Prof David Abramson - Researcher Profile

Biography

Professor David Abramson has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979. Previous to joining Monash University in 1997, he has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, and RMIT. At CSIRO he was the program leader of the Division of Information Technology High Performance Computing Program, and was also an adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT in Melbourne. He served as a program manager and chief investigator in the Co-operative Research Centre for Intelligent Decisions Systems and the Co-operative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems.

Abramson is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow; Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia, and science director of the Monash e-Research Centre. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Academy of Science and Technological Engineering (ATSE), and a member of the IEEE.

Abramson has served on committees for many  conferences and workshops, and has published over 200 papers and technical documents. He has given seminars and received awards around Australia and internationally and has received over $8 million in research funding.

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Keywords

Combinatorial optimisation, Computer architecture, High performance computing, Parallel architectures, Parallel software systems, Reconfigurable computer architectures, Software tools for high performance computing

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1983

Publications

Book Chapters

Bethwaite, B., Abramson, D.A., Bohnert, F., Garic, S., Enticott, C.M., Peachey, T.C., 2010, Mixing grids and clouds: High-throughput science using the Nimrod tool family, in Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications, eds Nick Antonopoulos and Lee Gillam, Springer, London UK, pp. 219-237.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D.A., 2010, The Nimrod/G Grid resource broker for economics-based scheduling, in Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing, eds Rajkumar Buyya and Kris Bubendorfer, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ USA, pp. 371-402.

Ho, K.C.(., Abramson, D.A., 2009, An active data model, in High Speed and Large Scale Scientific Computing, eds Wolfgang Gentzsch, Lucio Grandinetti and Gerhard Joubert, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 399-421.

Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Lewis, A., 2009, Parallel line search, in Optimization: Structure and Applications, eds Charles Pearce and Emma Hunt, Springer, New York NY USA, pp. 369-381.

Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., 2008, An infrastructure for the deployment of e-Science applications, in High Performance Computing and Grids in Action, eds Lucio Grandinetti, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 131-148.

Baldridge, K.K., Sudholt, W., Greenberg, J., Amoreira, C., Potier, Y., Altintas, I., Birnbaum, A., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., 2006, Cluster and grid infrastructure for computational chemistry and biochemistry, in Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, eds Albert Y. Zomaya, John Wiley & Sons, NJ USA and Canada, pp. 531-550.

Smith, K.A., Abramson, D.A., Duke, D., 1998, Hopfield Neural Networks for Timetabling: Formulations, Methods and Comparative Results, in Business Systems Research Vol I, School of Business Systems, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 196-224.

Journal Articles

Pettit, C.J., Williams, S., Bishop, I.D., Aurambout, J., Russel, A., Michael, A., Sharma, S., Hunter, D., Chan, P., Enticott, C.M., Borda, A., Abramson, D.A., 2013, Building an ecoinformatics platform to support climate change adaptation in Victoria, Future Generation Computer Systems [P], vol 29, issue 2, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 624-640.

Chambers, J., Bethwaite, B., Diamond, N.T., Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Petrou, S., Thomas, E., 2012, Parametric computation predicts a multiplicative interaction between synaptic strength parameters that control gamma oscillations, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience [E], vol 6, Frontiers Research Foundation, Lausanne Switzerland, pp. 1-12.

Kurniawan, D., Abramson, D.A., 2011, ISENGARD: An infrastructure for supporting e-science and grid application development, Concurrency And Computation-Practice & Experience [P], vol 23, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA USA, pp. 390-414.

Peachey, T.C., Mashkina, E., Lee, C., Enticott, C., Abramson, D.A., Bond, A.M., Elton, D., Gavaghan, D., Stevenson, G.P., Kennedy, G.F., 2011, Leveraging e-Science infrastructure for electrochemical research, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 369, issue 1949, The Royal Society, London England, pp. 3336-3352.

Abramson, D., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Peachey, T., 2011, Parameter exploration in science and engineering using many-task computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems [P], vol 22, issue 6, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 960-973.

Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Peachey, T.C., Michailova, A., Amirriazi, S., 2010, Embedding optimization in computational science workflows, Journal of Computational Science [P], vol 1, issue 1, Elsevier, Kidlington UK, pp. 41-47.

Abramson, D.A., Bernabeu, M., Bethwaite, B., Burrage, K., Corrias, A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D.J., Peachey, T.C., Pitt-Francis, J., Pueyo, E., Rodriguez, B., Sher, A.A., Tan, J., 2010, High-throughput cardiac science on the Grid, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 368, issue 1925, Royal Society, London UK, pp. 3907-3923.

Schmidberger, J.W., Bate, M., Reboul, C.F., Androulakis, S.G., Phan, J.M.N., Whisstock, J., Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., Buckle, A.M., 2010, Mrgrid: A portable grid based molecular replacement pipeline, PLoS ONE [P], vol 5, issue 4 (e10049), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-6.

Arzberger, P., Wienhausen, G., Abramson, D.A., Galvin, J., Date, S., Lin, F., Nan, K., Shimojo, S., 2010, Prime: An integrated and sustainable undergraduate international research program, Advances in Engineering Education [E], vol 2, issue 2, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-34.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2009, ERI sorting for emerging processor architectures, Computer Physics Communications [P], vol 180, issue 8, Elsevier Science BV, Netherlands, pp. 1221-1229.

Ayyub, S., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Tan, J., 2009, Fault-tolerant execution of large parameter sweep applications across multiple VOs with storage constraints, Concurrency And Computation-Practice & Experience [P], vol 21, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester England, pp. 377-392.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2009, Persistence and communication state transfer in an asynchronous pipe mechanism, International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing [P], vol 1, issue 3, IGI Publishing, Hershey PA USA, pp. 18-36.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, REMUS: A rerouting and multiplexing system for Grid connectivity across firewalls, Journal of Grid Computing [P], vol 7, issue 1, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 25-50.

