In the news...

1. Professor Parashar presented a keynote at ACSW 2012 in Melbourne Australia titled "From Data to Insights - Addressing Data Challenges in Simulation-based Science"
2. Professor Parashar organized the 1st US/India Workshop on Virtual Institutes for Computational and Data-Enabled Science & Engineering (along with HiPC 2011) in Bangaluru, India, December 22-23, 2011.
3. Professor Parashar presented a keynote at UCC 2011 in Melbourne Australia titled "Can Clouds Transform Science? Exploring the Role of Clouds in Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering"
4. Top Cited Article 2005-2010 for "A Concise Introduction to Autonomic Computing," R. Sterritt, M. Parashar, H. Tianfield and R. Unland, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier Publishers, Vol, 19, No. 3, pp. 181-187, 2005.
5. Professor Parashar participated in a Congressional luncheon briefing The Cloud of Things: The Next Phase of Computing,held in conjunction with the Congressional Research & Development Caucus co-chaired by Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) and Rush Holt (D-N.J.) (Video)
6. DataSpaces/DART, CAC/TASSL contributions to ADIOS 1.3 featured in HPCwire
7. Professor Parashar featured in NEWS India TIMES
8. Professor Parashar, CometCloud/iCode, and the Rutgers/IBM/UT-Austin winning IEEE SCALE 2011 Demo featured in:
   1. RutgersToday
   2. ACM TechNews & Communications of the ACM
   3. HPC in the Cloud
   4. insideHPC
   5. Futurity
   6. Media Newswire
   7. ComputerWorld, Australia
   8. ComputerWorld, New Zealand
   9. Network World (Also in Spanish and Polish)
   10. IT World
   11. MacWorld
   12. CIO Peru
   13. BetaNews (English translation here)
   14. InfoWorld
   15. CIO
   16. idealog (NZ)
   17. PC World (Middle East)
   18. GenomeWeb
9. The rise of autonomic computing, International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), April 21, 2010.

Awards

1. BLUE GENE SNIFFS FOR BLACK GOLD IN THE CLOUD THANKS TO RUTGERS, IBM, AND UT AUSTIN -- The Rutgers/IBM/UT Austin team led by ECE Professor Manish Parashar was awarded first place in the IEEE SCALE 2011 Challenge for their demonstration titled "A Scalable Ensemble-based Oil-Reservoir Simulations using Blue Gene/P-as-a-Service". Details about this demo and the overall project can be found here.
2. The ACM Publications Board has voted to confirm Prof. Manish Parashar as the next co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). His co-Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Franco Zambonelli of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. This is a 3 year appointment. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems is the premiere journal focused on foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of computing systems exhibiting emergent, autonomic and adaptive behavior.
3. IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Manish Parashar to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2011, with the following citation: for contributions to parallel and distributed computing.
4. Professor Manish Parashar is among the recipients of the prestigious 2010 IBM Faculty Award, which recognizes outstanding faculty and promotes innovative and collaborative research in disciplines of mutual interest between IBM and university faculty. The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program. Dr. Parashar's specific award is to support research on "autonomic data management for data-intensive application workflows". Information about the IBM Faculty Awards program can be found here.

Recent Books

Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Applications
Manish Parashar,  Xiaolin Li,  Sumir Chandra
ISBN: 978-0-470-07294-3
Hardcover, 518 pages December 2009
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ WileyTitle/productCd- 0470072946.html

Autonomic Communication
Vasilakos, A.V.; Parashar, M.; Karnouskos, S.; Pedrycz, W. (Eds.)
ISBN: 978-0-387-09752-7
2010, XVIII, 374 p., Hardcover
http://www.springer.com/ computer/communications/book/ 978-0-387-09752-7

Recent Keynotes/Distringuished Talks

1. Cyberinfrastructure and Large Projects – The CIF21 Vision, Presentation at the NSF Project Science Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, November 2010.
2. Transforming Science through CyberInfrastructure, Seminar at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, November 2010.
3. Managing Interactions and Couplings in Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows, Supercomputing Professional Interest Community Seminar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, NY, September 2010.
4. Addressing Complexity in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems - Exploring the Role of Autonomic in Emerging Computational Applications, Distinguished SCI Seminar, The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institue, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2010.
5. Computational Science and Engineering & Clouds, 7th High Performance Grid Computing Workshop, In conjunction with (HPGC 2010), 24th International Parallel and Distributed Computing Symposium (IPDPS 2010), Atlanta, GA, USA, April 2010.
6. Addressing Complexity in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems - Exploring the Role of Autonomic in E-Science, 5th EGEE User Forum, Uppsala, Sweden, April 2010.
7. Addressing Complexity in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems - Experiments with Autonomic Computational Science, eSI Visitor Seminar, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, January 2010. (Link)
8. An Autonomic Cloud Engine for Pervasive Cloud Services, Workshop on Service Oriented Computing, 15 th IEEE/ACM Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Kochi, India, December 2009.
9. Transformation of Science through Cyberinfrastructure, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009), Summit 2009 and Open Grid Forum (OGF) 27, Banff, Canada, October, 2009. (Link)
10. Computational Science and Engineering in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems, 12 th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE-09), Vancouver, Canada, August 2009.
11. On the Role of Autonomic Computing in Emerging Grid Ecosystems, Grid Meets Autonomic Computing Workshop (GMAC'09), 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009), Barcelona, Spain, June 2009.

