Robert B. Ross

Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Neil Shah, Stéphane Ethier, Seung-Hoe Ku, Choong-Seock Chang, Scott Klasky, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: ISABELA for effective in situ compression of scientific data. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 25(4): 524-540 (2013)

Pak Chung Wong, Han-Wei Shen, Christopher R. Johnson, Chaomei Chen, Robert B. Ross: The Top 10 Challenges in Extreme-Scale Visual Analytics. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 32(4): 63-67 (2012)

Ning Liu, Christopher D. Carothers, Jason Cope, Philip H. Carns, Robert B. Ross: Model and simulation of exascale communication networks. J. Simulation 6(4): 227-236 (2012)

John Jenkins, Isha Arkatkar, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Neil Shah, Eric R. Schendel, Stéphane Ethier, Choong-Seock Chang, Jacqueline H. Chen, Hemanth Kolla, Scott Klasky, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: Analytics-Driven Lossless Data Compression for Rapid In-situ Indexing, Storing, and Querying. DEXA (2) 2012: 16-30

Thomas Ilsche, Joseph Schuchart, Jason Cope, Dries Kimpe, Terry Jones, Andreas Knüpfer, Kamil Iskra, Robert B. Ross, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Stephen Poole: Enabling event tracing at leadership-class scale through I/O forwarding middleware. HPDC 2012: 49-60

Eric R. Schendel, Saurabh V. Pendse, John Jenkins, David A. Boyuka II, Zhenhuan Gong, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Qing Liu, Hemanth Kolla, Jackie Chen, Scott Klasky, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: ISOBAR hybrid compression-I/O interleaving for large-scale parallel I/O optimization. HPDC 2012: 61-72

Eric R. Schendel, Ye Jin, Neil Shah, Jackie Chen, Choong-Seock Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku, Stéphane Ethier, Scott Klasky, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: ISOBAR Preconditioner for Effective and High-throughput Lossless Data Compression. ICDE 2012: 138-149

Zhenhuan Gong, Terry Rogers, John Jenkins, Hemanth Kolla, Stéphane Ethier, Jackie Chen, Robert B. Ross, Scott Klasky, Nagiza F. Samatova: MLOC: Multi-level Layout Optimization Framework for Compressed Scientific Data Exploration with Heterogeneous Access Patterns. ICPP 2012: 239-248

Attila Gyulassy, Valerio Pascucci, Tom Peterka, Robert B. Ross: The Parallel Computation of Morse-Smale Complexes. IPDPS 2012: 484-495

Zhenhuan Gong, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, John Jenkins, Hemanth Kolla, Stéphane Ethier, Jackie Chen, Robert B. Ross, Scott Klasky, Nagiza F. Samatova: Multi-level Layout Optimization for Efficient Spatio-temporal Queries on ISABELA-compressed Data. IPDPS 2012: 873-884

Ning Liu, Jason Cope, Philip H. Carns, Christopher D. Carothers, Robert B. Ross, Gary Grider, Adam Crume, Carlos Maltzahn: On the role of burst buffers in leadership-class storage systems. MSST 2012: 1-11

Dries Kimpe, Philip H. Carns, Kevin Harms, Justin M. Wozniak, Samuel Lang, Robert B. Ross: AESOP: Expressing Concurrency in High-Performance System Software. NAS 2012: 303-312

Tom Peterka, Robert B. Ross: Versatile Communication Algorithms for Data Analysis. EuroMPI 2012: 275-284

David Goodell, Seong Jo Kim, Robert Latham, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Robert B. Ross: An Evolutionary Path to Object Storage Access. SC Companion 2012: 36-41

Philip H. Carns, Kevin Harms, Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross, Justin M. Wozniak, Lee Ward, Matthew L. Curry, Ruth Klundt, Geoff Danielson, Cengiz Karakoyunlu, John A. Chandy, Bradley Settlemeyer, William Gropp: A Case for Optimistic Coordination in HPC Storage Systems. SC Companion 2012: 48-53

