Darius Buntinas

I am an assistant computer scientist with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.

Office: Room 3148, Building 240
Phone: (630) 252-7928
Fax: (630) 252-5986
Email: Use my last name at mcs.anl.gov
WWW: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~buntinas
U.S. Mail: Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S Cass Ave
Argonne, IL 60439

Journal Publications

  1. P. Balaji, D. Buntinas, D. Goodell, W. Gropp, T. Hoefler, S. Kumar, E. Lusk, R. Thakur, and J. L. Träff, MPI on Millions of Cores. Parallel Processing Letters, 21(1):45--60, March 2011.
  2. D. Buntinas, A. J. Malozemoff and J. Utke Multithreaded Derivative Computation with Generated Libraries Journal of Computational Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, Pages 89-97, June 2010.
  3. P. Balaji, D. Buntinas, D. Goodell, W. Gropp, and R. Thakur Fine-Grained Multithreading Support for Hybrid Threaded MPI Programming International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 24, No. 1, Pages 49-57, 2010.
  4. D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, Implementation and Evaluation of Shared-Memory Communication and Synchronization Operations in MPICH2 using the Nemesis Communication Subsystem, Parallel Computing, Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2007, Pages 634-644. (link to journal)
  5. D. Buntinas, C. Coti, T. Hérault, P. Lemarinier, L. Pilard, A. Rezmerita, E. Rodriguez and F. Cappello, Blocking vs. Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing for Large-Scale Fault Tolerant MPI, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 73-84.
  6. A. Wagner, D. Buntinas, R. Brightwell, D. K. Panda, Application-Bypass Reduction for Large-Scale Clusters, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 2, No. 2-4, 2004.
  7. J. Liu, B. Chandrasekaran, W. Yu, J. Wu, D. Buntinas, S. Kini, P. Wyckoff, and D. K. Panda. Micro-Benchmark Performance Comparison of High-Speed Cluster Interconnects. IEEE Micro, January/February 2004.

