Research Interests & Activity
Cal Ribbens


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My primary research interests are in parallel computation, high-end computing and computational science. Current topics of interest include distributed shared memory systems, algorithms and tools for improving utilization and throughput on parallel systems via dynamically re-sizable (malleable) parallel computations, and algorithms and tools for improving the performance of large-scale computational ensemble computations and sparse linear-algebra kernels. Other topics of recent and possible future interest include numerical linear algebra and mathematical software for PDEs, grid computing (including scheduling, load balancing, code composition frameworks, fault tolerance, and resource-aware issues), and problem solving environments.

I serve as Associate Director of the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS). One of the several labs that make up CHECS is the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications LASCA; as part of that lab I work with students and faculty colleagues on the interface between high-end computing systems research and scientific computing applications research. I also chair the allocation committee for System X and help coordinate a team of graduate students who support application development on that resource.


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C. J. Ribbens, last updated 07/06/2010