Allen B. Downey

I am a graduate student in the Computer Science Division of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, currently working as a Junior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

My academic advisor at Berkeley is Prof. Paul Hilfinger. I am working on the following projects:

1. A Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of scheduling scientific applications on parallel computers. Specifically, I am working on the following problems:

workload characterization for parallel scientific applications, using accounting data from the Cray C90 and Intel Paragon here at SDSC.
prediction of queue times on partitionable parallel computers (like the paragon and the Cray T3D). For a paper on this topic, click here.
design of scheduling policies that create incentives for users to use shared resources efficiently.

For more information, see my qualifying exam proposal.

2. A simulation study of preemptive migration for UNIX processes. Click here for more information.

3. VIGL: A visualization library for irregular grids (currently used by Phil Collela's CFD group and Scott Baden's KeLP project). If you are doing computational fluid dynamics, or just want a nice Tcl/tk array visualizer, go to the VIGL home page.

Office:: San Diego Supercomputer Center; PO Box 85608; San Diego CA 92186-9784; (619) 534-5112
Home:: 5827 Mildred St.; San Diego, CA 92110; (619) 692-1890

Public key:

downey@sdsc.edu

A few words to help the search engines: Allen Downey Allen B. Downey Allen Benjamin Downey A. B. Downey, Allen Downey, Allen B. Downey, A. B. home page yes this is my home page if you want to see my home page this is what you should be looking at parallel scheduling scientific applications space-sharing supercomputers VIGL vigl FIDIL fidil Exploiting Process Lifetime Distributions for Dynamic Load Balancing A note on The Limited Performance Benefits of Migrating Active Processes for Load Sharing