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Journals

  1. Thilina Gunarathne, Tak-Lon Wu, Jon Youl Choi, Seung-Hee Bae and Judy Qiu. Cloud computing paradigms for pleasingly parallel biomedical applications. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1780
  2. Jaliya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, Judy Qiu. Cloud Technologies for Bioinformatics Applications, Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.22, no.6, pp.998-1011, June 2011. doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2010.178
  3. Thilina Gunarathne, Bimalee Salpitikorala, Arun Chauhan and Geoffrey Fox. Iterative Statistical Kernels on Contemporary GPUs, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Special Issue on: GPUs and Accelerators for Scientific Applications. (Invited paper, Currently under review)(pdf)
  4. Thilina Gunarathne, BingJing Zang, Tak-Lon Wu and Judy Qiu. Scalable Parallel Scientific Computing Using Twister4Azure, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems. (Invited as one of the best 6 papers of UCC 2011, Currently under review) (pdf)

conferences & workshops

  1. Thilina Gunarathne, BingJing Zang, Tak-Lon Wu and Judy Qiu. Portable Parallel Programming on Cloud and HPC: Scientific Applications of Twister4Azure. In Proceedings of the forth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) , Melbourne, Australia. 2011. pp. 97-104
  2. Thilina Gunarathne, Bimalee Salpitikorala, Arun Chauhan and Geoffrey Fox. Optimizing OpenCL Kernels for Iterative Statistical Algorithms on GPUs. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on GPUs and Scientific Applications (GPUScA), Galveston Island, TX. 2011.
  3. Thilina Gunarathne, Tak-Lon Wu, Judy Qiu and Geoffrey Fox. MapReduce in the Clouds for Science, Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on , vol., no., pp.565-572, Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 3 2010. doi: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.107
  4. Judy Qiu, Thilina Gunarathne, Jaliya Ekanayake, Jon Youl Choi, et al., Hybrid Cloud and Cluster Computing Paradigms for Life Science Applications. the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference , Boston, MA, 07/2010.
  5. Jaliya Ekanayake, Hui Li, Bingjing Zhang, Thilina Gunarathne, Sueng-Hee Bae, Judy Qiu, and Geoffrey C. Fox, Twister: A Runtime for Iterative MapReduce. The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Chicago, 06/2010.
  6. Thilina Gunarathne, Tak-Lon Wu, Judy Qiu, and Geoffrey C. Fox, Cloud Computing Paradigms for Pleasingly Parallel Biomedical Applications. ECLMS Workshop, The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, IL, ACM, 06/2010. (Extended version published in CCPE journal)
  7. Jaiya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, Atilla S. Balkir, Geoffrey C. Fox, Christopher Poulain, Nelson Araujo, and Roger Barga, DryadLINQ for Scientific Analyses. 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford UK, 12/9-11/2009.
  8. Thilina Gunarathne, Chathura Herath, Eran Chinthaka, and Suresh Marru, Experience with Adapting a WS-BPEL Runtime for eScience Workflows. The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'09), Portland, OR, ACM Press, pp. 7, 11/20/2009
  9. Xiaohong Qiu, Jaliya Ekanayake, Scott Beason, Thilina Gunarathne, Geoffrey Fox, Roger Barga, Dennis Gannon. Cloud Technologies for Bioinformatics Applications. 2nd ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (SC09), Portland, Oregon, November 16th, 2009. (Extended version published in IEEE TPDS journal)
  10. Geoffrey Fox, Judy Qiu, Scott Beason, Jon Youl Choi, Jaliya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, M. Rho, H. Tang, N. Devadasan, and G. Liu, Biomedical Case Studies in Data Intensive Computing. The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009) , vol. 5931/2009, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 2-18, 12/1-4/2009.
  11. Srinath Perera, Suresh Marru, Thilina Gunarathne, Dennis Gannon, and Beth Plale, Application of Management Frameworks to Manage Workflow-Based Systems: A Case Study on a Large Scale E-science Project. International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Los Angeles, CA , IEEE, pp. 519-526, 07/2009.
  12. Wei Lu, Thilina Gunarathne, and Dennis Gannon. Developing a concurrent service orchestration engine in CCR. In Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Multicore software engineering (IWMSE '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 61-68. DOI=10.1145/1370082.1370097
  13. Thilina Gunarathne, Dinesh Premalal, Tharanga Wijethilake, Indika Kumara, and Anushka Kumar. BPEL-Mora: Lightweight Embeddable Extensible BPEL Engine. Workshop in Emerging web services technology (WEWST 2006), ECOWS, Zurich, Switzerland. 2006. Published in Emerging Web Services Technology. C. Pautasso and C. Bussler, Birkhäuser Basel: 3-20. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8448-7_2

Book Chapters

  1. Jaliya Ekanayake, Xiaohong Qiu, Thilina Gunarathne, Scott Beason, Geoffrey Fox High Performance Parallel Computing with Clouds and Cloud Technologies, to appear as a book chapter to Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), ISBN-10: 1439803153.
  2. Judy Qiu, Jaliya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, Jong Youl Choi, Seung-Hee Bae, Yang Ruan, Saliya Ekanayake, Stephen Wu, Scott Beason, Geoffrey Fox, Mina Rho, Haixu Tang. Data Intensive Computing for Bioinformatics, Data Intensive Distributed Computing, Tevik Kosar, Editor. 2011, IGI Publishers.

poster, extended abstract, demo & presentations

  1. Thilina Gunarathne (adviser Geoffrey Fox), Architectures for Iterative Data Intensive Analysis Computations on Clouds and Heterogeneous Environments. Doctoral Show case at SC11 Seattle November 15 2011.
  2. Gunarathne, T., J. Qiu, and G. Fox, Iterative MapReduce for Azure Cloud, Cloud Computing and Its Applications, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 04/12-13/2011.
  3. Judy Qiu, Adam Lee Hughes, Saliya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, Stephen Tak-lon Wu, Hui Li, Jong Youl Choi, Seung-Hee Bae, Yang Ruan. Parallel Applications And Tools For Cloud Computing Environments. Demonstration at CloudCom 2010 Conference IUPUI Conference Center Indianapolis November 30-December 3 2010
  4. Judy Qiu, Jong Youl Choi, Seung-Hee Bae, Thilina Gunarathne, Geoffrey Fox, Bin Cao, David Wild. Browsing Large Scale Cheminformatics Data with Dimension Reduction. Demonstration at 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010), May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia

Technical Reports

  1. Jaliya Ekanayake, Thilina Gunarathne, Judy Qiu, Geoffrey Fox, Scott Beason, Jong Youl Choi, Yang Ruan, Seung-Hee Bae, Hui Li. Applicability of DryadLINQ to Scientific Applications Technical Report January 30 2010
  2. Thilina Gunarathne. WS-BPEL Asynchronous Invocation of Request/Response Type Web Service Operations, (2009)