Abramson, D.A., Chu, C.M., Kurniawan, D., Searle, A., 2009, Relative debugging in an integrated development environment, Software-Practice & Experience [P], vol 39, issue 14, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester England, pp. 1157-1183.

Peachey, T.C., Diamond, N.T., Abramson, D.A., Sudholt, W., Michailova, A., Amirriazi, S., 2008, Fractional factorial design for parameter sweep experiments using Nimrod/E, Scientific Programming, vol 16, issue 2&3, IOS Press, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 217-230.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2008, On ERI sorting for SIMD execution of large-scale Hartree-Fock SCF, Computer Physics Communications, vol 178, issue 11, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pp. 817-834.

Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., 2008, Parallel programming on a high-performance application-runtime, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol 20, issue 18, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester England, pp. 2141-2177.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2008, Towards a special-purpose computer for Hartree-Fock computations : WWWWhat's on the table, and how do we take it?, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, vol 120, Springer, New York, USA, pp. 133-153.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2008, Uniting extrinsic vectorization and shell structure for efficient SIMD evaluation of electron repulsion integrals, Chemical Physics, vol 349, issue 1-3, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pp. 147-157.

Lynch, A.H., Abramson, D.A., Gorgen, K., Beringer, J., Uotila, J.P., 2007, Influence of savanna fire on Australian monsoon season precipitation and circulation as simulated using a distributed computing environment, Geophysical Research Letters, vol 34, issue 20, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-5.

Zheng, C., Katz, M., Papadopoulos, P.M., Abramson, D.A., Ayyub, S., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Goscinski, W., Arzberger, P., Lee, B., Phatanapherom, S., Sriprayoonsaku, S., Uthayopas, P., Tanaka, Y., Tanimura, Y., Tatebe, O., 2007, Lessons learned through driving science applications in the PRAGMA grid, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, vol 3, issue 3, Inderscience Publishers, United Kingdom, pp. 287-312.

Gopalakrishna Pillai, B.S., Premaratne, M.H., Abramson, D.A., Lee, K.L., Nirmalathas, A., Lim, C., Shinada, S., Wada, N., Miyazaki, T., 2006, Analytical characterization of optical pulse propagation in polarization-sensitive semiconductor optical amplifiers, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol 42, issue 10, IEEE, USA, pp. 1062-1077.

Lewis, A., Abramson, D.A., Peachey, T.C., 2006, RSCS: A parallel simplex algorithm for the Nimrod/O optimization toolset, Scientific Programming, vol 14, issue 1, IOS Press, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1-11.

Abramson, D.A., Kommineni, J.M.R., McGregor, J.L., Katzfey, J., 2005, An atmospheric sciences workflow and its implementation with Web Services, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol 21, issue 1, Elsevier B.V., Netherland, pp. 69-78.

Sudholt, W., Baldridge, K.K., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Kondric, C., Nguyen, D., 2005, Application of grid computing to parameter sweeps and optimizations in molecular modeling, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol 21, issue 1, Elsevier B.V., The Netherlands, pp. 27-35.

Buyya, R., Date, S., Mizuno-Matsumoto, Y., Venugopal, S., Abramson, D.A., 2005, Neuroscience instrumentation and distributed analysis of brain activity data: a case for eScience on global Grids, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol 17, issue 15, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, UK, pp. 1783-1798.

Buyya, R., Murshed, M.M., Abramson, D.A., Venugopal, S., 2005, Scheduling parameter sweep applications on global Grids: a deadline and budget constrained cost-time optimization algorithm, Software: Practice & Experience, vol 35, issue 5, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., UK, pp. 491-512.

Jones, R., Peng, D., Chaperon, P.R., Pitt, S., Abramson, D.A., Peachey, T.C., 2005, Structural optimisation with damage tolerance constraints, Composite Structures [P], vol 43, issue 1, Elsevier Science BV, Netherlands, pp. 133-155.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D.A., Venugopal, S., 2005, The Grid economy, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 93, issue 3, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA, pp. 698-714.

Beasley, J.E., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sharaiha, Y.M., Abramson, D.A., 2004, Displacement problem and dynamically scheduling aircraft landings, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 55, issue 1, Palgrave Publishers Ltd, Basingstoke England, pp. 54-64.

Sudholt, W., Baldridge, K.K., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C., Garic, S., 2004, Parameter scan of an effective group difference pseudopotential using grid computing, New Generation Computing, vol 22, issue 2, Springer, New York USA, pp. 137-146.

Abramson, D.A., Watson, G., 2003, Debugging scientific applications in the .NET framework, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol 19, issue 5, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 665-678.

Tran, N.T., Mingins, C.A., Abramson, D.A., 2003, Design and Implementation of assertions for the common language infrastructure, IEE Proceedings-Software, vol 150, issue 5, The Institute of Electrical Engineers, Hertford UK, pp. 329-336.

Smith, K.A., Abramson, D.A., Duke, D., 2003, Hopfield neural networks for timetabling: formulations, methods, and comparative results, Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol 44, issue 2, Pergamon, UK, pp. 283-305.

Buyya, R., Branson, K., Giddy, J., Abramson, D.A., 2003, The Virtual Laboratory: a toolset to enable distributed molecular modelling for drug design on the World-Wide Grid, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol 15, issue 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., UK, pp. 1-25.

Abramson, D.A., Buyya, R., Giddy, J., 2002, A computational economy for grid computing and its implementation in the Nimrod-G resource broker, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol 18, issue 8, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1061-1074.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D.A., Giddy, J., Stockinger, H., 2002, Economic models for resource management and scheduling in Grid computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol 14, issue 13-15, John Wiley & Sons, England, pp. 1507-1542.

