Publications

2006

• IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006 Proceedings, Salt Lake City, Utah USA, September 18-20,  2006. Edited by Ingo Wald and Steven G. Parker. IEEE, 196 pages. ISBN 1-4244-0693-5
  
• S.G. Parker, K. Zhang, K. Damevski, C.R. Johnson. “Integrating Component-Based Scientific Computing Software.” In Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. Edited by M.A. Heroux, P. Raghavan, and H.D. Simon, SIAM Press, pp. 271-288. 2006. ISBN 0-89871-619-5.
  
• L.C. McInnes, B.A. Allan, R. Armstrong, S.J. Benson, D.E. Bernholdt, T.L. Dahlgren, L.F. Diachin, M.
  Krishnan, J.A. Kohl, J.W. Larson, S. Lefantzi, J. Nieplocha, B. Norris, S.G. Parker, J. Ray, and S.
  Zhou.“Parallel PDE-Based Simulations Using the Common Component Architecture.” In Numerical Solution
  of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers. Edited by A.M. Bruaset, P. Bjorstad, and A. Tveito,
  Springer, pp. 327–284. 2006. ISBN 3-540-29076-1
• S.G. Parker, J. Guilkey, T. Harman. “A Component-based Parallel Infrastructure for the Simulation of
  FluidStructure Interaction.” Engineering with Computers. Springer London, published online November 18,
  2006. http://www.springerlink.com/ content/b03056k8q418w728
• I. Wald, T. Ize, A. Kensler, A Knoll, S.G. Parker. “Ray Tracing Animated Scenes using Coherent Grid
  Traversal.” ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, MA. ACM, Vol
  25, No. 3, pp. 485-493, July 2006.
• I. Altintas, O. Barney, Z. Cheng, T. Critchlow, B. Ludaescher, S. Parker, A. Shoshani, M. Vouk. “Accelerating
  the Scientific Exploration Process with Scientific Workflows.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Institute
  of Physics Publishing, Vol. 46, pp. 468–478. 2006.
  
• G. Kumfert, D.E. Bernholdt, T. Epperly, J. Kohl, L.C. Mcinnes, S. Parker, J. Ray. “How the Common
  Component Architecture Advances Computational Science.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Institute
  of Physics Publishing, Vol. 46, pp. 479–493. 2006.
• W. Bethel, C. Johnson, C. Hansen, S. Parker, A. Sanderson, C. Silva, X. Tricoche, V. Pascucci, H. Childs, J.
  Cohen, M. Duchaineau, D. Laney, P. Lindstrom, S. Ahern, J. Meredith, G. Ostrouchov, K. Joy, B. Hamann.
  “VACET: Proposed SciDAC2 Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies.” Journal of
  Physics: Conference Series. Institute of Physics Publishing, Vol. 46, pp. 561–569. 2006
• C. Wyman, S. Parker, P. Shirley, C. Hansen. “Interactive Display of Isosurfaces with Global Illumination.”
  IEEE Transactions on IVisualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 186–196. 2006.
• R. Armstrong, G. Kumfert, L.C. McInnes, S. Parker, B. Allan, M. Sottile, T. Epperly, T. Dahlgren. “The CCA
  Component Model for High- performance Scientific Computing.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice &
  Experience.  John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Vol. 18, Issue. 2, pp. 215–229. 2006.
• S. Parker. “A Component-Based Architecture for Parallel Multi- Physics PDE Simulation.” Future Generation
  Computer Systems. Elsevier, Vol. 22, Issues 1–2, pp. 204–216. 2006.
• Thiago Ize, Ingo Wald, Chelsea Robertson, Steven G. Parker. “An Evaluation of Parallel Grid Construction for
  Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes.” In IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006 Proceedings, Salt Lake
  City, Utah, USA September 18 - 20, 2006. Edited by Ingo Wald and Steven G. Parker. IEEE, pp. 47–55. 2006.
  ISBN 1-4244-0693-5
• Aaron Knoll, Ingo Wald, Steven Parker, Charles Hansen. “Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Large Octree
  Volumes.” In IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006 Proceedings, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  September 18 - 20, 2006. Edited by Ingo Wald and Steven G. Parker. IEEE, pp. 115–124. 2006. ISBN
  1-4244-0693-5
• James Bigler, Abe Stephens, Steven G. Parker. “Design for Parallel Interactive Ray Tracing Systems.” In IEEE
  Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006 Proceedings, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA September 18 - 20, 2006.
  Edited by Ingo Wald and Steven G. Parker. IEEE, pp. 187–195. 2006. ISBN 1-4244-0693-5
• C.P. Gribble, A.J. Stephens, J.E. Guilkey, and S.G. Parker. “Visualizing Particle-Based Simulation Datasets on
  the Desktop.” In Proceedings of British HCI Group Workshop on Combining Visualization and Interaction to
  Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery. ACM. pp. (to appear). 2006.
• V. Pegoraro and S.G. Parker. “Physically-Based Realistic Fire Rendering.” Proceedings of the Eurographics
  Workshop on Natural Phenomena, pp. 51-59. 2006.
• C.P. Gribble, S.G. Parker. “Enhancing Interactive Particle Visualization with Advanced Shading Models.”
  ACM Siggraph Third Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization. ACM. July 2006.
• J. Bigler, J. Guilkey, C. Gribble, C. Hansen, and S. Parker. “A Case Study: Visualizing Material Point Method
  Data.” Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization, May 2006.
• C.P. Gribble, T. Ize, A. Kensler, I. Wald, S.G. Parker. “A Coherent Grid Traversal Approach to Visualizing
  Particle-Based Simulation Data.” Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute Technical Report, No.
  UUSCI-2006-024, University of Utah, July 2006.
• C. Johnson and S. Parker, ”Problem Solving Environments for DDDAS” presented at the minisymposium
  Actually Doing Dynamic Data-driven Application Simulations at the Ninth Copper Mountain Conference on
  Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 2–7, 2006.\
• S. Parker, ”Composition of Components in Multiphysics Applications” presented at the minisymposium
  Parallel Dynamic Data Management Infrastructures for Scientific & Engineering Applications at the 12th
  SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, February 21–24, 2006.
• S. Parker, ”Component-Based Multi-Physics Simulations of Fires and Explosions” presented at the
  minisymposium Coupling Large-Scale Multi-physics: Formulations, Applications, Tools and Components at
  the 12th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, February 21–24,
  2006.
• S. Parker, ”Why do Software Engineering Methods Fail for HPC?” presented at Architectures and Algorithms
  for Petascale Computing, Dagstuhl Seminar 06071, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, February 12-17, 2006.
  

