Scott Pakin's Publications

The following are my peer-reviewed publications in reverse chronological order by category.

Journal Articles

•  Scott Pakin, Michael Lang, Darren Kerbyson. The Reverse-acceleration Model for Programming Petascale Hybrid Systems. In IBM Journal of Research and Development, 53(5):September 2009.
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• Kevin Barker, Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin, Jose C. Sancho. A Performance Evaluation of the Nehalem Quad-core Processor for Scientific Computing. In Parallel Processing Letters, December 2008.
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• Scott Pakin. Good Things Come in Little Packages: An Introduction to Writing .ins and .dtx Files. In TUGboat, 29(2):June 2008.
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• Scott Pakin. The Design and Implementation of a Domain-Specific Language for Network Performance Testing. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(10):pp. 1436–1449, October 2007.
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• Ram Srinivasan, Eitan Frachtenberg, Olaf Lubeck, Scott Pakin, Jeanine Cook. An Idealistic Neuro-PPM Branch Predictor. In The Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, 9 May 2007.
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• Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez, Scott Pakin. STORM: Scalable Resource Management for Large-Scale Parallel Computers. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, 55(12):pp. 1572–1587, December 2006.
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• Leon Arber, Scott Pakin. The Impact of Message-Buffer Alignment on Communication Performance. In Parallel Processing Letters, 15 pp. 49–65, June 2005.
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• Darren J. Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini, Harvey J. Wasserman. A Performance Evaluation of an Alpha EV7 Processing Node. In Int. Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 18(2):pp. 199–209, 2004.
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• Scott Pakin. PerlTeX: Defining LaTeX macros using Perl. In TUGboat, 25(2): 2004.
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• Mario Lauria, Scott Pakin, Andrew Chien. Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: The MPI over Fast Messages (FM) Experience. In Cluster Computing, 2(2):pp. 107–116, June 1999.
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• Andrew Chien, Mario Lauria, Rob Pennington, Mike Showerman, Giulio Iannello, Matt Buchanan, Kay Connelly, Louis Giannini, Greg Koenig, Sudha Krishnamurthy, Qian Liu, Scott Pakin, Geetanjali Sampemane. Design and Evaluation of an HPVM-based Windows NT Supercomputer. In International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 13(3):pp. 201–219, 1999. Special issue on clusters and computational grids for scientific computing.
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• Scott Pakin, Vijay Karamcheti, Andrew Chien. Fast Messages: Efficient, Portable Communication for Workstation Clusters and MPPs. In IEEE Concurrency, 5(2):pp. 60–73, 1997.
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• Scott Pakin. Regular Expressions and Gender Guessing. In Computer Language Magazine, 8(12):pp. 59–68, December 1991.
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Conference Papers

• Scott Pakin. Receiver-initiated Message Passing over RDMA Networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami, Florida, April 2008.
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• Kevin Barker, Kei Davis, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin, Jose C. Sancho. An Early Performance Evaluation of the SiCortex SC648. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (UCAS4), IEEE Int. Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, April 2008.
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• Scott Pakin, Greg Johnson. Performance Analysis of a User-level Memory Server. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2007), Austin, Texas, pp. 249–258, September 2007.
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• Ram Srinivasan, Eitan Frachtenberg, Olaf Lubeck, Scott Pakin, Jeanine Cook. Neuro-PPM Branch Prediction. In Proceedings of the The Second JILP Championship Branch Prediction Competition (CBP2002), In conjunction with The 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture Micro-39, Orlando, Florida, December 2006. Third place, "Idealistic" track
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• Adolfy Hoisie, Gregory Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin. A Performance Comparison through Benchmarking and Modeling of Three Leading Supercomputers: Blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Conference on Supercomputing (SC'06), Tampa, Florida, November 2006.
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• Kevin J. Barker, Scott Pakin, Darren J. Kerbyson. A Performance Model of the Krak Hydrodynamics Application. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, Ohio, 2006.
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• Scott Pakin. Rapid Development of Application-Specific Network Performance Tests. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005), Workshop on Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science, Atlanta, Georgia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3515 pp. 149–157, 2005.
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• Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini. A Performance and Scalability Analysis of the BlueGene/L Architecture. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputing 2004), Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004.
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• Scott Pakin. Reproducible Network Benchmarks with coNCePTuaL. In Proceedings of the Euro-Par'04, Pisa, Italy, pp. 64–71, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3149 2004.
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• Scott Pakin. coNCePTuaL: A Network Correctness and Performance Testing Language. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004.
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• Fabrizio Petrini, Darren J. Kerbyson, Scott Pakin. The Case of the Missing Supercomputer Performance: Achieving Optimal Performance on the 8,192 Processors of ASCI Q. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM SuperComputing, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003. Best Paper Award
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• Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fernandez, Scott Pakin, Salvador Coll. STORM: Lightning-Fast Resource Management. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Conference on Supercomputing (SC'02), Baltimore, MD, November 2002.
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• Darren J. Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie, Scott Pakin, Fabrizio Petrini, Harvey J. Wasserman. Performance Evaluation of An EV7 AlphaSever Machine. In Proceedings of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute Symposium (LACSI), Santa Fe, NM, October 2002.
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• Scott Pakin, Avneesh Pant. VMI 2.0: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Messaging Layer for Availability, Usability, and Management. In Proceedings of the The 8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-8), Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks (SAN-1), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002.
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• Geetanjali Sampemane, Scott Pakin, Andrew Chien. Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2000), International Workshop on Cluster Computing---Technologies, Environments, and Applications (CC-TEA 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2000.
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• Mario Lauria, Scott Pakin, Andrew Chien. Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: Fast Messages 2.x. In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-7), Chicago, Illinois, pp. 10–20, 1998.
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• Patrick Sobalvarro, Scott Pakin, Andrew Chien, William Weihl. Dynamic Coscheduling on Workstation Clusters. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Parallel Processing Symposium & 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP), 4th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP'98), Orlando, Florida, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1459 pp. 231–256, 1998.
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• Andrew Chien, Scott Pakin, Mario Lauria, Matt Buchanan, Kay Hane, Louis Giannini, Jane Prusakova. High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVM): Clusters with Supercomputing APIs and Performance. In Proceedings of the Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997.
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• Scott Pakin, Mario Lauria, Andrew Chien. High Performance Messaging on Workstations: Illinois Fast Messages (FM) for Myrinet. In Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, San Diego, California, pp. 1528–1557, 2 December 1995.
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Theses

• Scott Pakin. Unresponsiveness-Tolerant Collective Communication. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, (UIUCDCS-R-2001-2219):October 2001.
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• Scott Pakin. The Impact of Message Traffic on Multicomputer Memory Hierarchy Performance. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, January 1995.
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