Abramson, D.A., Watson, G., Le, P.D., 2002, Guard: a tool for migrating scientific applications to the .NET Framework, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2330, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 834-843.

Randall, M., Abramson, D.A., 2001, A general meta-heuristic based solver for combinatorial optimisation problems, Computational Optimization and Applications, vol 20, issue 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 185-210.

Beasley, J.E., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sharaiha, Y.M., Abramson, D., 2000, 1512Scheduling Aircraft Landings - The Static Case, Transportation Science, vol 34 issue 2, Inst. for Operations Res. & the Manag. Sciences, MD USA, pp. 180-197.

Watson, G., Abramson, D., 2000, Relative Debugging for Data-Parallel Programs: A ZPL Case Study, IEEE Concurrency, vol 8 issue 4, IEEE Computer Society, New York NY USA, pp. 42-52.

Abramson, D., Randall, M., 1999, A Simulated Annealing Code for General Integer Linear Programs, Annals of Operations Research, vol 86, Baltzer Science Publishers BV, Bussum Netherland, pp. 3-21.

Smith, K.A., Abramson, D., Duke, D., 1999, Efficient Timetabling Formulations for Hopfield Networks, Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining & Complex Systems, vol c dagli, a buczak, j ghosh, m embrechts, o ersoy, ASME Press, New York NY USA, pp. 1027-1032.

Smith, K.A., Abramson, D., Duke, D., 1999, Efficient timetabling formulations for Hopfield Networks, Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining & Complex Systems, vol c dagli, a buczak et al., ASME Press, New York NY USA, pp. 1027-1032.

Abramson, D., Krishnamoorthy, M., Dang, H., 1999, Simulated Annealing Cooling Schedules for the School Timetabling Problem, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, vol 16 issue 1, Operational Research Society of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1-22.

Sosic, R., Abramson, D.A., 1997, Guard: a relative debugger, Software - Practice & Experience, vol 27, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, California USA, pp. 185-206.

Conference Proceedings

Jin, C., Abramson, D.A., Dinh, M.N., Gontarek, A., Moench, R., DeRose, L., 2012, A scalable parallel debugging library with pluggable communication protocols, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 13 May 2012 to 16 May 2012, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 252-259.

Peachey, T.C., Riley, M., Abramson, D.A., Stewart, J., 2012, A simplex-like search method for bi-objective optimization, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Optimization, 1 July 2012 to 5 July 2012, E-papers Editorial Services, Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil, pp. 1-10.

Dinh, M.N., Abramson, D.A., Jin, C., Kurniawan, D., Gontarek, A., Moench, R., DeRose, L., 2012, Debugging scientific applications with statistical assertions, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 4 June 2012 to 6 June 2012, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 1940-1949.

Kipouros, T., Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Savill, A., 2012, Enhancing and developing the practical optimization capabilities and intelligence of automatic design software, Proceedings of the 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 23 April 2012 to 26 April 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston VA USA, pp. 1-7.

Killeen, N., Lohrey, J., Farrell, M., Liu, W., Garic, S., Abramson, D.A., Nguyen, H.A., Egan, G.F., 2012, Integration of modern data management practice with scientific workflows, 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on eScience, 8 October 2012 to 12 October 2012, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1-8.

Dinh, M.N., Abramson, D.A., Jin, C., Gontarek, A., Moench, R., DeRose, L., 2012, Scalable parallel debugging with statistical assertions, Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 25 February 2012 to 29 February 2012, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 311-312.

Lim, Y., Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., 2012, Solving optimization problems in Nimrod/OK using a genetic algorithm, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 4 June 2012 to 6 June 2012, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 1647-1656.

Nguyen, H.A., Abramson, D.A., 2012, WorkWays: Interactive workflow-based science gateways, 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on eScience, 8 October 2012 to 12 October 2012, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1-8.

Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., Enticott, C.M., Abramson, D.A., 2011, A scheduler based on resource competition for parameter sweep workflow, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 01 June 2011 to 03 June 2011, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 176-185.

Dinh, N.M., Abramson, D.A., Kurniawan, D., Jin, C., Moench, R., DeRose, L., 2011, Assertion based parallel debugging, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 23 May 2011 to 26 May 2011, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 63-72.

Abramson, D., Arzberger, P., Wienhausen, G., Galvin, J., Date, S., Lin, F., Nan, K., Shimojo, S., 2011, Cyberinfrastructure internship and its application to e-Science, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 05 December 2011 to 08 December 2011, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 340-347.

Nguyen, H., Abramson, D., Bethwaite, B., Dinh, N., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Russel, A., Firth, S., Harper, I., Lackmann, M., Vail, M., Schek, S., 2011, Integrating scientific workflows and large tiled display walls: Bridging the visualization divide, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 13 September 2011 to 16 September 2011, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 308-316.

Sher, A.A., Cooling, M., Bethwaite, B., Tan, J., Peachey, T.C., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D.J., Noble, D., Abramson, D.A., Crampin, E., 2010, A global sensitivity tool for cardiac cell modeling: Application to ionic current balance and hypertrophic signaling, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 31 August 2010 to 04 September 2010, IEEE, New York NY USA, pp. 1498-1502.

Sher, A.A., Wang, K., Wathen, A., Mirams, G., Abramson, D.A., Gavaghan, D.J., 2010, A local sensitivity analysis method for developing biological models with identifiable parameters: Application to L-type calcium channel modelling, Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 07 December 2010 to 10 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 176-181.

Russel, A., Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Dinh, N.M., Enticott, C.M., Firth, S.D., Garic, S., Harper, I.S., Lackmann, M., Schek, S., Vail, M.E., 2010, An abstract virtual instrument system for high throughput automatic microscopy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 31 May 2010 to 02 June 2010, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 545-554.

Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Peachey, T.C., Michailova, A., Amirriazi, S., 2010, Automatic design optimization using parallel workflows, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 31 May 2010 to 02 June 2010, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 2159-2168.

Abramson, D.A., Dinh, N.M., Kurniawan, D., Moench, R., DeRose, L., 2010, Data centric highly parallel debugging, Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 21 June 2010 to 25 June 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 119-129.

Enticott, C.M., Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Mashkina, E., Lee, C.Y., Bond, A.M., Kennedy, G.F., Gavaghan, D.J., Elton, D., 2010, Electrochemical parameter optimization using scientific workflows, Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 07 December 2010 to 10 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 324-330.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2010, Firewall traversal in the grid architecture, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 01 September 2010 to 03 September 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 189-196.

Riley, M., Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Jenkins, K., 2010, Multi-objective engineering shape optimization using differential evolution interfaced to the Nimrod/O tool, Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 19 July 2010 to 23 July 2010, IOP Publishing, Bristol UK, pp. 1-10.

Nunez, S., Bethwaite, B., Brenes, J., Barrantes, G., Castro, J., Malavassi, E., Abramson, D.A., 2010, NG-TEPHRA: A massively parallel, Nimrod/G-enabled volcanic simulation in the Grid and the Cloud, Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 07 December 2010 to 10 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 129-136.

Pettit, C., Russel, A., Michael, A., Aurambout, J., Sharma, S., Williams, S., Hunter, D., Chan, P., Borda, A., Bishop, I., Abramson, D.A., 2010, Realising an eScience platform to support climate change adaptation in Victoria, Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 07 December 2010 to 10 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 73-80.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, A virtual connectivity layer for grids, Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 307-312.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, Optimizing tunneled Grid connectivity across firewalls, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research, 21 January 2009, Australian Computer Society, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 21-27.

Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Peachey, T.C., 2009, Parameter space exploration using scientific workflows, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science, 25 May 2009 to 27 May 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 104-113.

Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Peachey, T.C., Michailova, A., Amirriazi, S., Chitters, R., 2009, Robust workflows for science and engineering, Proceedings of the 2nd Workhshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, 16 November 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 1-9.

Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., Enticott, C.M., Abramson, D.A., 2009, Scheduling multiple parameter sweep workflow instances on the grid, Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 300-306.

Abramson, D.A., Bethwaite, B., Dinh, N.M., Enticott, C.M., Firth, S.D., Garic, S., Harper, I.S., Lackmann, M., Nguyen, H.A., Ramdas, T., Russel, A., Schek, S., Vail, M.E., 2009, Virtual microscopy and analysis using scientific workflows, Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 239-246.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2008, A programming framework for incremental data distribution in iterative applications, Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 10 December 2008 to 12 December 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 244-251.

Kurniawan, D., Abramson, D.A., 2008, An IDE framework for grid application development, Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, 29 September 2008 to 01 October 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 184-191.

Bethwaite, B., Abramson, D.A., Buckle, A.M., 2008, Grid interoperability: An experiment in bridging grid islands, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, 07 December 2008 to 12 December 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 590-596.

Sher, A.A., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D.J., Noble, D., Noble, P., Peachey, T.C., 2008, Incorporating local Ca2+ dynamics into single cell ventricular models, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2008), 23 June 2008 to 25 June 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 66-75.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2008, Netfiles: An enhanced stream-based communication mechanism, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing (ISHPC 2005), 7 September 2005 to 9 September 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 254-261.

Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Altinas, I., 2008, Nimrod/K: Towards massively parallel dynamic Grid workflows, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC08 Conference, 15 November 2008 to 21 November 2008, IEEE, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-11.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2008, Run-time thread sorting to expose data-level parallelism, Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors - (ASAP08), 2 July 2008 to 4 July 2008, IEEE, USA, pp. 55-60.

Kurniawan, D., Abramson, D.A., 2007, A WSRF-Compliant debugger for grid applications, Proceedings of the 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 26 March 2007 to 30 March 2007, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1-10.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2007, A scalable and efficient prefix-based lookup mechanism for large-scale grids, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 10 December 2007 to 13 December 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 352-359.

Ho, K.C.(., Abramson, D.A., 2007, Active data: Supporting the grid data life cycle, Proceedings of the 7th IEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 14 May 2007 to 17 May 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 39-46.

Kurniawan, D., Abramson, D.A., 2007, An integrated grid development environment in Eclipse, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 10 December 2007 to 13 December 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 491-498.

Ramdas, T., Egan, G.K., Abramson, D.A., Baldridge, K.K., 2007, Converting massive TLP to DLP: a special-purpose processor for molecular orbital computations., Proc. of the 4th international conference on computing frontiers., May 7th 2007 - May 9th 2007, Association for Computing Machinery, NY, USA, pp. 267-275.

Ayyub, S., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Tan, J., 2007, Executing large parameter sweep applications on a Multi-VO testbed, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 14 May 2007 to 17 May 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 73-82.

Ayyub, S., Abramson, D.A., 2007, GridRod - A dynamic runtime scheduler for grid workflows, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Supercomputing, 17 June 2007 to 21 June 2007, The Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 43-52.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2007, Persistence and communication state transfer in an asynchronous pipe mechanism, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 5 December 2007 to 7 December 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-8.

Faux, N.G., Beitz, A., Bate, M., Amin, A.A., Atkinson, I.M., Enticott, C.M., Mahmood, K., Swift, M.J., Treloar, A.E., Abramson, D.A., Whisstock, J., Buckle, A.M., 2007, eResearch solutions for high throughput structural biology, Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 10-13 December, 2007, IEEE Computer Society, India, pp. 221-227.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2007, pi-spaces: Support for decoupled communication in wide-area parallel applications, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing, 16 August 2007 to 18 August 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 3-10.

