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Barbara Chapman

Barbara Chapman
Associate professor, Department of Computer Science

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As associate professor with the University of Houston's (UH) Department of Computer Science, Barbara Chapman's current work revolves around tools and software technologies related to high-performance computing. She is currently also a visiting professor with the University of Southhampton's Department of Electronics and Computer Science in the U.K.

Much of Dr. Chapman's research at UH is focused on OpenMP, a recent industry standard for shared memory parallel programming that has been broadly accepted by the computing community. OpenMP aims to make it easier to use general-purpose computational grids by building technology to collect and store information on user/project accounts, in addition to housing applications and computational resources. Making hardware, software and other computing resources available for use irrespective of their location and connectivity will continue to improve the ability of computer users around the world to share research and data quickly and reliably.

Dr. Chapman's involvement with OpenMP has included the organization of a series of workshops in Europe and the U.S., as well as the inception of an OpenMP User Group, a community that consists of researchers, developers and users who are actively involved in OpenMP-based work. Her research has been published in numerous journals and books, and she has been an invited participant at a number of international conferences for the computing industry.

Dr. Chapman holds a PhD in computer science from Belfast's Queen's University.

Barbara Chapman

Research interests

Dr. Chapman studies languages and compilers for parallel and distributed computing; programming environments for parallel and distributed systems; graphical tool support for application development and maintenance; application development for networks of high-performance computers; and multi-site computing.

Research projects

Center for Programming Models for Scalable Parallel Computing

Parallel application development tools

Tool support for source code analysis and improvement
This project is focused on the scalability of OpenMP on large-scale distributed shared memory.

Exploring the role of grid-enabled OpenMP in adaptive mesh calculations

Developing flexible parallel applications for cluster of multiprocessors based on the OpenMP and MPI standards
This research is focused on the flexible execution of hierarchically parallel applications in a grid environment.

Parallel application development for SMP clusters
Study revolves around OpenMP scalability on distributed shared memory architecture.

Research partners

Dr. Chapman's research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the NASA Ames Research Center, the National Science Foundation, and SUN Microsystems.

Significant publications

"OpenMP and HPF: Integrating two paradigms" (with P. Mehrotra), from Proc. Europar 1998 (International Conference on Parallel Processing), LNCS 1470, pp. 650-658, Springer Verlag, 1998.

"Tool support for analysis and transformation of large-scale Fortran applications" (with M. Egg and F. Wollenweber), Towards TeraComputing, World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 262-274, 1999.

"FITS -- a light-weight integrated programming environment" (with F. Bodin, L. Hill, J.H. Merlin, G. Viland and F. Wollenweber), from Proc. Europar 1999 (International Conference on Parallel Processing), LNCS 1685, Springer Verlag, pp. 125-134, 1999.

"Program development tools for clusters of shared memory multiprocessors"(with F. Bodin, L. Hill, J. Merlin, Y. Mevel, D. Pritchard and T. Sorevik), Journal of Supercomputing, (NEED VOL AND PAGES) 2000.

"Tools for OpenMP application development: The POST project "(with L. Adhianto, F. Bodin, L. Hascoet, A. Kneer, D. Lancaster, I. Wolton, and M. Wirtz), Concurrency: Practice and Experience, (NEED PAGES) 2000.