Contact Information

Address:	Parasol Lab, 301 Harvey R. Bright Bldg,
	3112 TAMU,
	College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA
Phone:	(979) 845-4460
Fax:	(979) 847-8578
Email:	bmm@cs.tamu.edu

Education

02/02	Ph.D.Computer Engineering, Università di Padova, Italy. Thesis Title: ``Optimizing FEM Applications for Complex Physical Systems'' (In Italian). Advisor: Prof.Pucci.
10/98	``Laurea'' in Computer Engineering, Università di Padova, Italy. Thesis Title: ``Cost Models for Bulk-Synchronous Programming on Network of Workstations'' (In Italian). Advisor: Prof.Pucci.

Experience

10/06-Now	Post Doctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University on General STAPL Project Management.
02/08-07/08	Organizer of Minisymposium MS158, Sparse Linear System Solvers for Large-Scale Finite Element Applications (with Alberto Bertoldo), July 3rd, 2008, at 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8), Venice, June 30th/July 4th, 2008.
04/06-09/06	Key Researcher on Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS, EU/IST) European Project.
03/06-04/06	Member of Local Organizing Committee of the workshop SEDS06: Perspectives on Science and Engineering Driven Supercomputing, Bertinoro, Italy, 14-16 May 2006.
01/06-09/06	Course Instructor: ``Introduction to Computer Programming'', Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, A.Y. 2005-2006, University of Padova, Italy.
09/05-12/05	Research Grant for Finalizing the porting of the PUB BSP library to IBM SP/3 and benchmarking, at Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
06/05-10/05	Research Grant for Coupling of programs for the simultaneous simulation of fluid-thermo-mechanical systems using MPI, at Department of Building and Transportation, University of Padova, Italy.
06/05-07/05	Research Grant for Porting of the PUB BSP library to IBM SP3, at Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
05/05-05/05	Teaching Assistant for ``Circuits and Logical Systems'' course at Department of Information Engineering of University of Padova, Italy.
05/04-05/04	Teaching Assistant for ``Circuits and Logical Systems'' course at Department of Information Engineering of University of Padova, Italy.
03/04-05/04	Teaching Assistant for ``Computer Architecture I'' course at Department of Information Engineering of University of Padova, Italy.
06/03-05/05	Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
12/01-10/04	Member of the Centre of Excellence for Science and Applications of Advanced Computational Paradigms, University of Padova, Italy.
06/03-09/04	Research Associate for EU Project (MAECENAS), at CISM, Centre International Des Sciences Mecaniques, Udine, Italy.
05/03-06/03	Research Grant for ``Performace modelling for IBM/SP'', at Department of Information Engineering University of Padova, Italy.
12/01-05/03	Research associate for EU Project (MAECENAS), at CISM, Centre International Des Sciences Mecaniques, Udine, Italy.
08/02-10/02	Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
10/01-12/01	Research Grant, Delivery of FEM Application Dipartimento di Informatica e Elettronica, University of Padova, Italy.
01/99-04/99	Office Automation Teacher, TECNOSOFT, Mirano, Venice, Italy.
11/98-04/99	Software Developer, TECNOSOFT, Mirano, Venice, Italy.

Tutoring

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Baldan Alberto: Ingegnerizzazione di un codice ad alte prestazioni per la simulazione FEM, A.A. 2005-2006, Professor Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy.

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Francesco Sambo: Strategie di ricerca locale per problemi di partizionamento di griglie FEM, A.A. 2003-2004, Professor Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy.

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Diego Vianello: Modelli di prestazioni delle comunicazioni su piattaforma IBM RS6000, A.A. 2003-2004, Professor Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy.

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Alberto Bertoldo: Realizzazione sequenziale di un metodo multifrontale per problemi FEM, A.A. 2002-2003, Professor Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy.

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Alberto Casetta: Ottimizzazione di un solutore frontale per la simulazione agli elementi finiti di sistemi fisici complessi, A.A. 2001-2002, Professor Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy.

• Co-advisor for Laurea Thesis by Paolo Sartore: Esperimenti di microbenchmarking su piattaforma IBM SP3, A.A. 2001-2002, Professors Geppino Pucci and Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padova, Italy.

Seminars

• ``STAPL: A High Productivity Programming Infrastructure for Parallel Computing'', June 19th, 2008, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.

• ``A Static Parallel Multifrontal Solver for Finite Element Meshes'', June 27th, 2006, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

• ``A Fast Multifrontal Solver for Multiphysics Problems,'' PRIN Project ALINWEB, October 15th, 2004, University of Rome ``La Sapienza,'' Rome, Italy.

• ``Non-Linear Non-Symmetric FEM Simulations: Getting High Performance Computational Kernels,'' ScalPerf 03: Scalable Approaches to High Performance and High Productivity Computing, April 16th, 2003, University of Bologna, Bertinoro, Italy.

• ``A Frontal Solver Tuned for Fully-Coupled Non-Linear Hygro-Thermo-Mechanical Problems,'' (with Francesco Pesavento) Second International Workshop on Model Reduction (WG 2), December 13th, 2002, Politecnico of Milan, Italy.

• ``Efficient FEM Simulation for Multiphysics Problems,'' September 17th, 2002, Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), USA.