2005

• D.M. Weinstein, S.G. Parker, J. Simpson, K. Zimmerman, G. Jones. “Visualization in the SCIRun
  Problem-Solving Environment.” In The Visualization Handbook. Edited by C.D. Hansen and C.R. Johnson,
  Elsevier, pp. 615–632. 2005. ISBN: 0-12-387582-X
• Y. Alexeev, B.A. Allan, R.C. Armstrong, D.E. Bernholdt, T.L. Dahlgren, D. Gannon, C.L. Janssen, J.P. Kenny,
  M. Krishnan, J.A. Kohl, G. Kumfert, L.C. McInnes, J. Nieplocha, S.G. Parker, C. Rasmussen, and T.L.
  Windus. “Compenent-based Software for High-Performance Scientific Computing.” Journal of Physics:
  Conference Series SciDAC 2005. Institute of Physics Publishing, Vol. 16, pp. 536–540. 2005.
• D. DeMarle, C. Gribble, S. Boulos, and S. Parker. “Memory Sharing for Interactive Ray Tracing on Clusters.”
  Parallel Computing. Elsevier, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 221–242. 2005.
• C.P. Gribble and S.G. Parker. “An Experimental Design for Determining the Effects of Illumination Models in
  Particle Visualization.” ACM Siggraph Second Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and
  Visualization, August 2005
  

