My Research Interests

My research intrests are design, implementation, and modeling of parallel communication libraries, parallel computer architectures, scientific and grid computing, modeling of biophysical systems.

You can check some of my talks and presentations here.

You can see some of the projects I am involved with here.

You can find my latest resume with publication list at here.

Selected Publications

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Graham E. Fagg, George Bosilca, Thara Angskun, Jack J. Dongarra, Decision Trees and MPI Collective Algorithm Selection Problem , Euro-PAR 2007, LNCS 4641, 2007.
Alternatively, technical report is available as Technical Report, UT-CS-06-586, The University of Tennessee, Computer Science Department, Knoxville, Tennessee, December, 2006. Also available from UT Computer Science Library.

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, George Bosilca, Graham E. Fagg, Thara Angskun, Jack J. Dongarra, "MPI Collective Algorithm Selection and Quadtree Encoding", Accepted for journal of Parallel Computing, Special Edition EuroPVM/MPI'06 , 2007.
The following page contains high-resolution figures from this paper. The corrected proof of the article is available via Science Direct.

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Open MPI Collective Operation Performance on Thunderbird , Technical Report, UT-CS-07-594, The University of Tennessee, Computer Science Department, Knoxville, Tennessee, April, 2007. Also available from UT Computer Science Library.

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, and Jack J. Dongarra, "Performance Analysis of MPI Collective Operations", Cluster Computing Journal, Special issue on Analysis and Optimization of High-Performance Computing Systems, 2006.
The original publication is available via Springer Link http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10586-007-0012-0 DOI:10.1007/s10586-007-0012-0.

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Graham E. Fagg, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Jack J. Dongarra, "MPI Collective Algorithm Selection and Quadtree Encoding", 13th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Conference - Euro PVM/MPI, September, 2006.
Associated technical report with more details.

* Graham Fagg, George Bosilca, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Thara Angskun, Jack Dongarra, "Tuned: A flexible high-performance collective communication component developed for Open MPI", Proceedings of 6th Austrian-Hungarian workshop on distributed and parallel systems (DAPSYS), Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2006.

* George Bosilca, Jack Dongarra, Victor Eijkhout, Graham Fagg, Erika Fuentes, Julien Langou, Piotr Luszczek, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Keith Seymour, and Haihang You, "Self Adapting Numerical Software (SANS) Effort", IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 50, Number 2/3. March/May 2006.

* Graham Fagg, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, and Jack J. Dongarra. "Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI: Extending the Recovery Algorithm", 12th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Conference - Euro PVM/MPI, September, 2005.

* Yi Jiang, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Charles Cantrell, Jim Freyer, "Multiscale Model of Avascular Tumor Growth", Biophysical Journal, 2005 89: 3884-3894.

* Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Jack J. Dongarra, "Performance Analysis of MPI Collective Operations", 4th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS'05), April, 2004.

* Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Zizhong Chen, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Jack J. Dongarra, "Process Fault-Tolerance: Semantics, Design and Applications for High Performance Computing", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2004.

* Edgar Gabriel, Graham E. Fagg, George Bosilca, Thara Angskun, Zizhong Chen, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Kevin London, Jack J. Dongarra, "Extending the MPI Specification for Process Fault Tolerance on High Performance Computing Systems", Proceedings of International Supercomputer Conference, June, 2004.
Winner of the AMD Award for Requirements for HPC Systems Software.