Prof. Dr. Scient. Jesper Larsson Träff

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Faculty of Informatics (Fakultät für Informatik)
Institute for Information Systems
Research Group Parallel Computing
Favoritenstrasse 16/184-5, 3rd Floor (how to find this)
A-1040 Vienna (Wien)
Austria (Österreich)

Phone: +43 (1) 58801 184800
Contact: traff at group.university.category.country

Sprechstunde: Monday, 13-15
Not on Facebook or any other nonsense.

Teaching (SS 12)

Teaching (WS 2011/12)

Bachelor's thesis ideas (2011):

Please consult me if you are interested!

Master's thesis ideas (2011):

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Recent relevant publications

For reasonably complete and up-to-date list of mainstream computer science publications, see DBLP Computer Science Bibliography.
  1. Jesper Larsson Träff, William Gropp, and Rajeev Thakur. Self-consistent MPI performance Guidelines. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(5):698-709, 2010.
  2. Jesper Larsson Träff, Andreas Ripke, Christian Siebert, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp. A pipelined Algorithm for large, irregular all-gather Problems. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 24(1):58-68, 2010.
  3. Jesper Larsson Träff. Transparent neutral element elimination in MPI reduction operations. In Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 17th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, volume 6305, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 275-284. Springer, 2010.
  4. Jesper Larsson Träff. Compact and Efficient Implementation of the MPI Group Operations. In Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 17th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, volume 6305, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 170-178. Springer, 2010.
  5. Jesper Larsson Träff. A (radical) proposal addressing the non-scalability of the irregular MPI collective interfaces. In 16th International Workshop on High-level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS11) at International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), page 42. IEEE Press 2011.
  6. Martin Wimmer, Jesper Larsson Träff. Work-stealing for mixed-mode parallelism by deterministic team-building. In 23rd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2011), pages 105-115. ACM Press, 2011.
  7. Martin Wimmer, Jesper Larsson Träff. A work-stealing framework for mixed-mode parallel applications. In Workshop on Multi-threaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP 2011) at International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2011), page 48. IEEE Press, 2011.
  8. Enes Bajrovic, Jesper Larsson Träff. Using MPI derived datatypes in numerical libraries. In Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, volume, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages. Springer, 2011.
  9. William D. Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Rajeev Thakur, Jesper Larsson Träff. Performance expectations and guidelines for MPI derived datatypes: a first analysis. In Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, volume, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages. Springer, 2011.
  10. Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp and Torsten Hoefler, Sameer Kumar, Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Jesper Larsson Träff. MPI on millions of cores. Parallel Processing Letters, 21(1):45-60, 2011.
  11. Torsten Hoefler, Rolf Rabenseifner, Hubert Ritzdorf, Bronis R. de Supinski, Rajeev Thakur, Jesper Larsson Träff. The Scalable Process Topology Interface of MPI 2.2. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 23: 293-310, 2011.
  12. Siegfried Benkner, Sabri Pllana, Jesper Larsson Träff, Philippas Tsigas, Uwe Dolinsky, Cedric Augonnet, Beverly Bachmayer, Christoph Kessler, David Moloney, Vitaly Osipov. PEPPHER: Efficient and Productive Usage of Hybrid Computing Systems. IEEE Micro, 2011.
  13. Siegfried Benkner, Sabri Pllana, Jesper Larsson Träff, Philippas Tsigas, Andrew Richards, Raymond Namyst, Beverly Bachmayer, Christoph Kessler, David Moloney, Peter Sanders. The PEPPHER Approach to Programmability and Performance Portability for Heterogeneous many-core Architectures. In Parallel Computing: Current & Future Issues of High-End Computing (ParCo 2011), 2011.

Current projects

PErformance Portability and Programmability of HEterogeneous many-core aRchitectures.

Programs

For educational and entertainment purposes only. Available upon request.

Current Program Committees (2012) - relevant places to submit in the above areas

Some past Program Committees

Supercomputing 2011, Supercomputing 2010, Supercomputing 2009, Supercomputing 2008, Supercomputing 2003
EuroMPI 2011, EuroMPI 2010, EuroPVM/MPI 2009, EuroPVM/MPI 2008, EuroPVM/MPI 2007, EuroPVM/MPI 2006, EuroPVM/MPI 2005, EuroPVM/MPI 2004, EuroPVM/MPI 2003, EuroPVM/MPI 2002
Euro-Par 2011 (Topic 13), Euro-Par 2010 (Topic 11)
ICPP (international Conference on Parallel Processing) 2011, ICPP (International Conference on Parallel Processing) 2010
IPDPS 2010 (PhD Forum), IPDPS 2008
HiPC 2011, HiPC 2010, HiPC 2009, HiPC 2008, HiPC 2007
IEEE Cluster 2011
ISPA 2011: 9th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
Euro-Par HPPC 2011 (Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip) Workshop, HPPC 2010, HPPC 2009, HPPC 2008, HPPC 2007
IPDPS HIPS 2010: 16th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
IPDPS CASS 2010: 1st Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems
ISC ROSS 2011: Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
ICPP Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing P2S2 2011, P2S2 2010
Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCos 2010), MuCoCos 2009
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