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Publications & Talks

Thanks to the support of our users, this work has facilitated the following publications:

Travis Desell, David P. Anderson, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos A. Varela. An Analysis of Massively Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. In the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010. To Appear.
Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos A. Varela, Heidi Newberg and David P. Anderson. Validating Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Grids. In the Proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2010), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2010. To Appear.
Nathan Cole, Travis Desell, Daniel Lombranaa Gonzalez, Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos Varela. Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Platforms: The MilkyWay@Home Project. In F. Fernandez de Vega, E. Cantu-Paz (Eds.): Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence, SCI 269, pp 63-90. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 2010
Travis Desell. Asynchronous Global Optimization for Massive-Scale Computing. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2009
Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Heidi Newberg and Nathan Cole. Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids. In the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience2009), Oxford, UK, pages 263-270, December 2009.
Travis Desell, Anthony Waters, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Matthew Newby, Heidi Newberg, Andreas Przystawik and Dave Anderson. Accelerating the MilkyWay@Home volunteer computing project with GPUs. In 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009), Wroclaw, Poland, September 2009. To appear.
Nathan Cole. Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2009.
Nathan Cole, Heidi Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos A. Varela, Benjamin Willett, and James Wisniewski. Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails. Astrophysical Journal, 683:750-766, 2008.
Travis Desell, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. An Asynchronous Hybrid Genetic-Simplex Search for Modeling the Milky Way Galaxy using Volunteer Computing. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), Atlanta, Georgia, pages 921-928, July 2008.
Travis Desell, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. Asynchronous Genetic Search for Scientific Modeling on Large-Scale Heterogeneous Environments. In Proceedings of the 17th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW/IPDPS'08), Miami, FL, pages 12pp, April 2008. IEEE.
Boleslaw Szymanski, Travis Desell, and Carlos A. Varela. The Effect of Heterogeneity on Asynchronous Panmictic Genetic Search. In Proc. of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2007), LNCS, Gdansk, Poland, September 2007.
Travis Desell, Nathan Cole, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. Distributed and Generic Maximum Likelihood Evaluation. In 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience2007), Bangalore, India, pages 337-344, December 2007. Best paper finalist.

And given the following public talks:

From Analyzing the Tuberculosis Genome to Modeling the Milky Way Galaxy: Using Volunteer Computing for Computational Science. [ppt] [keynote]. Public Talk. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. November 2010.
Travis Desell. MilkyWay@Home and Volunteer Computing at RPI. [ppt] [keynote]. RPI Center for Open Source Software (RCOSS). RPI, Troy, New York, USA. April 2010.
Matthew Newby. The Maximum Likelihood Problem and Fitting the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream. [ppt] RPI Astrophysics Seminar. RPI, Troy, New York, USA. October 2009.
Boleslaw Szymanski. Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids [ppt]. The 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2009). Oxford, UK. December 2009.
Travis Desell. Asynchronous Global Optimization for Massive-Scale Computing [ppt] [keynote]. PhD Defense. RPI, Troy, New York, USA. November 2009.
Travis Desell. Robust Asynchronous Optimization using Volunteer Computing Grids [ppt] [keynote]. 5th Annual Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop. Barcelona, Spain. October 2009.
Carlos Varela. Enabling Synchronous Computation on Volunteer Computing Grids [pdf]. The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, September 2008. Video available.

Support

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers 0612213, 0607618, 0448407 and 1009670.

Stars and Dark Matter in the Halo of the Milky Way, NSF AST Grant # 1009670, started 09/15/2010. Principal Investigator: Heidi Newberg.
Data-Driven Discovery of the Milky Way Origin and Evolution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, NSF IIS Grant #0612213, started 07/26/2006. Principal Investigators: Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos Varela.
Revealing the Structure of the Galactic Halo through Statistical Analysis - Middle School Teacher Training, NSF AST Grant #0607618, started 07/15/2006. Prinicpal Investigators: Heidi Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail.
Middleware and Programming Technology for Grid Computing, NSF CAREER Grant #0448407, started 01/21/2005. Principal Investigator: Carlos Varela.

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