RESEARCH PROFILE

The research in the High Performance Systems Group is focused on the analysis and performance evaluation of software/systems combinations. In particular we are developing predictive techniques capable of determining the detailed execution characteristics and resource use of arbitrary industrial strength applications running on large and distributed machines prior to execution. Recently these have been used for systems optimisation and resource scheduling in cluster, multi-cluster, Grid and other HPC environments. Much of the work has been focused on computationally intense applications of interest to the science and engineering community. In a joint undertaking with IBM's Thomas Watson Research Laboratories in New York we are also actively applying these techniques to e-Business systems. The Group's work has been funded by the EPSRC, the DTI, and the MOD in the UK, the EU Research Programme, and DARPA, the US Navy, IBM and NASA in the USA

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 2 AWE funded CASE studentships, Funded by: AWE Plc, Project Start Date: 01/10/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2015
• Predicting the Performance of Applications Running Under Authorization Mechanisms, with Dr. Ligang He, Computer Science, Professor Stephen A Jarvis - Computer Science, Funded by: Leverhulme Trust, Project Start Date: 01/01/2011 Project End Date: 01/01/2014
• A radiation hydrodynamics ALE code for laser fusion energy, with Dr Tony D Arber, Physics, Professor Stephen A Jarvis - Computer Science, Funded by: EPSRC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2013
• A radiation hydrodynamics ALE code for laser fusion energy: Subproject for Institution # 28323, Funded by: EPSRC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2013
• Technical Outreach Programme, with ., Funded by: MOD, Project Start Date: 01/10/2006 Project End Date: 30/09/2013
• Supporting the assessment of future computing requirements using application performance modelling, Funded by: Royal Society and Rolls-Royce Plc, Project Start Date: 01/10/2009 Project End Date: 30/09/2013
• Birmingham-Warwick Science City Interdisciplinary Research Alliance - Research Fellowship (Computational Science), with Smith Mark, Vice Chancellor's Office, Jarvis, Stephen, Computer Science, Funded by: Higher Education Funding Council for England, Project Start Date: 01/10/2008 Project End Date: 31/03/2013
• KTP Extension with Atomic Weapons Establishment, Funded by: Technology Strategy Board, Project Start Date: 06/07/2010 Project End Date: 21/12/2012
• KTP Extension with Atomic Weapons Establishment, Funded by: AWE Plc, Project Start Date: 06/07/2010 Project End Date: 21/12/2012
• The Production of Predictive Performance Models for the Assessment of Future Computing Requirements, Funded by: MOD, Project Start Date: 01/10/2006 Project End Date: 30/09/2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Pennycook S. J., Hammond S. D., Mudalige G. R., Wright S. A., Jarvis S. A.(2012) 'On the Acceleration of Wavefront Applications using Distributed Many-Core Architectures' Computer Journal 55 (2), 138 - 153
• Tan, G., Jarvis, S. A. and Kermarrec, A. -M.(2009) 'Connectivity-guaranteed and obstacle-adaptive deployment schemes for mobile sensor networks' IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 8 (6), 836 - 848 (1536-1233)
• Tan, G. and Jarvis, S. A.(2008) 'A payment-based incentive and service differentiation scheme for peer-to-peer streaming broadcast' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 19 (7), 940 - 953 (1045-9219)
• Jarvis S A,Tan G, (2007) 'Improving the Fault Resiliance of Overlay Multicast for Media Streaming' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 18 (6), 721 - 734
• He L,Jarvis S A, Spooner D P, Jiang H, Dillenberger D N, Nudd G R, (2006) 'Allocating Non-real-time and Soft-real-time Jobs in Multiclusters' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 17 (2), 99 - 112