College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction
    Department of Computer and Information Sciences
    4567 St. johns Bluff Rd., South
    Jacksonville, FL 32224

 

 

With Irfan Karachiwala and Gene Carpenter, in 1998 at the Distributed Computing Lab of UofL

 

    I am generally interested in high-performance computing especially that of parallel nature. My specific area of interest is the performance of parallel and distributed computations. My phd dissertation work was titled “An agent-based approach for online performance tuning of parallel and distributed computation,” and was supervised by prof. James H. Graham of UofL. As the title suggests, I am also iterested in intelligent agents. This work was developed at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL), which I administrated for about three years!
    My publications (see the list below) are focused on deploying intelligent agents to perform performance improvements on parallel and distributed applications. This research was applied to two case studies: 1) the parallel implementation of Jacobi’s two-norm iterative method for solving Laplace’s eqation, and 2) the parallel implementation of a large-scale PCS network simulator. I am also, somehow, interested in discrete-event simulations and their algorithms. Meet prof. Adel Elmaghraby who served in my dissertation committee and is now the acting chair of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Dept (CECS) of UofL; he is well known in the simulation arena.
    So, what do I do now? Is that what you want to ask?
    Well, I’m still improving the architecture I developed during my phd work. This is why I was awarded a UNF’s scholarship grant to continue this work in summer 2002. Also I am exploring new venues in the area of knowledge descovery! This is all about extracting hidden and valuable knowledge from data masses (technically data warehouses). Techniques used for knolwedge extraction are usually “intelligent” and require superior computing power (high performance computing-HPC).

Publications

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selfayou AT unf.edu

 

    - S. Piersall, and S. Elfayoumy, “Dynamic Load-Balancing of Image Processing Applications on Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations,” IASTED Int’l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS2002), Boston, MA, Nov 2002.

    - S. Piersall, and S. Elfayoumy, “DYLAPSI: A Dynamic Load-Balancing Architecture for Image Processing Applications,” ISCA 15th Int’l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS2002), Louisville, KY, Sep 2002.

    - S. Elfayoumy, and J. Graham, “An Agent-based Architecture for Performance Tuning: Parallel Discrete-event Simulation Case Study,” Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS’2001), Dallas, TX, Aug 2001.

    - S. Elfayoumy, “An Agent-based Approach for High Performance Computing,” Fifth World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, Jul 2001.

    - S. Elfayoumy, and J. Graham, "A Novel Software Architecture for Tuning Parallel and Distributed Applications Performance," Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS'2000), Las Vegas, NV, Aug 2000.

    - S. Elfayoumy, and J. Graham, “High Performance Computing: An Agent-based Approach,” Technical Report, TR-ISL-2000-1, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Jun 2000.

    - S. Elfayoumy, and J. Graham, "High Performance Computing: An Agent-based Approach," Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems (ICIS'2000), Louisville, KY, Jun. 2000.

    - S. Elfayoumy, and J. Graham, "    An Agent-based Architecture for Tuning Parallel and Distributed Applications Performance," 2nd International Workshop on Cluster-Based Computing (WCBC'2000), Santa Fe, NM, May 2000.

    - A. Elmaghraby, S. Elfayoumy, I. Karachiwala, J. Graham, and A. Sleem, "    Web-based Performance Visualization of Distributed Discrete Event Simulation," Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'99), Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 1999.

    - J. Graham, A. Aly, S. Elfayoumy, K. Kamel, and A. Elmaghraby, "Evaluation of MPI-DSM Parallel Application for Networks of Heterogeneous Workstations," Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS'99), Fort Lauderdale, FL, Aug. 1999.

    - J. Graham, I. Karachiwala, A. Elmaghraby, and S. Elfayoumy, "Artificial Intelligence Approach for Visualization of Distributed Simulations," Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Denver, CO, Jun. 1999.