Ernie Chan

Department of Computer Sciences

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78712

Office: ACES 2NEo2D

Phone: (512) 471-9720

Fax: (512) 471-8885

Email: echan 'at' cs 'dot' utexas 'dot' edu

• Curriculum Vitae
• Resume

Publications

Journals

• Field G. Van Zee, Ernie Chan, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, and Robert A. van de Geijn. Introducing: The libflame library for dense matrix computations. IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, 11(6):56--62, November 2009.
• Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Robert A. van de Geijn, Field G. Van Zee, and Ernie Chan. Programming matrix algorithms-by-blocks for thread-level parallelism. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 36(3):14:1-14:26, July 2009.
• Ernie Chan, Marcel Heimlich, Avi Purkayastha, and Robert van de Geijn. Collective communication: theory, practice, and experience. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 19(13):1749-1783, July 5, 2007. Paper (pdf)

Conferences

• Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Ernie Chan, Robert van de Geijn, and Field G. Van Zee. Design of scalable dense linear algebra libraries for multithreaded architectures: the LU factorization. In MTAAP'08: Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications, Miami, FL, USA, April 18, 2008.
• Ernie Chan, Field G. Van Zee, Paolo Bientinesi, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, and Robert van de Geijn. SuperMatrix: A multithreaded runtime scheduling system for algorithms-by-blocks. In PPoPP'08: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, pages 123-132, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, February 20-23, 2008. Paper (pdf) Presentation (ppt)
• Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Ernie Chan, Robert A. van de Geijn, and Field G. Van Zee. Scheduling of QR factorization algorithms on SMP and multi-core architectures. In PDP'08: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing, pages 301-310, Toulouse, France, February 13-15, 2008.
• Ernie Chan, Field G. Van Zee, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, and Robert van de Geijn. Satisfying your dependencies with SuperMatrix. In Cluster'07: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pages 91-99, Austin, TX, USA, September 17-20, 2007. Paper (pdf) Presentation (ppt)
• Ernie Chan, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, and Robert van de Geijn. SuperMatrix out-of-order scheduling of matrix operations for SMP and multi-core architectures. In SPAA'07: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, pages 116-125, San Diego, CA, USA, June 9-11, 2007. Paper (pdf) Presentation (ppt)
• Ernie Chan, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, and Robert van de Geijn. Collective communication on architectures that support simultaneous communication over multiple links. In PPoPP'06: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, pages 2-11, New York, NY, USA, March 29-31, 2006. Paper (pdf) Presentation (ppt)
• Ernie W. Chan, Marcel F. Heimlich, Avi Purkayastha, and Robert A. van de Geijn. On optimizing collective communication. In Cluster'04: Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pages 145-155, San Diego, CA, USA, September 20-23, 2004. Paper (pdf) Presentation (ppt) Poster (pdf)