Conference and Workshop Publications

  1. Darius Buntinas, Scalable Distributed Consensus to Support MPI Fault Tolerance. 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Procesing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2012. (to appear)
  2. David Goodell, Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, Gabor Dozsa, William Gropp, Sameer Kumar, Bronis R. de Supinski and Rajeev Thakur, Minimizing MPI Resource Contention in Multithreaded Multicore Environments. Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), September 2010.
  3. Gabor Dozsa, Sameer Kumar, Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp, Joe Ratterman and Rajeev Thakur, Enabling Concurrent Multithreaded MPI Communication on Multicore Petascale Systems. 17th EuroMPI conference, September 2010.
  4. Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp, Jayesh Krishna, Ewing Lusk, and Rajeev Thakur, PMI: A Scalable Parallel Process Management Interface for Extreme-Scale Systems 17th EuroMPI conference, September 2010.
  5. Narayan Desai, Darius Buntinas, Daniel Buettner, Pavan Balaji and Anthony Chan, Improving Resource Availability By Relaxing Network Allocation Constraints on the Blue Gene/P. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 09), September 2009.
  6. Darius Buntinas, Brice Goglin, David Goodell, Guillaume Mercier and Stéphanie Moreaud, Cache-Efficient, Intranode Large-Message MPI Communication with MPICH2-Nemesis. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 09), September 2009.
  7. Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp, Sameer Kumar, Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur and Jesper Larsson Traeff, MPI on a Million Processors, Outstanding paper at Euro PVM/MPI 2009 Conference, September 2009.
  8. Guillaume Mercier, François Trahay, Darius Buntinas and Elisabeth Brunet, NewMadeleine: An Efficient Support for High-Performance Networks in MPICH2, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 09), May 2009.
  9. Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp, and Rajeev Thakur, Toward Efficient Support for Multithreaded MPI Communication, Euro PVM/MPI 2008 Conference, September 2008.
  10. Darius Buntinas, George Bosilca, Richard L. Graham, Geoffroy Vallée, and Gregory R. Watson, A Scalable Tools Communication Infrastructure, OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems Symposium (OSCAR 08), June 2008.
  11. P. Balaji, D. Buntinas, S. Balay, B. Smith, R. Thakur and W. Gropp, Nonuniformly Communicating Noncontiguous Data: A Case Study with PETSc and MPI, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 07), March 2007.
  12. D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, Implementation and Shared-Memory Evaluation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis Communication Subsystem, Euro PVM/MPI 2006 Conference, September 2006.
  13. D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, Data Transfers Between Processes in an SMP System: Performance Study and Application to MPI, International Conference on Parallel Processing 2006 (ICPP 06). August 2006.
  14. D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, Design and Evaluation of Nemesis, a Scalable, Low-Latency, Message-Passing Communication Subsystem, International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2006 (CCGRID '06), May 2006.
  15. D. Buntinas and W. Gropp, Designing a Common Communication Subsystem, Euro PVM/MPI 2005 Conference, September 2005.
  16. W. Jiang, J. Liu, H. Jin, D. K. Panda, D. Buntinas, R. Thakur and W. Gropp, Efficient Implementation of MPI-2 Passive One-Sided Communication over InfiniBand Clusters, Euro PVM/MPI 2004 Conference, September 2004.
  17. W. Yu, D. Buntinas and D. K. Panda. Scalable, High Performance NIC-Based All-to-All Broadcast over Myrinet/GM, Cluster 2004 Conference, September 2004.
  18. 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, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 04), April 2004.
  19. W. Yu, D. Buntinas, R. L. Graham, and D. K. Panda. Efficient and Scalable Barrier over Quadrics and Myrinet with a New NIC-Based Collective Message Passing Protocol. Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC 04), Held in Conjunction with IPDPS 04, April 2004.
  20. A. Wagner, D. Buntinas, R. Brightwell, and D. K. Panda, Application-Bypass Reduction for Large-Scale Clusters, Cluster 2003 Conference, December 1-4, 2003.
  21. J. Liu, B. Chandrasekaran, J. Wu, W. Jiang, S. Kini, W. Yu, D. Buntinas, P. Wyckoff, and D. K. Panda, Performance Comparison of MPI Implementations over InfiniBand, Myrinet and Quadrics, SuperComputing (SC) Conference, November 2003.
  22. W. Yu, D. Buntinas and D. K. Panda, High Performance and Reliable NIC-Based Multicast over Myrinet/GM-2, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '03), October 2003.
  23. J. Liu, B. Chandrasekaran, W. Yu, J. Wu, D. Buntinas, S. P. Kini, P. Wyckoff, and D. K. Panda. Micro-Benchmark Level Performance Comparison of High-Speed Cluster Interconnects, Hot Interconnect 11, August 2003.
  24. D. Buntinas, D. K. Panda and R. Brightwell, Application-Bypass Broadcast in MPICH over GM, International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID '03), May 2003.
  25. D. Buntinas, A. Saify, D. K. Panda and J. Nieplocha, Optimizing Synchronization Operations for Remote Memory Communication Systems, Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC '03), held in conjunction with IPDPS 2003, April 2003.
  26. D. Buntinas and D. K. Panda, NIC-Based Reduction in Myrinet Clusters: Is It Beneficial?, Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks (SAN-2), held in conjunction with HPCA, February 2003.
  27. D. Buntinas, D. K. Panda, and W. Gropp, NIC-Based Atomic Remote Memory Operations in Myrinet/GM, Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks (SAN-1), held in conjunction with HPCA, February 2002.
  28. D. Buntinas, D. K. Panda and P. Sadayappan, Fast NIC-Based Barrier over Myrinet/GM, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2001.
  29. D. Buntinas, D. K. Panda, and P. Sadayappan, Performance Benefits of NIC-Based Barrier on Myrinet/GM, Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC '01), held in conjunction with IPDPS 2001, April 2001.
  30. D. Buntinas, D. K. Panda, J. Duato, and P. Sadayappan, Broadcast/Multicast over Myrinet using NIC-Assisted Multidestination Messages, International Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-Based Parallel Computing (CANPC '00), January 2000.

Dissertation and Technical Reports

  1. D. Buntinas, (Ph.D. Dissertation) Improving Cluster Performance Through the Use of Programmable Network Interfaces, 2003. (Also available in single-spaced format)
  2. D. Buntinas and W. Gropp, Understanding the Requirements Imposed by Programming-Model Middleware on a Common Communication Subsystem, Technical Memorandum ANL/MCS-TM-284, July 2005.