• ``Cost Models for Bulk-Synchronous Programming on Network of Workstations,'' PRIN Project Algorithms for Large Data Sets: Science and Engineering, February, 2000, University of Florence, Italy.

• ``Cost Models for Bulk-Synchronous Programming on Network of Workstations'' February, 2000, University of Naples ``Federico II'', Italy.

Awards and Fellowships

• Best Poster Award at International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS'04) - selection among 120 posters.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Padova, Italy (2003-2005).
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (2002).
• StartCup 2002: third ranking with the OptiCal group for a start-up project.
• Ph.D. Fellowship University of Padova, Italy (1999-2001).

Research Interests

• High Performance Computing
• Code Optimization and Performance Modeling
• Combinatorial and Numerical Algorithms for Scientific
  Computing
• Computational models and their implementation

Personal Interests

• Literature, Cinema, Photography
• Sailing
• History and Philosophy of Science

Bibliography

[International Journals]

R1

M. Bianco, G. Bilardi, F. Pesavento, G. Pucci, and B. A. Schrefler. A frontal solver tuned for fully-coupled non-linear hygro-thermo-mechanical problems. Inernational Journal on Numerical Methods in Engineering 57(13):1801-1818, 2003.

R2

P. Bertasi, M. Bianco, A. Pietracaprina, and G. Pucci. Obtaining performance measures through microbenchmarking in a peer-to-peer overlay computer. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), 4(1), 2008.

[Invited Papers]

I1

B. A. Schrefler, M. Bianco, and E. Turska Solution procedures for multiphysics problems (Invited)Procs. of Computer Methods in Mechanics, CMM 2003, Abstract, page 11, Wisla, June 2003, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.

[International Reviewed Conferences]

C1

M. Bianco and G. Pucci. On the predictive quality of BSP-like cost functions for NOWs. In Proc. of Euro-Par2000 Parallel Processing, 638-646. Lecture Notes in Computer Sience 1900, Spinger-Verlang, Munich, Germany, 2000.

C2

M. Bianco, G. Bilardi, F. Pesavento, G. Pucci, and B. A. Schrefler. An accurate and efficient solver for fully-coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical problems. Proc. of Internationa Conference on Computer Science ICCS-2002, pages 733-742. Lecture Notes in Computer Sience 2329, Spinger-Verlang, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002.

C3

M. Bianco. A high-performance UL factorization for the frontal method. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computational Science and its Applications (ICSSA 2003), pages 893-902, Montreal, Canada, May 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2667, Springer-Verlag.

C4

A. Bertoldo, M. Bianco, and G. Pucci. A fast multifrontal solver for non-linear multi-physics problems. ICCS-2004, pages 614-617, Kraców, Poland, 2004. BEST POSTER AWARD.

C5

A. Bertoldo, M. Bianco, and G. Pucci. A static parallel multifrontal solver for structured FE meshes. Proc. of the Fourth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-2006), 734-746, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4336, Springer-Verlang, Sorrento, Italy, December 2006.

C6

P. Bertasi, M. Bianco, A. Pietracaprina, and G. Pucci. Obtaining performance measures through microbenchmarking in a peer-to-peer overlay computer. Proc. of First International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing (3PGIC-2007), 285-290, Vienna, April 2007.

C7

G. Tanase, M. Bianco, N.M. Amato, and L. Rauchwerger. The STAPL pArray. Proc. of the 8th MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture (MEDEA-2007), 81-88, ACM Proceedings, Brazov, Romania, September 2007.

C8

G. Tanase, C. Raman, M. Bianco, N.M. Amato, and L. Rauchwerger. Associative parallel containers in STAPL. Proc. of the 20th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC-2007), 156-171, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5234, Springer-Verlang, Urbana, IL, USA October 2007 (Published 2008).

C9

A.A. Buss, T.G. Smith, G. Tanase, N.L. Thomas, M. Bianco, N.M. Amato, and L. Rauchwerger. Design for interoperability in STAPL: pMatrices and linear algebra algorithms. Proc. of the 21th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC-2008), 304-315, Lecture Notes in Computer Sience 5335, Springer-Verlang, Edmonton, Alberta, CA, July/August 2008.

[Technical Reports]

TR1

M. Bianco. Native porting of the PUB-Library on the IBM SP/3 system. Technical Report, Project CDPA-033838: A Programming Framework for Parallel and Hierarchical Machines: Theory and Implementation. University of Padova, Italy, 2006. http://www.dei.unipd.it/capri/DOCS/Ateneo03Report.pdf

TR2

P. Bertasi, M. Bianco, A. Pietracaprina, and G. Pucci. Microbenchmarking software package: design report. Deliverable D3.2.2, EU Integrated Project (FP6) IST-015964, Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers.

[Submitted Papers ]

S1

A. Bertoldo, M. Bianco, and G. Pucci. FEMS: a static parallel solver for finite element applications. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

[Other Publications ]

T1

M. Bianco. Ottimizzazione di applicazioni FEM per sistemi fisici complessi. Ph.D. Thesis in Ingegneria Informatica e Elettronica Industriali, XIV Ciclo, University of Padova, December 2001. (Advisor: Prof. G. Pucci)

T2

M. Bianco. Modelli di Costo per Programmazione Bulk-Synchronous su Reti di Workstations Laurea Thesis, University of Padova, October 1998. (Professor G. Pucci)