Seminars and Workshop Presentations by Peter Strazdins

• The Sparse Grid Combination Technique for Resilient Extreme-scale Simulations, keynote speech for the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications}, Kochi, India, 22 October 2021
• A Simple Tiled Approach to Teaching Parallel Programming (or Parallelism Without Pain for the Students), SOCO seminar, 15:00 Weds 23 June AEST, 2021. Postponed
  Registration and Abstract, zoom live streaming link, slides will appear here, video will appear here

• Your Bachelors and Beyond: Transitioning to Postgraduate Computer Science Study, CECS ANU webinar, May 2020

• Two Approaches to Highly Scalable and Resilient Partial Differential Equation Solvers, Co-Lab (MSI/RSCS) seminar, ANU, 18 October 2019.
• Case Studies in the GPU Acceleration of Two Earth Sciences Applications and Large-scale Applications made Fault-tolerant using the Sparse Grid Combination Technique, MSI Special Year 2019 in Computational Mathematics, Challenges in High Performance Computing workshop, ANU, Sep 2019
• Induction Session for Computer Science Postgraduates, ANU, July 2019
• Shared Memory and GPU Parallelization of an Operational Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Application, IPDPS/PDSEC Workshop, Rio, 24 May 2019 (video presentation, 24m:30s, 45MB, works on Firefox/Chrome on Windows & Linux, VLC, Windows Media Player).

• A Comprehensive Parallel Computing Curriculum: From Second Year to Professionals EduHPC Workshop/Supercomputing Conference, Dallas, 11 Nov 2018
• Two Approaches to Highly Scalable and Resilient Partial Differential Solvers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, 18 August 2018. Supplementary slides from Brendan Harding's ICCS'16 presentation
• Efficient Evaluation of Scheduling Metrics Using Emulation: A Case Study in the Effect of Artefacts, The 14th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems. Eugene, OR, 13 August 2018 (video presentation, 61MB, works on Chrome on Windows & Linux).
• Higher Degrees by Research (PhD and MPhil) Information Night for CS, RSCS ANU, Aug 2018 (Intelligence theme slides, Pete Anderson 3MT video)
• An Energy-Efficient Asymmetric Multi-Processor for HPC Virtualization, IPDPS/PDSEC-18 Workshop (Vancouver), May 2018

• Higher Degrees by Research (PhD and MPhil) Information Night for Computer Science, RSCS ANU, Sep 2017.

• Large-scale Applications made Fault-tolerant using the Sparse Grid Combination Technique Sandia National Laboratories, Sep 2015. Shorter version for East China HPC Users Forum, Nov 2015.
• Challenges in Accelerating Operational Weather and Climate Codes, GTC, Singapore, August 2015
• Highly Scalable Algorithms for the Sparse Grid Combination Technique , IPDPS/PDSEC-15 Workshop (Hyderabad), May 2015

• Application Level Fault Recovery: Using Fault-Tolerant Open MPI in a PDE Solver, Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore) and IPDPS/PDSEC-14 Workshop (Phoenix), May 2014
• Acceleration of a Python-based Tsunami Modelling Application via CUDA and OpenHMPP, IPDPS/PDSEC-14 Workshop, Phoenix, May 2014

• A Fault-Tolerant Framework for Large-Scale Simulations, OPL SC'13 Workshop, Denver, Nov 2013
• HPC-related Cloud Computing Research at the ANU, Fujitsu Australia & ANU Cloud Workshop, July 2013
• Experiences in a Specialty Multicore Computing Course and HPC Applications Research at ANU, Intel, Santa Clara, May 2013
• Robust Solution of PDEs via Sparse Grids, Sandia Laboratories, Livermore, Apr 2013 (also Google Tech Talk)

• An Accurate Prefetch Technique for Dynamic Paging Behaviour for Software Distributed Shared Memory, ICPP'12, Pittsburgh, Sep 2012
• Performance Analysis of Large-scale Simulations on Supercomputers and Clouds , IAS Technical University of Munich, Jul 2012
• Scientific Application Performance on HPC, Private and Public Clouds, PDSEC/IPDPS-12, Shanghai, May 2012
• Experiences in a Specialty Multicore Computing Course, EduPar/IPDPS-12, Shanghai, May 2012
• Combining Teaching and Research at the ANU, Beijing Institute of Technology seminar, March 2012
• Architectures for Exascale Computing, Computational Science at the Petascale and Beyond Workshop, ANU, Feb 2012
• Performance Analysis and Scalability Issues in Large-scale Simulations, Advcom seminar, ANU, Jan 2012

• Performance Analysis of a Cardiac Simulation Code Using IPM, Scala'11 Workshop/SC'11, Seattle, Nov 2011
• Robust and Scalable Solution of Partial Differential Equations Sandia Labs Livermore, Nov 2011
• HPC-related Cloud Computing Research at the ANU, Taiwan Universities Visit, ANU, Nov 2011
• Adaptive resource remapping through live migration of virtual machines, ICA3PP, Melbourne, Oct 2011
• Profiling Methodology and Performance Tuning of the Met Office Unified Model, USyd, Feb 2011 and IPDPS/PDSEC, Anchorage, May 2011
• Performance Measurement and Analysis of Real Programs , Using Recurrence Relations to Evaluate the Running Time of Recursive Programs, COMP1130 lectures, ANU, April 2011

• Cloud Computing and Other Systems Research at the ANU, Fujitsu Laboratories Visit, ANU, Dec 2010
• Modern Computer Systems: the Multicore Computing course at the Masters Level, Software Engineering Pilot Program visit, ANU, 11/11/10

