BSP3000: BSP activities in the new millenium

Active research groups

• David Bader (dbader "at" eece.unm.edu), High Performance Computing Laboratory, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
  Computational Biology, SIMPLE programming model.
• Rob Bisseling (Rob.Bisseling "at" math.uu.nl), Mathematics Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
  Sparse matrix computations, FFTs.
  Software BSPEDUpack, educational scientific computation library. Mondriaan, partitioning software for sparse matrix computations.
• Edson Cáceres (edson "at" dct.ufms.br), Grupo de Algoritmos Paralelos e Distribudos, Departamento de Computacao e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande - MS - Brasil.
  Graph algorithms. BSP and CGM model. (Mostly in Portuguese.)
• Christophe Cérin (cerin "at" laria.u-picardie.fr), Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, LaRIA, Amiens, France.
  Sorting on clusters using BSP.
• Frank Dehne (F.Dehne "at" griffith.edu.au), School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
  Coarse Grained Multicomputer (CGM) model, parallel geometric computing, parallel Clustal for bioinformatics.
• Alexandros Gerbessiotis (alexg "at" oak.njit.edu), Computer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA.
  Parallel algorithms in finance, matrix computations using BSP.
  Software , for easy set up of BSPlib and LAM-MPI communications libraries on PC cluster. Application software (option pricing, dense matrix computations) in BSPlib and MPI-LAM, both based on one-sided communications.
• Alfredo Goldman (gold "at" ime.usp.br), Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brasil.
  Intergrade, middleware project for grid computing where the main parallel model used is BSP
• Gaétan Hains (gaetan "at" hains.org), Computer Science Laboratory LACL, Université Paris-12, France.
  High-level languages and libraries
  
• Jens Gustedt (Jens.Gustedt "at" loria.fr), LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France.
  PRO (parallel resource optimal) model, which is a restriction of BSP. SSCRAP communication library. Algorithms for the Grid
• Konrad Hinsen (hinsen "at" cnrs-orleans.fr), Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) , Orleans, France.
  Parallel Molecular Dynamics using BSP.
  Scientific Python, BSP style Python library with interfaces to BSPlib and MPI (version 2.4, release July 1, 2002)
  
• Chun-Hsi (Vincent) Huang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
  BSP algorithms for irregular problems. MPI implementations.
• Christoph Kessler (chrke "at" ida.liu.se), PELAB - Programming Environments Laboratory, Software and Systems Division Institutionen för datavetenskap, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping, Sweden.
  NestStep, a MIMD parallel programming language based on the BSP model, supporting shared variables and nested parallelism.
• Slava Kokoouline, JILA, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO, USA. Parallel simulation of collisions of cold atoms using BSPlib and Fortran 90, run on supercomputers of NERSC.
• Frédéric Loulergue (frederic.loulergue "at" univ-orleans.fr), Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO) Université d'Orléans, France.
  Structured parallel programming (semantics and implementation), algorithms for parallel databases, cost modeling of parallel and distributed virtual reality applications, parallel algorithms for verification. Functional programming based on BSP: BSML-lib.
• Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (fmadh "at" upb.de), Olaf Bonorden (bono "at" upb.de), and Joachim Gehweiler (joge "at" upb.de), Algorithms and Complexity Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany.
  Paderborn PUB library. An extension of BSPlib. (Release 8.0, 2007)
  Paderborn University BSP-based Web Computing Library (PUBWCL). System for executing parallel algorithms according to the BSP model. Designed for use on PCs and workstations distributed all over the Internet. (Release 2.1, 2007)
• David Skillicorn (skill "at" cs.queensu.ca), Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  Data mining using BSP
• Alex Tiskin (Alexandre.Tiskin "at" dcs.warwick.ac.uk), Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK.
  design of efficient BSP algorithms; advanced programming models based on BSP.

BSP in the previous millenium