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This page lists the publications by Ammar Ahmad (Ammar) Awan as the first author

Journals (2)
1	Ammar Awan, A. Jain, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, Communication Profiling and Characterization of Deep Learning Workloads on Clusters with High-Performance Interconnects, IEEE Micro, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 35-43, 1 Jan.-Feb. 2020.,
2	Ammar Awan, K. Vadambacheri Manian, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, Optimized Large-Message Broadcast for Deep Learning Workloads: MPI, MPI+NCCL, or NCCL2?, Volume 85, July 2019, Pages 141-152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2019.03.005,

Conferences & Workshops (9)
1	HyPar-Flow: Exploiting MPI and Keras for Scalable Hybrid-Parallel DNN Training with TensorFlow Ammar Awan, A. Jain, Q. Anthony, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE 2020, Jun 2020 [Bib - Plain]
2	Communication Profiling and Characterization of Deep-Learning Workloads on Clusters With High-Performance Interconnects Ammar Awan, A. Jain, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, 26th Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI '19), Aug 2019 [Bib - Plain]
3	Scalable Distributed DNN Training using TensorFlow and CUDA-Aware MPI: Characterization, Designs, and Performance Evaluation Ammar Awan, J. Bedorf, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2019), May 2019 [Bib - Plain]
4	OC-DNN: Exploiting Advanced Unified Memory Capabilities in CUDA 9 and Volta GPUs for Out-of-Core DNN Training Ammar Awan, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, X. Lu, and DK Panda, 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Dec 2018 [Bib - Plain]
5	Optimized Broadcast for Deep Learning Workloads on Dense-GPU InfiniBand Clusters: MPI or NCCL? Ammar Awan, C. Chu, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, The EuroMPI 2018 Conference, Sep 2018 [Bib - Plain]
6	An In-depth Performance Characterization of CPU- and GPU-based DNN Training on Modern Architectures Ammar Awan, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning in High Performance Computing Environments, held in conjunction with SC17, Nov 2017 [Bib - Plain]
7	Efficient Large Message Broadcast using NCCL and CUDA-Aware MPI for Deep Learning Ammar Awan, K. Hamidouche, A. Venkatesh, and DK Panda, The 23rd European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI 16), Sep 2016 [Best Paper Runner-Up] [Bib - Plain]
8	GPU-Aware Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Non-blocking Collective Benchmarks Ammar Awan, K. Hamidouche, A. Venkatesh, J. Perkins, H. Subramoni, and DK Panda, EuroMPI 2015, Sep 2015 [Bib - Plain]
9	A Case for Non-Blocking Collectives in OpenSHMEM: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation using MVAPICH2-X Ammar Awan, K. Hamidouche, C. Chu, and DK Panda, OpenSHMEM 2015 for PGAS Programming in the Exascale Era, Aug 2015 [Bib - Plain]

Ph.D. Disserations (1)
1	Ammar Awan, Co-designing Communication Middleware and Deep Learning Frameworks for High-Performance DNN Training on HPC Systems, Apr 2020