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• Bing Xie, Yezhou Huang, Jeffrey S. Chase, Jong Youl Choi, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, and Sarp Oral. 2017. Predicting Output Performance of a Petascale Supercomputer. In Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181-192. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3078597.3078614  pdf BibTeX
• J. Lofstead, I. Jimenez, C. Maltzahn, Q. Koziol, J. Bent and E. Barton, "DAOS and Friends: A Proposal for an Exascale Storage System," SC16: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Salt Lake City, UT, 2016, pp. 585-596. doi: 10.1109/SC.2016.49 pdf BibTeX
• S. Thapaliya, P. Bangalore, J. Lofstead, K. Mohror and A. Moody, "Managing I/O Interference in a Shared Burst Buffer System," 2016 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Philadelphia, PA, 2016, pp. 416-425. doi: 10.1109/ICPP.2016.54  pdf BibTeX
• Dayal, Jai and Lofstead, Jay and Eisenhauer, Greg and Schwan, Karsten and Wolf, Matthew and Abbasi, Hasan and Klasky, Scott, "SODA: Science-Driven Orchestration of Data Analytics," 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science, Munich, 2015, pp. 475-484. doi: 10.1109/eScience.2015.59  pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Robert Ross. "Insights for Exascale IO APIs From Building a Petascale IO API". In Proceedings of Supercomputing 2013. Denver, CO, November 2013. pdf BibTeX
• Zhou Liu, Jay Lofstead, Teng Wang, Weikuan Yu. "A Case of System-Wide Power Management for Scientific Applications". In Proceedings of IEEE Cluster Computing. Indianapolis, IN, September 2013. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Ron Oldfield, Todd Kordenbrock. "Experiences Applying Data Staging Technology in Unconventional Ways". In Proceedings of 13th IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing. Delft, The Netherlands, May 2013. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Jai Dayal, Karsten Schwan, Ron Oldfield. "D2T: Doubly Distributed Transactions for High Performance and Distributed Computing". In Proceedings of Cluster Computing. Beijing, China, September 2012. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Milo Polte, Garth Gibson, Scott Klasky, Karsten Schwan, Ron Oldfield, Matthew Wolf, Qing Liu. "Six Degrees of Scientific Data: Reading Patterns for Extreme Scale Science IO". In Proceedings of HPDC. San Jose, CA, June 2011. pdf BibTeX
• Yuan Tian, Scott Klasky, Hasan Abbasi, Jay Lofstead, Ray Grout, Norbert Podhorszki, Qing Liu, Yandong Wang, Weikuan Yu. "EDO: Improving Read Performance for Scientific Applications Through Elastic Data Organization". In Proceedings of Cluster Computing. Austin, TX, September 2011. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Fang Zheng, Qing Liu, Scott Klasky, Ron Oldfield, Todd Kordenbrock, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. "Managing Variability in the IO Performance of Petascale Storage Systems". In Proceedings of SC 10. New Orleans, LA. November 2010. pdf BibTeX
• Fang Zheng, Hasan Abbasi, Ciprian Docan, Jay Lofstead, Scott Klasky, Qing Liu, Manish Parashar, Norbert Podhorszki, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. "PreDatA - Preparatory Data Analytics on Peta-Scale Machines". In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. Atlanta, GA. April 2010.pdf BibTeX
• Julian Cummings, Alexander Sim, Arie Shoshani, Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, Ciprian Docan, Manish Parashar, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki and Roselyne Barreto. "EFFIS: an End-to-end Framework for Fusion Integrated Simulation". PDP 2010 - Th 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, February 2010, Pisa, Italy.pdf BibTeX
• Hasan Abbasi, Jay Lofstead, Fang Zheng, Scott Klasky, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. "Extending I/O through High Performance Data Services." Cluster Computing 2009, New Orleans, LA. August 2009. pdf BibTeX
• Lofstead, J and Zheng, F and Klasky, S and Schwan, K. "Adaptable, Metadata Rich IO Methods for Portable High Performance IO.", Rome, Italy, May, 2009. [ipdps 2009] pdf BibTeX

