News
Visitors/Talks/Examiners
- Dr. Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories (April 1, 2019) - Title of
talk: Managing the Data Tsunami: Intelligent Self Learning Networks for Cloud, AI, IoT and 5G
- Dr. James Dinan, Intel Corporation (March 29, 2019)
- Professor Tarek Abdelrahman, University of Toronto (December 7, 2017)
- Professor Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico (July 18, 2017)
- Professor Jesper Larsson
Tr�ff, Vienna University of Technology (May 13, 2014)
- Dr. Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories (June 7, 2013) - Title of
talk: High Performance Computing: The Challenge at (Exa)Scale
- Professor
James Green, Carleton University (November 6, 2012)
- Dr. Keith Underwood, Intel Corporation, Intel Federal (September 19, 2012)
- Dr. Pavan Balaji, Argonne
National Laboratory (March 17, 2011) - Title of talk: Is Exascale the Last
Frontier for Commodity Computing?
- Professor Xin Yuan, Florida
State University (October 8, 2010) - Title of talk: Near-Optimal Rendezvous
Protocols for RDMA-enabled Clusters
- Professor Alan
Wagner, University of British Columbia (October 16, 2009) - Title of
talk: MPI over SCTP
- Dr. Khaled Ibrahim of IRIZA/INRIA, France (April 15, 2008) - Title of
talk: Parallel Computing from Specialty to Ubiquity
- Professor Andreas
Moshovos, University of Toronto (February 7, 2007) -
Title of talk: Region-Centric Memory Design - IEEE Talk
- Professor Amirali Baniasadi, University of Victoria (April 29, 2004) - Title of talk: Power-Aware
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Graduate Students News
- Oct 11, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Hamed for successfully passing his PhD Part II Comprehensive examination. Well done, Hamed!
- Oct 7, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Amirreza for successfully passing his PhD Part II Comprehensive examination. Well done, Amirreza!
- Oct 6, 2024: Congratulations are in order for Yiltan for submission of his PhD thesis to the Dept. Well done and good luck with your defence, Yiltan!
- Sept 7, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan and Amir for the acceptance of their paper in ExaMPI 2024 in Atlanta, GA. Well done!
- July 5, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Hamed and Amir for the acceptance of their paper in the 26th IEEE Cluster 2024 to be held in Kobe, Japan in September. Well done!
- Mar 4, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Amir and Yiltan for their Best Paper Award in the 3rd International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions, ExHET 2024, held in Edinburgh, UK! Amir presented his work yesterday in the workshop. Well done! Congrats to everyone for "two Best Paper Awards in a row" in our group!
- Feb 16, 2024: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan for the acceptance of his paper in the Supercomputing ISC High Performance 2024 in Germany! Well done, Yiltan!
- Jan 13, 2024: Congratulations to Amir and Yiltan for the acceptance of their paper in the third International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions (ExHET 2024), to be held in Edingburgh, UK. Well done!
- Nov 3. 2023: Many Congratulations to Yiltan for his Best Paper Award in the prestigious IEEE Cluster 2023 conference. Well done, Yiltan!
- Sept 11, 2023: Please join me in congratulating Hamed for successfully passing his PhD Part I Comprehensive Examination this afternoon. Well done, Hamed!
- Aug 16, 2023: Please join me in congratulating Amirreza for successfully passing the Part I of his PhD Comprehensive Examination this afternoon. Well done, Amirreza!
- Aug 2, 2023: Congratulations are in order for Yiltan whose accepted Cluster'23 paper has been selected as one of the Best Paper Award Nominees. Well done, Yiltan!
- July 4, 2023: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan for the acceptance of his paper in IEEE Cluster 2023! Well done, Yiltan.
- Apr 21, 2023: Please join me in congratulating Ben, who successfully defended his MASc thesis. Well done, Ben!
- Apr 3, 2023: Please join me in congratulating Ben for the submission of his MASc thesis to the Department.