Abramson, D.A., Amoreira, C., Baldridge, K.K., Berstis, L., Kondrick, C., Peachey, T.C., 2006, A flexible grid framework for automatic protein-ligand docking, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 04 December 2006 to 06 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Ho, K.C.(., Abramson, D.A., 2006, A unified data grid replication framework, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 4 December 2006 to 6 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Lee, B., Tang, M., Zhang, J., Soon, O., Zheng, C., Arzberger, P., Abramson, D.A., 2006, Analysis of jobs in a multi-organizational grid test-bed, Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CCGRIDW'06), 16 May 2006 to 19 May 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Abramson, D.A., 2006, Applications development for the computational grid, Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web Conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development (APWeb 2006), 16 January 2006 to 18 January 2006, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 1-12.

Kommineni, J.M.R., Abramson, D.A., Tan, J., 2006, Communication over a secured heterogeneous grid with the GriddLeS runtime environment, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 04 December 2006 to 06 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Abramson, D.A., Lynch, A.H., Takemiya, H., Tanimura, Y., Date, S., Nakamura, H., Jeong, K., Hwang, S., Zhu, J., Lu, Z., Amoreira, C., Baldridge, K.K., Lee, H., Wang, C., Shih, H., Molina, T., Li, W.W., Arzberger, P.W., 2006, Deploying scientific applications to the PRAGMA grid testbed: strategies and lessons, Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'06), 16 May 2006 to 19 May 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 241-248.

Abramson, D.A., Peachey, T.C., Lewis, A., 2006, Model optimization and parameter estimation with Nimrod/O, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006), 28 May 2006 to 31 May 2006, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 720-727.

Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., 2006, Motor: a virtual machine for high performance computing, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 19 June 2006 to 23 June 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Piscataway USA, pp. 171-182.

Gopalakrishnapillai, B.S., Premaratne, M.H., Abramson, D.A., Nirmalathas, A., Lim, C., 2006, Pulse progagation in polarization-sensitive semiconductor optical amplifiers, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Optical Internet (COIN 2006), 9 July 2006 to 13 July 2006, OSIA, Korea, pp. 310-312.

Zheng, C., Abramson, D.A., Arzberger, P., Ayyub, S., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Katz, M.J., Kwak, J., Lee, B., Papadopoulos, P., Phatanapherom, S., Sriprayoonsakul, S., Tanaka, Y., Tanimura, Y., Tatebe, O., Uthayopas, P., 2006, The PRAGMA testbed - building a multi-application international grid, Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 16 May 2006 to 19 May 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Kurniawan, D., Abramson, D.A., 2006, Worqbench: an integrated framework for e-Science application development, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 04 December 2006 to 06 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., 2005, Application deployment over heterogeneous grids using Distributed Ant, Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 05 December 2005 to 08 December 2005, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 361-368.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2005, Bridging organizational network boundaries on the grid, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, 13 November 2005 to 14 November 2005, IEEE, Seattle USA, pp. 327-332.

Tran, N.T., Abramson, D.A., Mingins, C.A., 2005, Call-ordering constraints, Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 15 December 2005 to 17 December 2005, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 291-298.

Abramson, D.A., Kommineni, J.M.R., Altintas, I., 2005, Flexible IO services in the Kepler Grid Workflow system, Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 05 December 2005 to 08 December 2005, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 255-262.

Kommineni, J.M.R., Abramson, D.A., 2005, GriddLeS enhancements and building virtual applications for the GRID with legacy components, Proceedings of the European Grid Conference: Advances in Grid Computing (EGC 2005), 14 February 2005 to 16 February 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 961-971.

Ho, K.C.(., Abramson, D.A., 2005, The GriddLeS data replication service, Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 05 December 2005 to 08 December 2005, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 271-278.

Abramson, D.A., Kommineni, J.M.R., 2004, A flexible IO scheme for Grid Workflows, Proceedings of the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 26 April 2004 to 30 April 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-10.

Tran, N.T., Abramson, D.A., Mingins, C.A., 2004, A taxonomy of call ordering problems, Proceedings 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 30 November 2004 to 03 December 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 120-129.

Lewis, A., Abramson, D.A., Peachey, T.C., 2004, An Evolutionary Programming algorithm for automatic engineering design, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2003), 7 September 2003 to 10 September 2003, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 586-594.

Abramson, D.A., Kommineni, J.M.R., McGregor, J.L., Katzfey, J., 2004, An atmospheric sciences workflow and its implementation with web services, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004), 6 June 2004 to 9 June 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 164-173.

Sudholt, W., Baldridge, K.K., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C., Garic, S., 2004, Applying grid computing to the parameter sweep of a group difference pseudopotential, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004), 6 June 2004 to 9 June 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 148-155.

Goscinski, W., Abramson, D.A., 2004, Distributed Ant: a system to support application deployment in the grid, Proceedings Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, 08 November 2004 to 08 November 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 436-443.

Peachey, T.C., Abramson, D.A., Lewis, A., Kurniawan, D., Jones, R., 2004, Optimization using Nimrod/O and its application to robust mechanical design, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2003), 7 September 2003 to 10 September 2003, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 730-737.

Lewis, A., Abramson, D.A., Peachey, T.C., 2004, RSCS: a parallel simplex algorithm for the Nimrod/O optimization toolset, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 05 July 2004 to 07 July 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 71-78.

Abramson, D.A., Dongarra, J., Meek, E., Roe, P., Shi, Z., 2004, Simplified Grid computing through spreadsheets and NetSolve, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on High Performance Computing and Grid in Asia Pacific Region, 20 July 2004 to 22 July 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 19-24.

Lewis, A., Abramson, D.A., 2003, An evolutionary programming algorithm for multi-objective optimisation, Proceedings of The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 08 December 2003 to 12 December 2003, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Press, Piscataway USA, pp. 1926-1932.

