List of Presentations & Publications by  Dr. Anne C. Elster  

Link to HPC-Lab Home Page: http://research.idi.ntnu.no/hpc-lab

INVITED LECTURES, TUTORIALS AND CONFERENCE PANELS BY DR. ANNE C. ELSTER:

  1. Invited presentation at 3rd Workshop of EU COST 0805 Open Network for HPC on Complex Environments, April 17-18, 2012, Genoa, Italy: “Complex HPC Challenges: Some Compiler, Library and Application Issues”
  2. Invited presentation at 2nd Workshop of EU COST 0805 Open Network for HPC on Complex Environments, January 25-25, 2012, Timisoara, Romania: “From Many-Cores to Multi-Scale: Some Challenges and Opportunties for Numerical Analysis in Complex HPC Environments”.
  3. Invited presentation at AMD Fusion Developer Summit, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2011. Over 70 international researchers attended talk. “Real-Time Processing in OpenCL on GPUs”. Video of 40 min. talk.  PDF of the 84 slides used: http://developer.amd.com/afds/assets/presentations/1382_final.pdf  Closing Plenary Speaker -- NORDUNET 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 9, 2011 “Heterogeneous Computing & Networking: Current and Future Trends”.
  4. Invited speaker – SimGPU (International Symposium “Computer Simulations on GPU”), Mainz, Germany, May 30- June 1,  2011: “GPU-based Simulations, Data Locality and Some Future Trends” .
  5. Invited guest lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Tromsø, Feb. 25, 2011. “Real-Time Processing on GPU-based Systems: Experiences and Challenges”
  6. Invited Lecture (50 minutes) at IMA workshop High Performance Computing and Emerging Architectures , January 10-14, 2011, University of Minnesota, USA: “Real-Time Medical and Geological Processing on GPU-based Systems: Experiences and Challenges”.
  7. Invited speaker at CCP2010: (22nd International Conference on Computational Physics) held at Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), June 23-26, 2010, Talk title: "Computational Physics on GPUs".
  8. Dr. Elster organized Minisymposium on GPU Computing/EuroGPU 2010 at PARA 2010 June 8-10, 2010, where she also gave talk on "Current and Future Trends in GPU Computing"
  9. Invited Speaker – PPAM 2009 (8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics), Sept 15, 2009, Wroclaw, Poland: "Real-Time Parallel Computing Using GPUs"
    http://www.ppam.pl/docs/program.pdf
  10. Minisymposium talk at ParCo 2009: Dr. Elster spoke on "GPU Computing and Future Programming Environments"", at the Minisymposium EuroGPU 2009 which she co-organized with Stephane Requena, REBCI at ParCo 2009, Sep 1-2, Lyon, France.
  11. Invited Speaker -- The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2008, "High Performance Computing on GPUs"
    http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html
  12. Invited Speaker -- NVIDIA Tesla Supercomputer - European Launch, Dec 4, 2008, London, UK: "GPU Supercomputing at The IDI/NTNU HPC-Lab"
  13. Tutorial -- PARA 2008, May 13, 2008, "Tutorial on Optimization Techniques for Scientific Codes" with her graduate student Mr. Rune Jensen
  14. Invited Speaker -- IBM High Performance Computing Competence Center Opening in Vienna, Austria, March 31, 2008 "Parallel Scientific Computing Trends at NTNU"
  15. Minisympoisum talk, PPAM 2007, Tuesday September 11, "Scientific Computing on GPUs" part of Minisymposium on Novel Data Formats organized by Fred Gustavson (IBM, USA) and Jerzy Wasniewski (DTU, Denmark)
  16. Invited Speaker, DEM Workshop: PETRUSCA -- Petrophysics Under Stress -- Core Applications, SINTEF Petroleum Research, March 6, 2007. Title: "High Performance Computing: Current and Future Opportunities"
  17. Invited Speaker -- Seminar connected with Computational Physics Group Board meeting, European Physical Society (EPS), NTNU, Sep. 29, 2006. Title: "Computational Science & Visualization at NTNU". Contact/Organizer: Prof. Alex Hansen, Dept. of Physics, NTNU
  18. Invited Speaker -- Computing the Future Series: Lectures in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics sponsored by the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Dec. 12, 2005, Title: "Current and Future Trends in HPC: An International Perspective". http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/58
  19. Worskhop Panel "Towards simulation-based science and engineering", INFORSAM 2020, April 19, 2004, NTNU Panel Chair: Prof. Helge Holden. Also part of Enabling Technologies/Computation. http://www.ime.ntnu.no/infosam2020/oldpage/Conference/program1.html
  20. Minisymposium Talk -- SIAM Conf. on Parallel Processing, San Francisco, Feb. 25, 2004,
    "PIC codes: Scalability, Shared Memory versus Message Passing and Other Software Issues" as part of MS30: "Parallel Algorithms for Particle-Based Simulation Methods", organized by Dr. Paul E. Plassman, Pennsylvania State University, US     http://www.siam.org/meetings/pp04/index.htm
  21. Conference Talk -- NOTUR 2003, University of Oslo, May 14-15, 2003,
    "Technology for the Future: Clusters"     http://www.notur.org/notur2003/
  22. Conference Panel -- Panel discussion: "High Performance Computing in Nordic Countries", Moderator: Jack Dongarra, Participating as a representative from Norway with: Jari Järvinen (Finland) , Jerzy Wasniewski (Denmark) and Anders Ynnermann (Sweden), PARA 2002, June 17, 2002, Espoo, Finland. Program at: http://www.csc.fi/para2002/program.phtml
  23. Colloquium -- Dept. of Computer & Info Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 26, 2001:
    "Supercomputing Issues". Abstract at:     http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~ekaterip/dif8916/info-emnerarkiv.html#Elser Presentation slides available at: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~elster/talks/para-it-emner-okt01/index.htm
  24. DSP Seminar -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 28, 2001:
    "Chebyshev Polynomials -- Not Just for Filters". Abstract at:     http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/dsp_seminars/01fall/elster.html
  25. Guest Lecture -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 26, 2001:
    "Number Systems and Bit-reversal Algorithms" given to EE 306: Introduction to Computing, a freshman class with over 450 students attending.
  26. DSP Seminar -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, April 12, 2001:
    "FFT Applications". Abstract at:     http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/dsp_seminars/01spring/elster.html
  27. Minisymposium -- SIAM Annual Meeting 2000 in Puerto Rico, July 10-14, 2000:
    "Complex Chebyshev Acceleration Using PETSc",
    Part of Mini Symposium organized by Dr. David Kincaid on "Iterative Methods: Honoring Professor David M. Young". Work is joint with Chun Liang and David M. Young.
    Schedule at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an00/MS49.htm
  28. Graduate Lecture -- Department of Computer & Info. Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), February 11, 2000:
    "Optimization of Numerical Algorithms (Focus: FFT and Bit-Reversal Algorithms)"
    (Translation of Norwegian title.)
  29. Undergraduate Lecture -- Department of Computer & Info. Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), February 11, 2000:
    "Examples Which Illustrate the Practical Benefits of Improved Algorithmic Time-Complexity" (Translation of Norwegian title.)
  30. Telecommunications and Signal Processing Seminar -- Dept of ECE, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, November 10, 1999:
    "Fast Fourier Transform and Fast Bit Reversal Algorithms"
    http://anchovy.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/dsp_seminars/99fall/elster.html
  31. Colloquium -- Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, October 8, 1999:
    "Developments in Parallel Computing the past 15 years -- A Personal Perspective".
    (Translation of Norwegian title.)
  32. Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Jan. 12 and 14, 1999:
    "Algorithms for Bit Reversal and the The Fast Fourier Transform"
    http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~betrema/seminaire.html
  33. Colloquium -- Dept of Comp. Science, Univ. of Southern California, Oct. 31, 1997:
    "Building a Software Environment for Analyzing and Testing Large Parallel Scientific Codes".
  34. Seminar -- Center for Numerical Analysis, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 12, 1994:
    "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes".
  35. Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston, Texas, May 11, 1994:
    (same as May 12, 1994 presentation).
  36. Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, Syracuse University, New York, April 20, 1994:
    (same as May 12, 1994 presentation).
  37. Seminar -- Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine, March 9, 1989:
    "Developing Efficient Algorithms for Highly Parallel Systems".
  38. Technical Seminar -- IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, March 2, 1989:
    (same as March 9, 1989 presentation).
  39. Colloquium -- Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Oct. 25, 1988:
    "Parallel Operations: A Polymorphic View"
  40. SIAM Conf. on Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems, Austin, Texas, Oct. 21, 1988:
    "Parallel Operations for Iterative Methods: A Polymorphic View".
  41. Colloquium -- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Umeå, Sweden, Aug. 5, 1988:
    "Fault-Tolerant Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Hypercubes"
  42. Supercomputer Seminar Series -- Center for Numerical Analysis, Univ. of Texas at Austin, March 13, 1987:
    "Matrix Operations on Hypercube Systems".
  43. Technical Seminar - Chr. Michelsen Institute, Division of Computer Science, Bergen, Norway, July 16, 1986: "SIMD Systems and Parallel Pascal".

 

BOOK & BOOK CHAPTERS:

  1. David R. Kincaid and Anne C. Elster (co-editors)
    Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, Book published August 1999 through IMACS based on the papers presented at the Fourth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, Austin, Texas, Oct. 1998.
  2. Elster, A.C. "Software Test-bed for Large Parallel Solvers ", in book Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, IMACS, 1999. Paper was originally presented at Fourth IMACS International Symposium, Oct. 18-20, 1998,The Univ. of Texas at Austin. Abstract at: http://king.ticam.utexas.edu/dmy98/abstracts.html
  3. Joseph R. Cavallaro (Rice University) and Anne C. Elster, "A CORDIC Processor Array for the SVD of a Complex Matrix", BOOK ARTICLE in SVD and Signal Processing, II: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications, Ed. R. J. Vaccaro, Elsevier, 1991, pp 227-239. [Revision of same title in Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990.]

 

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL REFEREED ARTICLES:

 

2011

4.      Rune E. Jensen, Anne C. Elster and Ian Karlin: "Auto-tuning a Symetric Rank Two Update for High Performance", accepted for presentation and publication at NIK 2011, Tromsø, Norway, November, 2011.

5.      Jan C. Meyer and Anne C. Elster: Optimized Barriers for Heterogeneous Systems Using MPI, IPDPS 2011 , 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, HCW 2011, 20th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop,May 16, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. HCW is one of the most competitive and prestigious workshops at IPDPS and more competitive that many conferences and journals. It allows for 14-page papers incl. bios. Print ISBN: 978-1-61284-425-1 DOI :  10.1109/IPDPS.2011.124, pp 20-33. (PDF for Personal Use Only)

6.      Ahmed A. Aqrawi and Anne C. Elster, “Bandwidth Reduction Through Multithreaded Compression of Seismic Images”, IPDPS 2011 , 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, MTAAP 2011, Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications,May 20, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Print ISBN: 978-1-61284-425-1, DOI 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.330, pp 1730-1739 (PDF for Personal Use Only).

7.      Erik Smistad, Anne C. Elster and Frank Lindseth (all NTNU), “Fast Surface Extraction and Visualization of Medical Images using OpenCL and GPUs" at Joint Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Computing for Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2011.

8.      Øystein Krog and Anne C. Elster, “Fast GPU-based Fluid Simulations Using SPH” presented at EuroGPU at PARA 2010  and accepted for publication in the corresponding LNCS proceedings to be published 2011.                                               (Pre-print PDF for personal use)

 

2010

9.      Thorvald Natvig, Anne C. Elster and Jan Christian Meyer: “Automatic Run-Time Parallelization and Transformation of I/O” accepted as regular paper at SC'10 (ca 20% acceptance rate, and the most prestigious in my are of research), DOI:  10.1109/SC.2010.11 (PDP for Personal Use Only).

