Teng Ma

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1122 volunteer blvd.
Knoxville, TN,37923.
email:tma AT eecs dot utk dot edu

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~tma

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Design, implementation, and modeling of parallel communication libraries;
parallel computer architectures; scientific and grid computing;
modeling of parallel benchmarks.
Clusters with Hardware Accelerators.(GPU, MIC, and etc.)
Parallel Programming models: MPI, CUDA, Open CL, Open MP, Partitioned global address space, and etc.
Parallel I/O and distributed file system.
Communication over comodity networks: InfiniBand, Quadrics, Myricom and Sicortex.

EDUCATION

• Expected May 2012: Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. GPA: 3.7/4.00
  Topic: "Kernel-assited and Topology-aware MPI Communication"
  Advisor: Dr. Jack Dongarra and Dr. George Bosilca
  Committee: Dr. George Bosilca, Dr. Jack J. Dongarra, Dr. Jian Huang, and Dr. Louis J. Gross
• May, 2008: M.S. Computer Science, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. GPA: 3.8/4.00
• May 2006: B.S. Computer Science, Southeast University GPA: 3.5/4.00

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• August 2006 – September 2012: Graduate Research Assistant, Innovative Computing Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Summers 2008: Research Intern, Los Alamos National Lab, CCS-1 Los Almamos, NM.

RESEARCH AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

• Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Jack Dongarra and Dr. George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory, CS Dept. University of TN, Knoxville. August 2006 – present.
  • Developed kernel-assisted intra-node Collective Communication library for Open MPI: KNEM collective coponent. More information available at http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~tma/projects/knem-ieee/collknem/collknem.html.
  • Active developer in Open MPI project.
  • ELAN-BTL support quadrics networking for OpenMPI's point-to-point communication.SVN repo
  • SM/KNEM-BTL to accelarate shared memory point-to-point communication with KNEM support.SVN repo
  • Sicortex-BTL to support Sicortex Network for Open MPI's p2p communication.
• Research Intern at Los Alamos Nationa lab
  • Develop non-blocking communication libraries for cell messaging layer. cell message layer A MPI-style lightweight communication libraries for LANL's supercomputer `roadrunner'.
• Research Assistant Southeast University, AMS SEU-CERN joint center, from 2003 to 2006.
  • Designed and dveloped a data grid for scientific data generated by CERN AMS project

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS(peer reviewed)

1. Teng Ma, George Bosilca, Aurelien Bouteiller, and Jack J. Dongarra, HierKNEM: An Adaptive Framework for Kernel-Assisted and Topology-Aware Collective Communications on Many-core Clusters, 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium(IPDPS '12),Shanghai, China, May 2012.(Best Paper Award)Accept ratio: 118/568 = 20%.
2. Teng Ma, Aurelien Bouteiller, George Bosilca and Jack J. Dongarra, Impact of Kernel-Assisted MPI Communication over Scientific Applications: CPMD and FFTW, 18th EuroMPI(2011) conference in Santorini, Greece..
3. Teng Ma, Thomas Herault, George Bosilca and Jack J. Dongarra, Process Distance-aware Adaptive MPI Collective Communications, IEEE Int'l Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2011), Sept. 2011, Austin, Texas. Accept Ratio: 39/140=28%.
4. Teng Ma, George Bosilca, Aurelien Bouteiller, Brice Goglin, Jeffrey M. Squyres and Jack J. Dongarra, Kernel Assisted Collective Intra-node MPI Communication Among Multi-core and Many-core CPUs, Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '11), Sept. 2011, taipei, taiwan. Accept Ratio: 81/363= 22%
5. Teng Ma, George Bosilca, Aurelien Bouteiller and Jack J. Dongarra, Locality and Topology Aware Intra-node Communication among Multicore CPUs, 17th EuroMPI(2010) conference in Stuttgart, German, PP 265-274.
6. Teng Ma and Junzhou Luo: A Prediction-Based and Cost-Based Replica Replacement Algorithm Research and Simulation., AINA 2005: 935-940
7. Teng Ma, Ye Zhu and Junzhou Luo: A SOA-oriented e-learning resource integration infrastructure and its service discovery model., CSCWD (2) 2005: 1018-1023
8. Teng Ma and Junzhou Luo: Optimizing Large File Transfer on Data Grid., GCC 2005: 455-460
9. Xiaopeng Wang, Junzhou Luo, Aibo Song and Teng Ma: Semantic Access Control in Grid Computing., ICPADS (1) 2005: 661-667
10. Junzhou Luo, Aibo Song, Ye Zhu, Xiaopeng Wang, Teng Ma, Zhiang Wu, Yaobin Xu and Liang Ge: Grid Supporting Platform for AMS Data Processing., ISPA Workshops 2005: 276-285
11. Feng Li, Junzhou Luo, Yinying Yang, Ye Zhu and Teng Ma: A Dynamic Grid Authorization Mechanism with Result Feedback., GCC 2004: 867-870
12. Ye Zhu, Junzhou Luo and Teng Ma: Dividing Grid Service Discovery into 2-Stage Matchmaking., ISPA 2004: 372-381

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• IEEE/ACM student member.
• Student Volunteer, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference(SC), 2008/2009/2010/2011(Scinet supporting team).

HONORS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• NSF Student Travel Grant to IEEE Cluster 2011

SKILLS

Programming	C/C++, Perl, PHP, Matlab, MPI, UPC, Open MP, Pthread, Java*, Fortran*, Visual Studio .Net*, Design Patterns
System Administration	Linux (SuSE, Red Hat), Networking, Apache, Mysql, LDAP, Linux Clusters (Oscar, Rocks), Solaris 8*, PBS*, Microsoft Windows XP*
* - Limited experience

RELEVANT COURSE WORK

Graduate Computer Science Courses	Undergraduate Computer Science Courses
Data mining** High Performance Computing Distributed Systems Operating Systems Script Lanuguage Computer Architecture AI Markov Chains ** - Enrolled Fall 2006.	Software Design Advanced Unix Programming Unix Environment Object Oriented Programming Analysis of Algorithms Organization of Programming Languages Database Design Internet Application Development