I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. I also recieved an M.S. in CS&E in 2008 and a B.S. in CS&E from Ohio State in 1996. I began my Ph.D program in 2004.

My advisor is Dr. P. Sadayappan in the High-Performance and Parallel Computing Research Group.

Curriculum Vitae: [PDF]

Teaching: (current)

• CSE 201 : Introduction to Programming with Java - Summer 2009
• CSE 294P: Computational Thinking in Context: Science and Engineering - Autumn 2009

Research Interests:

• Run-time support for global data structures on distributed memory clusters.
• Irregular and dynamic parallel algorithms using trees and graphs.
• Dynamic data redistribution and load-balancing.

Publications:

Scalable Work Stealing [pdf] [download]
James Dinan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, D. Brian Larkins, Jarek Nieplocha, P. Sadayappan
Proc. 21st Intl. Conference on Supercomputing (SC). Portland, OR, Nov. 14-20, 2009.

Global Trees: A Framework for Linked Data Structures on Distributed Memory Parallel Systems [pdf]
D. Brian Larkins, James Dinan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Atanas Rountev , P. Sadayappan
Proc. 20th Intl. Conference on Supercomputing (SC). Austin, TX, Nov. 15-21, 2008.

Scioto: A Framework for Global-View Task Parallelism [pdf] [download]
James Dinan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, D. Brian Larkins, Jarek Nieplocha, P. Sadayappan
Proc. of 37th Intl. Conference on Parallel Processing (SC). Portland, OR, Sept. 8-12, 2008.

Internet Routing and DNS Voodoo in the Enterprise
D. Brian Larkins. Proc. of the 13th Conference on Large Installation Systems Administration (USENIX LISA '99).
Seattle WA, November 7-12, 1999.

Other Interests:

• The Essence of Compiling with Continuations
• The OCaml Progamming Language
  • Developing Applications with Objective Caml
  • Caml Light Tutorial
  • Objective Caml User's Manual
• Video Lectures for the seminal Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs text.
• Philip Greenspun on the difference between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• An interesting essay about programming as if performance matters (can be taken lightly if you're in the HPC crowd...)
• A handy guide to logical fallacies

Special Thanks: to Dr. Gerald Baumgartner and Dr. Nasko Rountev for their support in my undertaking this endeavour.

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Brian Larkins

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