2026 Andrew S. Grimshaw: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9091	8830	3864	3706	166	10787

Overview

Andrew S. Grimshaw is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with notable contributions across several subfields.

The scientist's work spans these main subfields of study:

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems
Information Systems and Management
Oncology

Key research topics covered in their publications include:

Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Research Data Management Practices
Big Data Technologies and Applications
Teaching and Learning Programming

Grimshaw has contributed to various publication venues, frequently appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Endoscopy
The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
Hematology Transfusion and Cell Therapy

Their recent papers include:

Resource-aware research on Universe and Matter: call-to-action in digital transformation, 2024, The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Launchpad: Learning to Schedule Using Offline and Online RL Methods, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
RARE: Renewable Energy Aware Resource Management in Datacenters, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Resource-aware Research on Universe and Matter: Call-to-Action in Digital Transformation, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
HighP5: Programming using Partitioned Parallel Processing Spaces, 2024, Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Throughout their research career, Grimshaw has collaborated frequently with:

Vanamala Venkataswamy
Jake Grigsby
Yanjun Qi
B. Brüers
Markus Demleitner

Best Publications

XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery

John Towns;Timothy Cockerill;Maytal Dahan;Ian T. Foster

3560
Citations
The Legion vision of a worldwide virtual computer

Andrew S. Grimshaw;Wm. A. Wulf

1151
Citations
Scalable GPU graph traversal

Duane Merrill;Michael Garland;Andrew Grimshaw

678
Citations
Easy-to-use object-oriented parallel processing with Mentat

Andrew S. Grimshaw

373
Citations
The Legion Resource Management System

Steve J. Chapin;Dimitrios Katramatos;John F. Karpovich;Andrew S. Grimshaw

358
Citations
Legion: The Next Logical Step Toward a Nationwide Virtual Computer

Andrew S. Grimshaw;William A. Wulf;James C. French;Alfred C. Weaver

295
Citations
The core Legion object model

M. Lewis;A. Grimshaw

261
Citations
HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SCALABLE RADIX SORTING: A CASE STUDY OF IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC PARALLELISM FOR GPU COMPUTING

Duane Merrill;Andrew S. Grimshaw

261
Citations
Revisiting sorting for GPGPU stream architectures

Duane G. Merrill;Andrew S. Grimshaw

240
Citations
Resource Management in Legion

Steve J. Chapin;Dimitrios Katramatos;John Karpovich;Andrew S. Grimshaw

224
Citations
Legion-a view from 50,000 feet

A.S. Grimshaw;W.A. Wulf

222
Citations
Wide area computing: resource sharing on a large scale

A. Grimshaw;A. Ferrari;F. Knabe;M. Humphrey

162
Citations
Metasystems: An Approach Combining Parallel Processing and Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems

Andrew S. Grimshaw;Jon B. Weissman;Emily A. West;Edmond C. Loyot

159
Citations
Legion: An Operating System for Wide-Area Computing

A. Grimshaw;A. Ferrari;F. Knabe;M. Humphrey

143
Citations
LegionFS: A Secure and Scalable File System Supporting Cross-Domain High-Performance Applications

Brian S. White;Michael Walker;Marty Humphrey;Andrew S. Grimshaw

140
Citations
High-Performance and Scalable GPU Graph Traversal

Duane Merrill;Michael Garland;Andrew Grimshaw

133
Citations
The Legion Grid Portal

Anand Natrajan;Anh Nguyen-Tuong;Marty A. Humphrey;Michael Herrick

106
Citations
Extensible file system (ELFS): an object-oriented approach to high performance file I/O

John F. Karpovich;Andrew S. Grimshaw;James C. French

97
Citations
Parallel Scan for Stream Architectures

Andrew Grimshaw;Duane Merrill

95
Citations
Studying protein folding on the Grid: experiences using CHARMM on NPACI resources under Legion

Anand Natrajan;Michael Crowley;Nancy Wilkins-Diehr;Marty A. Humphrey

94
Citations
JobQueue: A Computational Grid-Wide Queueing System

Dimitrios Katramatos;Marty Humphrey;Andrew S. Grimshaw;Steve J. Chapin

7
Citations
WS-Naming: location migration, replication, and failure transparency support for Web Services

Andrew Grimshaw;Mark Morgan;Karolina Sarnowska

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marty Humphrey University of Virginia

William A. Wulf University of Virginia

Ian Foster University of Chicago

William R. Pearson University of Virginia

Michael Garland Nvidia (United States)

Steven Tuecke University of Chicago

John N. Weinstein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Borries Demeler University of Lethbridge

John C. Knight University of Virginia

Keshav Pingali The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

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