Isaac D. Scherson

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Professor
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
RUAC Director
Phone: (949) 824-8144
Fax: (949) 824-8060
Email: isaac@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
Dept. of Information and Computer Science
ICS Building, Room 464C
Mail Code: 3425
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
Research Interests
Internet Server Architectures, Distributed Large Scale Computing, Transaction Processing, Networking, Network Management, Resource Management in Large Scale Distributed Systems, Interconnection Networks for High Performance Parallel Computers, Parallel Computing Architectures, Massively Parallel Systems, Parallel Algorithms, Complexity, Performance Evaluation.
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Appointments
Research Abstract
Dr. Scherson's research interests fall in the general areas of distributed and parallel processing, computer architectures for high performance systems, resource management in and applications of concurrent computation. His research group is currently working on several main subjects: networking, interconnection networks, performance evaluation, and parallel algorithms, numerical and non-numerical.

The main goal of the work on interconnection networks for massively parallel systems is the development of cost-effective high performance networks capable of supporting thousands or millions of processing elements. Included in this study is the performance analysis of Expanded Delta Networks (EDNs) and Least Common Ancestor Networks (LCANs) under commonly occurring sets of processor to processor communication patterns. As a result of the effort, efficient off-line routing algorithms for EDNs were developed and applied to commercially available massively parallel computers.

Current research in performance evaluation deals with the development of models and methodologies for a general supercomputer performance evaluation theory. Such methods are being developed bottom up by building on known computational models and benchmarks.

Algorithmic topics include parallel models of computation and numerical algorithms which can take advantage of asynchronous parallel systems. Additionally, based on the development of Shearsort, Dr. Scherson and his group are looking for a proper taxonomy of parallel sorting. Many similarities can be found among sorting techniques and a unified framework is needed to enable further advances in this important area of study.
Publications
Shean T. McMahon and Isaac D. Scherson, "A Statistical Mechanical Approach to a Framework for Modeling Irregular Programs on Distributed or Cluster Computers". To appear, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium 2002, San Diego, USA, April 2002
D. Wangerin, C. DeCoro, L.M. Campos, H. Coyote, and I.D. Scherson "A Modular Client-Server Discrete Event Simulator for Networked Computers". To appear, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium 2002, San Diego, USA, April 2002.
H.D. Karatza and I.D. Scherson "Scheduling Job Classes in a Distributed System". Proceedings of SPECTS'2001, 2001 SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SCS, Orlando, Florida, July 2001, pp. 322-329.
Fabricio Silva and Isaac D. Scherson. "Simulation-based Average Case Analysis for Parallel Job Scheduling".
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Simulation Symposium, Seattle, April 2001.
Fabricio Silva and Isaac D. Scherson "Improving Parallel Job Scheduling Using Runtime Measurements
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Job Scheduling". Strategies for Parallel Processing , Cancun, Mexico, May 2000.
Professional Societies
IEEE
ACM
Last updated
02/26/2002