'Gengbin Zheng'

Contact Information:

E-Mail  gzheng@uiuc.edu
Phone: 217-333-2518
FAX: 217-333-3501
S-mail: 4220 Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-2302

Gengbin Zheng

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 I'm a research scientist in Computer Science and Engineering, working with Prof. Kale and the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. My previous education:
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, December 2005, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
  • M.S., Computer Science, September 1998, Beijing University, China
  • B.S., Computer Science, September 1995, Beijing University, China
My CV in pdf

Research:

 The research projects I am currently active on:
  • Charm++ and AMPI runtimes in general
  • Charm++ automatic load balancing framework
  • BigSim for simulating and predicting large scale parallel performance
  • Fault tolerance
  • Charm++ on Cell processors
  • Memory-aware runtime for controlling communication-induced memory fluctuation
  • NAMD for parallel molecular dynamic simulation
  • Rocstar for simulation of advanced rockets

    Publications:

    1. 02-03 Gengbin Zheng, Arun Kumar Singla, Joshua Mostkoff Unger, L. V. Kale; A Parallel-Object Programming Model for Petaflops Machines and Blue Gene/Cyclops;  in Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, IPDPS 2002
    2. 02-04 James Phillips, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kale; NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors;  in Workshop: Scaling to New Heights
    3. 02-07 James C. Phillips, Gengbin Zheng, Sameer Kumar, Laxmikant V. Kale; NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors;  in Proceedings of SC 2002
    4. 03-03 Laxmikant V. Kale, Sameer Kumar, Gengbin Zheng, Chee Wai Lee; Scaling Molecular Dynamics to 3000 Processors with Projections: A Performance Analysis Case Study;  in Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop, International Conference on Computational Science(ICCS), 2003
    5. 03-05 Gengbin Zheng, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Laxmikant V. Kale; BigSim: A Parallel Simulator for Performance Prediction of Extremely Large Parallel Machines;  in IPDPS 2004
    6. 04-02 Gengbin Zheng, Terry Wilmarth, Orion Sky Lawlor, Laxmikant V. Kale, Sarita Adve, David Padua, Philippe Geubelle; Performance Modeling and Programming Environments for Petaflops Computers and the Blue Gene Machine;  in In proceedings of Next Generation Systems (NGS) Workshop, IPDPS 2004, IEEE Press, page 197.
    7. 04-05 Laxmikant V. Kale, Gengbin Zheng, Chee Wai Lee, Sameer Kumar; Scaling Applications to Massively Parallel Machines Using Projections Performance Analysis Tool;  in Future Generation Computer Systems Journal
    8. 04-06 Gengbin Zheng, Lixia Shi, Laxmikant V. Kale; FTC-Charm++: An In-Memory Checkpoint-Based Fault Tolerant Runtime for Charm++ and MPI;  in Cluster 2004
    9. 04-12 Gengbin Zheng, Terry Wilmarth, Praveen Jagadishprasad and Laxmikant V. Kale; Simulation-Based Performance Prediction for Large Parallel Machines;  in International Journal of Parallel Programming 2005
    10. 05-03 Terry L. Wilmarth, Gengbin Zheng, Eric J. Bohm, Yogesh Mehta, Nilesh Choudhury, Praveen Jagadishprasad and Laxmikant V. Kale; Performance Prediction using Simulation of Large-scale Interconnection Networks in POSE;  in In Proceedings of the Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, 2005, pp. 109-118.
    11. 05-04 Chao Huang, Gengbin Zheng, Sameer Kumar, Laxmikant V. Kale; Performance Evaluation of Adaptive MPI;  in Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming 2006
    12. 05-06 Gengbin Zheng; Achieving High Performance on Extremely Large Parallel Machines: Performance Prediction and Load Balancing;  in Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
    13. 05-08 Xiangmin Jiao , Gengbin Zheng , Orion Lawlor , Phil Alexander , Mike Campbell , Michael Heath , Robert Fiedler; An Integration Framework for Simulations of Solid Rocket Motors;  in 41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, July 10--13, 2005, Tucson, Arizona
    14. 05-14 Orion Lawlor, Sayantan Chakravorty, Terry Wilmarth, Nilesh Choudhury, Isaac Dooley, Gengbin Zheng, and Laxmikant Kale; ParFUM: A Parallel Framework for Unstructured Meshes for Scalable Dynamic Physics Applications;  in Engineering with Computers, Journal, 2006
    15. 05-16 Xiangmin Jiao, Gengbin Zheng, Phillip A. Alexander, Michael T. Campbell, Orion S. Lawlor, John Norris, Andreas Haselbacher, Michael T. Heath; A system integration framework for coupled multiphysics simulations;  in special infrastructure issue Engineering with Computers, 2006
    16. 05-24 Laxmikant V. Kale, Klaus Schulten, Robert D. Skeel, Glenn Martyna, Mark Tuckerman, James C. Phillips, Sameer Kumar, and Gengbin Zheng; Biomolecular modeling using parallel supercomputers;  in In S. Aluru, editor, Handbook of computational molecular biology
    17. 06-03 Gengbin Zheng, Chao Huang, Laxmikant V. Kale; Performance Evaluation of Automatic Checkpoint-based Fault Tolerance for AMPI and Charm++;  in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review: Operating and Runtime Systems for High-end Computing Systems, 2006
    18. 06-05 Gengbin Zheng, Orion Sky Lawlor, Laxmikant V. Kale; Multiple Flows of Control in Migratable Parallel Programs;  in the 8th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-06)
    19. 06-06 Yan Shi, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kale; Run-time Support for Controlling Communication-Induced Memory Fluctuation;  in PPL Technical Report
    20. 06-08 Gengbin Zheng, Michael S. Breitenfeld, Hari Govind, Philippe Geubelle, Laxmikant V. Kale; Automatic Dynamic Load Balancing for a Crack Propagation Application;  in PPL Technical Report
    21. 06-14 David Kunzman, Gengbin Zheng, Eric Bohm, Laxmikant V. Kale; Charm++, Offload API, and the Cell Processor;  in In PMUP Workshop at PACT'06, September 2006.
    22. 07-02 Sameer Kumar, Chao Huang, Gengbin Zheng, Eric Bohm, Abhinav Bhatele, James C. Phillips, Hao Yu, Laxmikant V. Kale; Scalable Molecular Dynamics with NAMD on Blue Gene/L;  in IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 52, No. 1/2, 2007
    23. 07-04 Laxmikant V. Kale, Eric Bohm, Celso L. Mendes, Terry Wilmarth, Gengbin Zheng; Programming Petascale Applications with Charm++ and AMPI;  in In Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press
    24. 07-08 Chao Huang, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kale; Supporting Adaptivity in MPI for Dynamic Parallel Applications;  in PPL Tech Report 07-08
    25. 07-10 Abhinav Bhatele, Sameer Kumar, Chao Mei, James C. Phillips, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kale; NAMD: A Portable and Highly Scalable Program for Biomolecular Simulations;  in Department of Computer Science Tech Report UIUCDCS-R-2009-3034, February 2009.
    26. 08-01 Abhinav Bhatele, Sameer Kumar, Chao Mei, James C. Phillips, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kale; Overcoming Scaling Challenges in Biomolecular Simulations across Multiple Platforms;  in Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2008

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