Homepage for Dr. Walid Abu-Sufah

Walid A. Abu-Sufah

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

University of Jordan

Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E-mail: walid.a.abu-sufah@ieee.org

Office Phone: +962 (6) 535-5000 (Ex 2300)

Cell Phone: +962 (79) 555-6374

USA Phone: +1 (217) 693-3682 (12 – 4 P.M. CDT)

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979
Master of Engineering (Electrical Engineering), the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1974
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) (with Distinction), the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1972

Employment History

Areas of Research

High performance computing
Performance modeling for applications tuning
Program optimizations and transformations techniques for many/multicore processors
Auto-tuning
Parallel algorithms for sparse kernels
High performance computer architecture

Selected Recent Publications

W. Abu-Sufah and A. Abdel-Karim, “Auto-tuning of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Graphics Processors”, ISC 2013, J.M. Kunkel, T. Ludwig, and H. Meuer, eds., vol. 7905 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 151-164.

W. Abu-Sufah and A. Abdel-Karim, “An Effective Approach for Implementing Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Graphics Processing Units”, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2012), Liverpool, UK, June 2012, pp. 453-460, DOI 10.1109/HPCC.2012.68.

Other Publications

Invited Lectures

Selected Conferences Presentations

Recent Grants and Contracts
Scientific Research Support Fund (SRSF), Amman, Jordan
Principal Investigator: Walid Abu-Sufah
A Library of Automatically Optimized Sparse Matrix Computations Kernels on Graphics Processors Accelerators
US$ 27,864; June 17, 2013 – June 16, 2015

Deanship of Academic Research, University of Jordan
Principal Investigator: Walid Abu-Sufah
An Automatic Tuning Framework for Sparse Matrix Kernels on Graphics Processors
US$ 14,689; October 14, 2012 – October 13, 2014

University of Jordan Program for Faculty Scientific Visits and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC)
Visiting Scholar: Walid Abu-Sufah
US$ 52,288; January 15, 2009 – June 15, 2009

Other Grants and Awards

Recent Computing Resources Projects
LinkSCEEM/Cy-Tera cluster Project #: pro13a110
Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute
Principal Investigator: Walid Abu-Sufah; Collaborators: Asma Abdel-Karim and Khalid Ahmad
A Library of Automatically Tuned Sparse Matrix Kernels for Graphics Processing Units
24,000 GPU Hours, May 1, 2013-April 30, 2014.

Graduate Students
University of Jordan

· Asma Abdel Karim

Yarmouk University, Jordan

· Mahmood Abaza

· Mohammad Malkawi

Co-Supervised with David J. Kuck at University of Illinois

· Allan Malony

· Zhiyuan Li

· Harlan Husmann.

· Alex Kwok

· Kyansook Lee

· Roland Lee