Papers

2016

  • Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov. Introducing a New Client/Server Framework for Big Data Analytics with the R Language. XSEDE16, Miami, Florida, July 2016. pdfbutton

2014

  • Pragnesh Patel, Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov. High-Level Analytics with R and pbdR on Cray Systems. CUG 2014, Lugano, Switzerland, January, 2014.

2013

  • George Ostrouchov, Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, and Pragnesh Patel. Combining R with scalable libraries to get the best of both for big data. International Association for Statistical Computing Satellite Conference for the 59th ISI World Statistics Congress, August 2013. pdfbutton

2012

  • Drew Schmidt, George Ostrouchov, Wei-Chen Chen, and Pragnesh Patel. Tight Coupling of R and Distributed Linear Algebra for High-Level Programming with Big Data. High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC), 2012 SC Companion:, 811-815, November 2012.

Posters

2015

  • Mike Black and Drew Schmidt. XSEDE Text Analytics Gateway. XSEDE15, St. Louis, Missouri, July 29, 2015. pdfbutton

2014

  • Drew Schmidt and N. Matzke. Distributed Matrix Exponentiation in R. useR! 2014, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, July 2, 2014. pdfbutton

2012

  • George Ostrouchov, Wei-Chen Chen, Drew Schmidt, and Pragnesh Patel. Programming with Big Data in R. 6th Extremely Large Databases Conference (XLDB), Stanford, CA, USA, September 2012.

Notable Software Package Guides and Vignettes

2014

  • Drew Schmidt, Christian Heckendorf, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. Guide to the pbdPAPI Package: Performance Analysis Tools for R. pdfbutton

  • Drew Schmidt and Christian Heckendorf. Guide to the ngram Package: An n-gram Babbler. pdfbutton

  • Drew Schmidt. Guide to the RNACI Package: Utilities for R’s Native C Interface. pdfbutton

  • Wei-Chen Chen, R. Zaretzki, W. Howell, C. Landerer, Drew Schmidt, and M. Gilchrist. A Quick Guide for the cubfits Package. pdfbutton

2013

  • Wei-Chen Chen, Drew Schmidt, G. Sehrawat, Pragnesh Patel, George Ostrouchov. A Quick Guide to the pbdPROF Package. pdfbutton

  • Drew Schmidt. Guide to the memuse Package: A Package for Estimating Memory Usage. pdfbutton

  • Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. Speaking Serial R with a Parallel Accent: pbdR Package Examples and Demonstrations. pdfbutton

2012

  • Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. Guide to the pbdDMAT Package: Distributed Matrix Classes and Methods. pdfbutton

  • Drew Schmidt, Wei-Chen Chen, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. Guide to the pbdBASE Package: ScaLAPACK Wrappers and Helpers. pdfbutton

  • Wei-Chen Chen, Drew Schmidt, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. A Quick Guide to the pbdSLAP Package. pdfbutton

  • Wei-Chen Chen, Drew Schmidt, George Ostrouchov, Pragnesh Patel. A Quick Guide to the pbdMPI Package. pdfbutton