Workshop

• Bing Xie, Jeffrey S. Chase, David Dillow, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, Sarp Oral, Norbert Podhorszki. (2017) Output Performance Study on a Production Petascale Filesystem. In: Kunkel J., Yokota R., Taufer M., Shalf J. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10524. Springer, Cham  pdf BibTeX
• Curry M.L., Ward H.L., Danielson G., Lofstead J. (2016) An Overview of the Sirocco Parallel Storage System. In: Taufer M., Mohr B., Kunkel J. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9945. Springer, Cham  pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Gregory Jean-Baptiste, Ron Oldfield. (2016) Delta: Data Reduction for Integrated Application Workflows and Data Storage. In: Taufer M., Mohr B., Kunkel J. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9945. Springer, Cham  pdf BibTeX
• Margaret Lawson, Craig Ulmer, Shyamali Mukherjee, Gary Templet, Jay Lofstead, Scott Levy, Patrick Widener, and Todd Kordenbrock. 2017. "Empress: extensible metadata provider for extreme-scale scientific simulations." In Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3149393.3149403  pdf BibTeX
• I. Jimenez and A. Arpaci-Dusseau and R. Arpaci-Dusseau and J. Lofstead and C. Maltzahn and K. Mohror and R. Ricci, "PopperCI: Automated reproducibility validation," 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Atlanta, GA, 2017, pp. 450-455. doi: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116418  pdf BibTeX
• A. Champsaur and J. Lofstead and J. Dayal and M. Wolf and G. Eisenhauer and P. Widener and A. Gavrilovska, "SmartBlock: An Approach to Standardizing In Situ Workflow Components," 2017 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), Lake Buena Vista, FL, 2017, pp. 1301-1308. doi: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2017.149  pdf BibTeX
• I. Jimenez and C. Maltzahn and J. Lofstead and A. Moody and K. Mohror and R. Arpaci-Dusseau and A. Arpaci-Dusseau, "Characterizing and Reducing Cross-Platform Performance Variability Using OS-Level Virtualization," 2016 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), Chicago, IL, 2016, pp. 1077-1080. doi: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2016.97  pdf BibTeX
• Brian Kocoloski, John Lange, Hasan Abbasi, David E. Bernholdt, Terry R. Jones, Jai Dayal, Noah Evans, Michael Lang, Jay Lofstead, Kevin Pedretti, and Patrick G. Bridges. 2015. System-Level Support for Composition of Applications. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 8 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2768405.2768412  pdf BibTeX
• Jimenez, Ivo and Maltzahn, Carlos and Lofstead, Jay and Moody, Adam and Mohror, Kathryn and Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi and Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea, "Tackling the Reproducibility Problem in Storage Systems Research with Declarative Experiment Specifications," Proceedings of the 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, Austin, TX, 2015. doi: 10.1145/2834976.2834979  pdf BibTeX
• Jimenez, Ivo and Maltzahn, Carlos and Moody, Adam and Mohror, Kathryn and Lofstead, Jay and Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi and Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea, "The Role of Container Technology in Reproducible Computer Systems Research," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Tempe, AZ, 2015, pp. 379-385. doi: 10.1109/IC2E.2015.75  pdf BibTeX
• J. Lofstead, I. Jimenez and C. Maltzahn, "Consistency and Fault Tolerance Considerations for the Next Iteration of the DOE Fast Forward Storage and IO Project," 2014 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, pp. 61-69. doi: 10.1109/ICPPW.2014.21  pdf BibTeX
• S. Thapaliya, P. Bangalore, J. Lofstead, K. Mohror and A. Moody, "IO-Cop: Managing Concurrent Accesses to Shared Parallel File System," 2014 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, pp. 52-60. doi: 10.1109/ICPPW.2014.20 pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Jai Dayal, Ivo Jimenez, and Carlos Maltzahn. 2014. "Efficient, failure resilient transactions for parallel and distributed computing." In Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS '14). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 17-24. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DISCS.2014.13 BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Jai Dayal, Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn. "Efficient Transactions for Parallel Data Movement", In Proceedings of Parallel Data Storage Workshop at Supercompting 2013, Denver, CO. pdf BibTeX
• Jai Dayal, Jianting Cao, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, Fang Zheng, Hasan Abbasi, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, Jay Lofstead. "I/O Containers: Managing the Data Analytics and Visualization Pipelines of High End Codes", In International Workshop on High Performance Data Intensive Computing at IPDPS 2013, Boston, MA. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead and Jai Dayal. "Transactional Parallel Metadata Services for Integrated Application Workflows", In Proceedings of High Performance Computing Meets Databases at Supercompting 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead and Jai Dayal. "Extending MPI to Better Support Multi-Application Interaction.", In Proceedings of IMUDI Workshop at EuroMPI 2012, Vienna, Austria. pdf BibTeX
• Jeremy Logan, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, Hasan Abbasi, Stephane Ethier, Ray Grout, Seung-Hoe Ku, Qing Liu, Xiaosong Ma, Manish Parashar, Norbert Podhorszki, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. "Skel: Generative Software for Producing Skeletal I/O Applications.", In Proceedings of Workshop on D3 Science (data-intensive, distributed, and dynamic) at IEEE eScience 2011, Stockholm, Sweeden. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Ron Oldfield, Todd Kordenbrock, and Charles Reiss. "Extending Scalability of Collective IO Through Nessie and Staging", In Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2011 at Supercomputing 2011, Seattle, Washington. pdf BibTeX
• Milo Polte and Jay Lofstead and John Bent and Garth Gibson and Scott Klasky and Qing Liu and Manish Parashar and Norbert Podhorszki and Karsten Schwan and Meghan Wingate and Matthew Wolf. "...And Eat it Too: High Read Performance in Write-Optimized HPC I/O Middleware File Formats.", In Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2009 at Supercomputing 2009, Portland, Oregon. pdf BibTeX
• Norbert Podhorszki, Scott Klasky, Qing Liu, Hasan Abbasi Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, Fang Zheng, Ciprian Docan, Manish Parashar, Julian Cummings. "Plasma fusion code coupling using scalable I/O services and scientific workflows". In The 4th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science at Supercomputing 2009, November 2009. Portland, OR.pdf BibTeX
• Lofstead, J and Zheng, F and Klasky, S and Schwan, K. Input/Output APIs and Data Organization for High Performance Scientific Computing. , Austin, Texas, November, 2008. [pdsw 2008] pdf BibTeX
• Lofstead, J and Klasky, S and Schwan K and Podhorszki, N and Jin, C. "Flexible IO and Integration for Scientific Codes Through The Adaptable IO System (ADIOS).", CLADE 2008 at HPDC, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 2008. [clade 2008] pdf BibTeX

