Publications

    journal articles
  1. Rolf Riesen, Ron Brightwell, Patrick Bridges, Trammell Hudson, Arthur Maccabe, Patrick Widener and Kurt Ferreira. 'Designing and Implementing Lightweight Kernels for Capability Computing'. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Accepted for publication.
  2. Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Fabian E. Bustamante. 'Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for High-Performance Computing'. In Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications (5), 2002, pp.315-324. Invited submission.
    3. book chapters
  3. 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. "AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems" in Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri (eds.), CRC Press, 2006.
    4. refereed conference and workshop articles
  4. James Horey, Jean-Charles Tournier, Patrick Widener, Arthur Maccabe and Ann Kilzer. "A Filesystem Interface for Sensor Networks". In Proc. Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets), Charlottesville, Virginia: ACM, June, 2008.
  5. Jiantao Kong, Ivan Ganev, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "CameraCast: Flexible Access to Remote Video Sensors". In Proc. Fourteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'07), San Jose, California, January, 2007.
  6. Ron A. Oldfield, Patrick Widener, Arthur B. Maccabe, Lee Ward and Todd Kordenbrock. "Efficient Data Movement for Lightweight I/O". In Proc. 2006 Workshop on high-performance I/O techniques and deployment of Very-Large Scale I/O Systems (HiPerI/O 2006), Barcelona, Spain, September, 2006.
  7. Ron A. Oldfield, Arthur B. Maccabe, Sarala Arunagiri, Todd Kordenbrock, Rolf Riesen, Lee Ward and Patrick Widener. "Lightweight I/O for Scientific Applications". In Proc. 2006 IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2006.
  8. Jiantao Kong, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "Protected Data Paths: Delivering Sensitive Data via Untrusted Proxies". In Proc. 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2006), Ontario, Canada, October, 2006.
  9. Vibhore Kumar, Zhongtang Cai, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Sheshasayee and Patrick Widener. "IFLOW: Resource-aware Overlays for Composing and Managing Distributed Information Flows". In Proc. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Leuven, Belgium, April, 2006.
  10. Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee and Patrick Widener. "Implementing Diverse Messaging Models with Self-Managing Properties using IFLOW". In Proc. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Dublin, Ireland, June, 2006.
  11. Patrick Widener. "Reverb: Middleware Support for Distributed Application Forensics". In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Challenges for Large Distributed Environments, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, July, 2005.
  12. Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "SOAP-binQ: High-Performance SOAP with Continuous Quality Management". In Proc. 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), Tokyo, Japan, March, 2004.
  13. Yair Wiseman, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "Efficient End-to-End Data Exchange Using Configurable Compression". In Proc. 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), Tokyo, Japan, March, 2004.
  14. Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan and Fabian Bustamante. "Differential Data Protection in Dynamic Distributed Applications". In Proc. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December, 2003.
  15. Fabian Bustamante, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. "Scalable Directory Services Using Proactivity". In Proc. Supercomputing 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 2002.
  16. Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan. "Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for High-Performance Computing". In Proc. Tenth International IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), San Francisco, California, August, 2001.
  17. Fabian Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan and Calton Pu. "Active Streams: An approach to adaptive distributed systems". In Proc. 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Elmau/Oberbayern, Germany, May, 2001.
  18. Beth Plale, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. "Taking the Step from Meta-Information to Communication Middleware in Computational Data Streams". In Proc. IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (at IPDPS 2001), San Francisco, California, April, 2001.
  19. Fabian Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "Efficient Wire Formats for High-Performance Computing". In Proc. Supercomputing 2000, Dallas, Texas, November, 2000.
  20. Beth Plale, Greg Eisenhauer, Lynn K. Daley, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. "Fast Heterogeneous Binary Data Interchange for Event-based Monitoring". In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS-2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, November, 2000.
  21. Charles W. Reynolds and Patrick Widener. "A Study of the Support of the Programming Language C++ for Generic Abstract Data Types". In Proc. Fourth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Schenectady, New York, April, 1990.
    22. refereed posters
  22. Patrick M. Widener, Matthew Barrick, Jack Pullikottil, Patrick G. Bridges and Arthur B. Maccabe. "Metabots: A Framework for Out-of-Band Processing in Large-Scale Data Flows". In Proc. 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, Texas, September, 2007.
  23. James Horey, Jean-Charles Tournier, Patrick Widener and Arthur Maccabe. "Koseki: A Sensor Network Filesystem". In Proc. 2007 Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June, 2007.
  24. Fabian Bustamante, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. "A Case for Proactive Directory Services". In Proc. 11th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2002.
  25. Fabian Bustamante, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. "The Case for Proactive Directory Services". In Proc. Supercomputing 2001, Denver, Colorado, November, 2001.
  26. Fabian Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "Active Streams and the effects of stream specialization". In Proc. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), San Francisco, California, August, 2001.
  27. Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan and Greg Eisenhauer. "Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems". In Proc. 21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix (Mesa), Arizona, April, 2001.
    28. dissertation
  28. Patrick Widener. Dynamic Differential Data Protection for High-Performance and Pervasive Applications. Ph.D. Dissertation, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, August, 2005.
    29. non-refereed / technical reports / other
  29. Yair Wiseman, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. 'Efficient end to end data exchange using configurable compression'. In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 39 (3), July, 2005.
  30. James Horey, Jean-Charles Tournier, Patrick Widener, Arthur B. Maccabe and Ann Kilzer. A Filesystem Interface for Sensor Networks. Technical Report TR-CS-2008-01, University of New Mexico, March, 2008.
  31. Patrick M. Widener, Matthew Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Matthew Barrick, Jay Lofstead, Jack Pullikottil, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Scott Klasky, Ron Oldfield, Patrick G. Bridges, Arthur B. Maccabe and Karsten Schwan. Structured Streams: Data Services for Petascale Science Environments. Technical Report TR-CS-2007-17, University of New Mexico, November, 2007.
  32. Jean-Charles Tournier, Patrick G. Bridges, Arthur B. Maccabe, Patrick M. Widener, Zaid Abudayyeh, Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen and Trammel Hudson. 'Towards a Framework for Dedicated Operating System Development in High-End Computing Systems'. In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 40 (2), April, 2006, pp.16-21. Special Issue on Operating and Runtime Systems for High-End Computing Systems.
  33. 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. Autonomic Information Flows. Technical Report GIT-CERCS-05-22, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology, November, 2005.
  34. Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan. Dynamic Differential Data Protection. Technical Report GIT-CERCS-04-36, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
  35. Patrick Widener, Fabian Bustamante and Karsten Schwan. PDS - A Proactive Directory Service. Technical Report GIT-CC-00-32, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, December, 2000.
  36. Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan and Greg Eisenhauer. Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. Technical Report GIT-CC-00-21, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, December, 2000.
  37. Patrick Widener, G. Scott Briercheck, Saad C. Himmich, Sally A. McKee, Ramesh V. Peri and William A. Wulf. The WM Protection Mechanism. Technical Report TR-92-28, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, August, 1992.
  38. Ron A. Oldfield, Arthur B. Maccabe, Sarala Arunagiri, Todd Kordenbrock, Rolf Riesen, Lee Ward and Patrick Widener. Lightweight I/O for scientific applications. Technical Report SAND2006-3057, Sandia National Laboratories, May, 2006.
    39. under review