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Michael Frasca, mrf218

  • Graduate Student

Education:

  1. Ph.D. Candidate - Pennsylvania State University
  2. B.S. Computer Science & Engineering - Bucknell University, 2006

Biography:

Studying model-driven optimizations for High Performance Computing systems and applications. Member of the Scalable Computing Lab, working under Dr. Padma Raghavan.


Publications:

  • Virtual I/O Caching: Effective Storage Cache Management for Concurrent Workloads. M. Frasca, R. Prabhhakar, P Raghavan, M. Kandemir., Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2011
  • Can models of scientific software-hardware interactions be predictive? M. Frasca, A. Chatterjee, P Raghavan, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011


Experience:

NEC Labs America 
Research Intern : Summer 2011

  • Investigated dynamic techniques to increase efficienies of many-core solutions


Scalable Scientific Computing Lab (SSCL) 
Research Assistant : 2008 - Present

  • Modeling multilevel caches through reuse analysis
  • Developing techniques to apply support graph theory for linear system preconditioning
  • Investigating performance of scientific applications running on scratchpad caches


Accenture, Custom Solutions Architecture  
Analyst : 2006 - 2008

  • Lead software architect for a large scale custom warehouse management solution  
  • Designed and developed custom solutions using .NET 3.5, ASP, and Oracle technologies
  • Participated in multiple production deployments, responsible for data migration and validation 


Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota  
Summer Intern : 2005

  • Software development in MATLAB and Python to visualize electron energy calculations for PARSEC