Journal Papers

• S A Klasky, H Abbasi, M Ainsworth, J Choi, M Curry, T Kurc, Q Liu, J Lofstead, C Maltzahn, M Parashar, N Podhorszki, E Suchyta, F Wang, M Wolf, C S Chang, M Churchill, S Ethier. "Exascale Storage Systems the SIRIUS Way", In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, volume 759, number 1, url: http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/759/i=1/a=012095, 2016. pdf BibTeX
• Qing Liu, Jeremy Logan, Yuan Tian, Hasan Abbasi, Norbert Podhorszki, Jong Youl Choi, Scott Klasky, Roselyne Tchoua, Jay F. Lofstead, Ron Oldfield, Manish Parashar, Nagiza F. Samatova, Karsten Schwan, Arie Shoshani, Matthew Wolf, Kesheng Wu, Weikuan Yu. "Hello ADIOS: The Challenges and Lessons of Developing Leadership Class I/O Frameworks". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, (26)7: 1453-1473 (2014). pdf BibTeX
• Ron Oldfield, Gregory Sjaardema, Gerald Lofstead, Todd Kordenborck. "Trilinos I/O Support (Trios).", Scientific Programming, August 2012. pdf BibTeX

Other Papers

• Ali Butt, Jay Lofstead. "PDSW '15: Proceedings of the 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop", Austin, TX, 2015.  pdf BibTeX
• Ron Oldfield and Todd Kordenbrock and Jay Lofstead. "Developing Integrated Data Services for Cray Systems with a Gemini Interconnect.", Cray User Group Meeting 2012, Stuttgart, Germany. pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead (GT), Scott Klasky (ORNL), Michael Booth (Sun), Hasan Abbasi (GT), Fang Zheng (GT), Matthew Wolf (GT) and Karsten Schwan (GT). "Petascale IO Using The Adaptable IO System". Cray User's Group 2009, Atlanta, GA. May, 2009. pdf BibTeX
• Scott Klasky, Chen Jin, Stephen Hodson, James B. (Trey) White III and Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, and Matthew Wolf, Georgia Tech; Wei-keng Liao and Alok Choudhary, North Western University; and Manish Parashar and Ciprian Docan, Rutgers University. "Adaptive IO Ssytem (ADIOS)". Cray User's Group 2008. Helsinki, Finland. May 2008.pdf BibTeX

Book Chapters

• "High Throughput Data Movement," S. Klasky et al, "Scientific Data Management--Challenges, Existing Technologies, and Deployment," Editors: A. Shoshani and D. Rotem, Chapman and Hall, ISBN 9781420069808, 2009.
• Karsten Schwan, Brian Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, "AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems". Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, CRC Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-0849393679.

