Reading List for the PhD Qualify Examination
School of Computer and Information Science

Student: Gang Cheng
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey C. Fox
Committee Members: Prof. Nancy McCracken, Prof. Salim Hariri

GENERAL BACKGROUND IN PARALLEL COMPUTING AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

1. G. Fox, M. Johnson,  G. Lyzenga, S. Otto, J. Salmon, D. Walker, 
Solving Problems on Concurrent Processors, Vol. 1, Prentice Hall, 
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1988. 

2. G. Fox, P. Messina and R. Williams, Parallel Computing Works!, 
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1994. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, 
Chapter 13, Chapter 17, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 19.

3. George F. Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Distributed Systems: Concepts and 
Design, Addison-Wesley, 1988.

4. A. Ananda and B. Srinivasan, IEEE Tutorial: Distributed Computing 
Systems: Concepts and Structures, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991.

5. System Software and Tools for High Performance Computing Environments, 
Final report of the Workshop on System Software and Tools for High  
Performance Computing Environments, Pasadena, California, April 14-16, 
1992, 225 pages. 

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SOFTWARE INTEGRATION AND META-COMPUTING

1. I. Foster and K. M. Chandy, Fortran M: A Language for Modular Parallel 
Programming, Preprint MCS-P237-0992, Mathematics and Computer Science 
Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill., 1992. 

2. I. Foster, M. Xu, B. Avalani, and A. Choudhary. A Compilation System 
That Integrate High Performance Fortran and Fortran M, Proc. of Scalable 
High-Performance Computing Conference '94, May 23-25, 1994, Knoxville, TN.

3. K. Mani Chandy, C. Kesselman, Compositional C++: Compositional Parallel 
Programing, Technical Report, California Institute of Technology, 1992.

4. V. Sunderam, PVM: A Framework for Parallel Distributed Computing,  
Concurrency: practice and experience, 2(4), Dec. 1990.

5. A. Beguelin, J. Dongarra, G. A. Geist, R. Manckek, V. S. Sunderam, 
Graphical Development Tools for Network-Based Concurrent Supercomputing, 
Proc. of Supercomputing '91, IEEE, pp. 435-445, 1991.

6.  G. Fox, S. Hiranadani, K. Kennedy, C. Koelbel, U. Kremer, C-W Tseng, 
and M-Y Wu, Fortran D Language Specification, Syracuse Center for 
Computational Science-42c, Rice COMP TR90-141, 37 pps, 1991.

7. Craig Upson, Thomas Faulhaber, Jr., David Kamins, David Laidlaw,  
David Schlegel, Jeffrey Vroom, Robert Gurwitz and Andries van Dam, 
The Application Visulization System: A Computational Environment  
for Scientific Visualization, IEEE Computer  Graphics and 
Applications, July, 1989.

9. Ian Foster, Robert Olson, Steven Tuecke,  Productive Parallel 
Programming: The PCN Approach,  Preprint version of article in 
Scientific Programming, Vol. 1, pp.51-66 (1992)

10. A. Beguelin, E. Seligman and M. Starkey. Dome: Distributed 
object migration environment. Technical Report CMU-CS-94-153, 
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1994. 

11. F. Bodin, Irisa, P. Beckman, D. Gannon, S. Narayana, S. Yang, 
Distributed pC++: Basic Ideas for an Object Parallel Language, 
Scientific Programming, Volume 2, Number 3 , Fall 1993.

12. B. Chapman, P. Mehrotra, J. V. Rosendale and H. Zima, 
"A Software Architecture for Multidisciplinary Applications: 
Integrating Task and Data Parallelism,", ICASE technical report, 
July 1994.

13. E. Brooks III, B. Gorda and K. Warren, "The Parallel C Preprocessor," 
Scientific Programming, Vol. 1. pp. 79-89, 1992.


PARALLEL SOFTWARE SCHEDULING ENVIRONMENT AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SUPPORT

1. M. Litzkow, M. Livny, and M. Mutka, Condor -- A Hunter of Idle 
Workstations, Proc. of the 8th International Conference on 
Distributed Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, May 1988.

2. LSF User's and Administrator's Guide, Platform Computing 
Corporation, 1994.

3. IBM LoadLeveler User's Guide, SH26-7226-01, 1994.

METACOMPUTING IN GENERAL

1. L. L. Smarr, Metacomputing, Communication of the ACM, Vol. 35, 
No.6, June, 1992.

2. S. Hariri and G. Fox, Trends Toward Virtual Computing Environment, 
Technical Report, NPAC, Syracuse University, March, 1993.

My Own Work towards the PhD Dissertation in Metacomputing and Software 
Integration Environment

1. G. Cheng, G. Fox, and K. Mills, "Integrating Multiple Programming 
Paradigms on Connection Machine CM5 in a Dataflow-based Software Environment", 
Technical Report, Syracuse Center for Computational Science, 
15 pps, August, 1993. 

2. G. Cheng, G. Fox, K. Mills and Marek Podgorny, "Developing Interactive 
PVM-based Parallel Programs on Distributed Computing Systems 
within AVS Framework,"  presented at the 3rd Annual International 
AVS Conference, JOIN THE REVOLUTION: AVS'94,  Boston, MA, May, 1994.

3. G. Cheng,  Y. Lu, G. Fox, K. Mills and T. Haupt, "An Interactive  
Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic  Scattering  
Simulation on a High Performance Computing System, Proc. of IEEE 
Supercomputing `93,  Portland, OR, November  1993, IEEE Computer 
Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA.

4. G. Cheng, C. Faigle, G. Fox, W. Fumanski, B. Li, and K. Mills, 
"Exploring AVS  for HPDC Software Integration: Case Studies Towards 
Parallel Support for GIS," Proc. of the 2nd AVS Conference AVS'93,  
Lake Buena Vista, FL, May 1993.

5. G. Cheng, K. Mills, G. Fox, "An Interactive Visualization Environment 
for Financial Modeling on Heterogeneous Computing Systems," Proc. of  
the 6th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific 
Computing, March 1993, Norfolk, VA, pp. 891-989, Vol. 2.

6. G. Cheng, G. C. Fox, and K.A. Hawick, "A Scaleable Paradigm for 
Effectively-Dense Matrix Formulated Applications,"  in Proc. of the 
European  Conference  and Exhibition  on  High-Performance Computing 
and Networking (HPCN Europe) 1994, Munich, Germany, April 18-20, 1994.