Recent Journal Papers

1. Cooperative Detection and Protection against Network Attacks Using Decentralized Information Sharing, G. Zhang and M. Parashar, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 67 – 86, 2010.
2. ASGrid: Autonomic Management of Hybrid Sensor Grid Systems and Applications, X. Li, X. Liu, H. Zhao, H. Zhao, N. Jiang, M. Parashar, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), InderScience Publishers, Vol. 6, Nos. 3/4, pp. 234-250, 2009.
3. Robust Clustering Analysis for the Management of Self-Monitoring Distributed Systems, A. Quiroz, N. Gnanasambandam, M. Parashar, and N. Sharma, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing , Kluwer Academic Publishers, (DOI:10.1007/s10586-008-0068- 5), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 73-85, 2009.

Recent Conference Papers

1. DataSpaces: An Interaction and Coordination Framework for Coupled Simulation Workflows, C. Docan, M. Parashar and S. Klasky, Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA June, 2010.

2. Exploring Adaptation to Support Dynamic Applications on Hybrid Grids-Clouds Infrastructure, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud 2010), co-located with the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA June, 2010.

3. Energy-Aware Online Provisioning for Virtualized Clouds and Data Centers, I. Rodero, J. Jaramillo, A. Quiroz, M. Parashar and F. Guim, Short Paper, Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA June, 2010.

4. Autonomic Policy Adaptation using Decentralized On Clustering, A. Quiroz, M. Parashar, N. Gnanasambandam, N. Sharma, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010) – Industry Track, Washington DC, USA, June 2010.

5. Experiments with Memory-to-Memory Coupling for End-to-End Fusion Simulation Workflows, C. Docan, M. Parashar, J. Cummings, N. Podhorszki, and S. Klasky, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May 2010.

6. Object-Oriented Stream Programming using Aspects, M. Wang and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 24 th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Atlanta, GA, USA, April 2010.

7. PreDatA - Preparatory Data Analytics on Peta-Scale Machines, F. Zheng, Hi Abbasi, C. Docan , J. Lofstead, S. Klasky, Q. Liu, M. Parashar, N. Podhorszki, K. Schwan, and M. Wolf, Proceedings of the 24 th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Atlanta, GA, USA, April 2010.

8. EFFIS: an End-to-end Framework for Fusion Integrated Simulation, J. Cummings, A. Sim, A.J. Shoshani, Jay Lofstead, K. Schwan, C. Docan, M. Parashar, S. Klasky, N. Podhorszki and R. Barreto, Proceedings of PDP 2010 - The 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Special session Grid and High Performance Computing for Nuclear Fusion Applications , Pisa, Italy, February 2010.

9. Cost vs. Performance of VaR on Accelerator Platforms, M. Majmudar, C. Docan, M. Parashar and C. Marty, Proceedings of the Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance (HPCF), in conjunction with Supercomputing 2009 (SC09), Portland, OR, November 2009.

10. ...And eat it too: High read performance in write-optimized HPC I/O middleware file formats, M. Polte, J. Lofstead, J. Bent, G. Gibson, S. A. Klasky, Q. Liu, M. Parashar, K. Schwan, M. Wolf, Proceedings of the 4 th Petascale Data Storage Workshop, in conjunction with Supercomputing 2009 , Portland, OR, USA, November 2009.

11. Plasma Fusion Code Coupling using Scalable I/O Services and Scientific Workflows, N. Podhorszki, S. Klasky, Q. Liu, C. Docan, M. Parashar, H. Abbasi, J. Lofstead, K. Schwan, M. Wolf, F. Zheng, and J. Cummings, Proceedings of the 4 th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, in conjunction with Supercomputing 2009 (SC09), Portland, OR, November 2009.

12. An Autonomic Approach to Integrated HPC Grid and Cloud Usage, H. Kim, Y. el-Khamra, S. Jha and M. Parashar, Proceedings of 5 th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2009) , Oxford, UK, December 2009.

13. Self-Adaptive Architectures for Autonomic Computational Science, S. Jha, M. Parashar and O. Rana, Proceedings of the Self-Organizing Architectures Workshop (SOARS 2009), to be held in conjunction with Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), Cambridge, UK, September, 2009.

14. Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed Applications and Production Grids, S. Jha, D. Katz, M. Parashar, O. Rana and J. Weissman, Proceedings of the 10 th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) , Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 1 – 8, October 2009. ) Judged as Best Paper.

15. Towards Autonomic Workload Provisioning for Enterprise Grids and Clouds, A. Quiroz, H. Kim, M. Parashar, N. Gnanasambandam and N. Sharma, Proceedings of the 10 th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) , Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 50 – 57, October 2009.

16. Investigating the Use of Cloudbursts for High Throughput Medical Image Registration, H. Kim, M. Parashar, D. Foran and L. Yang, Proceedings of the 10 th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) , Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 34 – 41,October 2009.

17. Programming GPU Accelerators with Aspects and Code Transformation, M. Wang and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures (PMEA), Co-located with the 18 th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Computer Society Press, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, September, 2009.

18. Investigating Autonomic Behaviors in Grid-Based Computational Science Applications, S. Jha, M. Parashar and O. Rana, Grid Meets Autonomic Computing Workshop (GMAC '09), Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication , Barcelona, Spain, June 2009.