2004

• C.R. Johnson, R.S. MacLeod, S.G. Parker, D.M. Weinstein. “Biomedical Computing and Visualization
  Software Environments.” Communications of the ACM. Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 64–71. 2004.
• M. Cole, F.B. Sachse, D.M. Weinstein, S.G. Parker, and R.M. Kirby. “A Software Framework for Solving
  Problems of Bioelectricity Applying High-Order Finite Elements.” Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in
  Medicine and Biology Society 26th Annual International Conference. IEEE, Vol. 1, pp. 821–824. 2004.
• Kostadin Damevski, and Steven Parker. “Imprecise Exceptions in Distributed Parallel Components.”
  Proceedings of the 10th International Euro-Par Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Vol.
  3149, pp. 108–116. August/September 2004.
• D.E. DeMarle, C.P. Gribble, and S.G. Parker. “Memory-Savvy Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing.”
  Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. Edited by Dirk Bartz,
  Bruno Raffin and Han-Wei Shen, The Eurographics Association. 8 pages. 2004.
• R.S. Macleod, D.M. Weinstein, J.D. de St. Germain, D.H. Brooks, C.R. Johnson, and S.G. Parker.
  “SCIRun/BioPSE: Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Bioelectric Field Problems and Visualization.”
  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. Arlington, Va, IEEE, pp. 640–643.
  April 2004
• K. Zhang, K. Damevski, V. Venkatachalapathy, and S. Parker.“SCIRun2: A CCA Framework for High
  Performance Computing.” Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel
  Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS 2004). IEEE, pp. 72-79. 2004.
• C. Gribble, S.G. Parker, and C. Hansen. “Interactive Volume Rendering of Large Datasets Using the Silicon
  Graphics Onyx4 Visualization System.” School of Computing Technical Report, No. UUCS-04-003,
  University of Utah, January 27, 2004.
• S. Parker, ”Meta Component Architecture in SCIRun2” presented at the minisymposium Design Patterns for
  High Performance Component Architectures at the Eleventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for
  Scientific Computing (PP04), San Francisco, California, February 25–27, 2004.
• S. Parker, ”Uintah: A Component Architecture for Parallel Multi- Physics PDE Simulation” presented at the
  minisymposium Interfaces in Parallel Multi-Physics Simulations at the Eleventh SIAM Conference on Parallel
  Processing for Scientific Computing (PP04), San Francisco, California, February 25–27, 2004.
• Tom Johnson, S.G. Parker. “Adaptive Temporal Tone Reproduction” University of Utah Undergraduate
  Research Abstracts. Vol. 4, Spring 2004.
  

2003

• J.D. de St. Germain, A. Morris, S.G. Parker, A.D. Malony, and S. Shende. “Integrating Performance Analysis
  in the Uintah Software Development Cycle.” International Journal of Parallel Programming. Springer
  Science, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 35–53. 2003.
• M. Cole and S. Parker. “Dynamic Compilation of C++ Template Code.” Scientific Programming. Wiley, Vol.
  11, No. 4, pp. 321–328. 2003.
• D. Demarle, S. Parker, M. Hartner, C. Gribble, and C. Hansen. “Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing for Large
  Volume Visualization.” IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics. Seattle, Wa., IEEE, pp.
  87–94. 2003.
• K. Damevski, and S. Parker. “Parallel Remote Method Invocation and M-by-N Data Redistribution.”
  Proceedings of the 4th Los Alamos Computer Science Institute Symposium. (published on CD), 10 pages. 2003.
• S.G. Parker and J.D. de St. Germain. “Software Integration in an Academic Environment.” presentation at
  DOE Software Quality Forum, 2003.
• C.P. Gribble and S.G. Parker. “A Survey of the Itanium Architecture from a Programmer’s Perspective.” SCI
  Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2003-003, University of Utah, August 2003.
• S.G. Parker. C-SAFE Uses Linux HPCC in Fire Research. Syllabus, Technology for Higher Education. Vol.
  16, No. 7, 2 pages, Feburary 2003.
  

2002

• S. Parker. “Interactive Ray Tracing on a Supercomputer.” In Practical Parallel Rendering. Edited by Alan
  Chalmers, Timothy Davis, and Erik Reinhard, AK Peters, Natick, Mass. pp. 187–215. 2002. ISBN:
  1-56881-179-9
  
• W. Martin, E. Reinhard, P. Shirley, S. Parker, W. Thompson. “Temporally Coherent Interactive Ray Tracing.”
  Journal of Graphics Tools. AK Peters, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 41–48. 2002.
• C.R. Johnson, S.G. Parker, D.M. Weinstein, and S. Heffernan. “Component-based Problem Solving
  Environments for Large-Scale Scientific Computing.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
  Experience. Wiley, Vol. 14, pp. 1337–1349. 2002.
• J.D. de St. Germain, A. Morris, S.G. Parker, A.D. Malony, and S. Shende. ”Integrating Performance Analysis
  in the Uintah Software Development Cycle.” Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on High
  Performance Computing (ISHPC-IV). IEEE, pp. 190–206. May 15-17, 2002.
• S.G. Parker “A Component-based Architecture for Parallel Multi- Physics PDE Simulation.” Proceedings of the
  International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2002. Vol. 2331, pp. 719–734. April 21-24, 2002.
• E. Reinhard, C. Hansen, and S. Parker. “Interactive Ray Tracing of Time Varying Data.” Proceedings of the 4th
  EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2002. Germany, The Eurographics
  Association, pp. 77–82. September 2002.
  

