Mark Lee Stillwell
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Location: Building 52
E: m.stillwell@cranfield.ac.uk
Department of Engineering Computing
Current activities
Research areas of interest include: Distributed Algorithms; High Performance, Grid, and Cloud Computing; Scheduling for Scientific or Engineering Workflows; Empirical Computer Science; and Computing in support of e-Engineering and e-Science.
Background
Mark Stillwell is a Lecturer in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Group of the School of Engineering at Cranfield University. His responsibilities include the delivery and administration of the Advanced Computing Environments and Applications option of the MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering.
Prior to joining Cranfield University, he was an INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme at the at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon located in Lyon, France. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, and holds Masters degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
He is the originator and a core developer of the open source Simgrid SMPI sub-project. SMPI consists of a set of compiler front-ends and compatibility libraries for running real MPI applications in a simulated network environment provided by Simgrid with no or little modification to existing code.
Selected publications
- M. Stillwell, F. Vivien, and H. Casanova, "Dynamic fractional resource scheduling vs. batch scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted for publication March, 2011.
- M. Stillwell, D. Schanzenbach, F. Vivien, and H. Casanova, "Resource allocation algorithms for virtualized service hosting platforms," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 962--974, 2010.
- P.-N. Clauss, M. Stillwell, S. Genaud, F. Suter, H. Casanova, and M. Quinson, "Single node on-line
simulation of MPI applications with SMPI," in Proceedings of the 25th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 2011. - M. Stillwell, F. Vivien, and H. Casanova, "Dynamic fractional resource scheduling for HPC workloads,"
in Proceedings of the 24th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Apr. 2010. - M. Stillwell, D. Schanzenbach, F. Vivien, and H. Casanova, "Resource allocation using virtual clusters,"
in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 2009.
