Stephen Fink's Publications

Dissertation

• A Programming Model for Block-Structured Scientific Calculations on SMP Clusters , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, June 1998.

Static Analysis

• Semi-Automatic J2EE Transaction Configuration , S. Fink, J. Dolby and L. Colby, IBM Research Report RC23326, April 2004.

Dynamic Compilation and Java

• Architecture and Policy for Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines , M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, and P. Sweeney, IBM Research Report RC23429, November 2004.

• A Survey of Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines , M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, and P. Sweeney, IBM Research Report RC23143, May 2004. also Proceedings of the IEEE, 92(2), February 2005, pp. 449-466.

• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Adaptive Recompilation with On-Stack Replacement , S. Fink and F. Qian, CGO 2003, March 2003.

• Experiences Porting the Jikes RVM to Linux/IA32 , B. Alpern, M. Butrico, A. Cocchi, J. Dolby, S.Fink, D. Grove, and T. Ngo, in USENIX JVM 02, August 2002.

• Space- and Time-Efficient Implementation of the Java Object Model , D. Bacon, S. Fink, and D. Grove, in ECOOP 2002, June 2002.

• Efficient Implementation of Java Interfaces: invokeinterface Considered Harmless , B .Alpern, A. Cocchi, S. Fink, D. Grove, and D. Lieber, in OOPSLA 2001, October 2001.

• Efficent Dependence Analysis for Java Arrays, V.Sarkar and S. Fink, in EURO_PAR 2001, September 2001.

• Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeno JVM: The Controller's Analytic Model , M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M.Hind, and P. Sweeney, in The 3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO-3), December 2000.

• Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeno JVM , M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M.Hind, and P. Sweeney, in OOPSLA 2000 , October 2000.

• Unified Analysis of Array and Object Reference in Strongly Typed Languages , S. Fink, K. Knobe, and V. Sarkar, in Proceedings of the 2000 Static Analysis Symposium , (Santa Barbara, CA), June 2000.

• An Evaluation of Java System Services with Microbenchmarks , E. Gluzberg and S. J. Fink, IBM Research Report RC 21715 (97798), April 2000.

• The Jalapeno Virtual Machine , B. Alpern, C. R. Attanasio, J. J. Barton, M. G. Burke, P. Cheng, J.-D. Choi, A. Cocchi, S. J. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, S. F. Hummel, D. Lieber, V. Litvinov, M. F. Mergen, T. Ngo, J. R. Russell, V. Sarkar, M. J. Serrano, J. C. Shepherd, S. E. Smith, V. C. Sreedhar, H. Srinivasan, and J. Whaley, IBM Systems Journal v. 39, n. 1, February 2000.

• Java Server Benchmarks , S. J. Baylor, M. Devarakonda, S. Fink, E. Gluzberg, M. Kalantar, P. Muttineni, E. Barsness, R. Arora, R. Dimpsey, and S. J. Munroe, IBM Systems Journal v. 39, n. 1, February 2000.

• A Comparative Study of Static and Profile-Based Heuristics for Inlinining , M. Arnold, S.Fink, P. Sweeney, and V. Sarkar, in proceedings of The 2000 Dynamo Workshop on Dynamic Optimization, (Boston, MA), January 2000.

• The Jalapeno Dynamic Optimizing Compiler for Java , M. Burke, J. Choi, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, V. Sarkar, M. Serrano, V. Sreedhar, H. Srinivasan, and J. Whaley, in proceedings of The 1999 ACM Java Grande Conference , (San Francisco, CA), June 1999.

KeLP

• A Programming Methodology for Dual-tier Multicomputers, S. Baden and S.Fink, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering v.26, no.3, March 2000.

• The Data Mover: A Machine-Independent Abstraction for Managing Customized Data Motion, S. Baden and S.Fink, 1999 Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing , (San Diego, CA), August 1999.

• Multiple Data Parallelism with HPF and KeLP, J. Merlin, S. Baden, S.Fink, and B. Chapman, J. Future Generation Computer Systems , (15)3 (1999) pp.393-405.

• Efficient Run-time Support for Irregular Block-Structured Applications, S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, S. R. Kohn, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing , 50(1-2), April-May 1998, pp. 61-82.

• Multiple data parallelism with HPF and KeLP, J. H. Merlin, S. B. Baden, S. J. Fink and B. M. Chapman, in Proceedings of HPCN '98 (Netherlands, Amsterdam), April 1998.

• Runtime Support for Multi-Tier Programming of Block-Structured Applications on SMP clusters, S. J. Fink and S. B. Baden, Proceedings of the 1997 International Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments Conference, (Marina Del Rey, CA), December 1997.

• Flexible Communication Mechanisms for Dynamic Structured Applications, S. J. Fink, S. R. Kohn, and S. B. Baden, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems , (Santa Barbara, CA), August 1996.

Parallel Algorithms

• Communication Overlap in Multi-Tier Parallel Algorithms , S. Baden and S. Fink, in Proceedings of SC '98 , (Orlando, FL), November 1998.

• Parallel Cluster Identification for Multidimensional Lattices, S. J. Fink, C. Huston, S. B. Baden, and K. Jansen, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , v.8, n.11, Nov. 1997.

• Cluster Identification on a Distributed Memory Multiprocessor, S. J. Fink, S. B. Baden, and K. Jansen, March 1994, Proceedings of the 1994 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, (Knoxville, Tennessee), May 1994.

Parallel Programming

• A Preliminary Evaluation of HPF, S. B. Baden, R. Schreiber, K. S Gatlin, and S. J. Fink, Proceedings of the 8th SIAM Conference on Parallel Proc. for Scientific Computing, (Minneapolis, MN), March 1997.

• Programming Language Requirements for the Next Millennium, W. G. Griswold, R. Wolski, S. B. Baden, S. J. Fink, and S. R. Kohn, ACM Computing Surveys , v.28A, n.4, Dec. 1996.

• Run-time Data Distribution for Block-Structured Applications on Distributed Memory Computers, S. J. Fink and S. B. Baden, Proceedings of the 7th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, (San Francisco, CA), February 1995.

• Programming with LPARX, S. B. Baden, S. R. Kohn, and S. J. Fink, Proceedings of Intel Supercomputer User's Group Meeting, (San Diego, CA), June 1994.

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