John Jenkins, Eric R. Schendel, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, David A. Boyuka II, Terry Rogers, Stéphane Ethier, Robert B. Ross, Scott Klasky, Nagiza F. Samatova: Byte-precision level of detail processing for variable precision analytics. SC 2012: 48

Sidharth Kumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip H. Carns, Joshua A. Levine, Robert Latham, Giorgio Scorzelli, Hemanth Kolla, Ray W. Grout, Robert B. Ross, Michael E. Papka, Jacqueline Chen, Valerio Pascucci: Efficient data restructuring and aggregation for I/O acceleration in PIDX. SC 2012: 50

Misbah Mubarak, Christopher D. Carothers, Robert B. Ross, Philip H. Carns: Modeling a Million-Node Dragonfly Network Using Massively Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation. SC Companion 2012: 366-376

Robert L. Jacob, Jayesh Krishna, Xiabing Xu, Sheri A. Mickelson, Tim Tautges, Mike Wilde, Robert Latham, Ian T. Foster, Robert B. Ross, Mark Hereld, Jay Walter Larson, Pavel B. Bochev, Kara Peterson, Mark A. Taylor, Karen Schuchardt, Jain Yin, Don Middleton, Mary Haley, David Brown, Wei Huang, Dennis G. Shea, Richard Brownrigg, Mariana Vertenstein, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jingrong Xie: Abstract: Bringing Task and Data Parallelism to Analysis of Climate Model Output. SC Companion 2012: 1493-1494

Robert L. Jacob, Jayesh Krishna, Xiabing Xu, Sheri A. Mickelson, Tim Tautges, Mike Wilde, Robert Latham, Ian T. Foster, Robert B. Ross, Mark Hereld, Jay Walter Larson, Pavel B. Bochev, Kara Peterson, Mark A. Taylor, Karen Schuchardt, Jain Yin, Don Middleton, Mary Haley, David Brown, Wei Huang, Dennis G. Shea, Richard Brownrigg, Mariana Vertenstein, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jingrong Xie: Poster: Bringing Task and Data Parallelism to Analysis of Climate Model Output. SC Companion 2012: 1495

Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, Tom Peterka, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Toward a General I/O Layer for Parallel-Visualization Applications. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 31(6): 6-10 (2011)

Philip H. Carns, Kevin Harms, William E. Allcock, Charles Bacon, Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Understanding and Improving Computational Science Storage Access through Continuous Characterization. TOS 7(3): 8 (2011)

Florin Isaila, Javier García Blas, Jesús Carretero, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Design and Evaluation of Multiple-Level Data Staging for Blue Gene Systems. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 22(6): 946-959 (2011)

Sidharth Kumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip H. Carns, Brian Summa, Giorgio Scorzelli, Valerio Pascucci, Robert B. Ross, Jacqueline Chen, Hemanth Kolla, Ray W. Grout: PIDX: Efficient Parallel I/O for Multi-resolution Multi-dimensional Scientific Datasets. CLUSTER 2011: 103-111

Benjamin Welton, Dries Kimpe, Jason Cope, Christina M. Patrick, Kamil Iskra, Robert B. Ross: Improving I/O Forwarding Throughput with Data Compression. CLUSTER 2011: 438-445

Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Neil Shah, Stéphane Ethier, Scott Klasky, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: Compressing the Incompressible with ISABELA: In-situ Reduction of Spatio-temporal Data. Euro-Par (1) 2011: 366-379

Ye Jin, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Neil Shah, Zhenhuan Gong, Choong-Seock Chang, Jackie Chen, Stéphane Ethier, Hemanth Kolla, Seung-Hoe Ku, Scott Klasky, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Karen Schuchardt, Nagiza F. Samatova: S-preconditioner for Multi-fold Data Reduction with Guaranteed User-Controlled Accuracy. ICDM 2011: 290-299