Physics Papers

• Z Lin, Y Xiao, I Holod, W Zhang, W Deng, S Klasky, J Lofstead, C Kamath and N Wichmann. "Advanced simulation of electron heat transport in fusion plasmas". J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 180 (2009) 012059 (10pp) pdf BibTeX
• C S Chang, S Ku, P Diamond, M Adams, R Barreto, Y Chen, J Cummings, E D'Azevedo, G Dif-Pradalier, S Ethier, L Greengard, T S Hahm, F Hinton, D Keyes, S Klasky, Z Lin, J Lofstead, G Park, S Parker, N Podhorszki, K Schwan, A Shoshani, D Silver, M Wolf, P Worley, H Weitzner, E Yoon and D Zorin. "Whole-volume integrated gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence in realistic diverted-tokamak geometry". J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 180 (2009) 012057 (14pp) pdf BibTeX
• C S Chang, S Klasky, J Cummings, R Samtaney, A Shoshani, L Sugiyama, D Keyes, S Ku, G Park, S Parker, N Podhorszki, H Strauss, H Abbasi, M Adams, R Barreto, G Bateman, K Bennett, Y Chen, E D' Azevedo, C Docan, S Ethier, E Feibush, L Greengard, T Hahm, F Hinton, C Jin, A Khan, A Kritz, P Krsti, T Lao, W Lee, Z Lin, J Lofstead, P Mouallem, M Nagappan, A Pankin, M Parashar, M Pindzola, C Reinhold, D Schultz, K Schwan, D Silver, A Sim, D Stotler, M Vouk, M Wolf, H Weitzner, P Worley, Y Xiao, E Yoon and D Zorin. "Toward a first-principles integrated simulation of tokamak edge plasmas". J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 125 (2008) 012042 (7pp) pdf BibTeX

Posters and Demos

• I. Jimenez and S. Hamedian and J. Lofstead and C. Maltzahn and K. Mohror and R. Arpaci-Dusseau and A. Arpaci-Dusseau and R. Ricci, "Demo abstract: PopperCI: Automated reproducibility validation," 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Atlanta, GA, 2017, pp. 952-953. doi: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116506  pdf BibTeX
• J. Lofstead, A. Champsaur, J. Dayal, M. Wolf and G. Eisenhauer, "SuperGlue: Standardizing Glue Components for HPC Workflows," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Taipei, 2016, pp. 170-171. doi: 10.1109/CLUSTER.2016.90  pdf BibTeX
• Jay Lofstead, Jai Dayal, Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn. "Failure Detection and Recovery for Doubly Distributed Transactions for Parallel and Distributed Computing", In Proceedings of HPDC 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2014. pdf (poster) pdf (abstract)
• Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Jai Dayal, Jay Lofstead. "Exploring Trade-offs in Transactional Parallel Data Movement", In Proceedings of Parallel Data Storage Workshop at Supercomputing 2013, Denver, CO. pdf (poster) pdf (slides)
• Jai Dayal, Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, Ron Oldfield. "D2T: Doubly Distributed Transactions for High Performance and Distributed Computing", In Proceedings of HPDC 2013, New York, New York. pdf (abstract) pdf (poster) pdf (slides)
• Jai Dayal, Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, Ron Oldfield. "D2T: Doubly Distributed Transactions for High Performance and Distributed Computing", In Proceedings of HPDC 2012, Delft, Netherlands. pdf (abstract) pdf (poster)
• Jai Dayal, Jay Lofstead, Karsten Schwan, Ron Oldfield. "Resilient Data Staging Through MxN Distributed Transactions", In Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2011 at Supercomputing 2011, Seattle, Washington. pdf
• Jay Lofstead and Qing Liu and Scott Klasky and Michael Booth and Ron Oldfield and Karsten Schwan and Matthew Wolf. "High Performance IO on Busy Systems.", Poster presented at Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2009 at Supercomputing 2009, Portland, Oregon. pdf BibTeX

Tutorials

Chen Jin, Scott Klasky, Steve Hodson: ORNL, Hasan Abbasi, Jay Lofstead, Matthew Wolf: Georgia Tech, Manish Parashar: Rutgers. "ADIOS: The ADaptible IO System", SciDAC 2008, Seattle, July, 2008. pptx

Tech Reports

• Lofstead, Jay; Schwan, Karsten, "XCHANGE: High Performance Data Morphing in Distributed Applications", College of Computing Technical Report GIT-CC-05-14 abstract pdf official document
• Autonomic Information Flows, Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, CERCS Technical Report GIT-CERCS-05-22, Nov 2005. abstract pdf
• W. B. Ligon, W. O. Putnam, and C. G. Smith, "Requirements and Design of the Georgia Tech Instruction System for Ethics (GT-ISE)," Technical Report GIT-SRC-91/04, Software Research Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, December, 1991. (uncredited)

Thesis

• Lofstead, G. F. (2010) "Extreme Scale Data Management in High Performance Computing". Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.. pdf BiBTeX

• R&D100 2013 award for ADIOS: Adaptable I/O System for Big Data
• Fall 2010 PhD CS
• Fall 2006-Fall 2010 Georgia Tech President's Fellowship
• Fall 2004-Fall 2009 Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Engineering 5-Year Fellowship
• August 2003 - Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society
• February 2001 - McKesson Information Systems' Pinnacle Innovation of the Year Award
• June 1993 BS CS with honors

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