Philip M. Papadopoulos

POSITION

Program Director, Grid and Cluster Computing

Acting Group Leader, Grid Development and Deployment

San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD

Associate Research Professor (Adjunct)

Computer Science UCSD

EDUCATION

Ph.D.: University of California, Santa Barbara , '93. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Alan J. Laub
Dissertation: Numerical Algorithms for Large-Scale and Ill-Conditioned Matrix-Valued Equations in Control

M.S.: University of California, Berkeley '87, Mechanical Engineering

B.A.: University of California, San Diego '85, Applied Mathematics

PROJECTS

NPACI Rocks - Clustering Toolkit based on RedHat 7.1.

NPACI Rocks is an open-source toolkit that is extensible and scalable. Many groups are using this toolkit to run their clusters. Current version is 2.1

TeraGrid: A new Cyberinfrastructure for the 21st Century

TeraGrid is a recently-funded project by NSF to build a distributed grid infrastructure. Starting in 2002, TeraGrid will deploy over 13TFlops of computing, 500TB of spinning disk, and a 40Gigabit/sec WAN. SDSC , NCSA , Caltech , and Argonne are partners in this adventure.

BIRN - Biomedical Informatics Research Network

Building a network and grid of biomedical imaging experts to allow scientists to share and query distributed MRI data. The BIRN Coordinating Center (BIRN-CC) is a partnership with SDSC and NCMIR at the UCSD School of Medicine.

GRIDS Center

SDSC is partnered with NCSA , ISI , Argonne , and Univ. of Wisconsin to distribute production-quality grid infrastructure.

PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine

I used to be an active member of the PVM development team.

CUMULVS

CUMULVS is a middle-ware that allows parallel programs to easy incorporate real-time visualization and steering. Jim Kohl and I designed and implemented the software. Jim is in charge of development for CUMULVS now and has taken it to new places.

PUBLICATIONS

Conference and Technical Reports

Refereed Articles

2001

Papadopoulos, M.J. Katz, G. Bruno, "NPACI Rocks: Tools and Techniques for Easily Deploying Manageable Linux Clusters," IEEE Cluster 2001, Newport Beach, CA, Oct 2001.

2000

G.B. Bruno, A.A. Chien, M.J. Katz, P.M. Papadopoulos, "Performance Enhancements for HPVM with Heterogeneous Messaging Substrates and Commodity Hardware," Proc. PDC Conference, Sweden, 1999.

1998

J.A. Kohl and P.M. Papadopoulos, ``Efficient and Flexible Fault Tolerance and Migration of Scientific Simulations Using CUMULVS,'' 2nd SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools, Welches, OR, August 1998, to appear. ( postscript version )

1998

T. Sheehan, W. Shelton, T. Pratt, P. Papadopoulos, P. LoCascio, T. Dunigan: ``The Locally Self Consistent Multiple Scattering method in a Geographically Distributed Linked MPP Environment,'' Parallel Computing , to appear.

1998

P.M. Papadopoulos, J.A. Kohl, B.D. Semeraro, `` CUMULVS: Extending a Generic Steering and Visualization Middleware for Application Fault-Tolerance of Parallel Applications'', Proc. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences , pp. 127--136, Vol 8, Kona, HI, January 6-9, 1998. ( postscript version ).

1997

Geist, G.A., J.A. Kohl, P.M. Papadopoulos `` CUMULVS: Providing Fault Tolerance, Visualization and Steering of Parallel Applications'', Intl. J. Supercomputer Applications , 11(3), pp. 224--235, Fall 1997. postscript version )

1996

Geist, G.A, J.A. Kohl, P.M. Papadopoulos, `` PVM and MPI: A Comparison of Features '', Calculateurs Paralleles , 8(2), pp. 137--150, June, 1996. ( postscript version )

1996

Geist, G.A, J.A. Kohl, P.M. Papadopoulos, B.D. Semeraro, W.A. Shelton `` Early Experiences with Distributed Supercomputing on I-WAY: First-Principles Materials Science and Parallel Acoustic Wave Propagation '', Intl. J. of Supercomputer Applications 10(2/3), pp. 157--169, Spring/Summer 1996. ( postscript version )

1995

Kohl, J.A., Papadopoulos, P.M., `` A Library for Visualization and Steering of Distributed Simulations Using PVM and AVS'', Proc. High Performance Computing Symposium '95 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 10--12, 1995. ( postscript version )

1993

Papadopoulos, P.M., C.S. Kenney, and A.J. Laub, ``Least-Squares Solution of Ill-Conditioned Continuous-Time Lyapunov Equations,'' 1993 American Control Conference , San Francisco, CA, June 2-4, 1993.

1993

Kenney, C.S., A.J. Laub, and P.M. Papadopoulos, ``A Newton-Squaring Algorithm for Computing the Negative Invariant Subspace of a Matrix,'' IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1284-1289.

1992

Kenney, C.S., A.J. Laub, and P.M. Papadopoulos, ``Matrix Sign Algorithms for Riccati Equations,'' invited paper for IMA International Conference on Control: Modelling, Computation, Information , Manchester, England, September 1992. Also, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information , Vol. 9, pp. 331-344, Oxford, UK, 1992.

1992

Cheng, J., G. Ianculescu, C.S. Kenney, A.J. Laub, J.Ly, and P.M. Papadopoulos, ``Control-Structure Interaction Study for Space Station Solar Dynamic Power Module,'' IEEE Control Systems Magazine 12(5), Oct. 1992, pp. 4-13.

1991

Papadopoulos, P.M. , A.J. Laub, C.S. Kenney, P.Pandey, G. Ianculescu, and J. Ly, ``Optimal Control Study for the Space Station Solar Dynamic Power Module,'' Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control , Brighton, England, Dec. 1991, pp. 2224-2229.

1989

Bayo, E., P.M. Papadopoulos, M.A. Serna, and J.R. Stubbe, ``Inverse Dynamics and Kinematics of Multi-Link Elastic Robots. An Iterative Frequency Domain Approach,'' Int. J. of Robotics Research , 8(6), Dec. 1989, pp. 49-62.

ADDRESS

San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

(858) 822-3628 (voice)
(858) 822-3694 (fax)

Email phil@sdsc.edu

MISC STUFF

Last modified Tue Nov 5, 2001