Buyya, R., Date, S., Mizuno-Matsumoto, Y., Venugopal, S., Abramson, D.A., 2003, Composition and on demand deployment of distributed brain activity analysis application on global grids, Proceedings of the HiPC Workshops 2003, 17 December 2003 to 20 December 2003, Elite Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi India, pp. 321-333.

Searle, A., Gough, J., Abramson, D.A., 2003, DUCT: an interactive define-use chain navigation tool for relative debugging, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Automated Debugging, 08 September 2003 to 10 September 2003, University of Gent, Gent Belgium, pp. 1-8.

Abramson, D.A., Barak, A., Enticott, C., 2003, Job management in Grids of MOSIX clusters, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, 13 August 2003 to 15 August 2003, The Int. Soc. for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), Cary USA, pp. 36-42.

Tran, N.T., Mingins, C.A., Abramson, D.A., 2003, Managed assertions for component contracts, Proceedings of the Seventh World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology, 03 December 2003 to 06 December 2003, The Society for Design & Process Technology, USA, pp. 318-326.

Abramson, D.A., Finkel, R.A., Kurniawan, D., Kowalenko, V., Watson, G., 2003, Parallel relative debugging with dynamic data structures, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, 13 August 2003 to 15 August 2003, The Int. Soc. for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), Cary USA, pp. 22-29.

Buyya, R., Murshed, M., Abramson, D.A., 2002, A deadline and budget constrained cost-time optimisation algorithm for scheduling task farming applications on global grids, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, 24 June 2002 to 27 June 2002, CSREA Press, USA, pp. 2183-2189.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D.A., Giddy, J., 2001, A case for economy grid architecture for service oriented grid computing, Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, 23 April 2001 to 27 April 2001, IEEE Comnputer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-15.

Abramson, D.A., Roe, P., Kotler, L., Mather, D., 2001, ActiveSheets: super-computing with spreadsheets, Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation: Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium - HPC 2001, 22 April 2001 to 26 April 2001, The Society for Modeling & Simulation Int., CA USA, pp. 110-115.

Abramson, D.A., Lewis, A., Peachey, T.C., Fletcher, C., 2001, An automatic design optimization tool and its application to computational fluid dynamics, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2001 Conference, 10/11/2001-16/11/2001, Association for Computing Machinery, Denver Colorado USA, pp. 1-12.

Abramson, D.A., Lewis, A., Peachey, T., 2001, Case studies in automatic design optimisation using the P-BFGS algorithm, Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation: Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium - HPC 2001, 22 April 2001 to 26 April 2001, The Society for Modeling & Simulation Int., CA USA, pp. 104-109.

Chan, P., Abramson, D.A., 2001, NetFiles: a novel approach to parallel programming of master/worker applications, The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing in the Asia - Pacific Region (HPC ASIA 2001), 24 September 2001 to 27 September 2001, Ever Technology, Australia, p. 1.

Watson, G., Abramson, D.A., 2001, Parallel relative debugging for distributed memory application: a case study, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, 25 June 2001 to 28 June 2001, CSREA Press, USA, pp. 1621-1627.

Gedge, R., Abramson, D.A., 2001, The Virtual Tea Room - experiences with a new type of social space, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Groupware, 06 September 2001 to 08 September 2001, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 98-103.

Randall, M., Abramson, D., 2000, A General Parallel Tabu Search Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems, Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems (PART'99), Melbourne VIC Australia, 29 November - 1 December 1999, Springer-Verlag Pte. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 68-79.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D., Giddy, J., 2000, An Economy Driven Resource Management Architecture for Global Computational Power Grids, Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas USA, 26 - 29 June 2000, CSREA Press, Georgia USA.

Buyya, R., Giddy, J., Abramson, D., 2000, An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading and Scheduling on Computational Power Grids for Parameter Sweep Applications, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Workshop on Active Middleware Services, Pennsylvania USA, 1 August 2000, Kluwer Acadmics Publishers, Massachusetts USA, pp. 221-230.

Abramson, D., Lowe, G.S., Atkinson, P., 2000, Are You Interested in Computers and Electronics?, The Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2000), Melbourne VIC Australia, 4-6 December 2000, The Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 1-5.

Abramson, D., Giddy, J., Kotler, L., 2000, High Performance Parametric Modeling with Nimrod/G: Killer Application for the Global Grid?, Proceedings of the 14th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2000), Cancun MEXICO, 1-5 May 2000, The Inst. of Electrical & Electronics Eng., Inc., CA USA, pp. 520-528.

Buyya, R., Abramson, D., Giddy, J., 2000, Nimrod/G: An Architecture for a Resource Management and Scheduling System in a Global Computational Grid, Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC-ASIA 2000), Beijing CHINA, 14-17 May 2000, Inst. of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., CA USA, pp. 283-289.

Abramson, D., Lewis, A., Peachey, T., 2000, Nimrod/O: A Tool for Automatic Design Optimisation Using Parallel and Distributed Systems, Proceedings of the 2000 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA?PP 2000), HONG KONG, 11-13 December 2000, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 497-508.

Watson, G., Abramson, D., 2000, The Architecture of a Parallel Relative Debugger, Proceedings of the ISCA 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2000), Nevada USA, 8-10 August 2000, The Int. Soc. for Computers & Their Applications, NC USA, pp. 289-296.

Abramson, D., Power, K., Sosic, R., 1999, Simulating Computer Networks Using Clusters of PCs, Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium - HPC'99, California USA, 11-15 April, 1999, The Society for Computer Simulation International, California USA, pp. 386-394.

Giles, S., Abramson, D., 1999, The Video Wall project - Video Technology at the Leading Edge in Education, Conference Papers from Visions of the Future Learning Technologies 1999.

