Publications

Journal Papers

• A High Performance Implementation of MPI-IO for a Lustre File System Environment.
  Dickens, P. and Logan, J.
  Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience,
  Volume 22, Issue 11, pages 1433-1449, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., (August, 2010).
  
  
• A Lightweight, High Performance Communication Protocol for Grid Computing.
  Phillip M. Dickens.
  Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications,
  Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 47-66, Springer Netherlands, Publisher, (March, 2010).
  
  
• Towards Intelligent, Adaptive, and Efficient Communication Services for Grid Computing.
  Phillip M. Dickens
  IEEE Distributed Systems Online: Work in Progress. October, 2005.
  URL: http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline
  
  
• Traffic Analysis and Simulation of a Prioritized Shared Medium
  Evans, J., Hood, C., and P. Dickens
  SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International. Volume 79, Issue 4, April 2003.
  
  
• Evaluation of Collective I/O Implementations of Parallel Architectures.
  Dickens, P. and R. Thakur
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Vol. 61, No. 8, August 1,2001
  
  
• High-Performance File I/O in Java: Existing Approaches and Bulk I/O Extensions.
  Bonachea, D., Dickens, P. and R. Thakur
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Volume 13, Issue 8-9, 2001.
  
  
• Java on Networks of Workstations (JavaNOW): A Parallel Computing Framework Inspired by Linda and the Message Passing Interface (MPI)
  Thiruvathukal, G., Dickens, P., and S. Bhatti.
  Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Volume 12, Issue 13, November 2000, pp. 1093-1116.
  
  
• Analysis of Bounded Time Warp and a Comparison With YAWNS
  Dickens, P., Nicol, D., Reynolds, P. and J. M. Duva.
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol. 6, no. 4, October 1996, pp. 1996, pp. 297-320.
  
  
• Parallelized Direct Execution Simulation of Message-Passing Parallel Programs
  Dickens, P., Heidelberger, P. and D. Nicol.
  IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Dist. Systems, vol 7, no. 10, October 1996, pp. 1090-1105.
  
  
• Parallel Simulation of Multicomputer Programs.
  Dickens, P., Heidelberger, P., and Nicol, D.
  ICASE Research Quarterly, 3 (2). June, 1994
  


Invited Papers


• Improving I/O Performance through the Dynamic Remapping of Object Sets
  Logan, J. and Dickens, P.
  In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems:
  Technology and Applications. 21-23 Sept. 2009.
  
  
• Computing Climate Change: Just the Tip of the Iceberg
  Phillip M. Dickens
  In Scientific Computing, July, 2009.
  URL: http://www.scientificcomputing.com/article-hpc-Computing-Climate-Change-Just-the-Tip-of-the-Iceberg-063009.aspx


Refereed Conference/Workshop Papers


• Interval Based I/O: A New Approach to Providing High Performance Parallel I/O
  Jeremy Logan and Phillip M. Dickens
  In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) 2011.
  Taipei, Taiwan, September 13th, 2011.
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• Y-Lib: A User Level Library to Increase the Performance of MPI-IO in a Lustre File System Environment
  Phillip M. Dickens and Jeremy Logan
  In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
  Munich, Germany, June 11 - 13, 2009.
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• Towards a High Performance Implementation of MPI-IO on the Lustre File System.
  Phillip M. Dickens and Jeremy Logan
  In the Proceedings of GADA'08: Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications. Monterrey, Mexico, November 13 - 14, 2008.
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• Real Time Classification Mechanism for the Causes of Data Loss and its Integration into a High Performance Data Transfer System for Grid Computing
  Phillip M. Dickens
  In the Proceedings of the First CoreGRID European Network of Excellence Symposium
  August 27-28, 2007, IRISA, Rennes, France
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• Using Object Based Files for High Performance Parallel I/O
  Jeremy Logan and Phillip M. Dickens
  In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Sysytems: Technology and Applications
  Dortmund, Germany September 6-8, 2007
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• Towards a Bayesian Statistical Model for the Classification of Causes of Data Loss
  Phillip M. Dickens and Jeffery Peden
  In the Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, LNCS 3726, Springer, 2005, pp. 755-767.
  

• Classifiers for Causes of Packet Loss Using Packet Loss Signatures
  Phillip M. Dickens and Jay W. Larson
  In the Proceedings of The 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2004), Chicago, Illinois, 2004.
  

• Diagnostics for Causes of Packet Loss in a High Performance Data Transfer System
  Dickens, P., Larson, J., and D. Nicol
  In the Proceedings of the 2004 IPDPS Conference: the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004.
  

