About Me
Research
Education
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My major interests encompass:
  • OpenMP language,
  • Compilers and runtime systems,
  • Multicore processors,  and
  • Performance tuning and tools for large-scale parallel applications.
Major software release:
  •  Open source OpenUH compiler
  •  Dragon Analysis tool
  •  OpenMP validation suite
They are all available for downloading at http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~openuh/ .
Publications:
  • C. Liao, "A Compile-Time OpenMP Cost Model", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, August 2007. pdf
  • C. Liao and B. Chapman, "Invited Paper: A compile-time cost model for OpenMP", 12th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS), Long Beach, California, March 2007. pdf
  • C. Liao, O. Hernandez, B. Chapman, W. Chen and W. Zheng, OpenUH: An Optimizing, Portable OpenMP Compiler, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on CPC'2006 selected papers, 2007 (In press) link
  • L. Huang, B. Chapman, C. Liao, "An Implementation and Evaluation of Thread Subteam for OpenMP Extensions“, PMUP'06 (Programming Models for Ubiquitous Parallelism) workshop, Seattle, Washington, Sept. 16, 2006 pdf
  • C. Liao, O. Hernandez, B. Chapman, W. Chen and W. Zheng, OpenUH: An Optimizing, Portable OpenMP Compiler, 12th Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, A Coruna, Spain, Jan. 9-11, 2006. pdf
  • C. Liao, Z. Liu, L. Huang, and B. Chapman, Evaluating OpenMP on Chip MultiThreading Platforms, First International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2005, Eugene, Oregon USA. June 1-4, 2005. pdf
  • O. Hernandez, C. Liao and B. Chapman, A Tool to Display Array Access Patterns in OpenMP Programs, PARA'04 workshop on state-of-the-art in scientific computing, Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20-23, 2004. pdf
  • O. Hernandez, C. Liao and B. Chapman, Dragon: A static and dynamic tool for OpenMP, WOMPT2004, pp.53-66, 2004. pdf
  • C. Liao and H. Zhang, The Design and Implementation of Quality Management Subsystem in a Pharmaceutical ERP System, Application Research of Computers, vol.22 no.5, p77-79, Chengdu, China, May 2002. (In Chinese)