The Beowulf Project at Florida Tech

Research Publications

Project Reports:

• Charles T. Fulton, Pei-feng Hsu, William Shoaff, Gary Howell,
  Final Project Report on CISE MRI Award EIA-0079710: "Parallel Algorithm Development on an Upgraded Beowulf Cluster" (PDF)
  Florida Institue of Technology, 2004
  

Numerical Linear Algebra:

• P. Angeli, O. Basset, C. Fulton, G. Howell, R. Hsu, D. Richardson, A. Sawetprawhichkal, M. Schuster, H. Thompson, S. Wilberscheid,
  Some Issues in Efficient Implementation of a Vector Based Model for Document Retrieval (PDF)
  The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2001). June 25-28, 2001. Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  
• S. Malhotra,
  Parallelization of BLAS 2.5 Operator GEMVT (Postscript)
  Parallelization of BLAS 2.5 Operator GEMVT (PDF)
  Master's Thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, July 2003
  
• G. Howell, C. Fulton, S. Malhotra, J. Parker,
  Cache Efficient and Parallel Householder Bidiagonalization (PDF)
  SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, July 15-19,2003, Williamsburg, VA
  
• M. Premkumar,
  Parallelization of Cache-Efficient BLAS 2.5 Operator GEMVT (Postscript)
  Parallelization of Cache-Efficient BLAS 2.5 Operator GEMVT (PDF)
  Master's Thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, May 2005
  
• P. Escallon,
  Reduced Index Sparse Representation in a Parallel Environment (PDF)
  Master's Thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, July 2004
  
• J. Hernandez,
  On the Tikhonov Regularization Method for Fredholm Integral Equations of the First Kind with Least Squares Solutions in L_2 and R^mxn
  Doctoral Dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, Dec 2001
     

Radiative Transport & Evloution Model:

• A. Sawetprawichkul, P.-f. Hsu, and K. Mitra,
  Parallel Computing of Three-Dimensional Monte Carlo Simulation of Transient Radiative Transfer in Participating Media (DOC)
  Proceedings of the 8th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics & Heat Transfer Conf., St Louis, Missouri, June 2002
  
• A. Sawetprawichkul,
  A Study of the Transient Radiative Transfer within Participating Media (PDF)
  Doctoral Dissertation, K. Mitra, Dissertation Advisor, Florida Institute of Technology, Dec 2002
  
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Parallel Computing of Two Numerical Quadratures for an Integral Formulation of Transient Radiation Transport (PDF)
  Proceedings of 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 20-23, 2003, Las Vegas, NV
  
• X. Lu, P.-f. Hsu, John C. Chai,
  Transient Radiative Transfer of Light Pulse Propagation in Three-dimensional Scattering Media with Finite Volume Method and Integral Equation Model (PDF)
  Proceedings of 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 20-23, 2003, Las Vegas, NV
  
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Parallel Computing of an Integral Formulation of Transient Radiation Transport (PDF)
  J. of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol.17, No.4, pp 425-433, 2003
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Reverse Monte Carlo method for Transient Radiative Transfer in Participating Media (PDF)
  ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Nov 2003, Washington, DC (also accepted by ASME J. Heat Transfer)
  
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Reverse Monte Carlo Simulations of Light Pulse Propagation in Nonhomogeneous Media-Part I, (PDF)
  Reverse Monte Carlo Simulations of Light Pulse Propagation in Nonhomogeneous Media-Part II, (PDF)
  (Accepted by 4^th Int. Symp. on Radiation Transfer, 2004, Turkey, also in consideration by J. Quant. Spectrocopy and Radiative Transfer)
  
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Numerical and Experimental Comparisons of Utra-Short Light Pulse Propagation within Three-Dimensional Scattering Media
  (extended abstract accepted by the AIAA Thermophysics Conf., Portland, OR, June 2004. Full manuscript is in preparation)
  
• V. Hsu and X. Lu,
  Parallel Computing of a Tumor Growth Model
  (accepted by the 2004 International MultiConference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada)
• X. Lu and P.-f. Hsu,
  Parallel Computing of Transient Radiation Transport with the Discrete Ordinates Method
  (To be submitted to 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference, Nov 14-19, 2004, Anaheim, California)
  
• X. Lu,
  An Analytical Study of Transient Radiation Transfer Processes
  Doctoral Dissertation, (in progress) P.-f. Hsu, Dissertation Advisor, Florida Institute of Technology

Computer Science:

• K. R. Kattamuri,
  Algorithms for String Searching on a Beowulf Cluster
  Computer Science Technical Reports 2003, CS-2003-24 (143 pages), Faculty Sponsor, W. D. Shoaff, Florida Institute of Technology, Dec 2003
  

Physical Oceanography/Remote Sensing:

• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. H. Huddleston,
  Layered Analytical Radiative Transfer Model for Simulating Water Color of Coastal Waters and Algorithm Development
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4172, p. 153-161, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2000
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., M. Gimond, E. Uhlhorn, T. McNally,
  Numerical Simulation of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow over Cape Canaveral Region and Gulf Stream Using AVHRR SST: an Atmospheric Sea Breeze Model
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4172, p. 181-190, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2000
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., M. Gimond, M. Campbell,
  Comparing a Hyperspectral Monte-Carlo Approach for Simulating Water Surface Reflectance Signatures Based upon Radiative Transfer Theory: Simulating Clear Water and Caribbean Sea Bottom Types
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4172, p. 199-208, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2000
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., M. Gimond,
  Comparison between Analytical and Monte Carlo Hyperspectral Reflectance Models for Coastal Remote Sensing
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4544, p. 108-122, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2001
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. H. Huddleston, J. King,
  Sensitivity Analysis of the Florida Tech UTC-M Mesoscale Atmopsheric Seabreeze Model to Estimates of Water and Land Heating Rates Using AVHRR SST and Coastal Margin Land Temperatures
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4544, p. 201-213, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2001
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. H. Huddleston, M. Tepel,
  Improvements to a Layered Analytical Irradiance Model for Aapplication to Coastal Waters with Depth-Dependent Water Constituents, Various Bottom Types, and Variable Water Depths
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4544, p. 236-245, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2001
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. H. Huddleston, C. Semmler, J. Mieles,
  Iterative Algorithm for Layered Optical Remote Sensing Reflectance Modeling of Natural Waters with Depth-Dependent Aquatic Constituent Concentrations
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4880, p. 88-101, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., G.-T. Chiang, L. H. Huddleston, M. Gimond,
  Synthetic Image Generation of Shallow Waters Using a Parallelized Hyperspectral Monte Carlo & Analytical Radiative Transfer Model
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4880, p. 102-116, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., J. King, L. H. Huddleston,
  Water and Land Surface Satellite Based Data for Use in the UTC-M Mesoscale Planetary Boundary Layer Atmospheric Model: Sea Breeze Predictions along Central Florida Using a Thermal Sub-Model
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 4880, p. 185-199, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2002
  
• G.-T. Chiang,
  Parallelization of a Monte Carlo Reflectance Model for Generating Synthetic Images of Shallow Marine Waters
  Master's Thesis in Environmental Science, C. R. Bostater, Jr., Thesis Advisor, Florida Institute of Technology, Dec 2002
  
• J. A. King,
  UTC-M Mesoscale Atmospheric Model Improvements-MPI Parallelization & Satellite Based Assimilation of Water and Land Surface Temperatures (PDF)
  Master's Thesis, C. R. Bostater, Jr., Thesis Advisor, Florida Institute of Technology, Dec 2003
  The below copyrighted manuscript reprints are now available from SPIE at http://www.spie.org
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. Huddleston, L. Bassetti,
  Synthetic Image Generation of Shallow Waters Using an Analytical Radiative Transfer Model with Realistic Water Surface Features
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 5233, p. 253-368, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2003(SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004)
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., Jerome King, L. Huddleston, L. Bassetti,
  Data Assimilation of AVHRR and MODIS data for Land Base Initialization and Boundary Conditions in the UTC-M Atmospheric Boundary Layer Sea-Breeze Model of Space Coast Florida
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 5233, p. 228-242, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2003(SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004)
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., T. Ghir, Florida, S. Naro-Norman, L. Huddleston, L. Bassetti, K. Mitra, C. Das, A. Trivedi,
  Developing & Testing a Pushbroom Camera Motion Control System: Using a LIDAR Based Streak Tube Camera For Studying The Influence of Water Waves On Underwater Light Structure Detection
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 5233, p. 1-16, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2003(SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004)
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., T. Ghir, L. Bassetti, E. Reyeier, R. Lowers, C. Hall, K. Halloway-Adkins, R. Virnstein,
  Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Protocol Development for Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Shallow Water
  Proc. SPIE Vol. 5233, p. 199-215, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2003(SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004)
  Three additional international papers & talks submitted:
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr.,
  SPIE EUROPE: Budapest Workshop "New Challenges in Robotics"-Remote Sensing in Robotics
  (Submitted, March 27, 2004, Budapest, Hungary)
  
• C. R. Bostater, Jr.,
  Comparing Synthetic Imagery using a 3-D Monte-Carlo Model & An Analytical Model For Shallow Water Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
  American Geophysical Union, U03: Remote Observation of Earth and Planetary Environments: The Challenge of Spatial Complexity, p. 9325-9345, (submitted, May 17-21, 2004, Montreal)
• C. R. Bostater, Jr., L. Bassetti,
  The Influence of Water Waves on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Subsurface Water Features
  ERS04-RS02-33(Submitted, ERS04 Remote Sensing, Sept. 13-17, 2004, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria Spain)

Space Sciences:

• M. Zhang, J. R. Jokipii, and R. B. McKibben,
  Perpendicular Transport of Solar Energetic Particles in Heliospheric Magnetic Fields
  Astrophys. J., 595, 493, 2003
  
• B. Ball and M. Zhang,
  Modulation of Galactic Cosmic Rays near and beyond the Termination Shock
  Proc. 28^th ICRC, 3839-3842, 2003
• A. Farahat, M. Zhang, H. Rassoul and J. J. Connell,
  Calculation of Elemental and Isotopic Abundance of Cosmic Rays Using Markov Stochastic Theory: The Effect of Local Superbubble
  Proc. 28^th ICRC, 1957-1960, 2003
  
• R. Perrine, M. Wood,
  Parallelizing an SPH Code,
  IAPPP Communications, (to appear in 2004)
  

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