• Application-Level Congestion Control Mechanisms for Large Scale Data Transfers Across Computational Grids
  Dickens, P. and Kannan, V.
  In the Proceedings of the ISCA 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2003),
  August 13-15, 2003, Reno, Nevada, USA
  

• FOBS: A Lightweight Communication Protocol for Grid Computing
  Phillip M. Dickens
  In the Proceedings of Euro-Par 2003

• A Performance Study of Application-Level Acknowlegment and Retransmission Mechanisms.
  Kannan, V., Dickens, P., and W. Gropp
  In the Proceedings of the ISCA 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2003).
  August 13-15, Reno, Nevada 2003.

• An Evaluation of Object-Based Data Transfers on High Performance Networks
  Dickens, P. and W. Gropp
  To Appear: HPDC 2002

• A High Performance File Transfer Mechanism for Grid Computing.
  Phillip M. Dickens
  In the proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA).

• High Performance Wide Area Data Transfers Over High Performance Networks
  Dickens, P., Gropp W., and P. Woodward
  In the Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems.
  

• Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for an Internet Telephony Call Signaling Protocol.
  Dickens, P. and V. Gurbani
  In the Proceedings of the 2001 Summer Simulation Conference
  

• Towards a Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of Distributed Applications Executing in the Internet Domain.
  Dickens, P.
  In the Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Internet Computing
  

• Efficient Communication Across the Internet in Wide-Area MPI
  Venkat, R., Dickens, P., and W. Gropp
  In the Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Parallel and Distriubted Programming Techniques and Applications, 2001.

• Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Internet Telephony
  Gurbani, V. and P. Dickens
  In the Proceedings of the SCS Summer Simulation Conference 2000
  

• An Evaluation of Java's I/O Capabilities for High-Performance Computing
  Dickens, P. and Thakur, R.
  In the Procedings of the ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference, June 2000, pp. 26--35.

• Improving Collective I/O Using Threads
  Dickens, P. and Thakur, R.
  In the Proceedings of the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, April 1999, pp. 38--45.

• A Performance Study of Two-Phase I/O
  Dickens, P. and Thakur, R.
  In the Proceedings of the 4th International Euro-Par Conference, Southhampton, UK, September, 1998, pp. 959-965.

• Performance Prediction for MPI Programs Executing on Workstation Clusters
  Dickens, P. and G. Thiruvathukal
  In the Proceedings of the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Programming Techniques and Applications 1998 (PDPTA '98), July 13-16, 1998, Las Vegas, NV.

• A Workstation Based Parallel Direct-Execution Simulator
  Dickens, Phillip M.
  In theProceedings of the 1997 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, June 1997.

• Towards a Thread-Based Parallel Direct Execution Simulator.
  Dickens, P., Haines, M., Mehrotra, P. and D. Nicol.
  In the Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on Computer Systems, Volume 1, pages 424-432, January 3-6 1996, Wailea, Hawaii.
  

• Parallelized Network Simulators for Message-Passing Parallel Programs
  Dickens, P., Heidelberger, P. and D. Nicol.
  MASCOTS'95, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,
  pages 18-20, January 18-20 1995, Durham, N.C., 1995. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  

• Timing Simulation of Paragon Codes Using Workstation Clusters.
  Dickens, P., Heidelberger, P., and D. Nicol.
  In the Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 1347-1353, December 11-13, 1994, Orlando, Fl.
  

• A Distributed Memory LAPSE: Parallel Simulation of Message-Passing Programs
  Dickens, P., Heidelberger, P. and D. Nicol.
  In the Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, pages 32-38, June 8-10 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland.

• The Impact of Adding Aggressiveness to a Non-Aggressive Windowing Algorithm
  Dickens, P. , Nicol, D., Reynolds, P. and J.M. Duva.
  In the Proceedings of the 1993 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 731-739, December 12-15 1993, Los Angeles, Ca.

• A Performance Model for Parallel Simulation
  Dickens, P. and P. Reynolds.
  Proceedings of the 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 618-626. December 8-11 1991, Phoenix, Arizona.
  

• SRADS with Local Rollback
  Dickens, P. and P. Reynolds.
  Proceedings of the SCS Multiconference on Distributed Simulation, pages 161-164, January 17-19 1990, San Diego, Ca.
  

• SPECTRUM: A Parallel Simulation Testbed
  Reynolds, P. and P. Dickens.
  Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers and Applications, pages 865-870, March 6-8 1989, Monterey California.
  

• A Comparison of the Architecture and Performance of Two Parallel File Systems
  Pratt, T., French, J., Dickens, P. and S. Janet.
  Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers and Applications, pages 161-166, March 6-8 1989, Monterey California.