Jeff Hollingsworth

Professor
5152 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2708
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Education: 
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Computer Science)
Special Awards/Honors: 
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award
Biography: 

Jeff Hollingsworth is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research seeks to develop a unified framework to understand and optimize the performance of large systems and focuses in several areas. Hollingsworth developed an approach, called dynamic instrumentation, to permit the efficient measurement of large parallel applications.

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Publications

2008


Basili VR, Carver JC, Cruzes D, Hochstein LM, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV.  2008.  Understanding the High-Performance-Computing Community: A Software Engineer's Perspective. Software, IEEE. 25(4):29-36.

Tikir MM, Hollingsworth J.  2008.  Hardware monitors for dynamic page migration. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 68(9):1186-1200.

2007


Alameh R, Zazworka N, Hollingsworth J.  2007.  Performance Measurement of Novice HPC Programmers Code. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing Applications. :3–-3–.

Tabatabaee V, Hollingsworth J.  2007.  Automatic software interference detection in parallel applications. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :14:1–14:12-14:1–14:12.

2006


Hochstein L, Nakamura T, Basili VR, Asgari S, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Carver J, Voelp M, Zazworka N et al..  2006.  Experiments to understand HPC time to development. CTWatch Quarterly.

Buck BR, Hollingsworth J.  2006.  A New Hardware Monitor Design to Measure Data Structure-Specific Cache Eviction Information. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 20(3):353-363.

2005


Zelkowitz MV, Basili VR, Asgari S, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Nakamura T.  2005.  Measuring productivity on high performance computers. 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metric.

Williams CC, Hollingsworth J.  2005.  Recovering system specific rules from software repositories. SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 30(4):1-5.

Hochstein L, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Carver J.  2005.  Combining self-reported and automatic data to improve programming effort measurement. Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering. :356-365.

Hollingsworth J, Snavely A, Sbaraglia S, Ekanadham K.  2005.  EMPS: an environment for memory performance studies. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International.

Tikir MM, Hollingsworth J.  2005.  Efficient online computation of statement coverage. Journal of Systems and Software. 78(2):146-165.

Tabatabaee V, Tiwari A, Hollingsworth J.  2005.  Parallel Parameter Tuning for Applications with Performance Variability. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :57–-57–.

Williams CC, Hollingsworth J.  2005.  Automatic Mining of Source Code Repositories to Improve Bug Finding Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 31(6):466-480.

Odom J, Hollingsworth J, DeRose L, Ekanadham K, Sbaraglia S.  2005.  Using Dynamic Tracing Sampling to Measure Long Running Programs. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :59–-59–.

Asgari S, Hochstein L, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Carver J, Shull F.  2005.  Generating testable hypotheses from tacit knowledge for high productivity computing. Proceedings of the second international workshop on Software engineering for high performance computing system applications. :17-21.

2004


Williams CC, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Interactive binary instrumentation. Second International Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS).

Tikir MM, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Using Hardware Counters to Automatically Improve Memory Performance. Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :46–-46–.

Asgari S, Basili VR, Carver J, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Zelkowitz MV.  2004.  Challenges in Measuring HPCS Learner Productivity in an Age of Ubiquitous Computing: The HPCS Program. In Proceedings of ICSE Workshop on High Productivity Computing. May 2004.

Hovemeyer D, Hollingsworth J, Bhattacharjee B.  2004.  Running on the bare metal with GeekOS. Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. :315-319.

Buck BR, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Data Centric Cache Measurement on the Intel ltanium 2 Processor. Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :58–-58–.

Carver J, Asgari S, Basili VR, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV.  2004.  Studying code development for high performance computing: the HPCS program. First International Workshop On Software Engineering for High Performance Computing System Applications. :32-32.

Chung I-H, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Automated cluster-based Web service performance tuning. 13th IEEE International Symposium on High performance Distributed Computing, 2004. Proceedings. :36-44.

Williams CC, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Bug driven bug finders. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories. :70-74.

Ryu KD, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Unobtrusiveness and efficiency in idle cycle stealing for PC grids. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 18th International.

Ryu KD, Hollingsworth J.  2004.  Resource policing to support fine-grain cycle stealing in networks of workstations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 15(10):878-892.

2002


Tikir MM, Hollingsworth J, Lueh G-Y.  2002.  Recompilation for debugging support in a JIT-compiler. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering. :10-17.

DeRose L, Ekanadham K, Hollingsworth J, Sbaraglia S.  2002.  SIGMA: A Simulator Infrastructure to Guide Memory Analysis. SC Conference. :1-1.

Tapus C, Chung I-H, Hollingsworth J.  2002.  Active Harmony: Towards Automated Performance Tuning. Supercomputing, ACM/IEEE 2002 Conference. :44-44.

Tikir MM, Hollingsworth J.  2002.  Efficient instrumentation for code coverage testing. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 27:86-96.

2001


Eom H, Hollingsworth J.  2001.  A tool to help tune where computation is performed. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 27(7):618-629.

Ryu KD, Hollingsworth J, Keleher PJ.  2001.  Efficient network and I/O throttling for fine-grain cycle stealing. Proceedings of the 2001 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) - Supercomputing '01. :3-3.

