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  • My research interests include resource management, application scheduling and fault-tolerance for parallel and distributed systems - clusters, grids, clouds and HPC systems. I also work on performance analysis and benchmarking for multi-core systems. I currently serve as a Co-PI for UNC Chapel Hill subcontract for Virtual Grid Application Development Software (VGrADS), a NSF funded ITR project. Prior to joining RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill in July'06, I finished my PhD dissertation work at Rice university under Dr. Ken Kennedy. My dissertation dealt with scheduling scientific workflows for grid based distributed systems.
  • Publications
      Fault Tolerance

    • L. Ramakrishnan, D. Nurmi, A. Mandal, C. Koelbel, D. Gannon, T. M. Huang, Y. S. Kee, G. Obertelli, K. Thyagaraja, R. Wolski, A. Yarkhan and D. Zagorodnov, "VGrADS: Enabling e-Science Workflows on Grids and Clouds with Fault Tolerance," in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) , November 2009.[PDF © 2009 IEEE ACM]
    • R. Zhang, A. Mandal, C. Koelbel and K. Cooper, "Combined Fault Tolerance and Scheduling Techniques for Workflow Applications on Computational Grids," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), pp. 244-251, May 2009. [PDF © 2009 IEEE]
    • G. Kandaswamy, A. Mandal, and D. A. Reed, "Fault Tolerance and Recovery of Scientific Workflows on Computational Grids," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) , pp. 777-782, May 2008. [PDF © 2008 IEEE]
    • R. J. Fowler, T. Gamblin, G. Kandaswamy, A. Mandal, A. K. Porterfield, L. Ramakrishnan and D. A. Reed, "Challenges of Scale: When All Computing Becomes Grid Computing," in Lucio Grandinetti, Eds., High Performance Computing and Grids in Action, Book Chapter, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008. [IOS Press Link]

      Scheduling, Resource Management, Workflows

    • D. Nurmi, A. Mandal, J. Brevik, K, C. Koelbel, R. Wolski and K. Kennedy, "Evaluation of a Workflow Scheduler Using Integrated Performance Modeling and Batch Queue Wait Time Prediction," in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) , pp. 29-, November 2006. [PDF © 2006 IEEE ACM]
    • R. Zhang, A. Mandal, H. Casanova, A. Chien, Y. Kee, K. Kennedy and C. Koelbel, "Scalable Grid Application Scheduling with Virtual Grids via Decoupled Resource Selection and Scheduling," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) , Vol 1, pp. 568-575, May 2006. [PDF © 2006 IEEE]
    • A. Mandal, K. Kennedy, C. Koelbel, G. Marin, J. Mellor-Crummey, B. Liu and L. Johnsson, "Scheduling Strategies for Mapping Application Workflows onto the Grid," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), pp. 125-134, July 2005. [PDF © 2005 IEEE]
    • J. Blythe, S. Jain, E. Deelman, Y. Gil, K. Vahi, A. Mandal and K. Kennedy, "Resource Allocation Strategies for Workflows in Grids," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) , Vol 2, pp. 759-767, May 2005. [PDF © 2005 IEEE]
    • A. Mandal, A. Dasgupta, K. Kennedy, M. Mazina, C. Koelbel, G. Marin, K. Cooper, J. Mellor-Crummey, B. Liu and L. Johnsson, "Scheduling Workflow Applications in GrADS," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), pp. 790-797, April 2004. [PDF © 2004 IEEE]
    • F. Berman, H. Casanova, A. Chien, K.Cooper, H. Dail, A. Dasgupta, W. Deng, J. Dongarra, L. Johnsson, K. Kennedy, C. Koelbel, B. Liu, X. Liu, A. Mandal, G. Marin, M. Mazina, J. Mellor-Crummey, C. Mendes, A. Olugbile, M. Patel, D. Reed, Z. Shi, O. Sievert, H. Xia and A. YarKhan, "New Grid Scheduling and Rescheduling Methods in the GrADS Project," in International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 33(2-3):pp. 209-229, 2005. [PDF © 2005 Springer]
    • A. Mandal, "Toward a Tool for Scheduling Application Workflows onto Distributed Grid Systems", PhD Thesis, Available as Technical Report TR06-875, Computer Science, Rice University, May 2006. [PDF]
    • A. Mandal, "Mapping HPF onto the Grid", M.S. Thesis, Available as Technical Report TR03-417, Computer Science, Rice University, Nov. 2003. [PDF]

      Performance Analysis for Multi-core Systems

    • A. Mandal, R. Fowler and A. Porterfield, "Modeling Memory Concurrency for Multi-Socket Multi-Core Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), March 2010, to appear.
    • A. Porterfield, R. Fowler, A. Mandal and M. Y. Lim, "Empirical Evaluation of Multi-Core Memory Concurrency," Available as Technical Report TR-09-01, RENCI, North Carolina, Jan. 2009. [PDF]
    • A. Porterfield, R. J. Fowler, A. Mandal and M. Y. Lim, "Performance Consistency on Multi-socket AMD Opteron Systems," Available as Technical Report TR-08-07, RENCI, North Carolina, Dec. 2008. [PDF]
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