Performance Evaluation of Spintronic-Based Spiking Neural Networks Using Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation
Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Siyuan Qian, Ankit Shukla, Neil McGlohon, Shaloo Rakheja and Christopher D. Carothers.
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), Accepted.
Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Siyuan Qian, Ankit Shukla, Neil McGlohon, Shaloo Rakheja and Christopher D. Carothers.
ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2022. Virtual
Neil McGlohon, K. Scott Hemmert, Kevin A. Brown, Michael Levenhagen, Sudheer Chunduri, Robert B. Ross, Christopher D. Carothers.
IEEE SC21 Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems, November 2021. Virtual
Julie Ma, John Goodhue, Kaylea Nelson, Andrew Sherman, Eric Brown, Christopher Carothers, Galen Collier, Adrian Del Maestro, Andrea Elledge, Wayne Figurelle, John Huffman, Gaurav Khanna, Neil McGlohon, Sia Najafi, Jeff Nucciarone, Anita Schwartz, Bruce Segee, Scott Valcourt and Ralph Zottola.
PEARC Workshop on Strategies for Enhancing HPC Education and Training (SEHET), July 2021. Virtual
Kevin A. Brown, Neil McGlohon, Sudheer Chunduri, Robert B. Ross, Eric Borch, Christopher D. Carothers, and Kevin Harms. ISC High Performance (ISC), June 2021. Virtual
Neil McGlohon, Robert B. Ross, and Christopher D. Carothers. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2020. Virtual
Neil McGlohon, Noah Wolfe, Misbah Mubarak, and Christopher D. Carothers. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2019. Chicago, USA
Yao Kang, Xin Wang, Neil McGlohon, Misbah Mubarak, Sudheer Chunduri, and Zhiling Lan. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2019. Chicago, USA
Misbah Mubarak, Neil McGlohon, Malek Musleh, Eric Borch, Robert B. Ross, Ram Huggahalli, Sudheer Chunduri, Scott Parker, Christopher D. Carothers, and Kalyan Kumaran. ISC High Performance (ISC), June 2019. Frankfurt, Germany
Mark Plagge, Christopher D. Carothers, Elsa Gonsiorowski, and Neil McGlohon. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), September 2018
Mark Plagge, Neil McGlohon, Caitlin Ross, and Christopher D. Carothers. Neuromorphic Computing Symposium on Architectures, Models, and Applicaitons, July 2017. Oak Ridge, USA -- Extended Abstract/Presentation
Nikhil Jain, Neil McGlohon. HOT-Interconnects, August 2019, San Jose, USA
Introducing the Dragonfly Plus Interconnection Model to CODES
Neil McGlohon, Misbah Mubarak. Summer of CODES Workshop, July 2018, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Experience
IBM Research. Staff Research Scientist: October 2022 - Present
Contributing scientist on IBM Research Almaden team responsible for the development, testing, evaluation, and presentation of the IBM NorthPole AI inference chip.
Research and development of optimized code for execution with IBM NorthPole custom AI inference hardware.
Performance and benchmark optimization through parallel and distributed computing techniques to demonstrate full capability of NorthPole device.
Development of bespoke cloud infrastructure solutions using OpenShift/Kubernetes for internal and external clients.
Development of debugging tools to assist validation of implemented architectures.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Scientist: July 2021 - September 2022
Center for Compuational Innovations
Works as a senior member of a team or team leader to carry out complex or leading edge scientific and technical efforts, including software development and benchmarking related to research projects for the IBM AI Hardware Center.
Responsible for providing technical expertise to facilitate the design, implementation, benchmarking and analysis of procedures, techniques, and results which enable investigators to conduct research projects.
Identifies and pursues research funding opportunities in coordination with the Center Director.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Software Engineer: February 2020 - June 2021
Center for Compuational Innovations
Research and development of software for simulation and evaluation of High Performance Computing systems and technology.
Fulfill contracts with external research partners, aid in development of software tailored to specifications for generating research data.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Assistant: Fall 2014 - June 2021
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Carothers
Active member of the Department of Energy's Exascale Compute Project (ECP), developing and evaluating models of prototypical exascale supercomputer communication network designs through simulation.
Maintainer of CODES HPC network/storage simulation framework built on top of the ROSS parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) environment.
Fufilled duties as a research assistant with the SuperNeuro research group, developing models for simulation of neurmorphic systems and associated software.
Primary area of research: High Performance/Parallel Computing
Other areas of interest: Distributed Computing, Machine Learning
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teaching Assistant - Computer Science 1: Fall 2014
Professor: Dr. Sibel Adali
Acted as support to professor in course. Worked in a group of seven other teaching assistants.
Duties included facilitating two lab discussion sessions a week, hosting office hours, grading homeworks and exams, and monitoring and responding to questions on the course forum.
University of Oklahoma. Research Assistant: May 2012 -- May 2014
Advisor: Dr. Sheena Murphy
Continued REU research, performing a closer inspection of electrical transport properties of antimony measured at cold temperatures.
Worked on developing and refining a method for measuring differential conductance of a material – allowing for a greater understanding of the interface between a topological insulator and a superconductor.
University of Oklahoma. National Science Foundation REU: Summer 2012, 2013
Advisor: Dr. Sheena Murphy
Participated in condensed matter physics research and analysis under an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) grant from advisor.
Worked alongside graduate students in a laboratory environment.
Performed data collection, statistical interpretation of collected data, and utilized software associated with analysis of collected data (Mathematica, LabVIEW).
Participated in metal workshop course to qualify for use of the student shop in fabricating parts for laboratory equipment.
Other Experience
Academic Service
Committee Work
2024 -- ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS) - Program Committee Member
2023 -- ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS) - Program Committee Member
2022 -- ACM SIGPLAN Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud (BID) - Program Committee Member
2022 -- IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Scalable Deep Learning over Parallel and Distributed Infrastructure (ScaDL) - Program Committee Member
2020-Present -- NSF CAREERS Cyberteam Program - Steering Committee Member
Peer-Reviewer
2023 -- ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS'23)
2023 -- IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Scalable Deep Learning over Parallel and Distributed Infrastructure (ScaDL)
2022 -- ACM SIGPLAN Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud (BID)
2022 -- IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Scalable Deep Learning over Parallel and Distributed Infrastructure (ScaDL)
2021 -- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
2021 -- IEEE European Control Conference (ECC'21)
2020 -- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
2019 -- ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS'19)
Senior Capstone Research Project
The final year of undergraduate work in the physics department of the University of Oklahoma was spent participating in a final research project overseen by faculty members Dr. Sheena Murphy and Dr. Matthew Johnson. Continued on work performed over my two summer REUs and other research conducted during the school terms. Presentations were given and critiqued by advisors and students over the course of the project.
The Oklahoma Daily, The University of Oklahoma. Editor of Photography, Photographer: Aug 2009 -- May 2011
Participated as active member of editorial board for the newspaper. Managed staff of photographers, utilized time management and decision making to meet firm deadlines.
Science Museum Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, OK. Educator June 2006 -- May 2011
Conducted and developed teaching material for live science presentations. Helped staff overnight events, which included facilitating science-based projects for children and their parents.