Eom H, Hollingsworth J.  2001.  Achieving Efficiency and Accuracy in Simulation for I/O-Intensive Applications. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 61(12):1732-1750.

2000


Buck B, Hollingsworth J.  2000.  An API for Runtime Code Patching. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 14(4):317-329.

Ryu K D, Hollingsworth J.  2000.  Exploiting fine-grained idle periods in networks of workstations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 11(7):683-698.

Kurc T, Uysal M, Eom H, Hollingsworth J, Saltz J, Sussman A.  2000.  Efficient performance prediction for large-scale, data-intensive applications. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 14(3):216-216.

Buck BR, Hollingsworth J.  2000.  Using hardware performance monitors to isolate memory bottlenecks. Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM). :40-40.

Eom H, Hollingsworth J.  2000.  Speed vs. Accuracy in Simulation for I/O-Intensive Applications. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, International. :315-315.

Hollingsworth J, Keleher PJ, Ryu KD.  2000.  Resource-aware meta-computing. Emphasizing Distributed SystemsEmphasizing Distributed Systems. Volume 53:109-169.

1999


Hollingsworth J, Maneewongvatana S.  1999.  Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids. Distributed Computing Systems, International Conference on. :0352-0352.

Keleher PJ, Hollingsworth J, Perkovic D.  1999.  Exposing Application Alternatives. Distributed Computing Systems, International Conference on. :0384-0384.

Hollingsworth J, Miller EL, Akala K.  1999.  Binary version management for computational grids. Parallel processing letters. 9(2):215-225.

1998


Hollingsworth J.  1998.  Critical path profiling of message passing and shared-memory programs. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 9(10):1029-1040.

Waheed A, Rover DT, Hollingsworth J.  1998.  Modeling and evaluating design alternatives for an on-line instrumentation system: a case study. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 24(6):451-470.

Hollingsworth J, Miller B.  1998.  Instrumentation and measurement. The grid. :339-365.

Mink A, Salamon W, Hollingsworth J, Arunachalam R.  1998.  Performance measurement using low perturbation and high precision hardware assists. , The 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. :379-388.

Hollingsworth J, Guven E, Akinlar C.  1998.  Benchmarking a network of PCs running parallel applications. Performance, Computing and Communications, 1998. IPCCC '98., IEEE International. :1-7.

Ryu KD, Hollingsworth J.  1998.  Linger longer: Fine-grain cycle stealing for networks of workstations. Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (CDROM). :1-12.

Hollingsworth J, Keleher PJ.  1998.  Prediction and Adaptation in Active Harmony. High-Performance Distributed Computing, International Symposium on. :180-180.

Eom H, Hollingsworth J.  1998.  LBF: a performance metric for program reorganization. 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1998. Proceedings. :222-229.

1997


Hollingsworth J, Miller EL.  1997.  Using content-derived names for configuration management. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 22(3):104-109.

Hollingsworth J, Niam O, Miller BP, Xu Z, Goncalves MJR, Zheng L.  1997.  MDL: a language and compiler for dynamic program instrumentation. , 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques., 1997. Proceedings. :201-212.

1996


Waheed A, Rover DT, Hollingsworth J.  1996.  Modeling, Evaluation, and Testing of Paradyn Instrumentation System. Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, 1996. :18-18.

Hollingsworth J.  1996.  An online computation of critical path profiling. Proceedings of the SIGMETRICS symposium on Parallel and distributed tools. :11-20.

Acharya A, Uysal M, Bennett R, Mendelson A, Beynon M, Hollingsworth J, Saltz J, Sussman A.  1996.  Tuning the performance of I/O-intensive parallel applications. Proceedings of the fourth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems: part of the federated computing research conference. :15-27.

Hollingsworth J, Miller B.  1996.  An adaptive cost system for parallel program instrumentation. Euro-Par'96 Parallel Processing. :88-97.

1995


Hollingsworth J, Lumpp JE, Miller BP.  1995.  Techniques for performance measurement of parallel programs. Parallel computers: theory and practice. :225-240.

Miller BP, Callaghan MD, Cargille JM, Hollingsworth J, Irvin RB, Karavanic KL, Kunchithapadam K, Newhall T.  1995.  The Paradyn parallel performance measurement tool. Computer. 28(11):37-46.

1994


Hollingsworth J, Miller BP, Cargille J.  1994.  Dynamic program instrumentation for scalable performance tools. Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the. :841-850.

1993


Hollingsworth J, Miller BP.  1993.  Dynamic control of performance monitoring on large scale parallel systems. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Supercomputing - ICS '93. :185-194.

1992


Hollingsworth J, Miller BP.  1992.  Parallel program performance metrics: a comprison and validation. Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. :4-13.

1991


Hollingsworth J, Irvin RB, Miller BP.  1991.  The integration of application and system based metrics in a parallel program performance tool. ACM Sigplan Notices. 26:189-200.

1990


Miller BP, Clark M, Hollingsworth J, Kierstead S, Lim S-S, Torzewski T.  1990.  IPS-2: the second generation of a parallel program measurement system. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 1(2):206-217.