Computer Science Assistant Software Project C++

Alin Jula

phone: 979-***-**** **** E. Highland Rd.

*****@**.****.*** Red Oak, TX, 75154

Full-time position in research and development of software systems, tools and languages.

Objective

Available starting May 2008. US Permanent Resident (Green card).

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 2008

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, GPA 3.8, Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger

Thesis: Improving Locality with Dynamic Memory Allocation

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

M.S. in Computer Science, GPA 9/10 1998

B.S. in Computer Science, GPA 9/10 1997

Additional coursework in Finance, 1996-98

Experience Texas A&M University, College Station, TX September, 2006 - present

Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

Designed and implemented memory allocation techniques in C++ that improve an appli-

cation s execution time an average of 7% and up to 22% over state-of-the-art allocators.

Integrated them into C++ Standard Template Library. Resulting method required only an

application re-compilation. Designed and implemented a generic memory allocation library.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA July-December, 2004

Intern, CASC

Designed and implemented two program transformation passes in a 800,000 lines of code

C++ compiler. A source outliner (reverse of inliner) and a generic program instrumentation

tool, both part of a program hot spot optimization project.

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science July, 1999 - September, 2006

Researched, designed and implemented the C++ Standard Template Adaptive Parallel Li-

brary (STAPL). Designed and implemented parallel algorithms, containers and task sched-

uler in STAPL, for both shared (pThreads) and distributed (MPI) memory systems.

Participated in the DOE ASCI Project - E cient massively parallel implementation of

modern deterministic transport calculations . Developed and implemented a communica-

tion/computation overlapping mechanism and performed locality improving optimizations.

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science August - December, 2003

Compiler Design, senior level class. Lectured on lexical analysis, parsing techniques, context

sensitive analysis, intermediate representations, procedure abstraction, heap management,

code generation, instruction selection, code improvement techniques and optimizations.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science January - May, 1999

Programming in C. Responsible for three sections of 20 students, supervised laboratories,

graded projects, tests and other assignments.

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania September - December, 1998

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science

System Analysis and Design. Responsible for four sections of 25 students. Lectured seminars,

problem solving sessions, graded projects, tests and other assignments.

Rai eisen Bank, Beclean, Romania June - August, 1997

Intern, Credit Department

Studied the bank s process for nancial credit.

Skills Programming Languages - Excellent working knowledge of C/C++. Working knowledge

of Pascal, Lisp, Matlab, Prolog, Visual Basic, 80-x86 assembly

Software and Tools - Excellent working knowledge of C++ Standard Template Library

(STL). Working knowledge of MPI, POSIX Threads, OpenMP, UML, CASE instruments,

Performance Pro ling Tools (PAPI, Tau, Shark), Unix shell, Latex, CVS, Doxygen

Hardware - Working knowledge of Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris OS (maintaining and working

on PC-Linux workstations, compilation target platform), SGI Origin 2000/3800, SGI Power

Challenge, IRIX, HP-V class and HP-UX OS (compilation target platforms)

Publications Custom Memory Allocation for Free: Improving Data Locality with Container-Centric Mem-

ory Allocation, Alin Jula and Lawrence Rauchwerger. In The 19th International Workshop

on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), November 2-4,2006, New

Orleans, LA. [Abstract] [Paper]

SmartApps: An Application Centric Approach to High Performance Computing: Compiler-

Assisted Software and Hardware Support for Reduction Operations, Francis. Dang, Maria

Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Ye Zhang, Alin Jula, Hao Yu, Nancy Amato, Lawrence

Rauchwerger and Josep Torrellas. NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop

(NSFNGS), in conjuction with the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing

Symposium (IPDPS), April 15th, 2002, Fort Lauderdale,Florida [Abstract] [Paper]

Architectural Support for Parallel Reductions in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,

Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Alin Jula, Hao Yu, Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchw-

erger, and Josep Torrellas, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compila-

tion Techniques (PACT), September 2001, Barcelona, Spain [Abstract] [Paper]

STAPL: an Adaptive Generic Parallel C++ Library, Ping An, Alin Jula, Silvius Rus,

Steve Saunders, Tim Smith, Gabrielt Tanase, Nathan Thomas, Nancy Amato, and Lawrence

Rauchwerger. 14th Workshop on Language and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC),

August 2001, Kentucky [Abstract] [Paper]

STAPL : a Standard Template Adaptive Parallel C++ Library, Ping An, Alin Jula, Silvius

Rus, Steven Saunders, Tim Smith,Gabriel Tanase, Nathan Thomas, Nancy Amato, and

Lawrence Rauchwerger, International Workshop on Advanced Compiler Technology for High

Performance and Embedded Processors (IWACT), Bucharest, Romania, July 18-21, 2001

[Abstract] [Paper]

Technical Reports

Balancing Allocation Speed, Locality and Fragmentation into a Locality Improving Memory

Allocator, Alin Jula and Lawrence Rauchwerger. Technical Report TR08-002. Department

of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Parasol Lab, College Station, TX 77843-3112,

Februrary 2008 [Abstract] [Paper]

How to Focus on Memory Allocation Strategies, Alin Jula and Lawrence Rauchwerger.

Technical Report TR07-003. Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University,

Parasol Lab, College Station, TX 77843-3112, June 2007 [Abstract] [Paper]

Thesis

Improving Locality with Dynamic Memory Allocation, Alin Jula. Ph.D. Thesis, Texas A&M

University, College Station, TX, USA, May 2008

Persistence in Object-Oriented Systems, Alin Jula. Masters Thesis, Babes-Boylai Univer-

sity, Cluj, Romania, July 1998

Modeling Information with CASE Instruments, Alin Jula, Bachelors Thesis, Babes-Boylai

University, Cluj, Romania, July 1997

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