Tom Peterka, Robert B. Ross, Boonthanome Nouanesengsy, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang: A Study of Parallel Particle Tracing for Steady-State and Time-Varying Flow Fields. IPDPS 2011: 580-591

Philip H. Carns, Kevin Harms, William E. Allcock, Charles Bacon, Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Understanding and improving computational science storage access through continuous characterization. MSST 2011: 1-14

Ning Liu, Christopher D. Carothers, Jason Cope, Philip H. Carns, Robert B. Ross, Adam Crume, Carlos Maltzahn: Modeling a Leadership-Scale Storage System. PPAM (1) 2011: 10-19

Jason Cope, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross: Portable and Scalable MPI Shared File Pointers. EuroMPI 2011: 312-314

Adam Crume, Carlos Maltzahn, Jason Cope, Sam Lang, Robert B. Ross, Philip H. Carns, Christopher D. Carothers, Ning Liu, Curtis Janssen, John Bent, Stephan Eidenbenz, Meghan McClelland: Poster: FLAMBES: evolving fast performance models. SC Companion 2011: 31-32

Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, John Jenkins, Isha Arkatkar, Zhenhuan Gong, Hemanth Kolla, Seung-Hoe Ku, Stéphane Ethier, Jackie Chen, Choong-Seock Chang, Scott Klasky, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova: ISABELA-QA: query-driven analytics with ISABELA-compressed extreme-scale scientific data. SC 2011: 31

Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Seung Woo Son, Swapnil Patil, Samuel Lang, Garth Gibson, Robert B. Ross: On the duality of data-intensive file system design: reconciling HDFS and PVFS. SC 2011: 67

Robert B. Ross: File Systems. Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing 2011: 671-679

Kazuki Ohta, Dries Kimpe, Jason Cope, Kamil Iskra, Robert B. Ross, Yutaka Ishikawa: Optimization Techniques at the I/O Forwarding Layer. CLUSTER 2010: 312-321

Wesley Kendall, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, Han-Wei Shen, Robert B. Ross: Accelerating and Benchmarking Radix-k Image Compositing at Large Scale. EGPGV 2010: 101-110

Jason Cope, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross: Bridging HPC and Grid File I/O with IOFSL. PARA (2) 2010: 215-225

Dries Kimpe, David Goodell, Robert B. Ross: MPI Datatype Marshalling: A Case Study in Datatype Equivalence. EuroMPI 2010: 82-91

Venkatram Vishwanath, Mark Hereld, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kimpe, Vitali A. Morozov, Michael E. Papka, Robert B. Ross, Kazutomo Yoshii: Accelerating I/O Forwarding in IBM Blue Gene/P Systems. SC 2010: 1-10

Gary Grider, James Nunez, John Bent, Steve Poole, Robert B. Ross, Evan Felix: Coordinating government funding of file system and I/O research through the high end computing university research activity. Operating Systems Review 43(1): 2-7 (2009)

Florin Isaila, Javier García Blas, Jesús Carretero, Robert Latham, Samuel Lang, Robert B. Ross: Latency Hiding File I/O for Blue Gene Systems. CCGRID 2009: 212-219

Nawab Ali, Philip H. Carns, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kimpe, Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Lee Ward, P. Sadayappan: Scalable I/O forwarding framework for high-performance computing systems. CLUSTER 2009: 1-10

Philip H. Carns, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Kamil Iskra, Samuel Lang, Katherine Riley: 24/7 Characterization of petascale I/O workloads. CLUSTER 2009: 1-10

Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham: Combining I/O operations for multiple array variables in parallel netCDF. CLUSTER 2009: 1-10

Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Dries Kimpe: Interfaces for coordinated access in the file system. CLUSTER 2009: 1-9

Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Arifa Nisar, Alok N. Choudhary, Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham: Using Subfiling to Improve Programming Flexibility and Performance of Parallel Shared-file I/O. ICPP 2009: 470-477

