Parallel Processing Research Laboratory

People

Director

• Dr. Ahmad Afsahi
  Professor

 

Current Members

PhD Students:
Amirreza Barati Sedeh (Starting date: 09/2022), co-supervised with Dr. Ryan Grant Research Topic: High-Performance Communication for Emerging Architectures
Hamed Sharifian (Starting date: 09/2022) Research Topic: Efficient and Scalable Communication
AmirHossein Sojoodi (Starting date: 01/2020) Research Topic: GPU-aware Communication
MASc Students:
MEng Students:
Keshav Aggarwal (Starting date: 09/2024) Topic: Process Arrival Pattern Collectives

Former Members

Ph.D. and M.A.Sc.:

• Yiltan Temucin (Ph.D., Dec 2024) - PhD thesis: High-Performance Network- and GPU-Aware Communication for MPI Partitioned and MPI Neighborhoods
  • Last known position: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Markham, ON
• Benjamin Kitor (M.A.Sc., Apr 2023) - MASc thesis: Novel Allreduce Algorithms for Distributed Deep Learning
  • Last known position: GigaIO, San Diego, CA
• Pedram MohammadAlizadeh Bakhtevari (M.A.Sc., Nov 2021) - MASc thesis: Efficient Process Arrival Pattern Aware Collective Communication for HPC and Deep Learning
  • Last known position: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Markham, ON
• Yiltan Temucin (M.A.Sc., Nov 2021) - MASc thesis: High-performance Interconnect-aware MPI Communication for Deep Learning Workloads
  • Last known position: PhD student, ECE, Queen's
• Mahdieh Ghazimirsaeeed (Ph.D., Mar 2019) - PhD thesis: High-performance Communication in MPI through Message Matching and Neighborhood Collective Design
  • Last known position: Microsoft, Boston, MA
• Iman Faraji (Ph.D., Jan 2018) - PhD thesis: Improving Communication Performance in GPU-Accelerated HPC Clusters
  • Last known position: NVIDIA, Toronto, ON
• Hessam Mirsadeghi (Ph.D., July 2017) - PhD thesis: Improving Communication Performance through Topology and Congestion Awareness in HPC System
  • Last known positon: NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA
• Kaushal Kumar (M.A.Sc., Dec. 2016) - MASc thesis: Node-wide Asynchronous Message Progression for Efficient and Scalable Communication in High Performance Computing
  • Last known position: Microsoft, Vancouver, BC
• Judicael Zounmevo (Ph.D., May 2014) - PhD thesis: Scalability-Driven Approaches to Key Aspects of the Message Passing Interface for Next Generation Supercomputing
  • Last known position: KCG Holdings, Inc., Chicago, IL
• Grigori Inozemtsev (M.A.Sc., May 2014) - MASc thesis: Overlapping Computation and Communication through offloading in MPI over InfiniBand
  • Last known position: Enfabrica, Mountain View, CA
• Reza Zamani (Ph.D., Nov. 2012) - PhD thesis: Run-time Predictive Modeling of Power and Performance via Time-Series in High Performance Computing
  • Last known position: Facebook, San Jose, CA
• Ryan E. Grant (Ph.D., Sept. 2012) - PhD thesis: Improving High Performance Networking Technologies for Data Center Clusters
  •  Last known position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, ON
• Mohammad J. Rashti (Ph.D., Oct. 2010) - PhD thesis:  Improving Message-Passing Performance and Scalability in High-Performance Clusters
  • Last known position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Engineering, Shahid Chamran University, Iran
• Ying Qian (Ph.D., Oct. 2009) - PhD thesis: Design and Evaluation of Efficient Collective Communications on Modern Interconnects and Multi-core Clusters
  • Last known position: Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
• Ryan E. Grant (2007) - Master's Thesis: Analysis and Improvement of Performance and Power Consumption of Chip Multi-Threading SMP Architectures
• Reza Zamani (2005) - Master's Thesis: Communication Characteristics of Message-Passing Applications, and Impact of RDMA on their Performance
• Ying Qian (2004) Master's Thesis: High-Performance Interconnects and Computing Systems: Quantitative Studies

Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Dr. Mohammad J. Rashti  (11/2010 - 11/2011)

Visiting Researchers, Research Assistants:

• Ramapriya Balasubramaniam (09/2016 - 07/2017)
• Mac Fregeau (8/2016 - 7/2018)
• Gregori Inozemtsev (07/2010 - 09/2010)
• Jonathan Green (09/2008 - 08/2010)
• Ryan E. Grant (08/2005 - 09/2005)
• Fan Gao (09/2004 - 07/2005)
• Nathan R. Fredrickson (09/2002 - 05/2004)

Undergrad Research Assistants:

• Benjamin Kitor, 4+1 Program (05/2020 - 04/2021)
• Benjamin Kitor, NSERC USRA (05/2020 - 09/2020)
• Yiltan Temucin (10/2018 - 12/2018)
• Lucas Pugens Fernandes (05/2015 - 09/2015; Science Without Borders program)
• Colin Liberty (09/2013 - 04/2014)
• Andrew Wald (10/2012 - 04/2013)
• Ryan Anderson (NSERC USRA, 05/2012 - 08/2012)
• Mike Mallin (05/2010 - 12/2010)
• Manju P. Vattathara (05/2005 - 08/2005)
• Michel Archambault

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