Yanhua Sun

Yanhua Sun is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois. She works with her advisor Professor Kale in the Parallel Programming Lab(PPL). She received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Technology from Shandong University,China in 2005 and a Master degree in Computer Science from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China in 2008. She worked as a research staff in the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences for one year.

Research Interests Communication Optimization; Runtime Adaptivity; One-sided Network Optimization; Parallel Molecular Dynamics; Visualization and Performance Analysis

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Research Areas

Papers / Talks

15-22

2015
Phd Thesis
PICS - a Performance-analysis-based Introspective Control System to steer parallel applications
- Yanhua Sun
14-46

2014
Talk
An automatic control system for runtime adaptivity
- Yanhua Sun
14-37

2014
Talk
PICS - A Performance-analysis-based Introspective Control System to Steer Parallel Applications]{PICS - a Performance-analysis-based Introspective Control System to Steer Parallel Applications
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
14-18

2014
Paper
TRAM: Optimizing Fine-grained Communication with Topological Routing and Aggregation of Messages
- Lukasz Wesolowski
- Ramprasad Venkataraman
- Abhishek Gupta
- Jae-Seung Yeom
- Keith Bisset
- Yanhua Sun
- Pritish Jetley
- Thomas Quinn
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
14-17

2014
Paper
Mapping to Irregular Torus Topologies and Other Techniques for Petascale Biomolecular Simulation
- James Phillips
- Yanhua Sun
- Nikhil Jain
- Eric Bohm
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
14-12

2014
Paper
PICS: A Performance-Analysis-Based Introspective Control System to Steer Parallel Applications
- Yanhua Sun
- Jonathan Lifflander
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
14-07

2014
Paper
Parallel Programming with Migratable Objects: Charm++ in Practice
- Bilge Acun
- Abhishek Gupta
- Nikhil Jain
- Akhil Langer
- Harshitha Menon
- Eric Mikida
- Xiang Ni
- Michael P. Robson
- Yanhua Sun
- Ehsan Totoni
- Lukasz Wesolowski
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
13-62

2013
Talk
Acceleration of an Asynchronous Message Driven Programming Paradigm on IBM Blue Gene/Q
- Sameer Kumar
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
13-59

2013
Talk
LRTS: A Portable High Performance Low-level Communication Interface
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
13-44

2013
Paper
Parallel Science and Engineering Applications: The Charm++ Approach: Chapter 3: Tools for Debugging and Performance Analysis
- Filippo Gioachin
- Chee Wai Lee
- Jonathan Lifflander
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
13-43

2013
Paper
Parallel Science and Engineering Applications: The Charm++ Approach: Chapter 4: Scalable Molecular Dynamics with NAMD
- James Phillips
- Klaus Schulten
- Abhinav Bhatele
- Chao Mei
- Yanhua Sun
- Eric Bohm
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
13-03

2013
Poster
Charm++: Migratable Objects + Active Messages + Adaptive Runtime = Productivity + Performance
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
- Anshu Arya
- Nikhil Jain
- Akhil Langer
- Jonathan Lifflander
- Harshitha Menon
- Xiang Ni
- Yanhua Sun
- Ehsan Totoni
- Ramprasad Venkataraman
- Lukasz Wesolowski
12-50

2012
Paper
Acceleration of an Asynchronous Message Driven Programming Paradigm on IBM Blue Gene/Q
- Sameer Kumar
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
12-48

2012
Talk
Optimizing Fine-grained Communication in a Biomolecular Simulation Application on Cray XK6
- Yanhua Sun
12-47

2012
Paper
Migratable Objects + Active Messages + Adaptive Runtime = Productivity + Performance: A Submission to the 2012 HPC Class II Challenge
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
- Anshu Arya
- Nikhil Jain
- Akhil Langer
- Jonathan Lifflander
- Harshitha Menon
- Xiang Ni
- Yanhua Sun
- Ehsan Totoni
- Ramprasad Venkataraman
- Lukasz Wesolowski
12-33

2012
Paper
Optimizing Fine-grained Communication in a Biomolecular Simulation Application on Cray XK6
- Yanhua Sun
- Gengbin Zheng
- Chao Mei
- Eric Bohm
- James Phillips
- Terry Jones
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
12-26

2012
Talk
A uGNI-Based Asynchronous Message-Driven Runtime System for Cray Supercomputers with Gemini Interconnect
- Yanhua Sun
11-50

2011
Paper
A uGNI-Based Asynchronous Message-Driven Runtime System for Cray Supercomputers with Gemini Interconnect
- Yanhua Sun
- Gengbin Zheng
- Ryan Olson
- Terry Jones
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
11-49

2011
Paper
Charm++ for Productivity and Performance: A Submission to the 2011 HPC Class II Challenge
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
- Anshu Arya
- Abhinav Bhatele
- Abhishek Gupta
- Nikhil Jain
- Pritish Jetley
- Jonathan Lifflander
- Phil Miller
- Yanhua Sun
- Ramprasad Venkataraman
- Lukasz Wesolowski
- Gengbin Zheng
11-25

2011
Paper
ParSSSE: An Adaptive Parallel State Space Search Engine
- Yanhua Sun
- Gengbin Zheng
- Pritish Jetley
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
11-20

2011
Poster
Scaling NAno Molecular Dynamic(NAMD) on Petascale machines using Charm++
- Yanhua Sun
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
11-19

2011
Talk
An Adaptive Framework for Large-scale State Space Search
- Yanhua Sun
11-17

2011
Paper
Enabling and Scaling Biomolecular Simulations of 100~Million Atoms on Petascale Machines with a Multicore-Optimized Message-Driven Runtime
- Chao Mei
- Yanhua Sun
- Gengbin Zheng
- Eric Bohm
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale
- James Phillips
- Chris Harrison
11-05

2011
Paper
An Adaptive Framework for Large-scale State Space Search
- Yanhua Sun
- Gengbin Zheng
- Pritish Jetley
- Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale