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  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Pete Beckman is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of computer science, with a focus on several subfields including artificial intelligence, global and planetary change, computer networks and communications, computer vision and pattern recognition, and hardware and architecture.

Their work covers multiple topics, especially in parallel computing and optimization techniques, solar radiation and photovoltaics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, cloud computing and resource management, distributed and parallel computing systems, human mobility and location-based analysis, and smart cities and technologies.

Beckman has published papers in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to the following publication outlets:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
  • Atmosphere

Among their recent papers are:

  • Prediction of Solar Irradiance and Photovoltaic Solar Energy Product Based on Cloud Coverage Estimation Using Machine Learning Methods, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Measuring Cities with Software-Defined Sensors, 2020, Journal of Social Computing
  • Hands-On Computer Science: The Array of Things Experimental Urban Instrument, 2022, Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Goal-driven scheduling model in edge computing for smart city applications, 2022, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action, 2022, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Frequent collaborators in Beckman's research include Rajesh Sankaran, Nicola Ferrier, Seongha Park, Yongho Kim, and Scott Collis.

In terms of recognition, Beckman was named an ACM Senior Member in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The International Exascale Software Project roadmap

    Jack Dongarra;Pete Beckman;Terry Moore;Patrick Aerts

  • TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications

    Charlie Catlett;William E. Allcock;Phil Andrews;Ruth A. Aydt

  • Distributed pC++ Basic Ideas for an Object Parallel Language

    François Bodin;Peter Beckman;Dennis Gannon;Srinivas Narayana

  • Toward loosely coupled programming on petascale systems

    Ioan Raicu;Zhao Zhang;Mike Wilde;Ian Foster

  • Argobots: A Lightweight Low-Level Threading and Tasking Framework

    Sangmin Seo;Abdelhalim Amer;Pavan Balaji;Cyril Bordage

  • ZOID: I/O-forwarding infrastructure for petascale architectures

    Kamil Iskra;John W. Romein;Kazutomo Yoshii;Pete Beckman

  • Big data and extreme-scale computing: Pathways to Convergence-Toward a shaping strategy for a future software and data ecosystem for scientific inquiry

    M. Asch;T. Moore;R. Badia;M. Beck

  • Portable profiling and tracing for parallel, scientific applications using C++

    Sameer Shende;Allen D. Malony;Janice Cuny;Peter Beckman

  • Machine Learning-Based Temperature Prediction for Runtime Thermal Management Across System Components

    Kaicheng Zhang;Akhil Guliani;Seda Ogrenci-Memik;Gokhan Memik

  • Implementing a parallel C++ runtime system for scalable parallel systems

    A. Malony;B. Mohr;P. Beckman;D. Gannon

  • Parallel Scripting for Applications at the Petascale and Beyond

    M. Wilde;I. Foster;K. Iskra;P. Beckman

  • Towards Loosely-Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems

    Ioan Raicu;Zhao Zhang;Mike Wilde;Ian Foster

  • Array of things: a scientific research instrument in the public way: platform design and early lessons learned

    Charles E. Catlett;Peter H. Beckman;Rajesh Sankaran;Kate Kusiak Galvin

  • Benchmarking the effects of operating system interference on extreme-scale parallel machines

    Pete Beckman;Kamil Iskra;Kazutomo Yoshii;Susan Coghlan

  • The Influence of Operating Systems on the Performance of Collective Operations at Extreme Scale

    Pete Beckman;Kamil Iskra;Kazutomo Yoshii;Susan Coghlan

  • The International Exascale Software Project: a Call To Cooperative Action By the Global High-Performance Community

    Jack Dongarra;Pete Beckman;Patrick Aerts;Frank Cappello

  • SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Urgent High-Performance Computing

    Peter H. Beckman;Suman Nadella;Nick Trebon;Ivan Beschastnikh

  • Making a case for distributed file systems at Exascale

    Ioan Raicu;Ian T. Foster;Pete Beckman

  • CIFTS: A Coordinated Infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Systems

    Rinku Gupta;Pete Beckman;Byung-Hoon Park;Ewing Lusk

  • The Inca Test Harness and Reporting Framework

    Shava Smallen;Catherine Olschanowsky;Kate Ericson;Pete Beckman

  • Prediction of Solar Irradiance and Photovoltaic Solar Energy Product Based on Cloud Coverage Estimation Using Machine Learning Methods

    Seongha Park;Yongho Kim;Nicola J. Ferrier;Scott M. Collis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Foster
Ian Foster University of Chicago
Ioan Raicu
Ioan Raicu Illinois Institute of Technology
Dennis Gannon
Dennis Gannon Indiana University
Allen D. Malony
Allen D. Malony University of Oregon
Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia
Michael Wilde
Michael Wilde Argonne National Laboratory
Laxmikant V. Kale
Laxmikant V. Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Alok Choudhary
Alok Choudhary Northwestern University
William Gropp
William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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