Edgar Solomonik

PhD candidate
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science Division
E-mail: solomon AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu
Office: 586D Soda Hall (ParLab)
Short CV: (text)

Personal Information:

  • advised by Professor James Demmel
  • supported by a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship   (my fellow page)
  • graduated with a BS in Computer Science from University of Illinois
  • worked with Professor Laxmikant Kale in the Parallel Programming Lab.
  • interned at Lawrence Livermore National Lab '12, Argonne National Lab '11, DE Shaw Research '10, and Wolverine Trading LLC '06, '07

    Selected Publications:

  • Edgar Solomonik, Devin Matthews, Jeff Hammond, and James Demmel; Cyclops Tensor Framework: reducing communication and eliminating load imbalance in massively parallel contractions; IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Boston, MA, May 2013. (text)

  • Edgar Solomonik, Abhinav Bhatele, and James Demmel; Improving communication performance in dense linear algebra via topology aware collectives; ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2011, Seattle, WA, November 2011. (text)

  • Edgar Solomonik, James Demmel; Communication-optimal parallel 2.5D matrix multiplication and LU factorization algorithms; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par, Bordeaux, France, August 2011. "Distinguished Paper" (text)

  • Edgar Solomonik and Laxmikant V. Kale; Highly Scalable Parallel Sorting; IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Atlanta, GA, April 2010. (text)

  • Abhinav Bhatele, Lukasz Wesolowski, Eric Bohm, Edgar Solomonik, and Laxmikant V. Kale; Understanding Application Performance via Micro-benchmarks on Three Large Supercomputers: Intrepid, Ranger and Jaguar; International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA); November 2010. (text)