Publications of William R. Dieter

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Papers

• Chenxing Wang and William R. Dieter, Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Priority-Driven Distributed Real-Time Systems, UK ECE Technical Report #ECE-2007-10-19, October 2007. (BibTeX)
• Chenxing Wang and William R. Dieter, Power-Aware Task Assignment for Priority-Driven Distribtued Real-Time Systems, UK ECE Technical Report #ECE-2007-10-17, October 2007. (BibTeX)
• William R. Dieter, Akil Kaveti, Henry G. Dietz, Low-Cost Microarchitectural Support for Improved Floating-Point Accuracy, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2007. (BibTeX)
• William R. Dieter and Henry G. Dietz, Designing a Cluster for Your Application, Computing in Science & Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 4, July-Aug. 2007, pp. 72-79. (BibTeX)
• William R. Dieter and Henry G. Dietz, A Web-Based Tool for Optimized Cluster Design, Cluster Monkey.
• William R. Dieter and Henry G. Dietz, Low-Cost Microarchitectural Support for Improved Floating-Point Accuracy, UK ECE Technical Report #ECE-2006-10-14, October 2006. (BibTeX)
• Joseph P. Medendorp, Jason A. Fackler, Tom Henninger, Bill Dieter, and Robert A. Lodder, NIR spectrometry for the characterization of fuel components in a novel tamper-resistant pill bottle, (HTML) Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, September/October 2006, pp. 54-61. BibTeX
• Henry G. Dietz, William R. Dieter, Randall Fisher, and Kungyen Chang, Floating-Point Computation with Just Enough Accuracy (local copy) In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3991/2006, Computational Science ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006, ISSN: 0302-9743, pp. 226-233. BibTeX
• Henry G. Dietz and William R. Dieter, Compiler and Runtime Support for Predictive Control of Power and Cooling, In Proceedings of the Workshop on High Performance Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC) at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April, 2006. BibTeX
• William R. Dieter, Srabosti Datta, Wong Key Kai, Power Reduction by Varying Sampling Rate, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, August 8-10, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 227-232. BibTeX
• Timothy I. Mattox, Henry G. Dietz, and William R. Dieter, Sparse Flat Neighborhood Networks (SFNNs): Scalable Guaranteed Pairwise Bandwidth and Unit Latency, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing, April, 2005. BibTeX
• William R. Dieter and Henry G. Dietz, Automatic Exploration and Characterization of the Cluster Design Space , Technical Report TR-ECE-2005-04-25-01, University of Kentucky, April, 2005. BibTeX
• William R. Dieter, Robert A. Lodder, James E. Lumpp, Jr., Scanning for Extinct Astrobiological Residues and Current Habitats (SEARCH), Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, March 2005. BibTeX
• William R. Dieter and James E. Lumpp, Jr., User-level Checkpointing for LinuxThreads Programs, Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Technical Conference, June 2001. [ Compressed PostScript (87 KB) ] [ PDF ] [ HTML ] BibTeX
• William R. Dieter and James E. Lumpp, Jr., A User-level Checkpointing Library for POSIX Threads Programs, Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems, June 1999. [ Compressed PostScript (22 KB) ] BibTeX
• William R. Dieter and James E. Lumpp, Jr., User-level Checkpointing of POSIX Threads, University of Kentucky Technical Report CEG-99-004, June 1999. [ Compressed PostScript (61 KB) ] BibTeX
• James E. Lumpp, Jr. and William R. Dieter, Checkpointing with Multicast Communication, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, Mar. 1998. [ Compressed PostScript (225 KB) ]
• William R. Dieter and James E. Lumpp, Jr., Fault Recovery for Distributed Shared Memory Systems, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE-Aerospace Conference, Feb. 1997. [ Compressed PostScript (245 KB) ]

Publically Released Software

• Beowulf Design Rules (aka, Cluster Design Rules)
• Multithreaded Checkpointing Library
• A patch to support the Intel audio chipset found in Dell Optiplex GX270's (and other Dells).

  The GX270 is based on the i865G chipset which uses ICH5 for audio. ICH5 is currently not supported in kernel version 2.4.21, although it is backwards compatible with ICH4, which is supported. The patch above hacks in support for ICH5 audio in linux 2.4.21 (and adds names for the PCI device IDs).

  I have heard reports on the lkml that this patch does not work with all ICH5/codec combinations. Since it works on my Dell Optiplex GX270 I would expect it to work with other Dells, especially GX270's. I make no guarantees. YMMV.