Selected Recent Publications

FPGA/Reconfigurable Computing

ž          R. Culley, A. Desai, S. Gandhi, S. Wu, K. Tomko, P. Sotirelis and D. Richie, "A Prototype FPGA Finite-Difference Time-Domain Engine for Electromagnetics Simulation", to appear in proceedings of the 48th IEEE Int’l Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (MWSCAS), Aug  2005.  (full paper pdf)

 

ž          A. Tiwari and K. A.Tomko, “Saving Power by Mapping Finite-State Machines into Embedded Memory Blocks in FPGAs”, to appear in the proceeding of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE ’04), Paris, France, February 2004. (full paper pdf)

 

ž          A. Tiwari and K. A. Tomko, “Scan-chain Based Watch-points for Efficient Run-Time Debugging and Verification of FPGA Designs”, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Kitakyushu, Japan, January 2003. (full paper pdf)

 

ž          K. Tomko and A. Tiwari. “Design Techniques to Implement Reconfigurable Hardware Watch-Points for Hardware/Software Co-Debugging”. In Proceedings of the International conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'02), June 2002. (full paper pdf)

 

ž          K. Tomko and A. Tiwari. Hardware\Software Co-Debugging for Reconfigurable Computing. Proceedings of the IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop. November, 2000, pp. 59-63. (full paper pdf)

High Performance Computing

ž          Hamed A, Basu D, Tomko K, & Liu Q, “Performance Characterization and Scalability Analysis of Chimera Based Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver on Commodity Clusters,” 17th Int’l Conf. on Parallel CFD, U. of MD, College Park Campus, May 2005. (Abstract pdf)

 

ž          Q. Liu, A. Deshmukh, and K. Tomko, “Synthetic Simulation of Mesh-based Parallel Applications Driven by Fine-Grained Profile.” in proceedings of the Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS’05), April 2005. (full paper pdf)

 

ž          A. Deshmukh, Q. Liu, and K. Tomko, “An approach for Fine-grained Profiling of Mesh-based Parallel Programs”. in Proceedings of the ISCA 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems(PDCS-2004), September 2004. (full paper pdf)

 

ž          C. D. Sarris, P. Czarnul, S. Venkatasubramanian, W. Thiel, K. A. Tomko, L. P.B. Katehi, T. Fleming and B. Perlman, “Mixed Electromagnetic Circuit Modeling and Parallelization for Rigorous Characterization of Co-Site Interference in Wireless Communication Channels”, HPCMO Users Conference, Austin, Texas, June, 2002.

 

ž          P. Czarnul, K. A. Tomko, and H. Krawczyk,  “Dynamic Partitioning of the Divide-and Conquer Scheme with Migration in PVM Environment” in Proceedings of 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2131, Springer-Verlag, Sept. 2001 (rescheduled to April 2002), pp. 174-182.

 

ž          P. Czarnul, K. A. Tomko, and H. Krawczyk, “A Heuristic Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm for Meshes” the proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS2001), Anaheim, CA. Aug 2001, pp. 166-171.

 

ž          C. Sarris, K. Tomko, P. Czarnul, S.-H. Hung, R. Robertson, D. Chun, E. Davidson, L. Katehi. Multiresolution “Time Domain Modeling for Large Scale Wireless Communication Problems”. the 2001 IEEE AP-S International Conference on Antennas and Propagation. July 2001, Boston.

 

ž          P. Czarnul, S. Venkatasubramanian, C. D. Sarris, S.-H. Hung, D. Chun, K. A. Tomko, E. S. Davidson, L. P.B. Katehi and B. Perlman, “Locality Enhancement and Parallelization of a Finite Difference Time Domain  Simulation”, HPCMO Users Conference, Billoxi, MS, June  19, 2001.

 

ž          C. Sarris, P. Czarnul, D. Chun, K. Tomko, E. Davidson, L. Katehi and B. Perlman. “Time Domain Modeling for Large Scale Cosite Interference Problems Using Parallel Computing and Wavelets. HPCMO Users Conference, Billoxi, MS, June  19, 2001.

 

ž          P. E. Morgan, M. R. Visbal and K. Tomko. Chimera-Based Parallelization of an Implicit Navier-Stokes Solver with Applications. 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2001, AIAA Paper 2001-1088.