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Albert I. Reuther, Ph.D., MBA

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I work in the Boston area at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Please email me (reuther at mit dot edu) if you want to know more about what I'm doing here

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Academics

Awards and Honors

Resume and Bio

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Publications and Presentations

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

Jeremy Kepner, William Arcand, Nadya Bliss, David Bestor, Chansup Byun, Matthew Hubbell, Peter Michaleas, Julie Mullen Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa & Charles Yee, “LLGrid: Supercomputer for Sensor Processing,” Contemporary HPC Architectures, Jeffrey Vetter, editor, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science, 2012.

J.I. Goodman, A.I. Reuther, and D.R. Martinez, “Next-Generation Technologies to Enable Sensor Networks,” a chapter in Pervasive Communications Handbook, Syed Ijlal Ali Shah, Mohammad Ilyas, and Hussein T. Mouftah, editors, CRC Press, January 2012.

A. Reuther and J. Kepner, “Rapid Prototyping of Radar Algorithms [Applications Corner],” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 26, issue 6, November 2009.

J. Mullen, N. Bliss, R. Bond, J. Kepner, H. Kim, and A. Reuther, "High-Productivity Software Development with pMatlab," IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, January/February 2009.

R.A. Bond and A.I. Reuther, "Radar Signal Processing: An Example of High Performance Embedded Computing,” a chapter in High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective, David Martinez, Robert Bond, and M. Michael Vai, editors, CRC Press, June 2008.

A.I. Reuther and H.G. Kim, “Parallel and Distributed Computing,” a chapter in High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective, David Martinez, Robert Bond, and M. Michael Vai, editors, CRC Press, June 2008.

S. Tichenor and A. Reuther, "Making the Business Case for High Performance Computing: A Benefit-Cost Analysis Methodology," CyberTechnology Watch Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4A, November 2006 A. Download: PDF Issue.

N. Travinin Bliss, R. Bond, J. Kepner, H. Kim, and A. Reuther, “Interactive Grid Computing at Lincoln Laboratory,” Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 16, Number 1, 2006. Abstracts. Download: PDF Paper

J.I. Goodman, A.I. Reuther, D.R. Martinez, “Next-Generation Technologies to Enable Sensor Networks,” a chapter in Smart Dust: Sensor Network Applications, Architecture, and Design, Imad Mahgoub and Mohammad Ilyas, editors, January 2006.

S. Ali, T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. Bölöni, M. Maheswaran, A. I. Reuther, J. P. Robertson, M. D. Theys, and B. Yao, “Characterizing resource allocation heuristics for heterogeneous computing systems,” a chapter in Parallel, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing, A. R. Hurson, ed., Vol. 63 of Advances in Computers, Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2005, pp. 91–128.

J.I. Goodman, A.I. Reuther, D.R. Martinez, “Distributed Networked Computing for Sensor Processing,” a chapter in Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems, Imad Mahgoub and Mohammad Ilyas, editors, CRC Press, 2004. 

T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. L. Boloni,  M. Maheswaran,  A. I. Reuther,  J. P. Robertson,  M. D. Theys, B. Yao, D. Hensgen, and  R. F. Freund, “A comparison of eleven static heuristics for mapping a class of independent tasks onto heterogeneous distributed computing systems,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 61, No. 6, June 2001, pp. 810-837.

Theses

Albert I. Reuther, Distributed Multimedia Proxy Cache Replacement Algorithms, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2000. Abstract, Purdue Archive. Download: PDF Dissertation, Purdue Archive Download

Albert I. Reuther, Analysis of Educational Multimedia Delivery: Current and Future Testbed Systems, Master's Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1996. Abstract - available soon.

Conference Articles and Technical Reports

Albert Reuther, Peter Michaleas, Andrew Prout & Jeremy Kepner, “HPC-VMs: Virtual Machines in High Performance Computing Systems,” IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Waltham, MA, September 10-12, 2012.

