JOHN GUSTAFSON JOHN GUSTAFSON (gustafson@cs.iastate.edu)

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Major Interests: Scientific applications for massively parallel architectures, parallel processing, performance analysis and numerical analysis.

Representative Publications:

A Massively Parallel Optimizer for Algorithms, with S. Aluru,Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Tokyo, Japan, July 19-23, 1993.

Gustafson, J., Rover, D., Elbert, S., Carter, M., The Design of a Scalable, Fixed-Time Computer Benchmark, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Special Issue on Performance Evaluation, April 1991.

Gustafson, J.L. et al., The Design of a Scalable, Fixed-Time Computer Benchmark. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 12, 1991, pp. 388-401.

Gustafson, J.,Rover, D.,Elbert,S., Carter,M., SLALOM: The First Scalable Supercomputer Benchmark, Supercomputing Review, November 1990.

Gustafson, J.L. Supercomputing in the year 2000, Supercomputing Review, June 1990, pp. 58-59.

Dragon, K. and J.L. Gustafson. A Low-cost Hypercube Load-balancing Algorithm, Proceedings for the Fourth Conference on Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers, and Applications, March 1990, pp. 583-589.

Gustafson, J.L. Are Parallel Computers 'Special Purpose'? Super-computing Review, December 1989, pp. 30-31.

Gustafson, J.L., G.R. Montry and R.E. Benner. Development of Parallel Methods for a 1024-processor Hypercube. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Vol. 9, No. 4, July 1988.

Gustafson, J.L. Amdahl's Law Re-evaluated. Communications of the ACM, May 1988.

Gustafson, J.L. Compute-Intensive Processors, chapter for book, Supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence. Edited by Kai Hwang, 1988.