2001

• K. Ma and S. Parker. “Massively Parallel Software Rendering for Visualizing Large-Scale Data Sets.” In IEEE
  Computer Graphics and Applications. Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 72–83. 2001.
• M. Cole and S. Parker. “Dynamic Compilation of C++ Template Code.” Fourth Workshop on
  Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC’01) at the ACM Conference on
  Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA’01). Tampa Bay, Fl, ACM,
  pp. 28–36, October 2001.
• J. McCorquodale, D. de St. Germain, S. Parker, and C.R. Johnson. “The Uintah Parallelism Infrastructure: A
  Performance Evaluation on the SGI Origin 2000.” In High Performance Computing 2001 Grand Challenges in
  Computer Simulation, 2001 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference. Seattle, Edited by Adrian Tentner,
  The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, pp. 92–97. April 22-26, 2001.
• R. Rawat, S. Parker, P. Smith, and C. Johnson. “Parallelization and Integration of Fire Simulations in the
  Uintah PSE.” Proceedings of the Tenth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing.
  ACM, Portsmouth, Virginia. March 12–14, 2001.
• B. Martin, S. Parker, P. Shirley and W. Thompson, “Temporally Coherent Interactive Ray Tracing.” School of
  Computing Technical Report, No. UUCS-01-005, University of Utah, May 2001.
  

2000

• Y. Livnat, S. Parker, and C.R. Johnson. “Fast isosurface extraction methods for large imaging datasets.” In
  Handbook of Medical Image Processing: Processing and Analysis Mangement. Isaac Bankman,
  Editor-in-chief, Academic Press, San Diego. pp. 731–746. 2000. ISBN: 0-12-077790-8
• C. Johnson, S. Parker, and D. Weinstein. “Large-Scale Computational Science Applications Using the SCIRun
  Problem Solving Environment.” In Proceedings of the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC). 19
  pages. 2000.
• J. Davison de St. Germain, J. McCorquodale, S. G. Parker, and C. R. Johnson. “Uintah: A Massively Parallel
  Problem Solving Environment.” HPDC’00: Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance and
  Distributed Computing. IEEE, pp. 33–42, August 2000.
• Y. Livnat, C. D. Hansen, S. G. Parker, and C. R. Johnson. “Isosurface extraction for large-scale data sets.” In
  Proceedings of Scientific Visualization - Dagstuhl 2000. Edited by Frits Post, 12 pages. 2000.
• S. G. Parker, M. Miller, C. D. Hansen, and C. R. Johnson. “Computational Steering and the SCIRun Integrated
  Problem Solving Environment.” In Proceedings of Scientific Visualization - Dagstuhl 2000. Edited by Hans
  Hagen, pp. 267-276, 2000.
• D. Weinstein, L. Zhukov, C. Johnson, S. Parker, R. Van Uitert, R. MacLeod, and C. Hansen. ”Interactive
  Source Imaging with BioPSE.” Chicago 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical
  Engineering, Chicago, IL. July 2000.
  