10.  Thorvald Natvig and Anne C. Elster:“Run-Time Analysis and Instrumentation for Communication Overlap Potential” , in Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6305/2010, pp42-49, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_5. Presented at: EuroMPI 2010 , Stuttgart, Germany, Sept 12-15, 2010.
Link to abstract and Springer's on-line version. (PDF for Personal Use Only).

11.  Jose Luis Vázquez-Poletti (UCM Barcelona. Spain) and ,Jan Perhac, John Ryan, Anne C Elster (all NTNU): “THOR: A Transparent Heterogeneous Open Resource Framework”, IEEE Cluster 2010, Workshop, Sep 20-24, 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-8395-2  DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTERWKSP.2010.5613099  (PDF for Personal Use Only)

12.  Thorvald Natvig and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU): “Run-time Optimization of Sends, Receives and File I/O” Print IEEE Cluster 2010, Workshop, Sep 20-24, 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-8395-2  INSPEC Accession Number: 11623603  DOI :  10.1109/CLUSTERWKSP.2010.5613104,                       (PDF for Personal Use).

13.  Jan Christian Meyer (PhD student) and Anne C. Elster (advisor), “Performance Modeling of Heterogeneous Systems” , PhD Forum, IEEE IPDPS 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. (PDF for personal use)

14.  Holger Ludvigsen and Anne Elster: Real-Time Ray Tracing Using NVIDIA OptiX presented and published at EuroGraphics in Norrköping, May 3-7, 2010.                           (PDF for personal use)

15.  Anne C. Elster (NTNU) and Stephane Requena (Genci, Paris): “Parallel Computing on GPUs”, in Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale , Volume 19 Advances in Parallel Computing, Edited by: B. Chapman, F. Desprez, G.R. Joubert, A. Lichnewsky, F. Peters and T. Priol, April 2010, pp 533-535., hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-60750-529-7  This paper is a short introduction to GPU and the EuroGPU 2009 minisymposium we organized at ParCo 2009, Sept. 1-2, 2009, Lyon, France. Online abstract at IOPress  (Pre-print PDF for personal use)

16.  Eirik Aksnes and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU): “Porus Rock Simulations and Lattice Boltzmann on GPUs”, in Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale , Volume 19 Advances in Parallel Computing, Edited by: B. Chapman, F. Desprez, G.R. Joubert, A. Lichnewsky, F. Peters and T. Priol, April 2010, pp 533-535, hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-60750-529-7
This paper was Presented at EuroGPU 2009 at ParCo 2009, Sept. 1-2, 2009, Lyon, France. It looks at using the Lattice Boltzman Method on large 3D datasets on GPUs for fluid similations. Online abstract at IOProess  (Pre-print PDF for personal use)

  1. Daniele G. Spampinato, Anne C. Elster and Thorvald Natvig (all NTNU, Norway): “Modeling Multi-GPU Systems” in Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale , Volume 19 Advances in Parallel Computing, Edited by: B. Chapman, F. Desprez, G. R. Joubert, A. Lichnewsky, F. Peters and T. Priol, April 2010, pp 562-569, hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-60750-529-7
    This paper was Presented at     EuroGPU 2009 at ParCo 2009, Sept. 1-2, 2009, Lyon, France. On-line abstract at IOPress
    (PDF for personal use)
  2. Rune Hovland and Anne C. Elster: “Throughput Computing on Future GPUs” in Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale , Volume 19 Advances in Parallel Computing, Edited by: B. Chapman, F. Desprez, G. R. Joubert, A. Lichnewsky, F. Peters and T. Priol, April 2010, pp 570-577, hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-60750-529-7
    This paper was Presented at     EuroGPU 2009 at ParCo 2009, Sept. 1-2, 2009, Lyon, France. Online abstract at IOPress  (PDF for personal use)

 

2009

  1. Anne C. Elster and Jan Christian Meyer (both NTNU), "A Super-Efficient Adaptable Bit-Reversal Algorithm for Multithreaded Architectures". in Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), presented at Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP'09)
    Abstracts at:     http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2009/Abstracts_2009.pdf  (PDF for Personal Use Only)
  2. Daniele Spampinato and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU): "Linear Optimization on Modern GPUs" in Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), presented at Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP'09)  DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161106 Abstract also at: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2009/Abstracts_2009.pdf (PDF pre-print for personal use)

 

2008

  1. Jan C.Meyer and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms " in journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience --  Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2008; Vol. 9, No. 3, pp 197-206. (Enhanced version of CSIS/MuCoCos'08 paper.)                                     (PDF for Personal Use)

 

  1. Jan C.Meyer and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms for Modern Shared Memory Multiprocessors"  CISIS'08 (International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems) 2008, at MuCoCos’08 (Interntational Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems) link to abstract , DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2008.132 , Publication Year: 2008 , Page(s): 786 – 791, (PDF for Personal Use).

 

2007

  1. Jan C. Meyer and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "A Load Balancing Strategy for Computations on Large, Read-only Data Sets", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2007; Volum 4699, pp 198-207.
  2. Thorvald Natvig & Anne C. Elster (both NTNU) "Automatic and Transparent Optimization of an Application's MPI Communication", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006, and published in LNCS 4699, pp 208-217, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  3. Ingar Saltvik, Anne C. Elster and Henrik R. Nagel (all NTNU) "Parallel Visualization of Snow", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006. Published in LNCS 4699, pp 218-217, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

 

2006

  1. Einar R. Rosenvinge, Anne C. Elster and Cyril Banino, (all NTNU) "Experiments with Scheduling Strategies for Data-Parallel MPI Applications on Clusters", PARA 2004, Lyngby, Denmark, June 20-23, 2004. Published in LNCS 3732, pp 1141-1150, Springer-Verlag, 2006. Abstract at: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~jw/para04/Abstracts/anne_c_elster/anne_c_elster.html

 