- Jan 12, 2023: Congratulations are in order for Yiltan for the successful defence of Part I of his PhD Comprehensive examination! Well done, Yiltan!
- Sept 6, 2022: Please join me in welcoming our new PhD students Amirreza Barati Sedeh and Hamed Sharifian to our research group.
- August 18, 2022: Congratulations are in order for Pedram, Amir, and Yiltan for the acceptance of their paper in the 29th EuroMPI/USA 2022 conference, to be held at the University of Tennessee. Well done, everyone!
- June 16, 2022: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan for the acceptance of his paper in the 51st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2022, to be held in Bordeaux, France. Well done, Yiltan!
- Mar 1, 2022: Please join me in congratulating Amir who successfully passed Part II of his PhD Comprehensive Examination. Well done, Amir!
- Nov 29, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Pedram, who successfully defended his MASc thesis. Well done, Pedram!
- Nov 10, 2021: Many congratulations to Yiltan for his excellent thesis defence. Well done, Yiltan!
- Oct 26, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Pedram for the submission of his MASc thesis to the Department.
- Oct 7, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan for the submission of his MASc thesis to the Department.
- July 12, 2021: Congratulations are in order for Yiltan, Amir, and Pedram for the acceptance of our paper in the 28th IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI) Symposium, 2021.
- July 12, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Kaushal and Judi for the acceptance of their paper in the 28th EuroMPI Conference 2021, to be held in Munich, Germany.
- May 14, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Ben on being awarded the prestigious Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence. Well deserved, Ben!
- Feb 12, 2021: Congratulations are in order for Ben for admission to our MASc program.
- Jan 18, 2021: Please join me in congratulating Amir who successfully passed Part I of his PhD Comprehensive Examination. Well done, Amir!
- Oct 10, 2020: Please join me in congratulating Yiltan for admission to our PhD program.
- Apr 27, 2020:
Please join me in welcoming Benjamin Kitor to our research group. Ben has been recently admitted into our competitive combined BASc/MASc (4+1) program. He has also received the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA). Welcome aboard, Ben!
- Mar 29, 2019: Congratulations are in order for Mahdieh on a very successful PhD thesis defence. Well done, Mahdieh, and wish you all the best in your Postdoctoral Fellowship position at Ohio State University!
- Feb 22, 2019: Many congratulations to Mahdieh for submission of her PhD thesis to the department.
- Jan 30, 2019: Please join me in welcoming Yiltan Temucin as a new MASc student to our research group!
- Jan 24, 2019: Many congratulations to Mahdieh for the acceptance of her paper in IPDPS 2019. Well done, Mahdieh!
- Nov 29, 2018: Congratulations are in order for Pedram who has received the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence! Well done, Pedram!
- Nov 1, 2018: Please join me in welcoming Yiltan Temucin, an Undergraduate Research Assistant, to our research lab!
- Sept 28, 2018: I am pleased to let you know that we have a new colleague, Pedram Alizadeh, an MASc student in our research group. Welcome Pedram!
- June 13, 2018: Cobgratulations are in order for Mahdieh and Hessam for the acceptance of their journal paper in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience!
- May 23, 2018: Please join me in congratulating Mahdieh for the acceptance of her papers in P2S2 2018 and ICPP 2018. Well done, Mahdieh!
- Dec 22, 2017: Many Congratulations to Iman for the acceptance of his journal paper in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience!
- Dec 7, 2017: Please join me in congratulating Iman who successfully defended his Doctoral dissertation this afternoon. Well done, Iman!
- Nov 3, 2017: Please join me in congratulating Mahdieh and Hessam for the acceptance of their paper in ExaMPI 2017. Well done!
- Oct 23, 2017: Many congratulations to Iman who submitted his PhD dissertation to the Department this Friday. All the best with your defence, Iman!
- Sept 13, 2017: Many congratulations to Mac for receiving an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award as well as the Herman K. Walter Graduate Award.