Giles, S., Abramson, D., 1999, The Virtual Tea Room: Intergrating Video Into Everyday Life, Proceedings of the 1999 Int. Wireless and Telecommunications Symp, Shah Alam Malaysia, 17-21 May 1999, Centre for Telecommunicaions and Information Tech, Shah Alam Malaysia, pp. 318-321.

Postula, A., Abramson, D., Fang, Z., Logothetis, P., 1998, A Comparison of High Level Synthesis and Register Transfer Level Design Techniques for Custom Computing Machines, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii USA, 6-9 January 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 207-214.

Abramson, D., Logothetis, P., Randall, M., Postula, A., 1998, A Tail of 2N Cities: Performing Combinatorial Optimisation Using Linked Lists on Special Purpose Computers, Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, Gippsland VIC, 9-11 February 1998, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 17-26.

Postula, A., Chen, S., Jozwiak, L., Abramson, D., 1998, Automated Synthesis of Interleaved Memory Systems for Custom Computing Machines, Proceedings of the 24th EUROMICRO Conference, Vasteras Sweden, 25-27 August 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 115-122.

Abramson, D.A., Smith, K.A., Logothetis, P., Duke, D., 1998, FPGA Based Implementation of a Hopfield Neural Network for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems, 24th Euromicro 98, Vasteras Sweden 25-27August 1998, IEEE Inc., New Jersey USA, pp. 688-693.

Abramson, D., Smith, K.A., Logothetis, P., Duke, D., 1998, FPGA Based Implementation of a Hopfield Neural Network for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Proceedings of the 24th EUROMICRO Conference, Vasteras Sweden, 25-27 August 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 688-693.

Abramson, D., Logothetis, P., Postula, A., Randall, M., 1998, RPGA Based Custom Computing Machines for Irregular Problems, Proceedings - The 4th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Las Vegas USA, 31 January-4 February 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 324-333.

Abramson, D.A., Logothetis, P., Postula, A., Randall, M., 1997, Application specific computers for combinatorial optimisation, Computer Architecture, Selected papers of the 2nd Australasian Conference, Sydney, NSW, February 1997, Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 29-43.

Lewis, A., Abramson, D.A., Simpson, R., 1997, Parallel non-linear optimization: towards the design of a decision support system for air quality management, IEEE Supercomputing 1997, San Jose CA USA 15-21/11/97, ACM/iEEE, California USA, pp. 1-13.

Abramson, D.A., Watson, G., 1997, Relative debugging for parallel systems, Proceedings, Parallel Computing Workshop 1997, Canberra ACT 25-26/9/1997, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-8.

Abramson, D.A., Giddy, J., 1997, Scheduling large parametric modelling experiments on a distributed meta-computer, Proceedings, Parallel Computing Workshop 1997, Canberra ACT 25-26/9/1997, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-8.

Abramson, D.A., Foster, I., Giddy, J., Lewis, A., Sosic, R., Sutherst, R., White, N.R., 1997, The Nimrod computational workbench: a case study in desktop metacomputing, Proceedings, Twentieth Australasian Computer Science Conference, Sydney, NSW, 5-7/2/1997, Australian Computer Science Communications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 17-26.

Other

Abramson, D., 2000, Parametric Modelling: Killer Apps for Linux Clusters, Linux Journal, Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc., WA USA.

Activities

Faculty executive committee

Member
Faculty Research Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Member
ICT Strategy Comittee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Member
Professoriate group
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Member
Senior Leadership Team
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Grants

Title:

A Field Programmable Custom Computer for Neural Network Based Optimisation Algorithms.

Investigators:

Smith-Miles, K, Abramson, D

Funding:

(1998 - 1998). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

A Grid based platform for multi-scaled biological simulation.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Burrage, K

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2010 - 2014). Monash University.

(2010 - 2014). Queensland University of Technology.

Title:

A High Performance Multi-computer for Parametric Modelling.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Willis, R

Funding:

(1997 - 1997). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

A Unified Grid Programming Methodology for Global e-Science.

Investigators:

Abramson, D

Funding:

(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2007 - 2011). Monash University.

Title:

A high throughput Grid based environment for real time bio-medical imaging.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Lackmann, M, Zapf, T, Harper, I, Scheck, S, Enticott, C

Funding:

(2008 - 2011). Monash University.

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Leica Microsystems.

(2009 - 2013). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

A scalable debugging framework for petascale computers.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, DeRose, L, Moench, R

Funding:

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Cray Inc.

Title:

Autoguard: An Interactive Development Environment for Relative Debugging of Programs.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Gough, K

Funding:

(2001 - 2003). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Desing and Construction of High Performance Architecture for Integer Optimisation.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Postula, A

Funding:

(1995 - 2013). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Development of a collaborative environment for high throughput biology discovery pipelines.

Investigators:

Whisstock, J, Buckle, A, Webb, G, Abramson, D, Bottomley, S, Adler, B, Green, D, Rossjohn, J, Smith, A, Garcia De La Banda, M, Coppel, R

Funding:

(2005 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2005 - 2010). Monash University.

Title:

Griddles: Building Grid Applications from Legacy Software.

Investigators:

Abramson, D

Funding:

(2003 - 2007). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2003 - 2007). High Performance Technical Computing, Compaq Computer Corporation.

(2003 - 2007). Monash University.

(2008 - 2012). High Performance Technical Computing, Compaq Computer Corporation.

Title:

eScience and Climate: Using Grid technology to build capacity in studies of Australian climate variability.

Investigators:

Lynch, A, Abramson, D, Simmonds, I, Dethloff, K, Mysak, L, Wardle, R

Funding:

(2005 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

A Software Environment for Building High Performance Optimising Decision Support Systems from Computational Models.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Simpson, R, Spencer, S

Funding:

(1997 - 2001). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(1997 - 2001). Department of Environmental Protection of Western Australia.

