SURESH C. KOTHARI
(kothari@cs.iastate.edu)
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Current Research: Dr. Kothari is interested in parallel and distributed computing and its applications in science and engineering. Specific topics of interest are: tools for parallelization of legacy codes, parallel performance models, and distributed processing systems.
Dr. Kothari is also interested in neural networks and MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines).
Parallelization Agent
Parallelization Agent - Overview
Parallelization Agent for Legacy Codes - Technical Report
Parallelization of MM5 (Meteorological Mesoscale Model)
Batrun Distributed Processing System
Batrun Distributed Processing System - Overview
A Communication Library Using Active Message to improve performance of PVM
Representative Publications:
"Optimal Design of Systolic Architecture" (with E. Gannett, H. Oh), Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing, pp. 247-256, 1989.
"Optimal Parallelization of Sorting Networks" (with E. Gannett, Yen), Theoretical Computer Science Journal, Vol. 76, pp. 331-341, 1990.
"Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition," Advances in Computers, (with H. Oh), Volume 37, pp. 119-165, May 1993.
"Adaptation of the Relaxation Method for Learning in Bidirectional Associative Memory" (with H. Oh), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 5-4, 1994.
"Batrun:Utilizing Idle Workstations for Large-Scale Computing" IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology Systems and Applications, Vol 4, No. 2, pp 41-49, 1996.