Chansup Byun, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Matthew Hubbell, Jeremy Kepner, Andrew McCabe, Peter Michaleas, Julie Mullen, David O'Gwynn, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa & Charles Yee, “Driving Big Data With Big Compute,” IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Waltham, MA, September 10-12, 2012.

Andrew Prout, William Arcand, David Bestor, Chansup Byun, Bill Bergeron, Matthew Hubbell, Jeremy Kepner, Andrew McCabe, Peter Michaleas, Julie Mullen, Albert Reuther & Antonio Rosa, “Scalable Cryptographic Authentication for High Performance Computing,” IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Waltham, MA, September 10-12, 2012.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, W. Bergeron, C. Byun, M. Hubbell, B. Landon, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, A. Prout, T. Rosa, D. Sherrill, A. Reuther & C. Yee, “Massive Database Analysis on the Cloud with D4M,” HPEC Workshop, Lexington, MA, September 21-22, 2011.

A. Reuther and J. Kepner, “Supercomputing: SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS,” HPCMP User's Group Conference,  Portland, OR, June 20-23, 2011.

C. Byun, J. Kepner, A. McCabe, W. Arcand, W. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, A. Reuther, and A. Rosa, “Benchmarking the MIT LL TX-Green System,” HPCMP User's Group Conference,  Portland, OR, June 20-23, 2011.

A. Reuther, W. Arcand, C. Byun, B. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, J. Kepner, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, and A. Prout, “DR&E LLGrid Portal: Interactive Supercomputing for DoD,” HPEC Workshop,  Lexington, MA, Sept. 15-16, 2010.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, C. Byun, B. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, and A. Reuther, “Persistent Surveillance Supercomputing in a Can,” HPEC Workshop,  Lexington, MA, Sept. 15-16, 2010.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, C. Byun, B. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, and A. Reuther, “DR&E LLGrid Portal Prototype,” In Proceedings of the HPCMP User's Group Conference, Chicago, IL, July 14-17, 2010.

C. Byun, J. Kepner, A. Reuther, P. Michaleas, V. Sachdeva, and K. Jordan, “pMatlab on Mega-Core Systems,” In Proceedings of the HPCMP User's Group Conference, Chicago, IL, July 14-17, 2010.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, C. Byun, B. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen and A. Reuther, “DR&E LLGrid Portal Prototype,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2010, Schaumburg, IL, 14-17 June 2010.

C. Byun, J. Kepner, P. Michaleas, and A. Reuther, “pMatlab on Cray XT and IBM Blue Gene Systems,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2010, Schaumburg, IL, 14-17 June 2010.

A. Reuther, J. Kepner, P. Michaleas, and W. Smith, “Cloud Computing – Where ISR Data Will Go for Exploitation,” High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Sept. 2009.

A. Reuther, J. Kepner, P. Michaleas, and W. Smith, "Cloud Supercomputing for Persistent Surveillance," In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2009, San Diego, CA, 14-18 June 2009.

A. Reuther, B. Arcand, T. Currie, A. Funk, J. Kepner, H. Kim, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, and P. Michaleas, "TX-2500 – An Interactive, On-Demand Rapid-Prototyping HPC System," High Perfomance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA 18-20 September 2007.

A.Reuther, A. Funk, J. Kepner, A. McCabe, W. Arcand, T.Currie, M. Hubbell, and P. Michaleas, “Benchmarking the MIT LL HPCMP DHPI System,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, 18-22 June 2007.

A.Reuther, J. Kepner, A. McCabe, J. Mullen, N.T. Bliss, and H. Kim, “Technical Challenges of Supporting Interactive HPC,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, 18-22 June 2007.

N. Bliss, J. Kepner, H. Kim, A. Reuther, "pMatlab: Parallel Matlab Library for Signal Processing Applications," Invited Talk, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Special Session on Parallel and Distributed MATLAB Applications in Signal and Image Processing (Chair: A. Krishnamurthy), Honolulu, Hawaii,April 17, 2007. 