- Sept 13, 2017: Please join me in congratulating Hessam for the acceptance of his paper in the 24th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2017).
- July 18, 2017: Many congratulations to Hessam for successfully defending his PhD dissertation! Well done, Hessam!
- June 26, 2017: Please join me in Congratulating Iman and Hessam for the acceptance of their journal paper in Parallel Computing!
- June 1, 2017: Congratulations are in order for Hessam who submitted his PhD dissertation this afternoon to the Department. Best of luck, Hessam!
- May 12, 2017: Please join me in congratulating Mahdieh for the acceptance of her paper in HPCS 2017!
- Jan 1, 2017: Please join me in welcoming Priya to our research group as a new PhD student!
- Dec 22, 2016: Congratulations are in order for Kaushal for his excellent Master's thesis defence! Well done, Kaushal!
- Sept 10, 2016: Please join me in congratulating Mac for receiving the R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship Award. Well done, Mac!
- Aug 13, 2016: Congratulations goes to Hessam
and Iman for the the acceptance of their paper in SBAC-PAD 2016!
- Aug 4, 2016: Congratulations are in order for Mahdieh who successfully defended Part II of her PhD Comprehensive examination!
- Aug 4, 2016: We have a new member - Welcome Mac to
the PPRL!
- May 17, 2016: Please join me in congratulating Iman
and Hessam for their paper "Topology-Aware GPU Selection on Multi-GPU Nodes"
that has won the Best Paper Award at the AsHES 2016 workshop. Well done!
- Apr 27, 2016: Congratulations are in order for Hessam
for receiving an NSF/TCPP travel grant to attend IPDPS 2016 and present our
work in HIPS, AsHES and IPDRM 2016.
- Mar 18, 2016: Congratulation to Kaushal for receiving
the best TA Award by the 3rd year students. Well deserved!
- Feb 23, 2016: Please join me in congratulating Hessam
for the acceptance of his papers in HIPS 2016 and IPDRM 2016. Well done!
- Feb 22, 2016: Please join me in congratulating Iman
and Hessam for the acceptance of their paper in AsHES 2016. Well done!
- Oct 1, 2015: Congratulations to Iman for the
acceptance of his short paper "Hyper-Q Aware Intranode MPI Collectives on the
GPU" in the International Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and
Middleware (ESPM2)!
- July 23, 2015: Congratulations are in order for
Mahdieh for passing Part I of her Comprehensive Examination successfully!
- May 1, 2015: Welcome Lucas to the group!
- Jan 15, 2015: We have a new M.A.Sc. student! Welcome aboard Kaushal!
- Please join me in congratulating Judicael for the acceptance of the
extended EuroMPI 2013 paper that was under review as an invited paper in the
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA).
Well done, Judi!
- September 2014: Congratulation to Iman for his
Queen's Graduate Student Travel Award for presenting his paper in EuroMPi
2014!
- June 20, 2014: Please join me in congratulating Judi for the acceptance of
his excellent paper, "Nonblocking Epochs in MPI one-sided Communication" in
Supercomputing 2014 conference. The acceptance rate was 20.8% (82/394).
The SC 2014 Program Committee has selected Judi's paper as a finalist for the
Best Paper Award. Well done, Judi!
- May 20, 2014: Many congratulations to Greg for the
successful defence of his Master's thesis, entitled "Overlapping Computation
and Communication through Offloading in MPI over InfiniBand". Well done
Greg!
- May 13, 2014: Please join me in congratulating Judi on his
very successful defense of his PhD dissertation, entitled "Scalability-Driven
Approaches to Key Aspects of the Message Passing Interface for Next Generation
Supercomputing" this morning. Well done Judi!
- April 24, 2014: Many congratulation to Greg for submission of his Master's
thesis to the Dept. Good luck with your defense, Greg!
- Mar. 17, 2014: Please join me in congratulating Judi for the submission of
his PhD dissertation to the Department. Best wishes for your thesis defense,
Judi!
