Dr. Clay Breshears

What I do

Parallel Applications Engineer

Intel Parallel Applications Center

Why my page is here

Computer Science PhD Graduate, University of Tennessee , August 1996

Taoist by Nature, Discordian by Chance

Ways to Contact Me

• Email: clay@cs.utk.edu -or- clay.breshears@intel.com
• Phone:
  • 217-403-4206 (my office @ KSL)
  • 217-352-4975 (home -- $4.99 first minute)
• US Mail Clay P. Breshears KAI Software Labs 1906 Fox Drive Champaign, IL 61820

Education

• Advisor: Michael A. Langston
• Dissertation Title: ``Adapting Non-Numeric, Parallel Algorithms for Diverse Models of Computation''

Research Interests

• Non-Numeric Parallel Computation
• Space-Optimal Parallel Algorithms
• Algorithmic Number Theory
• Cryptography

Recent Work

``Combining Message-passing and Directives in Parallel Applications,'' SIAM News, Volume 32, Number 9, November 1999, with Steve Bova, Rudolf Eigenmann, Henry Gabb, Greg Gaertner, Bob Kuhn, Bill Magro, Stefano Salvini, and Veer Vatsa.

``Application of Fortran Pthreads to Linear Algebra and Scientific Computing,'' The 41st Cray User Group Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 24--28, 1999, with Mark R. Fahey and Henry A.Gabb.

``A Computation Allocation Model for Distributed Computing Under MPI_Connect,'' The First Southern Conference on Computing, Hattiesburg, MS, December 4--5, 1998, with Graham Fagg.

``A Fortran 90 Application Programming Interface to the POSIX Threads Library,'' The 40th Cray User Group Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, June 15--19, 1998, with Henry A. Gabb, R. Phillip Bording, and S. W. Bova.

``From Shared to Distributed Memory: Converting Non-Numeric Parallel Algorithms to Message-Passing Interface (MPI),'' Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 1997.

Other interests

(*) The real ``Game of the Four Winds'', not just the Shanghai/X version.

E Pluribus Exterminatum -- Dalek Peace Corps slogan

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