J. Kepner, N. Bliss, H. Kim, A. McCabe and A. Reuther, 10 HPC Innovations with Parallel Matlab, Presented at Scatter/Gather (Chair: Ahalt) Supercomputing 2006, Tampa, FL, November 14, 2006.

L. Dean, S. Grad-Freilich, J. Kepner, and A. Reuther, “Tutorial: Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB,” SuperComputing 2005, Seattle, WA, 13 November 2005.

A.I. Reuther, T. Currie, J. Kepner, H.G. Kim, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, “Technology Requirements for Supporting On-Demand Interactive Grid Computing,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office Users Group Conference 2005, Nashville, TN, 27-30 June 2005.

J. Kepner, T. Currie, H. Kim, A. McCabe, B. Mathew, M. Moore, D. Rabinkin, A. Reuther, A. Rhoades, N. Travinin, and L. Tella, "Deployment of SAR and GMTI Signal Processing on a Boeing 707 Aircraft using pMatlab and a Bladed Linux Cluster," High Perfomance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA, 28-30 September 2004.

A. Reuther, T. Currie, J. Kepner, H. Kim, A. McCabe, M. Moore and N. Travinin, "LLgrid: Enabling On-Demand Grid Computing with gridMatlab and pMtalab," High Perfomance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA, 28-30 September 2004.

A.I. Reuther, T. Currie, J. Kepner, H.G. Kim, A. McCabe, M.P. Moore, N. Travinin, "On-Demand Grid Computing Using gridMatlab and pMatlab," In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office Users Group Conference 2004, Williamsburg, VA, 8 June 2004.

A.I. Reuther, J.O. McMahon, R. Bond, and L. Rudolph, "Optical Architecture Requirements Analysis," in Proceedings of GOMACTech 2004, Monterrey, CA, 15-18 March 2004.

A.I. Reuther and D.G. Meyer, "The Effect of Personality Type on the Usage of a Multimedia Engineering Education System," In Proceedings of the 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002. Download: PDF Paper and PDF Presentation.

J. Goodman, A. Reuther, R. Bond, H. Chan, H. Heggestad, and M. Seibert, "Discrete Optimization Using Decision-directed Learning for Distributed Networked Computing," In Conference Record of the Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol.2, pp. 1189-1196, 3-6 November 2002.

T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. L. Boloni, M.Maheswaran, A. I. Reuther, J. P. Robertson, M. D. Theys, B. Yao, D. Hensgen, and R. F. Freund, "A Comparison Study of Eleven Static Heuristics for Mapping a Class of Independent Tasks onto Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems," Technical Report, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, March 2000, TR-ECE 00-4, 57 pp.

T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. L. Boloni, M. Maheswaran, A. I. Reuther, J. P. Robertson, M. D. Theys, B. Yao, D. Hensgen, and R. F. Freund,"A comparison study of static mapping heuristics for a class of meta-tasks on heterogeneous computing systems," 8th IEEE Workshop on Heterogeneous Computing Systems (HCW '99), San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999, pp. 15--29.

T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. L. Boloni, M. Maheswaran, A. I. Reuther, J. P. Robertson, M. D. Theys, and B. Yao, "A taxonomy for describing matching and scheduling heuristics for mixed-machine heterogeneous computing systems," IEEE Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems (APADS '98) , West Lafayette, IN, October 1998 (included in the Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October 1998, pp. 330--335).

Albert I. Reuther and David G. Meyer, "Analysis of Daily Student Usage of an Educational Multimedia System," In 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1997, Paper No. 97-1203 (published on CD-ROM). Download: PDF Paper.

David G. Meyer, Chris C. Niessen, and Albert I. Reuther, "Experimental Multimedia-Delivered Course Formats," 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1997, Paper No. 97-1197 (published on CD-ROM). Download: PDF Paper.