1999

• C. Johnson, S. Parker, C. Hansen, G. Kindlmann, and Y. Livnat. “Interactive Simulation and Visualization.”
  IEEE Computer. Vol. 32, No. 12, pp. 59–65. 1999.
• S. Parker, M. Parker, Y. Livnat, P.-P. Sloan, C. Hansen and P. Shirley. “Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume
  Visualization.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 238-250. 1999
• R. Armstrong, D. Gannon, A. Geist, K. Keahey, S. Kohn, L. McInnes, S. Parker, and B. Smolinski. “Toward a
  Common Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing.” Proceedings of 8th IEEE
  International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) ’99. August 1999.
• S. Parker, P. Shirley, Y. Livnat, C. Hansen, P.-P. Sloan, and M. Parker. “Interacting with Gigabyte Volume
  Datasets on the Origin 2000.” The 41st Annual Cray User’s Group Conference. 1999.
• S. Parker, W. Martin, P.-P. Sloan, P. Shirley, B. Smits, and C. Hansen. “Interactive Ray Tracing.” Symposium
  on Interactive 3D Graphics. ACM, pp. 119–126. 1999.
• B. Walter, G. Drettakis and S. Parker, “Interactive Rendering Using the Render Cache.” Rendering Techniques
  ’99 (Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering). Edited by G. Larson and D. Lischinski,
  Springer–Verlag/Wien, New York, Vol. 10, pp. 235–246. 1999.
• C. Johnson and S. Parker. “The SCIRun parallel scientific computing problem solving environment.” extended
  abstract, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP99), 2 pages. 1999.
• C. Hansen, T. Udeshi, S. Parker, and P. Shirley. “Parallel Methods for Isosurface Visualization.” extended
  abstract, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. 1999.
• C. Johnson and S. Parker. “The SCIRun Parallel Scientific Computing Problem Solving Environment.”
  extended abstract, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. 1999.
• C.R. Johnson and S.G. Parker. The SCIRun Problem Solving Environment: Applications in Computational
  Medicine. SGI Graphics World. Vol. 9, No. 9, September 1999.
• C.R. Johnson and S.G. Parker. The SCIRun Problem Solving Environment: Applications in Computational
  Medicine, HPC Contributions to Society. 1999.
• S.G. Parker. “The SCIRun Problem Solving Environment and Computational Steering Software System”, PhD
  Thesis, University of Utah, 1999.
  

1998

• S.G. Parker, P. Shirley, Y. Livnat, C. Hansen, and P. Sloan. “Interactive Ray Tracing for Isosurface Rendering.”
  IEEE Visualization ’98. IEEE, pp. 233–238. October, 1998.
• M. Miller, C. Hansen, S.G. Parker, C.R. Johnson. “Simulation Steering with SCIRun in a Distributed Memory
  Environment.” In Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
  (HPDC-7). July, 1998.
• S.G. Parker, M. Miller, C.D. Hansen, and C.R. Johnson. “An Integrated Problem Solving Environment: the
  SCIRun Computational Steering System.” 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  (HICSS-31). Edited by H. El-Rewini, IEEE, Vol. 7, pp. 147–156. January, 1998.
• S. Parker, P. Shirley, B. Smits. “Single Sample Soft Shadows.” School of Computing Technical Report
  Technical Report, No. UUCS-98-019, University of Utah, October 1998.
• C.R. Johnson and S.G. Parker. Slides and Videos. Permanent Research Archives, Smithsonian Museum of
  American History, 1998.
  

1997

• S.G. Parker, D.M. Weinstein, and C.R. Johnson. “The SCIRun computational steering software system.” In
  Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing. Edited by E. Arge, A. M. Bruaset and H. P. Langtangen,
  Birkhauser Press, Boston, Mass. pp. 5–44. 1997. ISBN: 0817639748
• S.G. Parker, D. Beazley, and C.R. Johnson. “Computational Steering Software Systems and Strategies.” IEEE
  Computational Science and Engineering. Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 50-59. 1997.
• C.R. Johnson, D. McAllister, P.P. Sloan, and S. Parker. Computer Graphics. MicroSoft Encarta CD ROM. 1997.
  

1996

• S.G. Parker and C.R. Johnson. “SCIRun: Interactive Computer Graphics to Scientific Problems.” short paper
  SIGGRAPH ‘96 Visual Proceedings: The Art and Interdisciplinary Programs of SIGGRAPH ‘96. p. 111. 1996.
  

1995

• C.R. Johnson and S.G. Parker. “Applications in Computational Medicine using SCIRun: A Computational
  Steering Programming Environment.” Supercomputer ’95. Edited by H.W. Meuer, Springer-Verlag, pp. 2–19.
  1995.
  

1994

• C.R. Johnson and S.G. Parker. “A Computational Steering Model for Problems in Medicine.” Supercomputing
  ‘94. IEEE Press, pp. 540–549, 1994.
• D.M. Weinstein, S.G. Parker, and C.R. Johnson. “A Physically Based Mesh Generation Algorithm:
  Applications in Computational Medicine.” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 16th Annual
  International Conference. IEEE Press, pp.718–719. 1994.
• S.G. Parker, D.M. Weinstein, and C.R. Johnson. “A Morphing Algorithm for Generating Near Optimal Grids:
  Applications in Computational Medicine.” School of Computing Technical Report, No. UUCS-94-014,
  University of Utah, 1994.
• S.G. Parker and C.R. Johnson. “Interactive Manipulation of Contour Data Using the Layers Program - User
  Guide.” School of Computing Technical Report, No. UUCS-94-020, University of Utah. 1994.