2005 and older

  1. Otto Anshus, Anne C. Elster and Brian Vinter, "Cluster Computing as a Teaching Tool", in Mini Symposium "Cluster Computing", ParCo 2003, Dresden , Germany, September 2-5, 2003. Published in G.R. Joubert et al. (Eds.), Parallel Computing: Software Technology, Algorithms, Architectures and Applications, pp 887-894, Elsevier, 2004.
  2. Torbjørn Vik, Anne C. Elster and Torbjørn Hallgren, "Real-time Simulation of Smoke through Parallelizations", ParCo 2003, Dresden , Germany, September 2-5, 2003. Published in G.R. Joubert et al. (Eds.), Parallel Computing: Software Technology, Algorithms, Architectures and Applications, pp 371-378, Elsevier, 2004.
  3. Anne C. Elster, "The Next Level of Simulations: Extreme Computing", SIMS 2002 (43rd Conference on Simulation and Modelling), Oulu, Finland, September 26-27, 2002. http://ntsat.oulu.fi/Tapahtumat/SIMS_CallForPapers/Session2.htm Paper also avaiable at: link.
  4. Anne C. Elster, "High-Performance Computing: Past, Present and Future", PARA 2002, Espoo, Finland, June 15-18, 2002. Published in J. Fagerholm et al. (Eds.): PARA 2002, LNCS 2367, pp 433-444, 2002, Springer Verlag. http://www.csc.fi/para2002/program.phtml Paper avaiable at: link (Springer Verlag has promised to fix the current problem with their link to the PDF file. In the meantime, you may access the paper for personal use at: PDF-file

 

 

  1. Paul Sack and Anne C. Elster, "Fast MPI Broadcasts Through Reliable Multicasting",  PARA 2002, Espoo, Finland, June 15-18, 2002. http://www.csc.fi/para2002/program.phtml Publish in J. Fagerholm et al. (Eds.), PARA 2002, LNCS 2367, pp 445-453, Springer-Verlag. Paper available at: link.
  2. Anne C. Elster and Lloyd D. Clark, "Optimized FFTs for ADSL",
    Proceedings of the NORSIG 2001 Symposium, Oct. 18-19, 2001, Trondheim, Norway. Available in PostScript off the Program webpage at     http://www.norsig.no/norsig2001
  3. David R. Kincaid and Anne C. Elster, "Iterative Methods Symposium Honors Dr. David M. Young, Jr.", IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, pp 12-15, Dec. 1998.

34.  Anne C. Elster and David L. Presberg, "Setting Standards For Parallel Computing: The High Performance Fortran and Message Passing Interface Efforts", Theory Center SMART NODE Newsletter, May, 1993, Vol.5, No. 3, Cornell University. Accessible on WWW at: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Parallel.Tools/articles/HPF.and.MPI.html

35.  Joseph R. Cavallaro (Rice University) and Anne C. Elster, "A CORDIC Processor Array for the SVD of a Complex Matrix", Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990. [Later revised into BOOK CHAPTER in SVD and Signal Processing, II: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications, Ed. R. J. Vaccaro, Elsevier, 1991, pp 227-239.]                                   (PDF for Personal Use).

36.  Anne C. Elster, "Basic Matrix Subprograms for Distributed Memory Systems", Proc. of the Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conf. (DMCC5), in Charleston, SC, April 9-12, 1990, Ed. D. W. Walker and Q. Stout, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 311-316. Received STUDENT PAPER COMPETION AWARD. Citation: link.  (PDF for Personal Use)

37.  Anne C. Elster, M Ümit Uyar (Bell Labs), and Anthony P. Reeves, "Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations on Hypercube Computers", Proc. of the 1989 International Conf. on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, IL, August 8-12, 1989, Ed. F. Ris and P. M. Kogge, Penn State, Vol. III, pp 169-176.

38.  Anne C. Elster and Hungwen Li (IBM Research), "Hypercube Algorithms on the Polymorphic Torus", Proc. of the Fourth Conference on Hypercube, Concurrent Computers, and Applications, March 6-8, 1989 in Monterey, CA, Vol. I, Golden Gate Enterprises, pp 309-316. This paper was based on Cornell Computer Science TR 89-1003 and IBM Research Report, RJ 6775, 1989 (same title and authors).

39.  Anne C. Elster, "Fast Bit-Reversal Algorithms", Proc. of the IEEE 1989 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, May 23-26, 1989, Vol. 2, pp 1099-1102. Paper originally sent to Conf. on Vector and Parallel Computing, Tromsoe, Norway, June 6-10, 1988 where it received HONORABLE MENTION, but was later withdrawn due to timing and funding. (PDF for personal use.)

40.  Anne C. Elster and A.P. Reeves, "Block-Matrix Operations Using Orthogonal Trees", Proc. of the Third Conf. on Hypercube Systems and Applications, January 19-20, 1988 in Pasadena, CA, Ed. G. Fox, ACM, pp 1554-1561.

 

 

 

ARTICLES & BOOKS IN PREPARATION:

  1. Working on text book for senior/master-level Parallel Programming course (to be finished 2012/2013)
  2. Miguel Martínez-del-Amor (Univ. of Seville, Spain), Ian Karlinand Rune E. Jensen (both NTNU), Mario J. Pérez-Jimenéz and Anne C. Elster: “Parallel Simualtion of Probabilistic P Systems on Multicore Platforms. In preparations for submission on Sept. 16, 2011.
  3.  Anne C. Elster, Jerzy Wasniewski and Jack Dongarra (co-editors) Springer LNCS Volume on selected papers from PARA 2008 (to be published 2011)
  4. Anne C. Elster, Current and Future Trends in GPU Computing, presentet at EuroGPU 2010 at PARA 2010  (to be expanded into survey paper)
  5. Aleksander Gjermundsen and Anne C. Elster: LBM vs. SOR Solvers on GPU for Real-Time Fluid Simulations Extended abstract presented at EuroGPU at PARA 2010 . (In preparation for review for Springer LNCS)
  6. Jan Christian Meyer and Anne C. Elster: "The BSP Model and Heterogeneous Systems", PARA'08, Trondheim, Norway, May 13-16, 2008. To be published in Springer LNCS Fall 2011
  7. Thorvald Natvig and Anne C. Elster: "Using Context-Sensitive Transmission Statistics to Predict Transmission Time" PARA'08, Trondheim, Norway, May 13-16, 2008. To be published in Springer LNCS  Fall 2011.
  8. Anne C. Elster and Owe Johansen: “Experiences with Fault-Tolerance for Large Parallel Seismic Application”. Revising draft.
  9. Robert Strandh (Univ. of Bordeaux) and Anne C. Elster, "Fast Recursive Bit Reversal: Shuffling N Elements in Less Than 5N Cycles with No Special Hardware", in revision.

