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  • 2006 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ron Brightwell is affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work emphasizes topics related to Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, as well as Advanced Data Storage Technologies.

Brightwell has contributed to publications in multiple scholarly venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • ACM Computing Surveys

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Brightwell are:

  • "Taking the MPI standard and the open MPI library to exascale," published in 2024 in The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • "A Survey on the Shared Address Space with Privatized Static Variables (SAS-PSV) Execution Model for the Many-Core Era," published in 2025 in ACM Computing Surveys

Frequent collaborators in their research include Scott Levy, Stephen L. Olivier, Kevin Pedretti, David E. Bernholdt, and George Bosilca. This indicates active collaboration within their specialized computing research community.

Recognized for their contributions to the field, Ron Brightwell was awarded the ACM Senior Member title in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the viability of process replication reliability for exascale systems

    Kurt Ferreira;Jon Stearley;James H. Laros;Ron Oldfield

  • Characterizing application sensitivity to OS interference using kernel-level noise injection

    Kurt B. Ferreira;Patrick Bridges;Ron Brightwell

  • Detection and correction of silent data corruption for large-scale high-performance computing

    David Fiala;Frank Mueller;Christian Engelmann;Rolf Riesen

  • Palacios and Kitten: New high performance operating systems for scalable virtualized and native supercomputing

    John Lange;Kevin Pedretti;Trammell Hudson;Peter Dinda

  • Detection and correction of silent data corruption for large-scale high-performance computing

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  • DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Subcommittee (ASCAC) Report: Top Ten Exascale Research Challenges

    Robert Lucas;James Ang;Keren Bergman;Shekhar Borkar

  • Software Architecture of the Light Weight Kernel, Catamount

    Suzanne M. Kelly;Ron Brightwell

  • SeaStar Interconnect: Balanced Bandwidth for Scalable Performance

    R. Brightwell;K.T. Predretti;K.D. Underwood;T. Hudson

  • MPI + MPI: a new hybrid approach to parallel programming with MPI plus shared memory

    Torsten Hoefler;James Dinan;Darius Buntinas;Pavan Balaji

  • Massively parallel computing using commodity components

    Ron Brightwell;Lee Ann Fisk;David S. Greenberg;Tramm Hudson

  • Portals 3.0: protocol building blocks for low overhead communication

    R. Brightwell;R. Riesen;B. Lawry;A.B. Maccabe

  • A Tale of Two Systems: Using Containers to Deploy HPC Applications on Supercomputers and Clouds

    Andrew J. Younge;Kevin Pedretti;Ryan E. Grant;Ron Brightwell

  • A hardware acceleration unit for MPI queue processing

    K.D. Underwood;K.S. Hemmert;A. Rodrigues;R. Murphy

  • An analysis of NIC resource usage for offloading MPI

    R. Brightwell;K.D. Underwood

  • The impact of MPI queue usage on message latency

    K.D. Underwood;R. Brightwell

  • SMARTMAP: operating system support for efficient data sharing among processes on a multi-core processor

    Ron Brightwell;Kevin Pedretti;Trammell Hudson

  • Designing and implementing lightweight kernels for capability computing

    Rolf Riesen;Ron Brightwell;Patrick G. Bridges;Trammell Hudson

  • sPIN: High-performance streaming Processing In the Network

    Torsten Hoefler;Salvatore Di Girolamo;Konstantin Taranov;Ryan E. Grant

  • Extreme Heterogeneity 2018 - Productive Computational Science in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity: Report for DOE ASCR Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity

    Jeffrey S Vetter;Ron Brightwell;Maya Gokhale;Pat McCormick

  • Hobbes: composition and virtualization as the foundations of an extreme-scale OS/R

    Ron Brightwell;Ron Oldfield;Arthur B. Maccabe;David E. Bernholdt

  • Accelerating Reed-Solomon coding in RAID systems with GPUs

    M.L. Curry;A. Skjellum;H.L. Ward;R. Brightwell

  • COMB: a portable benchmark suite for assessing MPI overlap

    W. Lawry;C. Wilson;A.B. Maccabe;R. Brightwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Mueller
Frank Mueller North Carolina State University
John Shalf
John Shalf Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dhabaleswar K. Panda
Dhabaleswar K. Panda The Ohio State University
Fabrizio Petrini
Fabrizio Petrini Intel (United States)
Michael A. Heroux
Michael A. Heroux Sandia National Laboratories
William Gropp
William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Clark R. Wilson
Clark R. Wilson The University of Texas at Austin
Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman Columbia University

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