(1997 - 2001). Environment Protection Authority Victoria.

(1997 - 2001). Queensland Department of Environment.

Title:

ARC Centre for complex systems (ACCS).

Investigators:

Green, D, Abramson, D

Funding:

(2003 - 2007). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Australian Astronomy Grid.

Investigators:

Webster, R, Green, A, Boyle, B, McConnell, , Drinkwater, M, Bailes, M, Gingold, R, Abramson, D, Couch, W, Appelbe, W

Funding:

(2004 - 2015). Anglo Australian Observatory.

(2004 - 2015). Australia Telescope National Facility.

(2004 - 2015). Australian National University (ANU).

(2004 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2004 - 2015). Monash University.

(2004 - 2015). Swinburne University of Technology.

(2004 - 2015). The University of Melbourne.

(2004 - 2015). University of Queensland.

(2004 - 2015). University of Sydney.

(2004 - 2015). Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing (VPAC).

Title:

Australian Virtual Observatory.

Investigators:

Webster, R, Green, A, Drinkwater, M, Killeen, N, Francis, P, Couch, W, Appelbe, W, Bailes, M, Abramson, D

Funding:

(2004 - 2015). Australian National University (ANU).

(2004 - 2015). CSIRO - Australia Telescope National Facility.

(2004 - 2015). Monash University.

(2004 - 2015). Swinburne University of Technology.

(2004 - 2015). The University of Melbourne.

(2004 - 2015). University of New South Wales.

(2004 - 2015). University of Queensland.

(2004 - 2015). University of Sydney.

(2005 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Data Grid storage infrastructure for e-Research.

Investigators:

Pailthorpe, B, Gingold, R, Abramson, D, Atkinson, I, Crozier, S, Ragan, M, Heron, M, Khan, A, Ridd, P, Bordes, N, Knackstedt, M

Funding:

(2006 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2006 - 2010). Monash University.

Title:

Enterprise Grid Laboratory.

Investigators:

Goscinski, A, Abramson, D, Tari, Z, Roe, P

Funding:

(2006 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2006 - 2010). Monash University.

Title:

High Performance Computing Infracstructure Upgrade.

Investigators:

Appelbe, W, Abramson, D, Bailes, M, Ramamohanarao, K, Dillon, T, Snook, I, Morris, S

Funding:

(2003 - 2007). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2003 - 2007). Monash University.

(2003 - 2008). Monash University.

Title:

Australian High Performance Computational Structural Biology Facility.

Investigators:

Buckle, A, Whisstock, J, Wilce, M, Smith, A, Bottomley, S, Abramson, D, Webb, G, Garcia De La Banda, M, Appelbe, W, Coppel, R

Funding:

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Monash University.

(2008 - 2012). Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing (VPAC).

Title:

Data Grid -- Access Layer.

Investigators:

Pailthorpe, B, Schmidt, B, Hyde, S, Lewis, R, Ragan, M, Crozier, S, Lindsay, P, Knackstedt, M, Drinkwater, M, Drummond, P, McConvell, P, Whittaker, A, Evans, B, Phinn, S, Khan, A

Funding:

(2007 - 2011). Australian National University (ANU).

(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2007 - 2011). Monash University.

(2007 - 2011). Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF) Ltd.

(2007 - 2011). University of Queensland.

Title:

A Software Environment for Building High Performance Optimising Decision Support Systems from Computational Models.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Simpson, R

Funding:

(1997 - 1999). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

An integrative and distributed data management and workflow framework for e-research in biomedical imaging.

Investigators:

Egan, G, Milton, S, Lohrey, J, Lonie, A, Abramson, D

Funding:

(2011 - 2015). Arcitecta pty ltd.

(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2011 - 2015). The University of Melbourne.

(2012 - 2016). Arcitecta pty ltd.

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Design and Construction of High Performance Architectures for Integer Optimisation.

Investigators:

Abramson, D

Funding:

(1997 - 1997). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Parallel Relative Debugging: a New Debugging Paradigm for Parallel Supercomputing.

Investigators:

Abramson, D

Funding:

(1997 - 1999). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Interacting with Scientific Workflows.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main), Indrawan, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Software product line engineering for computational science applications on high performance computers..

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Buyya, R.

Program of Study:

ECONOMIC-BASED DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING FOR GRID COMPUTING. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Student:

Dinh, M.

Program of Study:

Data-centric parallel debugging technique for petascale computers. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Student:

Goscinski, W.

Program of Study:

IDEA: an infrastructure for the deployment of e-science applications. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Student:

Ho, K.

Program of Study:

The design and implementation of an active data system. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main), Schmidt, H (Associate).

Student:

Jayaraman, P.

Program of Study:

Cost-efficient collection and delivery of sensor data using mobile devices. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Zaslavsky, A (Main), Abramson, D (Associate).

Student:

Kommineni, J.

Program of Study:

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Grid Workflows Using Web Services. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Student:

Kurniawan, D.

Program of Study:

ISENGARD: an infrastructure for supporting e-Science and grid application development. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).

Student:

Ramdas, T.

Program of Study:

Data-parallel processing for ab initio computational quantum chemistry. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Egan, G (Main), Abramson, D (Associate).

Student:

Sloan, A.

Program of Study:

An FPGA Based Implementation of the CSIRAC II Dataflow Computer. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Abachi, H (Main), Egan, G (Main), Abramson, D (Associate).

Student:

Tran, N.

Program of Study:

Language neutral behavioural contracts for binary components. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main), Mingins ((Double Id)), C (Associate).

Student:

Watson, G.

Program of Study:

THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PARALLEL RELATIVE DEBUGGER. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Abramson, D (Main).