Brian R. Toonen

Introduction

While still maintaining a physical presence in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, I am presently employed by the Department of Computer Science at Northern Illinois University.   My professional interests include parallel and distributed computing, operating systems and computer architecture.
 

Current Projects

• MPI-G: successor to MPICH-G2 constructed using the MPICH2 framework

Past Projects

• MPICH2 (received an R&D 100 award in 2005)
• MPICH-G2 (received the Gordon Bell award in 2001; more details here)
• Globus
• CIF
• Nexus

• CHAMMP (PCCM2/PSTSWM)

Publications

Books Chapters

• D. Nurmi and B. Toonen, "Configuring and Tuning Cluster Networks", Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, 2nd edition, edited by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Thomas Sterling, MIT Press, pages 93-142, December, 2003.
   

Journal Articles

• G. Almási, C. Archer, J. G. Castaños, J. A. Gunnels, C. C. Erway, P. Heidelberger, X. Martorell, J. E. Moreira, K. Pinnow, J. Ratterman, B. D. Steinmacher-Burow, W. Gropp, and B. Toonen, "Design and implementation of message-passing services for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer", IBM Journal of Research and Development, volume 49(2/3), pages 393-406, 2005. (328K)
   
• R. Thakur, W. Gropp, and B. Toonen, "Optimizing the Synchronization Operations in MPI One-Sided Communication", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, volume 19(2), pages 119-128, 2005. (733K)
   
• N. T. Karonis, B. Toonen and I. Foster, "MPICH-G2: A Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, volume 63(5), pages 551-563, 2003. (397K)
   
• G. von Laszewski, I. T. Foster, G. Thiruvathukal, and B. Toonen, "A Computational Framework for Telemedicine", Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 14, pages 109-123, 1998.
   
• I. T. Foster, B. Toonen, and P. H. Worley, "Performance of Massively Parallel Computers for Spectral Atmospheric Models", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, volume 13(5), pages 1031-45, 1996. (229KB)
   
• J. B. Drake, I. T. Foster, J. G. Michalakes, B. Toonen, and P. H. Worley, "Design and Performance of a Scalable Parallel Community Climate Model", Parallel Computing, December, 1995. (255KB)
   

Proceedings Papers

• S. Penmatsa, A. T. Chronopoulos, N. T. Karonis and B. Toonen, "Implementation of Distributed Loop Scheduling Schemes on the TeraGrid", Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), 4th High Performance Grid Computing Workshop, March 2007.
   
• R. Latham, R. Ross, R. Thakur, and B. Toonen, "Implementing MPI-IO Shared File Pointers without File System Support", Proceedings of the 12th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2005), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3666, Springer, pages 84-93, September 2005. (160K)
   
• R. Ross, R. Latham, W. Gropp, R. Thakur, and B. Toonen, "Implementing MPI-IO Atomic Mode Without File System Support", Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), May 2005. (753K)
   
• R. Thakur, W. Gropp, and B. Toonen, "Minimizing Synchronization Overhead in the Implementation of MPI One-Sided Communication", Proceedings of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Conference (Euro PVM/MPI 2004), September 2004.
   
• G. Almasi, C. Archer, J. G. Castanos, C. C. Erway, P. Heidelberger, X. Martorell, J. E. Moreira, K. Pinnow, J. Ratterman, N. Smeds, B. Steinmacher­burrow, W. Gropp, and B. Toonen, “Implementing MPI on the BlueGene/L Supercomputer”, Proceedings of Euro-Par 2004, August, 2004, distinguished paper. (149K)
   
• J. Liu, W. Jiang, P. Wyckoff, D. K. Panda, D. Ashton, D. Buntinas, W. Gropp and B. Toonen, "Design and Implementation of MPICH2 over InfiniBand with RDMA Support", Proceedings of the 18^th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April, 2004. (123K)
   
• G. Almasi, C. Archer, J. G. Castanos, M. Gupta, X. Martorell, J. E. Moreira, W. Gropp, S. Rus and B. Toonen, "MPI on Blue Gene/L: Designing an Efficient General Purpose Messaging Solution for a Large Cellular System", Proceedings of the 10^th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, September, 2003. (260K)
   
• G. Allen, T. Dramlitsch, I. Foster, N. T. Karonis, M. Ripeanu, E. Seidel and B. Toonen, "Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus", Proceedings of  SC2001, Denver, CO, November, 2001, received the Gordon Bell Award. (2159K)
   
• A. Roy, I. Foster, W. Gropp, N. Karonis, V. Sander and B. Toonen, "MPICH-GQ: Quality-of-Service for Message Passing Programs", Proceedings of SC2000, November, 2000. (368K)
   
• J. Bresnahan, I. Foster, J. Insley, S. Tuecke and B. Toonen, "Communication Services for Advanced Network Applications", Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications 1999, volume IV, pages 1861-1867, 1999. (3243K)
   
• Y. Zhou, L. Iftode, J. P. Singh, K. Li, B. R. Toonen, I. Schoinas, M. D. Hill and D. A. Wood, "Relaxed Consistency and Coherence Granularity in DSM Systems: A Performance Evaluation", Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, June 1997. (356KB)
   
• P. H. Worley, I. T. Foster and B. Toonen, "Algorithm comparison and benchmarking using a parallel spectral transform shallow water model", Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Parallel Processing in Meteorology, pages 277-289, edited by G. R. Hoffmann and N. Kreitz, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995. (125KB)
   
• J. B. Drake, I. T. Foster, J. J. Hack, J. G. Michalakes, B. D. Semeraro, B. Toonen, D. L. Williamson and P. H. Worley, "PCCM2: A GCM adapted for scalable parallel computers", Proceedings of the Fifth Global Change Symposium, pages 91-98, American Meteorological Society, 1994. (259KB)
   
• I. T. Foster and B. Toonen, "Load balancing algorithms for climate models", Proceedings of the Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, pages 674-681, edited by J. J. Dongarra and D. W. Walker, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994. (607KB)
   

Technical Reports

• P. H. Worley and B. Toonen, "A users' guide to PSTSWM", ORNL Technical Report ORNL/TM-12779, July 1995. (233KB)
   
• I. T. Foster and B. R. Toonen, "Load-Balancing Algorithms for the Parallel Community Climate Model", ANL Technical Report ANL/MCS-TM-190, January 1995. (180KB)
   

Contact Information

Building 221, Office C-115b
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439