Albert I. Reuther and David G. Meyer, "The AVJ Instructional Multimedia Testbed System: Analysis of Student Usage Patterns," 1997 ASEE Illinois/Indiana Sectional Conference Proceedings, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1997. Download: PDF Paper.

Presentations, Posters, and Other Publications

A. Reuther, “What’s Coming in the Future: Information Technology Keynote Panel at AFCEA TechNet MidAmerica Conference 2012, Collinsville, IL, July 17, 2012.

Jeremy Kepner, Bill Arcand, Bill Bergeron, David Bestor, Chansup Byun, Suvendra Dutta, Matt Hubbell, Tom Klemas, Pete Michaleas, Julie Mullen, Andy Prout, Albert Reuther, Tony Rosa & Charles Yee, “Big Data Processing Architectures,” LISC Next Generation Imaging Workshop, Dedham, MA, May 22, 2012.

A. Reuther, “Lincoln HPC Activities,” Presentation at the IC HPC Consortium, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, November 30, 2011.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, C. Byun, W. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, A. Reuther, and A. Rosa, “Persistent Surveillance Supercomputing: MIT LL DHPI Year 1 Update,” Presentation at the HPCMP User's Group Conference, Portland, OR, June 20-23, 2011.

A. Reuther, “System Architectures for Handling Large Datasets,” LISC Next Generation Imaging Workshop, Dedham, MA, May 24, 2011.

M. Alexander, M. Vai, T. Emberley, S. Mooney, A. Reuther, and J. Rizzari, “Development of a Real-Time Parallel UHF SAR Image Processor,” Poster at the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Sept. 15-16, 2010.

A. Reuther, “Open system Readiness Levels (ORL) Strawman,” presented at Avionics Domain Open Architecture Working Group, 9 November 2010.

A. Reuther and J. Kepner, “Next Generation Cloud Security,” invited talk at the InfraGard Professional Development Lectures, Boston University, Nov. 3, 2010.

J. Kepner, W. Arcand, C. Byun, B. Bergeron, M. Hubbell, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, J. Mullen, and A. Reuther, “Persistent Surveillance Supercomputing: MIT LL DHPI Year 0 Update,” HPCMP User's Group Conference,  Chicago, IL, July 14-17, 2010.

A. Reuther, J. Kepner, P. Michaleas, and W. Smith, "Cloud Supercomputing for Persistent Surveillance," In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2009, San Diego, CA, 14-18 June 2009.

J. Kepner, A.Reuther, A. McCabe, J. Mullen, N.T. Bliss, and H. Kim, MIT Lincoln Laboratory DHPI System Technical Update,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2009, San Diego, CA, 14-18 June 2009.

A. Reuther, J. Kepner, and A. McCabe, "LLGrid: An Interactive, On-Demand HPC System," Poster presented at the High Performance Computer Science Week Symposium 2008, Denver, CO, April 2, 2008.

A. Reuther, "Rapid Prototyping in Parallel Matlab," Parallel Computing with MATLAB Workshop at Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV, November 12, 2007.

J. Kepner, A.Reuther, A. McCabe, J. Mullen, N.T. Bliss, and H. Kim, MIT Lincoln Laboratory DHPI System Technical Update,” In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) Users Group Conference (UGC) 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, 18-22 June 2007.

A. Reuther and M. Arakawa, “The HPEC Workshop: A Historical Perspective,” Poster presented at the High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop (HPEC) 2006, Lexington, MA. 

A.I. Reuther, "Interactive, On-Demand Parallel Computing with pMatlab and gridMatlab on LLGrid," Presentation at the Platform Grid Conference 2006, San Francisco, CA, 7 September 2006. Agenda.

A.I. Reuther, “LLGrid: On-Demand, Interactive Enterprise Grid Computing,” Presentation at the MathWorks Aerospace and Defense Conference, Reston, VA, 15 June 2006.

A. Reuther, H. Kim, and S. Grad-Freilich, "Tutorial: Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB," DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Office Users Group Conference, Denver, CO, 26 June 2006.

