pdf]

Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, Reservation Station Architecture of Mutable Functional Unit Usage in Superscalar Processors. Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, 99-6234, 1999. [pdf]

Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, Boosting the Speedup of Future Processor Architectures by Using Mutable Functional Units. Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, 99-6768, 1999. [pdf]

DISSERTATION:

Kirk W. Cameron, Empirical and Statistical Application Modeling Using On-chip Performance Monitors, A Dissertation in the Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. (August, 2000) Advisor: Xian-He Sun

Table of contents [pdf]

Chapter 1 Introduction [pdf]

Chapter 2 Literature Review [pdf]

Chapter 3 Tools, Testbeds, and Workloads [pdf]

Chapter 4 Performance Analysis Methods [pdf]

Chapter 5 Application and Experience [pdf]

Chapter 6 Conclusions [pdf]

Appendix Performance Monitor Survey [pdf]