 

 

REFEREED INTERNATIONAL CONF. ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS

1.      Rune E. Jensen and Anne C. Elster: (both NTNU) ”How to Beat Standard Auto-tuned BLAS”, accepted to Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshop: Building the Next Generation of Application Scientists, SC11, Seattle, WA, USA, November 2011.

2.      Eril Smistad, Anne C. Elster and Frank Linseth: "Fast Surface Extraction and Visualization of Medical Images using OpenCL and GPUs"  at 2011 Joint National PhD Conference in Medical Imaging and MedViz Conference, Bergen, Norway. Abstract in ISBN 978-82-993786-6-6.                                                              

3.      Anne C. Elster, Frank Linseth, Holger Ludvigsen, Erik Smistad and Thor Kristian Valgerhaug (all NTNU): “Medical Imaging on the GPU Using OpenCL: 3D Surface Extraction and 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction”, Poster at High Performance Computing and Emerging Architectures , January 10-14, 2011, University of Minnesota, USA. http://www.ima.umn.edu/2010-2011/W1.10-14.11/abstracts.html#10655.

 

4.      Anne C. Elster(NTNU) and Stephane Requena (GENCI, France), "EuroGPU", Two-day Minisyposium on GPU Computing at ParCo 2009, Lyon, France, September 1-2. 2009.                                                                                                                      

5.      Eirik Ola Aksnes and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "Fluid Dynamics of Porous Rocks on Modern GPUs", The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.  http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html                                                                                      

6.      Daniel Haugen and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "Strategies for Handling Large Amounts of Data from Storage to GPUs", The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html

7.      Rune Johan Hovland, Anne C. Elster and Magnus Lie Hetland (all NTNU), "High Data Volumes and Streaming on Future GPU Systems", The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html

8.      Åsmund Herikstad and Anne Elster (both NTNU), "Parallel Techniques for Estimation and Correction of Aberration on Medical Ultrasound Imaging" The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html

9.      Jan C. Meyer and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "Modelling Overlapping Communication and Computation", The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html

10.  Daniele G. Spampinato and Anne Elster (both NTNU), "Communication Challenges on Multi-GPU Systems", The Eighth Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway (NOTUR 2009), May 18-20, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
http://www.notur.no/notur2009/programme.html

11.  Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Jose R. Herrero and Anne C. Elster, "Scientific Computing on GPUs", Minisymposium, PARA 2008, Trondheim, Norway, May 2008.
Link to the 12 talks.

12.  Robin Eidissen and Anne C. Elster: "Comparing Cg and CUDA Implementations of Selected Transform Algorithms". SC'08, Austin, Texas, USA, Nov 15-21 (less than 30% acceptance rate!)

13.  Atle Rudshaug and Anne C. Elster: "Analysing and Optimizing an Oil Well Network Code for Today's Parallel Architectures", poster, NOTUR 2008, Tromsø, Norway, June 4-5, 2008.

14.  Rune Erlend Jensen and Anne C. Elster: "GCC 4.x Issues", poster, NOTUR 2008, Tromsø, Norway, June 4-5, 2008.

15.  Anne C. Elster and Otto Anshus: "HPC Environments -- Visualization and Parallelization Tools: Minisymposium Abstract", PARA'06 and Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2007; Volum 4699. p 177

16.  Leif Christian Larsen, Anne C. Elster, and Tor Fevang (Schlumberger) "Speeding Up Transform Algorithms for Image Compression Using GPUs", Student poster, Stanford 50: State of the Art and Future Directions of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Computing, March 29-31,2007 Abstract

17.  Anne C. Elster, "HPC Environments: Visualization and Parallelization Tools", Minisymposium, PARA 2006, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006. Part 2 (MS 16)

18.  Anne C. Elster, "HPC Environments: A Quick Overview", PARA 2006, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006

19.  Anne C. Elster, Glenn Hisdal, Andreas Braathen,Håvard Bjerke, Rune Andresen (NTNU) & Sverre Jarp (CERN), "NTNU at CERN: Grid-Enabeling Tools Using SmartFrog, Lemon and Virtualization", PARA 2006, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006

20.  Jan.C. Meyer and Anne C. Elster (both NTNU), "A Load Balancing Strategy for Computations on Large, Read-only Data Sets", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006. Extended abstract Extended version to be published in Springer Verlag's LNCS-Series (see reviewed articles).

21.  Thorvald Natvig & Anne C. Elster (both NTNU) "Automatic and Transparent Optimization of an Application's MPI Communication", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006. Extended abstract Extended version to be published in Springer Verlag's LNCS-Series (see reviewed articles).

22.  Ingar Saltvik, Anne C. Elster and Henrik R. Nagel (all NTNU) "Parallel Visualization of Snow", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 2006. Extended abstract Extended version to be published in Springer Verlag's LNCS-Series (see reviewed articles).

23.  Åsmund Østvold (SCALI), Anne C. Elster and Håkon Bugge (SCALI), "How Measurement Methods Affect Timing of MPI Collective Late Change Operations", PARA'06, Umeå, Sweden, June 18-21, 2006. (extended abstract)

24.  Øystein Borg, Anne C. Elster and Håkon Bugge, "Dynamic Selection of MPI Intra-copy Routines Based on Program Characteristics",
Poster received honorable mention at the NOTUR 2006 Conference, Bergen, Norway, May 11-12, 2006.