L. Dean, S. Grad-Freilich, J. Kepner, and A. Reuther, “Tutorial: Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB,” SuperComputing 2005, Seattle, WA, 13 November 2005.

A.I. Reuther, T. Currie, J. Kepner, H.G. Kim, A. McCabe, P. Michaleas, N. Travinin, “Enabling Interactive, On-Demand High Performance Computing,” Poster presented at IEEE CLUSTERS 2005, San Diego, CA, 26-29 September 2005.

A.I. Reuther, “LLGrid: On-Demand, Interactive Enterprise Grid Computing,” Presentation to the FFRDC CIO Meeting at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 14 September 2005.

J. Kepner, A. Reuther, H. Kim, and N. Travinin, pMatlab, Invited talk, PGAS Programming Models Conference, Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), 2005, Sep 13, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 13, 2005. 

J. Nehrbass and A. Reuther, “Birds-of-a-Feather session for parallel MATLAB,” DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Office Users Group Conference, Nashville, TN, 30 June 2005. 

J. Kepner, A. Reuther, and H. Kim, Parallel Programming in Matlab Tutorial, Invited talk, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis, MN, June 1, 2005.

J. Kepner, A. Reuther, H. Kim, and N. Travinin, Parallel Matlab: Current Achievements and Future Challenges, Invited talk, Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), Minneapolis, MN, May 27, 2005.

J. Kepner, A. Reuther, and N. Travinin, "Parallel Matlab: Current Achievements and Future Challenges," Ohio Supercomputing Center Minisymposium on Parallel Matlab at SuperComputing 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, 6-12 November 2004.

R. Haney, H. Kim, A. Funk, J. Kepner, C. Rader, A. Reuther and N. Travinin, "pMatlab Takes the HPCchallenge," Poster presented at the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA, 28-30 September 2004.

A. Reuther, R. Bond, J. Kepner, H. Kim, and N. Travinin, "Making HPC Programming Easy With pMatlab," HPC User Forum, Tucson, Arizona, 21-22 September 2004.

A.I. Reuther, T. Currie, J. Kepner, H.G. Kim, A. McCabe, M.P. Moore, N. Travinin, "On-Demand Grid Computing Using gridMatlab and pMatlab," Poster presented at CLUSTERS 2004, San Diego, CA, 20-24 September 2004.

A.I. Reuther, "On-Demand High Performance Grid Computing," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Division Seminar, 18 September 2004.

A.I. Reuther and J.I. Goodman, "Dynamic Resource Management for a Sensor-Fusion Application via Distributed Parallel Grid Computing," Poster presented at the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA, September 2003.

A.I. Reuther, J.O. McMahon, and R.A. Bond, "Optical Interconnects: Application Analysis and Architectural Requirements Study," Presentation at the DARPA/MTO Chip-to-Chip Optical Interconnect (C2OI) Kickoff Conference, Chantilly,VA, 23 June 2003.

A.I. Reuther and J.I. Goodman, "Resource Management for Digital Signal Processing via Distributed Parallel Computing," Poster presented at the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop, Lexington, MA, 25 September 2002.

Articles and Press Releases

22 Aug 2008 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2500 achieves 0.5 Petabytes using pMatlabXVM, Press Release, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Apr 2008 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory activates 1500-processor interactive parallel computing system, Press Release, MIT Lincoln Laboratory. 

14 Jun, 2007 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory Activates LLGrid, Press Release, HPCWire.

19 Jan, 2007 - The New HPC, Michael Feldman, HPCWire.

17 Nov, 2005 - The MathWorks Demonstrates Strong Presence at Supercomputing 2005, Press Release, The MathWorks.

13 Oct, 2005 - MIT Lincoln Researchers Release pMatlab, Press Release, HPCWire.

1 Oct, 2004 - HPC User Forum Explores Current State of HPC, HPCWire.

4 May 2000 - Recruit Raw Talent on a College Campus, TechRepublic.com



Last updated: 1/19/2013