- Feb. 27, 2014: Please join me in Congratulating Judi for his new
Postdoctoral Fellowship position at Argonne National Lab.
- Feb. 17, 2014: Congratulations are in order for Iman who successfully
completed the requirements of his PhD Comprehensive exam, Part II. Well done,
Iman!
- Jan. 29, 2014: Congratulations are in order for Hessam for the successful
defense of Part II of his PhD Comprehensive examination this afternoon. Well
done, Hessam!
- September 24, 2013: We have a new Undergrad Research Assistant in
our Lab; Welcome Colin!
- July 25, 2013: Please join me in Congratulating Judicael for the
acceptance of the collaborative work with Argonne and the HDF Group in IEEE
Cluster 2013, to be held in Indianapolis, IN. Well done, Judi!
- July 17, 2013: Many Congratulations to Judicael for the acceptance of his
journal paper "A Fast and Resource-Conscious MPI Message Queue Mechanism
for Large-Scale Jobs" in Future Generation Computer Systems journal. Well
done!
- May 16, 2013: Please join me in Congratulating Judicael for the acceptance
of his paper in EuroMPI 2013, to be held in Madrid, Spain. Well done,
Judi!
- February 26, 2013: Congratulations to Hessam who successfully passed Part
I of his Comprehensive Exam. Well done!
- January 25, 2013: Please join me in Congratulating Judi for the acceptance
of the collaborative paper with Argonne and UIUC in CCGrid 2013, to be held in
The Netherlands. Well done, Judi!
- November 6, 2012: Many Congratulations to Reza who successfully defended
his PhD dissertation this afternoon. Wish you all the best at Intel,
Santa Clara!
- October 12, 2012: We have a new Undergrad Research Assistant in our
Lab; Welcome Andrew!
- September 19, 2012: Many Congratulations to Ryan for the successful
defence of his PhD dissertation today! Wish you all the best at Sandia
National Laboratories!
- September 17, 2012: I am happy to announce that Reza has submitted his PhD
dissertation to the Department today. Best of luck, Reza!
- September 17, 2012: I am pleased to let you know that Iman successfully
passed Part I of his Comprehensive Exam this afternoon. Congratulations, Iman!
- September 15, 2012: I am pleased to inform you that Judicael is a
recipient of the McLaughlin Fellowship Award this year. Congratulations Judi!
- August 28, 2012: Congratulations to Judicael for the acceptance of his
paper "An Efficient MPI Message Queue Mechanism for Large-scale Jobs" in IEEE
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012)
- June 30, 2012: Congrats to Greg for the acceptance of his paper in the
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2012)
- June 23, 2012: Congrats to Ryan for the submission of his PhD dissertation to the
Department
- June 15, 2012: Congratulations are in order for Reza for his invited
presentation at Intel, Santa Clara!
- June 6, 2012: Many Congratulations to Ryan Grant for receiving the 2nd place
award in the IEEE Research Excellence Award competition
- May 2, 2012: Congratulations to Reza for the acceptance of his paper in
the 2nd International Workshop on Power Measurement and Profiling (PMP 2012)
- May 1, 2012: Ryan Anderson: Welcome to our research group!
- May 1, 2012: Congratulations to Judi for his internship position at
Argonne National Laboratory
- January 1, 2012: Hessam: Welcome to our research group!
- September 13, 2011: Many Congratulations to Judicael for his successful
Comprehensive II examination this afternoon. He is formally a Ph.D.
Candidate now. In addition, Judicael has also been awarded this year
with the prestigious McLaughlin Award. Well done Judi!
- September 6, 2011: Please join me in welcoming Iman to our research group
as a new PhD student
- July 2, 2011: Congrats to Judicael for the acceptance of his short paper
in IEEE Cluster 2011
- June 12, 2011: Congratulations to Mohammad and Jon for the acceptance of
their paper in EuroMPI 2011
- June 2, 2011: Another successful application for Ryan: the OGS Award for
2011-2012. Well done, Ryan!