Tom Peterka, Hongfeng Yu, Robert B. Ross, Kwan-Liu Ma, Robert Latham: End-to-End Study of Parallel Volume Rendering on the IBM Blue Gene/P. ICPP 2009: 566-573

Philip H. Carns, Samuel Lang, Robert B. Ross, Murali Vilayannur, Julian M. Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig: Small-file access in parallel file systems. IPDPS 2009: 1-11

Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham, William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Rajeev Thakur: Processing MPI Datatypes Outside MPI. PVM/MPI 2009: 42-53

Javier García Blas, Florin Isaila, Jesús Carretero, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Multiple-Level MPI File Write-Back and Prefetching for Blue Gene Systems. PVM/MPI 2009: 164-173

Justin M. Wozniak, Bryan Jacobs, Robert Latham, Samuel Lang, Seung Woo Son, Robert B. Ross: Implementing Reliable Data Structures for MPI Services in High Component Count Systems. PVM/MPI 2009: 321-322

Wesley Kendall, Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Tom Peterka, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross: Terascale data organization for discovering multivariate climatic trends. SC 2009

Samuel Lang, Philip H. Carns, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Kevin Harms, William E. Allcock: I/O performance challenges at leadership scale. SC 2009

Tom Peterka, David Goodell, Robert B. Ross, Han-Wei Shen, Rajeev Thakur: A configurable algorithm for parallel image-compositing applications. SC 2009

Tom Peterka, Hongfeng Yu, Robert B. Ross, Kwan-Liu Ma: Parallel Volume Rendering on the IBM Blue Gene/P. EGPGV 2008: 73-80

William D. Gropp, Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Jesper Larsson Träff: Self-consistent MPI-IO Performance Requirements and Expectations. PVM/MPI 2008: 167-176

Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur: Implementing MPI-IO Atomic Mode and Shared File Pointers Using MPI One-Sided Communication. IJHPCA 21(2): 132-143 (2007)

Robert Latham, William Gropp, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur: Extending the MPI-2 Generalized Request Interface. PVM/MPI 2007: 223-232

Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross, Stefan Vandewalle, Stefaan Poedts: Transparent Log-Based Data Storage in MPI-IO Applications. PVM/MPI 2007: 233-241

Avery Ching, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Robert B. Ross, Lee Ward: Noncontiguous locking techniques for parallel file systems. SC 2007: 26

Murali Vilayannur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Rajeev Thakur, Robert B. Ross: Discretionary Caching for I/O on Clusters. Cluster Computing 9(1): 29-44 (2006)

Kenin Coloma, Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Lee Ward: A New Flexible MPI Collective I/O Implementation. CLUSTER 2006

Hao Yu, Ramendra K. Sahoo, C. Howson, G. Almasi, José G. Castaños, Manish Gupta, José E. Moreira, J. J. Parker, Thomas Engelsiepen, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Robert Latham, William D. Gropp: High performance file I/O for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. HPCA 2006: 187-196

Jonghyun Lee, Robert B. Ross, S. Atchley, M. Beck, Rajeev Thakur: MPI-IO/L: efficient remote I/O for MPI-IO via logistical networking. IPDPS 2006

Robert B. Ross, Joachim Worringen: High-Performance Parallel I/O. PVM/MPI 2006: 10

Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur: Can MPI Be Used for Persistent Parallel Services? PVM/MPI 2006: 275-284

Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham: PVFS - PVFS: a parallel file system. SC 2006: 34

William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Robert B. Ross: S01 - Advanced MPI: I/O and one-sided communication. SC 2006: 202

Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Loewe, Robert Latham: M02 - Parallel I/O in practice. SC 2006: 216

Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian, John Grant: Aggregate operators in probabilistic databases. J. ACM 52(1): 54-101 (2005)

Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Brian R. Toonen: Implementing MPI-IO atomic mode without file system support. CCGRID 2005: 1135-1142

Philip H. Carns, Robert B. Ross, Walter B. Ligon III, Pete Wyckoff: BMI: A Network Abstraction Layer for Parallel I/O. IPDPS 2005

Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Brian R. Toonen: Implementing MPI-IO Shared File Pointers Without File System Support. PVM/MPI 2005: 84-93

Rajeev Thakur, Robert B. Ross, Robert Latham: Implementing Byte-Range Locks Using MPI One-Sided Communication. PVM/MPI 2005: 119-128

Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, William Gropp: Evaluating structured I/O methods for parallel file systems. IJHPCN 2(2/3/4): 133-145 (2004)

Jiesheng Wu, Pete Wyckoff, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Robert B. Ross: Unifier: unifying cache management and communication buffer management for PVFS over InfiniBand. CCGRID 2004: 523-530

Jonghyun Lee, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Xiaosong Ma, Marianne Winslett: RFS: efficient and flexible remote file access for MPI-IO. CLUSTER 2004: 71-81

Murali Vilayannur, Robert B. Ross, Philip H. Carns, Rajeev Thakur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. Kandemir: On the Performance of the POSIX I/O Interface to PVFS. PDP 2004: 332-339

William D. Gropp, Robert B. Ross, Neill Miller: Providing Efficient I/O Redundancy in MPI Environments. PVM/MPI 2004: 77-86

Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur: The Impact of File Systems on MPI-IO Scalability. PVM/MPI 2004: 87-96

Murali Vilayannur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Rajeev Thakur, Robert B. Ross: Discretionary Caching for I/O on Clusters. CCGRID 2003: 96-103

Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, William Gropp: Noncontiguous I/O Accesses Through MPI-IO. CCGRID 2003: 104-111

Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, William D. Gropp: Efficient Structured Data Access in Parallel File Systems. CLUSTER 2003: 326-335

William D. Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur: Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface. CLUSTER 2003

Robert B. Ross, Neill Miller, William Gropp: Implementing Fast and Reusable Datatype Processing. PVM/MPI 2003: 404-413

Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, Robert Latham, Andrew Siegel, Brad Gallagher, Michael Zingale: Parallel netCDF: A High-Performance Scientific I/O Interface. SC 2003: 39

Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, Robert Latham: Parallel netCDF: A Scientific High-Performance I/O Interface. CoRR cs.DC/0306048 (2003)

Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, William Gropp: Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS. CLUSTER 2002: 405-414

Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian, John Grant: Probabilistic Aggregates. ISMIS 2002: 553-564

Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert B. Ross, William Gropp: Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS. CoRR cs.DC/0207096 (2002)

Alex Dekhtyar, Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian: Probabilistic temporal databases, I: algebra. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 26(1): 41-95 (2001)

Walter B. Ligon III, Robert B. Ross: The Parallel Virtual File System for Commodity Clusters. CLUSTER 2001: 456

Robert B. Ross, Daniel Nurmi, Albert Cheng, Michael Zingale: A case study in application I/O on Linux clusters. SC 2001: 11

V. S. Subrahmanian, Piero A. Bonatti, Jürgen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Sarit Kraus, Fatma Ozcan, Robert B. Ross: Heterogenous Active Agents. MIT Press 2000, isbn 0-262-19436-8

Timothy J. Rogers, Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian: IMPACT: A System for Building Agent Applications. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 14(2-3): 95-113 (2000)

Khaled A. Arisha, Sarit Kraus, Fatma Ozcan, Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian: IMPACT: The Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together. ICMAS 1998: 385-386

Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Nicola Leone, Robert B. Ross, V. S. Subrahmanian: ProbView: A Flexible Probabilistic Database System. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 22(3): 419-469 (1997)

Walter B. Ligon III, Robert B. Ross: Implementation and Performance of a Parallel File System for High Performance Distributed Applications. HPDC 1996: 471-480