James A. Edwards
PhD graduate from the University of Maryland

Research work

My area of research is parallel algorithms, specifically those with fine-grained, irregular parallelism. Much of my work takes advantage of the Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) platform developed by Dr. Uzi Vishkin.

Publications

Study of Fine-grained Nested Parallelism in CDCL SAT Solvers
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, Volume 8, Issue 3, Article 17, 18 pages, Sep. 2021

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Linking parallel algorithmic thinking to many-core memory systems and speedups for boosted decision trees
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
MEMSYS '18 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems, 2018

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FFT on XMT: Case Study of a Bandwidth-Intensive Regular Algorithm on a Highly-Parallel Many Core
James Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 2016
Parallel algorithms for Burrows–Wheeler compression and decompression
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 525, pp. 10–22, Mar. 2014
Brief announcement: truly parallel burrows-wheeler compression and decompression
James Alexander Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
SPAA '13 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures, 2013

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Brief announcement: speedups for parallel graph triconnectivity
James Alexander Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
SPAA '12 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures, 2012

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Better speedups using simpler parallel programming for graph connectivity and biconnectivity
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
PMAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores, 2012

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Talks (speaker's name emphasized)

Outline of a New Roadmap to Permissive Communication and Applications That Can Benefit
James A. Edwards and Uzi Vishkin
Minisymposium on Minimizing Communication in Numerical Algorithms, 17th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Paris, France, April 12-15, 2016.
High-Bandwidth Communication Avoidance: Oxymoron or Recipe?
James A. Edwards and Uzi Vishkin
Minisymposium on Minimizing Communication in Linear Algebra, 16th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Portland, Oregon, February 18-21, 2014.
Can PRAM Graph Algorithms Provide Practical Speedups on Many-Core Machines?
George Caragea, James A. Edwards and Uzi Vishkin
Contributed talk, DIMACS Workshop on Parallelism: A 20-20 Vision, March 14-16, 2011

Technical Reports

Can Cooling Technology Save Many-Core Parallel Programming from Its Programming Woes?
Sean O'Brien, Uzi Vishkin, James Edwards, Edo Waks and Bao Yang
Technical report, University of Maryland, 2015
Feasibility Study of Scaling an XMT Many-Core
Sean O'Brien, Uzi Vishkin, James Edwards, Edo Waks and Bao Yang
Technical report, University of Maryland, 2015
Empirical Speedup Study of Truly Parallel Data Compression
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
Technical report, University of Maryland, 2013
Parallel Algorithms for Burrows-Wheeler Compression and Decompression
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
Technical report, University of Maryland, 2012

Source Code

Burrows-Wheeler Compression

Course work

Presentation on fabrication variability by Inkeun Cho and James Edwards (for Prof. Srivastava's ENEE759T course in Fall 2011)

Contact information

Email: jedward5@terpmail.umd.edu