25.  Rune Johan Andresen, Sverre Jarp and Anne C. Elster, "HPC File Server Monitoring and Tuning Using a Database" , in collaborations with CERN, NOTUR 2005 poster, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, May 30-31, 2005.
http://www.notur.no/notur2005/andresen.pdf

26.  Håvard Bjerke, Sverre Jarp and Anne C. Elster, "HPC Virtual Machine Monitor: Xen for the IA-64 Architecture" in colaboration with CERN, NOTUR 2005 poster, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, May 30-31, 2005.
http://www.notur.no/notur2005/Bjerke.pdf

27.  Andreas Braathen, Glenn Hisdal and Anne C. Elster, "Two Cluster Projects at CERN: Automatic Software Installation Using SmartFrog and Surveilance of Cluster Nodes Using Lemon", in colaborations with CERN, NOTUR 2005 poster, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, May 30-31, 2005.
http://www.notur.no/notur2005/braathen.pdf

28.  Jan Christian Meyer and Anne C. Elster, "Load Balancing Visualisation Server Clusters" , in collaboration with Schlumberger Voxel Vision, NOTUR 2005 poster, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, May 30-31, 2005.
http://www.notur.no/notur2005/Meyer.pdf

29.  Thorvald Natvig and Anne C. Elster, "Simplified Mesh Genration Through Rendering" , NOTUR 2005 poster, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, May 30-31, 2005.
http://www.notur.no/notur2005/Natvig.pdf

30.  Snorre Boasson and Anne C. Elster, "Parallel I/O Strategies", NOTUR 2004 poster, Tromsø, Norway, June 10-11, 2004

31.  Trond Kandal, Frode Nilsen and Anne C. Elster, "Experiences with Architectures for Grid Portals", NOTUR 2004 poster, Tromsø, Norway, June 10-11, 2004  http://www.notur.org/notur2004/poster_fn.pdf">

32.  Tor Arvid Lund, Morten Rodal and Anne C. Elster, "Porting Shared memory Applications to a Distributed Memory Architecture" NOTUR 2004 poster, Tromsø, Norway, June 10-11, 2004
http://www.notur.org/notur2004/poster_lund_rodal.pdf

33.  Anne C. Elster and Robin Holtet, "Benchmarking Clusters vs. SMP Systems by Analyzing the Trade-Off Between Extra Calculations vs. Communication", SC 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, November 18, 2003. Abstract link:
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/inter_cal/inter_cal_detail.php?eventid=10790#19 (Only 30% acceptance rate!)

34.  Anne C. Elster, Otto J. Anshus, Amund Tveit and Cyril Banino, "Recent Trends in Cluster Computing", in Mini Symposium "Cluster Computing", ParCo 2003, Dresden , Germany, September 2-5, 2003.

35.  Anne C. Elster et. al., NOTUR 2003 stand on "Cluster Technologies", Oslo, Norway, May 14-15, 2003

36.  Anne C. Elster and Kristin S. Karlsen., "Recruting, Mentoring and Networking Women in Computing", Grace Hopper Conference (GHC 2002) in Vancouver, Canada, Oct 9-11, 2002. Program description (no longer on-line :-():

37.  Anne C. Elster and Lloyd D. Clark, "Optimizing ADSL/VDSL Algorithms" 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting in San Diego, July 9-13, 2001
http://www.siam.org/confpart/showmin.cfm?SESSIONCODE=897

38.  Anne C. Elster, "Developing and Testing New Parallel Iterative Methods Using PETSc", Tenth SIAM Conference and Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 12-14, 2001, Portsmouth, Va. http://www.siam.org/confpart/showmin.cfm?SESSIONCODE=231

39.  Robert Strandh and Anne C. Elster, "A Very Fast Recursive Bit-Reversal Algorithm", SIAM CSE'00: First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, D.C., Sep 21-24, 2000. http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse00/cp12.htm>

40.  Anne C. Elster and C. Liang, "Developing and Testing Linear Solvers Using PETSc", SIAM CSE'00: First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, D.C., Sep 21-24, 2000. http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse00/cp25.htm

41.  Anne C. Elster, "Software Environment for Analyzing and Testing Large Parallel Scientific Codes", SciTools'98, Oslo, Norway, Sept 14-16, 1998. REVIEWED abstract at: http://www.oslo.sintef.no/SciTools98/WebAbstracts/elster-abs.html

42.  Anne C. Elster, "Parallel Infrastructures for Particle-in-Cell Codes". Parallel Infrastructures for Applications, workshop at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 24, 1996. Schedule at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rvdg/workshop.sched2.html

43.  Anne C. Elster, Niels Otani, Niels (Cornell, now Case Western) and John G. Shaw (XEROX Research Center), "Parallelization Issues for Particle-in-Cell Codes", Supercomputing'94, Nov. 14-18, 1994. REVIEWED abstract of poster presentation at: http://www.computer.org/conferen/sc94/posters/elster_a.html

44.  Joe R.Cavallaro (Rice Univ.), Anne C. Elster, and Ian Walker (Rice Univ.) "A Parallel VLSI Architecture for Robot Motion Computations", SIAM Annual Meeting, July 16-20, 1990, Chicago, IL.

45.  Anne C. Elster, "Developing Level-3 BLAS for Distributed Memory Systems", The Eighth Army Conf. on Applied Math. and Computing, Ithaca, NY, June 19-22, 1990.

 

