Rajeev Thakur

Introduction

My curriculum vitae: pdf

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, 1995
• M.S., Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, 1992
• B.E., Computer Engineering, University of Bombay, India, 1990

Book

• Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface, by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, and Rajeev Thakur, MIT Press, 1999.

  A Japanese translation of the book is available here. The translation was done by Takao Hatazaki. Here is a link to the cover of the Japanese version.

Publications

Info about Parallel I/O Benchmarks

Projects

• MPI and MPICH

  I am actively involved in the definition of the MPI standard in the MPI Forum and its implementation in the MPICH implementation of MPI. MPICH is a high-performance, portable implementation developed by us at Argonne. Many vendors (IBM, Cray, Intel, Microsoft, Myricom) use MPICH as the basis of their own MPI implementations. The popular MVAPICH implementation from Ohio State University for InfiniBand networks is also based on MPICH. Many of the largest machines in the Top500 list use MPICH-based MPI implementations. MPICH2 won an R&D 100 Award in 2005 (photo). Many of our research publications related to MPICH2 can be found here.

• Parallel I/O

  I have worked on parallel I/O for many years, originally in the context of the PASSION runtime library when I was a graduate student at Syracuse University. I was actively involved in the definition of the MPI-IO interface in the MPI-2 Forum. I was also the original developer of the ROMIO implementation of MPI-IO, which provides the MPI-IO support in most MPI implementations. More recently, I have collaborated with Prof. Xian-He Sun's group at Illinois Insitute of Technology on various NSF-funded I/O projects. Publications related to my I/O work can be found here. I also maintain this updated list of parallel I/O benchmarks.

• Formal Verification of Parallel Programs

  I collaborate with Prof. Ganesh Gopalakrishnan at the University of Utah and Prof. Stephen Siegel at the University of Delaware on using formal methods to verify correctness of parallel programs. This is a promising technology since it is quite hard to find concurrency-related bugs otherwise. We have had several publications, including this one in Communications of the ACM.

• Exascale Computing

  I am involved in several exascale related projects, such as the DOE-funded CESAR exascale codesign center and the International Exascale Software Project (IESP). IESP is developing a roadmap of system software research needed for exascale. I am one of the (many) authors of this roadmap document.

Professional Activities

I am actively involved in the SC conference series. I was the overall technical program chair for SC12. I was the technical papers co-chair for SC11 together with Franck Cappello. I was system software area chair for SC10 together with Michela Taufer. I was tutorials co-chair for SC09 together with Fred Johnson. I have also served on the program committees of several other conferences and workshops over the years (Cluster, CCGrid, ICPP, P2S2, IISWC, PADTAD). I was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 2003 to 2007. I am currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of Scientific Programming.

A detailed list of my professional activities is available here.

External Collaborators

• Bill Gropp
• Alok Choudhary
• Torsten Hoefler
• Jesper Larsson Träff
• Xian-He Sun
• Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
• Stephen Siegel

Address

Tel: (630) 252-7847
email: thakur at mcs.anl.gov