- May 8, 2011: Please join me in congratulating Mohammad for the acceptance
of his paper in Journal of Cluster Computing.
- April 20, 2011: Please join me in congratulating Ryan for his NSERC
Industrial PDF Award. Well deserved!
- April 10, 2011: Congratulations to Ryan for being awarded the IEEE TCPP
Student Travel Award as well as Queen's Graduate Student Travel Award for
presenting the paper in IPDPS 2011
- Dec. 16, 2010: Congratulations to Mohammad for being awarded Queen's PDF Travel
Award for presenting the paper in HiPC 2010
- Dec. 12, 2010: Congratulations to Ryan and Mohammad for the acceptance of
their paper in IPDPS 2011 (acceptance rate: 19.6%)
- Nov. 1, 2010: Please welcome Mohammad as a new Postdoctoral Fellow to our
Group
- Oct. 8, 2010: Congratulations to Mohammad for the successful defence of
his PhD dissertation
- Sept. 29, 2010: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in the International Journal of Parallel Programming
- Sept. 10, 2010: Please welcome Greg to our research group as a
new M.A.Sc. student
- Aug. 12, 2010: Congratulations to Judicael for the successful defence of his PhD
Comprehensive Exam, Part I
- Aug. 6, 2010: Congratulations to Reza for the acceptance of his paper in
ENA-HPC 2010
- July 25, 2010: Congratulations to Mohammad and Ryan for the acceptance of their paper in HiPC
2010 (acceptance rate: 19.2%)
- July 1, 2010: Please join me in welcoming Greg to our group as a new Visiting
Researcher
- May 1, 2010: Please join me in welcoming Mike to our group as a new
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Mar. 24, 2010: Congratulations to Mohammad for being awarded an NSERC
Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship
Award
- Dec. 19, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his paper in
ISPASS-2010 (acceptance rate: 33%)
- Dec. 2009: Congratulations to Reza, Judicael and Jonathan for being ranked
61st out of nearly 700 teams from 40 countries in the IEEEXtreme 3.0
Programming Competition
- Oct. 30, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan as to this year's winner of the ECE
Pumpkin Carving contest
- Oct. 16, 2009: Congratulations to Ying for the successful defence of her PhD
dissertation
- Oct. 7, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan for the successful defence of his PhD
Comprehensive Exam, Part II
- Oct. 4, 2009: Congratulations to Judicael for being awarded Queen's
Graduate Entrance Tuition Award (GETA)
- Sept. 23, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his paper in ICPADS 2009 (acceptance rate: 29.8%)
- Sept. 23, 2009: Congratulations to Mohammad for the successful completion of
his graduate seminar
- Sept. 1, 2009: Please join me in welcoming Judicael to our research group
as a new PhD student
- Aug. 4, 2009: Congratulations to Mohammad for being awarded an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award
- May 5, 2009: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in
EuroPVM/MPI 2009
- April 16, 2009: Congratulations to Ying for her new job at IBM TJ Watson
in association with KAUST
- April 1, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan for being awarded the NSERC Canada
Graduate
Scholarship
- Mar. 29, 2009: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his journal
paper in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Feb. 9, 2009: Congratulations to Mohammad for the acceptance of his journal
paper in International Journal of Parallel Programming
- Jan. 30, 2009: Congratulations to Mohammad for the acceptance of his paper in
CAC 2009
- Sept. 23, 2008: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in
Journal of Cluster Computing
- Sept. 19, 2008: Congratulations to Ryan for the successful defence of his PhD
Comprehensive Exam, Part I
- Sept. 10, 2008: Congratulation to Mohammad and Ying for the acceptance of
their paper in PDCS 2008
- Sept. 1, 2008: Congratulations to Reza for being awarded an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award
- June 12, 2008: Congratulations to Ryan and Mohammad for the acceptance of