POSITION PAPERS, TECHNICAL REPORTS AND SELECTED OTHER WRITTEN PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Anne C. Elster, "HPC: Simulating Oil Fields, the Weather and Other Complex Systems" part of presentation of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - research & development & education, Information & Communication Technology: Technology through Life , Norway Exports, p 47, Annual 49, 2006/2007
  2. Nils Magnus Larsgård and Anne C. Elster, "Performance of Njord vs. Embla", Research diplay poster, Opening Seminar of the new supercomputer, Njord, at NTNU, Nov. 30, 2006.
  3. Leif Christian Larsen and Anne C. Elster, "Compression of Image Data on Clusters Using GPUs and Quad-Core CPUs", Research diplay poster, Opening Seminar of the new supercomputer, Njord, at NTNU, Nov. 30, 2006.
  4. Kjetil Nørvåg, Kjell Bratbergsengen, Haakon Dybdahl, Anne C. Elster, Torbjørn Hallgren, Morten Hartmann, Jon Olav Hauglid, and Lasse Natvig: Positition Paper on Computer Systems, in InfoSam2020: The Information Society of 2020 -an exercise in planning for the future , Arne Sølvberg (Editor), pp 41-47. Originally presented at INFOSAM 2020, April 19-20, 2004, NTNU, Trondheim (co-hosted by NTNU and The Norwegian Board of Technology (Teknoligrådet).
  5. Helge I. Andersson, Finn Drabløs, Helge Drange, Anne C. Elster, Henning Omre, Bjørnar Pettersen and Einar Rønquist (Listed in index as Anne C. Elster, Einar Rønquist et. al): Position Paper on Computational Science, in InfoSam2020: The Information Society of 2020 -an exercise in planning for the future , Arne Sølvberg (Editor), pp 91-96. Originally presented at INFOSAM 2020, April 19-20, 2004, NTNU, Trondheim (co-hosted by NTNU and The Norwegian Board of Technology (Teknoligrådet).
  6. Knut Børve, Anne C. Elster, Risto Nieminen, Roar Skålin and Lina von Sydow: "The Future of High-Performance Computing in Norway" ,by Komité for tugnregneprogrammet III (HPC Program III Committee) Research Council of Norway (RCN/NFR), January 26, 2004.
  7. Anne C. Elster, "Academic Women in EECS Web Page/Database", ongoing document listing tenured and tenure-track women in Computing. The document gets updated regularly and can currently be found at: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster/doc/women-eecs.html
  8. Anne C. Elster, "Using ITPACK 2C on the UT Austin Math Sun Machines", Nov. 1998, CNA, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Included as course notes for Dr. David M. Young's graduate class on Diff. Eqn. and to be included on the ITPACK web pages at http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/CNA/ITPACK/
  9. Robert Strandh and Anne C. Elster, "A Very Efficient Linear-time, Logarithmic-space Bit Reversal Algorithm", Center for Numerical Analysis, TR no. CNA-288, The University of Texas at Austin, October 1998. (A shorter version of this report is being submitted as a reviewed journal publication.) A PDF file of this report is available at: http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/CNA/cna-reports.html Note thtat the report starts on page 2.
  10. David R. Kincaid and Anne C. Elster, Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation . Report CNA-287, Center for Numerical Analysis, University of Texas at Austin, October 1998. http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/CNA/cna-reports.html
  11. Anne C. Elster, On-line course notes for CS 328, a level CS7 class on Advanced Data Types in C++ taught at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Summer 1998: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/user/elster/cs328-su98
  12. Anne C. Elster, On-line course notes for CS 315, a level CS2 class on Data Structures and C++ taught at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Summer 1997: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/user/elster/cs315.html
  13. MPI Forum Members (incl. Anne C Elster): "MPI-2: Extensions to the Message-Passing Interface", (MPI 2 Standards document) July 18, 1997 (HTML Sept 2001).
  14. Anne C. Elster, "User's Guide -- FMM Code", documentation on how to use the Fast Multipole Method code used at TICAM, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 16, 1997.
  15. Anne C. Elster, Design notes and and User's guide for the payphone-network interactions simulator we developed using DES (Discrete Event Simiulation). Internal documents, Schlumberger Austin Research Center, 1996.
  16. Anne C. Elster, SWIFT documentation describing design, configuration and use of the Schlumberger World-wide Issue Tracking system, a distributed database based on SYBASE/SCOPUS. Internal documents, Schlumberger APC, 1995 and 1996.
  17. Anne C. Elster, SMS documentation describing the structure of SMS, the Schlumberger Software configuration Management System. Internal documents, Schlumberger APC, Fall 1994.
  18. Anne C. Elster, "Parallelization Issues and Particle-in-Cell Codes", Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, August 1994. Abstract at: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/thesesabstracts/August94/elster.html
  19. Anne C. Elster, "MPI_LOAD_INFO ", Proposal presented to the MPI Committee in Dallas, Texas, May 12, 1993.

This proposal encouraged adding dynamic process features to MPI. Although this proposal did not make it into the MPI-1 standard, it was one of the motivators for process control in MPI-2.

  1. Anne C. Elster and Palghat S. Ramesh (XEROX, DRI) "Simulation of Charge Transport Using Parallel BLAS on the Intel Hypercube", Xerox Internal Report X9200084, Webster Research Center, NY, April 1992.
  2. Anne C. Elster, "Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Operations", Master of Science Thesis, Cornell University, Aug. 1988.
  3. Joseph R. Cavallaro (Rice University) and Anne C.Elster, "Complex Matrix Factorizations with CORDIC Arithmetic", Cornell Computer Science TR 89-1071.

Key ideas presented at The Conference on Approximation Theory and Numerical Linear Algebra, Kent State Univ., Kent, OH, March 30-31, 1989.

  1. Joseph R. Cavallaro (Rice University) and Anne C.Elster, "A CORDIC Processor Array for the SVD of a Complex Matrix", Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990. Later revision appeared as BOOK ARTICLE (see reviewed pubs).

Revision of same title in Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990.

  1. Anne C. Elster and Hungwen Li (IBM Research), "Hypercube Algorithms on the Polymorphic Torus", Cornell Computer Science TR 89-1003 and IBM Research Report, RJ 6775, 1989.

This paper was later published in Proc. of the Fourth Conference on Hypercube, Concurrent Computers, and Applications (see reviewed publications).

  1. Anne C. Elster, M. Ümit Uyar (Bell Labs), and Anthony P. Reeves, "Fault Tolerant Matrix Multiplication on Hypercube Computers", Cornell University Technical Report EE-CEG 89-2, January 1989.
  2. Anne C. Elster, "Porting of the Parallel Pascal Translator from VAX 11/780 to IBM-PC/AT". Master of Engineering Project Report, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Fall 1986.

