Journal Articles

Apan Qasem and Joshua Magee. Improving TLB performance on current chip multiprocessor architectures through demand-driven superpaging. Software Practice and Experience (SPE), 2012.
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Santosh Sarangkar and Apan Qase. Mats: A model-driven adaptive tuning system for parallel workloads. Journal of Parallel and Cloud Computing (JPCC), 1(2), 2012.
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Apan Qasem. High-level language extensions for fast execution of pipeline-parallelized code on current chip multi-processor systems. International Journal of Programming Languages and Applications (IJPLA) [In Press], 2(3), 2012.
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Apan Qasem. Architectural considerations for compiler-guided unroll-and-jam of cuda kernels. American Journal of Computer Architecture, 1(2), 2012.
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Apan Qasem. Autotuning strategies for reducing synchronization costs in multithreaded kernels. Journal of Systems and Software, 2(4), 2012.
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Hammad Rashid, Clara Novoa, Mark McKenney, and Apan Qasem. Efficient parallel solutions to the integral knapsack problem on current chip-multiprocessor systems. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), 27(1):19-44, 2012.
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Apan Qasem and Ken Kennedy. Model-guided empirical tuning of loop fusion. International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHPSA), 1(3):183-198, 2008.
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Apan Qasem, Ken Kennedy, and John M. Mellor-Crummey. Automatic tuning of whole applications using direct search and a performance-based transformation system. The Journal of Supercomputing, 36(2):183-196, 2006.
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Conference and Workshop Papers

Apan Qasem, Michael Jason Cade, and Dan Tamir. Improved energy efficiency for multithreaded kernels through model-based autotuning. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Green Technology Conferenc (GTC12), 2012.
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Swapneela Unkule, Christopher Shaltz, and Apan Qasem. Automatic restructuring of GPU kernels for exploiting inter-thread data locality. In Proc. Int'l. Conf. on Compiler Construction (CC12), pages 21-40, 2012.
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Apan Qasem. Efficient execution of time-step computations with pipelined parallelism and inter-thread data locality optimizaitions. In Proceedings of the 2012 PPOPP International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM12), pages 27-35, 2012.
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Apan Qasem and Dan Tamir. Memory performance diagnosis through feedback synthesis. In Proceeding of the Workshop on Feedback-Directed Compiler Optimization for Multi-Core Architectures (COMA12 a HIPEAC workshop), 2012.
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Faizur Rahman, Qing Yi, and Apan Qasem. Understanding stencil code performance on multicore architectures. In Conf. Computing Frontiers (CF11), page 30, 2011.
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Swapneela Unkule and Apan Qasem. Regisxter pressure aware code transformations on GPU. In 24th International Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis - Companion Volume (SC11), pages 19-20, 2011.
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Clara Novoa, Apan Qasem, Hammad Rashid, and Mark McKenney. Dynamic programming solutions for the integral knapsack problem on multicore architectures, (extended abstract). In 11th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, (ICS11), 2011.
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Santosh Sarangkar and Apan Qasem. Intelligent feedback for fast and effective autotuning, (extended poster abstract). In 23rd International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis - Companion Volume (SC10), 2010.
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Qing Yi, Jichi Guo, and Apan Qasem. Evaluating the role of optimization-specific search heuristics in effective autotuning (short paper). In 23rd International Workshop Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC10), 2010.
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Apan Qasem. Locality-conscious superpaging for improved tlb behavior of stencil computations. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS10), 2010.
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Qing Yi, Santosh Sarangkar, and Apan Qasem. Improving autotuning effciency and portability through feedback diagnostics. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning (iWAPT10), 2010.
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Hammad Rashid, Clara Novoa, and Apan Qasem. An evaluation of parallel knapsack algorithms on multicore architectures. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC10), pages 230-235, 2010.
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Santosh Sarangkar and Apan Qasem. Restructuring parallel loops to curb false sharing on multicore architectures. In 24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS Workshops), pages 1-7, 2010.
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Apan Qasem, Jichi Guo, Faizur Rahman, and Qing Yi. Exposing tunable parameters in multi-threaded numerical code. In Network and Parallel Computing, IFIP International Conference, (NPC10), pages 46-60, 2010.
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Joshua Magee and Apan Qasem. A case for compiler-driven superpage allocation. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, (ACMSE09), 2009.
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Michael Jason Cade and Apan Qasem. Balancing locality and parallelism on shared-cache mulit-core systems. In 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC09), pages 188-195, 2009.
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Qing Yi and Apan Qasem. Exploring the optimization space of dense linear algebra kernels. In 21st International Workshop Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC08), pages 343-355, 2008.
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Apan Qasem. Evaluating an early-stop criterion and a statistical pruning strategy of the optimization search space. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), pages 506-510, 2008.
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Apan Qasem and Ken Kennedy. Pruning the optimization search space using architectureaware cost models. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches Applied to Architecture and Compilation (SMART07), 2007.
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Apan Qasem and Ken Kennedy. Profitable loop fusion and tiling using model-driven empirical search. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), pages 249-258, 2006.
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Apan Qasem and Ken Kennedy. A cache-conscious profitability model for empirical tuning of loop fusion. In 18th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, (LCPC), pages 106-120, 2005.
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Apan Qasem, Ken Kennedy, and John Mellor-Crummey. Automatic tuning of whole applications using direct search and a performance-based transformation system. In Proceedings of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute 5th Annual Symposium (LACSI04), 2004.
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Robert Fowler, John Mellor-Crummey, Guohua Jin, and Apan Qasem. A source-to-source loop transformation tool (extended poster abstract). In Proceedings of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute 3rd Annual Symposium (LACSI02), 2002.
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Apan Qasem, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan, and Robert van Engelen. Using a swap instruction to coalesce loads and stores. In 7th International Euro-Par Conference Parallel Processing, (EuroPar01), pages 235-240, 2001.
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Technical Reports

Apan Qasem and Ken Kennedy, Evaluating a Model for Cache Conflict Miss Prediction, Technical Report CS-TR05-457, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University, Jul 2005.
Apan Qasem, Guohua Jin and John Mellor-Crummey, Improving Performance with Integrated Program Transformations, Technical Report CS-TR03-419, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University, Oct 2003.

Theses

Hammad Rashid, Parallel Knapsack Algorithms on Multicore Architectures, Masters Thesis, (Advisor: Apan Qasem), Texas State University, May 2010.
Joshua A. Magee, Automated Compiler Driven Superpage Allocation and its Applications, Masters Thesis, (Advisor: Apan Qasem), Texas State University, Dec 2008.
Michael Jason Cade, Balancing Data Locality and Parallelism for Improved Application Performance on Multi-core Platforms, Masters Thesis, (Advisor: Apan Qasem), Texas State University, Dec 2008.
Apan Qasem, Automatic Tuning of Scientific Applications, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rice University, Jul 2007.
Apan Qasem, Using a Swap Instruction to Reduce Memory Accesses in Applications, Masters Thesis, Florida State University, May 2001.

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