• Exaflop Computing panel discussion, ISPA'08, Sydney, Dec 2008.
• How much energy can you save with a multicore computer for web applications? , GICT2008, Canberra, Nov 2008
• Combining Parallelism, Virtualization, Heterogeneity and Reliability, U. Toronto, Platform Computing, Google (video), SunLabs, Oct 2008
• The HPNumSOA Project: Research Themes, Platform Computing, Toronto, Oct 2008
• Applying the Community of Practice Approach to Individual IT Projects, Australasian Computing Education Conference, Jan 2008

• Computer Science Project Courses: Learning, Assessment and Workload Issues, DCS Retreat, Dec 2007
• Applying the Community of Practice Approach to Postgraduate IT Projects, CECS Deans Awards Presentations, Nov 2007
• Approaches to Performance Evaluation On Shared Memory and Cluster Architectures, VaST, Syndey, Sep 2007
• Research-Based Education in Computer Science at the ANU: Challenges and Opportunities, DCS ANU Seminar, June 2007
• A Survey of `Best Practice' in Computer Science Teaching, DCS ANU Seminar, May 2007
• Efficient Cycle-Accurate Simulation of the UltraSPARC III CPU , ACSC'07, Ballarat, Jan 2007

• Performance Enhancement of SMP Clusters with Multiple Network Interfaces using Virtualization, XenHPC'06, Sorrento, Dec 2006
• Approaches to Performance Evaluation On Shared Memory and Cluster Architectures, Deakin, Nov 2006
• Performance Evaluation / Modelling and Infrastructure Support in Heterogeneous Clusters , Deakin, Nov 2006
• Parallel Matrix Computations: from Systolic Arrays to Supercomputers, Symposium on Mathematics and Computer Science (RP60), ANU, April 2006

• Cycle Accurate Memory Modelling: A Case-Study in Validation MASCOTS'05, Sep 2005
• Approaches to Performance Evaluation On Shared Memory-Supporting Architectures, HPCS Lab, Tsukuba University, Sep 2005

• A Comparison of Local and Gang Scheduling on a Beowulf Cluster (12 pages), Cluster 2004, Sep 2004 (click here for paper)
• High Performance Computing: Architecture, Applications, and SE Issues,
  BSEng seminar, ANU, May 2004

• The COMP1120 Experiment in 'Fast-track' First Year CS Teaching, DCS Seminar, Nov 03
• Simulation Techniques for NUMA Architectures, SunLabs/Berkeley, Aug 03
• A Cluster-Aware Distributed Java Virtual Machine written in Java, SunLabs, Aug 03
• Co-chair in the WoPLA'03 Workshop on Parallel Linear Algebra , Melbourne, June 03
• Issues in the Design of Scalable Out-of-core Dense Symmetric Indefinite Factorization Algorithms, WoPLA'03/ICCS 2003, June 03

• Extending the Sparc-Sulima Computer Simulator: talk given for a COMP4510 lecture (Mar 03) and for a COMP3800 seminar (Oct 02), ANU
• The Analysis and Optimization of Collective Communications on a Beowulf Cluster , ICPADS2002, NCU, Taiwan, Dec 02
• Experiences in Developing the Sparc-Sulima Complete Machine Simulator, DCS Seminar, ANU, Jun 02

• Challenges in Large-scale Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis , Advcom Series, ANU, Dec 2001
• Parallel Data Mining on a Beowulf Cluster, HPCAsia'01, Gold Cost, Sep 2001
• High Performance Dense Linear Systems Solution on a Beowulf Cluster, HPCAsia'01, Gold Cost, Sep 2001
• An Efficient And Stable Method for Parallel Factorization of Dense Symmetric Indefinite Matrices , HPCAsia'01, Gold Cost, Sep 2001
• Towards a Parallel Data Mining Toolbox, PDDM'2001 Workshop, SF, Apr 2001
• Frequency Interpolation Methods for Accelerating Parallel EMC Analysis , PDSECA-01 workshop, SF, Apr 2001

• Stability and Parallelization Issues in Solving General Symmetric Linear Systems , seminar at DCS ANU, Nov 2000
• An Overview of Complete Machine Simulation of Shared Memory Computers , seminar at UNSW/UTS, May 2000
• The Emergence of the Cluster, Canberra Linux Users Group, Feb 2000

• Optimizing User-Level Communication Patterns on the Fujitsu AP3000, IWCC conf. presentation, Dec 1999
• Parallelizing Dense Symmetric Indefinite Solvers, PART'99 conf. presentation, Dec 1999
  (also DCS ANU seminar, Jun 1999)
• Parallel Dense Linear Algebra Libraries: Usability and Performance Issues , workshop at CTAC'99, Sep 1999
• Accelerated Methods for Performing the LDLT Decomposition , CTAC'99 conf. presentation, Sep 1999
• High Performance Computing: Architecture, Applications, and Software Engineering Issues,
  seminar given to COMP1800, Department of Computer Science, ANU, Sep 1999

• Optimal Load Balancing Techniques for Block-Cyclic Decompositions for Matrix Factorization , PDCN'98 conf. presentation, Dec 1998
• Lookahead and Algorithmic Blocking Techniques Compared for Parallel Matrix Factorization , PDCS'98 conf. presentation, Oct 1998 (also DCS ANU seminar, Jun 1998)
• Enhanced Parallel Matrix Factorization Routines, seminar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Oct 1998. Software Overhead and Blocking Issues in Parallel BLAS, presented to the ScaLAPACK Conference (teleconference), Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Mar 1998.

• Reducing Software Overheads in Parallel Linear Algebra Libraries, PART'97 conf. presentation, Sep 1997
  (also DCS ANU seminar, Oct 1997)