 

SELECTED OTHER PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS:

1.      Several posters at CCCP 2010

  1. Aleksander Gjermundsen: "HPC-Lab på IDI, NTNU", presentation March 2010 at Vestfold College, Horten, Norway. The presentation will be a mix of Dr. Elster's overview slides and some slides from his HPC-Lab research on GPUs.
  2. Owe Johansen (HPC-lab alumn, Nesna College): "GPU Prosessoravlastning i Oljeletingsapplikasjoner" prosjekt om grensesnitt og applikasjoner benyttet til oljeleting. Forskningsdagene, Sept. 23, 2009, Mo i Rana, Norway. This talk was based on his Masters thesis at HPC-Lab.
  3. Anne C. Elster: "Oversikt over bruk, tildeling av regnetid, brukerstøtte" (mostly an overviewe of NTNU's new Supercomputer Njord) -- Seminar/Press meeting at NTNU, Nov. 30, 2006. Info about Njord at NTNU.
  4. Anne C. Elster: "Supercomputing ved NTNU", Introduction talk for Supercomputing Day, Nov. 21, 2006.
  5. Anne C. Elster: "NOTUR Emerging Technologies: Cluster Technologies" presented to the Research Council of Norway's international committee reviewing the NOTUR project, May 10, 2004, RCN, Oslo, Norway.
  6. Anne C. Elster: "NOTUR Cluster Project Status Presentation: Future Technologies -- Clusters", presented to the NOTUR Board, November 27, 2003, Oslo, Norway.
  7. Anne C. Elster: "Cluster Technologies -- Status Report", Research Council of Norway HPC Commitee meeting, June 30, 2003, Oslo, Norway.
  8. Anne C. Elster: "Research Techniques -- a Personal Perspective", Doctoral seminar, Dept. of Computer & Info Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, March 1, 2001. Listing of colloquia Spring 2001 + links to abstracts etc.
  9. Anne C. Elster: Informal talk on my research with R&D group members, Fast Search and Transfer ASA, Porsgrunn, Norway, Feb 9, 2001.
  10. Anne C. Elster: "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes", and "SWIFT Schlumberger World-wide Issue Filing & Tracking System". In-house seminar, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Center, Cambridge, England, Feb. 1, 1995.
  11. Anne C. Elster: "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes", Schlumberger Austin Systems Center, in-house seminar, Autin, Texas, May 16, 1994.
  12. Anne C. Elster, "Parallelizing C Particle Simulation Codes Using Pthreads", Parallel Computing on the Kendall Square Research KSR1, Workshop, Engineering & Theory Center, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, May 6, 1993.
  13. Anne C. Elster: "The Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum", Cornell Engineering & Theory Center Staff-to-Staff Seminar, Ithaca, New York, Apr. 23, 1993.
  14. Anne C. Elster: Part I: "Testing Particle Simulation Codes"; Part II: "KSR1 Overview", Xerox Design Research Institute Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Dec. 8, 1992.
  15. Anne C. Elster and Palghat S. Ramesh (XEROX Research), "Simulation of Charge Transport Using Parallel BLAS on the Intel hypercube", Xerox Workshop on Scientific Computation and Modeling, Ithaca, NY, April 22, 1992.
  16. Anne C. Elster, "C vs. Fortran in Parallel Scientific Computing", The Eighth Parallel CIRCUS, University of Toronto, Canada, Oct. 26-27, 1990.
  17. Joseph R. Cavallaro, Ian D. Walker, I.D.(Rice Univ.), and Anne C. Elster: "Parallel VLSI Architectures to Increase the Efficiency of Robot Control", The Seventh Parallel CIRCUS, Stanford Univ., CA, March 30-31, 1990.
  18. Anne C. Elster, "Orthogonal Matrix Algorithms (``Virtual Transpose'')", The Sixth Parallel CIRCUS, Courrant Institute, New York University, New York, NY, Oct. 27-28, 1989.
  19. Anne C. Elster, "Some Algorithmic Fault Tolerance Issues", The Fifth Parallel CIRCUS, Rensselaer Polytech. Institute, Troy, NY, Apr. 28-29, 1989.
  20. Anne C. Elster, "Some Basic Parallel Numerical Algorithms for the Polymorphic Torus", The Fourth Parallel CIRCUS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Dec. 2-3, 1988.
  21. Anne C. Elster, "Fast [O(N)] Bit-Reversal Algorithms", The Second Parallel CIRCUS, (Bi-annual informal conference on parallel algorithms and architectures.) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Nov. 20-21, 1987.

 

SELECTED RECENT MEDIA ARTICLES and INTERVIEWS:

See also: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster/media.html (separate web page)

 

  1. Kronikk in Dagbladet (one of 3 main newspapers in Norway), May 7, 2010, (main debate article contributions that was almost 2-pages in print-verion) "Forbigått av Kina og Saudi-Arabia" on why and how Norway should invest more in research and infrastructure. Well received and lead to meeting with policy makers.
  2. Adressa (Trondheim's main newspaper), June 23, 2009 article and phone describing the IBM award received by two of Dr. Elster's Master students, Eirik Ola Aksnes and Daniele Spampinato. See also NTNU's local news links from June 11 and 22, 2009: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/news/index.php#n215
  3. NTNU paper "Universitetsavisa"'s article "Med kurs for webbens vugge" on May 28, 2009, featuring interview with Elster and two of her Master students who will spend their summer at CERN this year.
  4. "Spillkort gir superkraft til folket" , published on April 29, 2009 on http://www.forskning.no , the on-line research publications by The Norwegian Research Council. The article describes Elster and her HPC-lab's research on using gaming technology (GPUs) as computational devices. The title can be translated into something like: "Gaming (Graphics) Cards Give People Super(computing) Power".
  5. "CERN: Nordmenn vil ikke reise ut", Universitetsavisa , Feb 6, 2009. Elster is interviewed in the article where CERN hopes for more Norwegians wanting to go to CERN since she has advised several students in collaboration with CERN.
  6. "GPU Computing is about massive data parallelism", InfoWorld, Jan 22, 2009. This article contains longer quotes from Dr. Elster.

 


Invited Lectures by Dr. Elster

Book and Book Chapters
Refereed Articles
Refereed Conference Abstracts and Posters
Position papers, Technical Reports and Othere Selected Written Publications in English
Selected other Technical Presentations and Abstracts
Mass Media Articles and Interviews See also http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster/media.html

This document was last updated Sept 15, 2011