Areas of Interest:

	Parallel Processing. Architectures, Opearting Systems and Programming Languages. The Synergy Parallel Processing System
	Very Large Scale Fault Tolerant Database. Arechitecture and Performance Evaluation.

Publications

1. Parallel System Architecture

Stateless Parallel Processing (by Yuan Shi, Extended Abstract)

2. Laws of Parallel Processing

Re-Evaluating Amdahl's and Gustafson's Law (by Yuan Shi) .

3. Fault Tolerant Synergy Parallel Programming System

	Synergy Usage Guide.
	Synergy Project Website

4. Program Scalability Analysis

	Linear Solver Using Asynchronous Methods, by Kostas Blathras, Daniel Szyld and Yuan Shi, Journal of Distributed and Parallel Processing
	Superlinear Speedup for NP-Complete Algorithms, by Wes Powers and Yuan Shi, Technical Report, CIS Department, Temple University
	Parallel Program Scalability Analysys (by Yuan Shi, slides)
	Parallel Program Scalability Analysis (by Yuan Shi, Full paper)

5. Parallel Application Reliability

Strctured Performability Analysis, by J.D. and Yuan Shi

6. Theory of Optimal Load Balancing

Optimal Granularity Calculation (by Yuan Shi, Full paper)

7. Automatic Parallel Program Generation and Performance Studies

	Generating Efficient Parallel Codes for COTS Cluster Using a Parallel Markup Language (PML) (submitted to Supercomputing 2004, Feijian Sun, Weijun He and Yuan Shi, PDF format)
	Automatic Program Parallelization Using Stateless Parallel Processing Principle and Architecture (Full Dissertation by Feijian Sun, PDF format)
	Automatic Program Parallelization Using Stateless Parallel Processing Architecture (Ph.D. Defense Slides), by Feijian Sun, Powerpoint format).
	Automatic Program Generation for Stateless Parallel Processing, by Feijian Sun and Yuan Shi, MASPLAS 2003, powerpoint slides
	Parallel Block LU Factorization on the Synergy Platform, by Weijun He and Yuan Shi, Technical Report, CIS Dept. Temple University
	Research Exhibit at Supercomputing 2004 (pdf)