their paper in P2S2 2008
- May 10, 2008: Congratulations to Mohammad for the acceptance of his paper in HPCS 2008
- Sept. 1, 2007: Pleas join me in welcoming Ryan for starting his PhD
studies
- Aug 14, 2007: Congratulations to Ryan for being awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship
(OGS) Award
- Aug. 14, 2007: Congratulations to Ryan for the successful defence of his Master's
thesis
- July 22, 2007: Congratulations to Reza for the acceptance of his paper in IEEE
Cluster 2007
- July 1, 2007: Congratulations to Reza for being awarded the IEEE TCSC
Student Travel Award to present his paper in IEEE Cluster 2007
- June 1, 2007: Congratulations to Mohammad for the acceptance of his paper in
IEEE Hot Interconnects 2007
- May 15, 2007: Please join me in congratulating Mohammad for the successful
defence of his PhD proposal
- May 2, 2007: Congratulations goes to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in ICPP 2007
- Mar. 13, 2007: Congratulations to Ying for being awarded an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award
- Feb. 24, 2007: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in HPCS
2007
- Jan. 16, 2007: Congratulations to Reza for the successful defence of his PhD
Comprehensive Exam, Part II
- Jan 13, 2007: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his paper in MTAAP
2007
- Jan. 12, 2007: Congratulations to Mohammad for the acceptance of his paper in
CAC 2007 (acceptance rate: 32%)
- Aug. 1, 2006: Congratulations to Mohammad for the successful defence of his
Comprehensive Exam, Part I
- July 19, 2006: Congratulations to Mohammad for being awarded Queen's
Nortel Networks Fellowship Award
- April 13, 2006: Congratulations to Mohammad for being awarded the Sun
Microsystems High
Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory Scholarship
- Jan. 15, 2006: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his paper in
HP-PAC 2006
- Jan. 14, 2006: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of her paper in CAC
2006
- Dec. 2005: Congratulations to Ying, Nathan and Reza for acceptance of
their paper in International Journal of High Performance Computing and
Networking
- Dec. 14, 2005: Congratulations to Reza for the successful defence of his
Comprehensive Exam, Part I
- Oct. 14, 2005: Congratulations to Ying for the successful defence of her PhD
Comprehensive Exam, Part II
- Sept. 23, 2005: Congratulations to Ryan for the acceptance of his paper
in IOSCA 2005
- Sept. 1, 2005: Please join me in welcoming Reza to his PhD program
- Sept. 1, 2005: Please join me in welcoming Ryan to the group as a new
M.A.Sc. student
- Aug. 18, 2005: Congratulations to Reza for the acceptance of his paper
in PDCS 2005
- Aug. 1, 2005: Please join me in welcoming Ryan to the group as a new
Visiting Researcher
- June 22, 2005: Congratulations to Reza for the successful defence of his
Master's thesis
- Oct. 8, 2004: Congratulations to Ying for the successful defence of her
Comprehensive Exam, Part I
- Sept. 1, 2004: Congratulations to Reza for being awarded the Sun
Microsystems High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory Scholarship
- July 30, 2004: Congratulations to Ying and Reza for the acceptance of
their paper in NCA 2004
- July 19, 2004: Congratulations to Reza and Ying for the acceptance of
their paper in HSLN 2004
- June 2004: Congratulations to Ying for the successful defence of her Master's
thesis
- May 1, 2004: Please join me in welcoming Manju to our group as a new
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Mar. 8, 2004: Congratulations to Ying, Nathan and Reza for the acceptance of
their paper in HPCS 2004
- Aug. 15, 2003: Congratulations to Ying for the acceptance of
her
paper in PDCS 2003
- April 30, 2003: Congratulations to Ying for being awarded the Ontario
Graduate Scholarship for Science and Technology (OGSST) Award
- April 8, 2003: Congratulations to Nathan and Ying for the acceptance of
their paper in ICS 2003 (acceptance rate: 20.9%)
