TU Wien Informatics

Jesper Larsson Träff

Univ.Prof. Dr. / MSc PhD

Research Focus

Research Areas

  • parallel algorithms, Scheduling, parallel computing, parallel programming, parallel programming models, Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Jesper Larsson Träff

About

Basic Research in Parallel Computing with focus on- Models and Algorithms for fundamental problems- Algorithms and Data Structures for Shared-Memory Systems- Complexity theory for Parallel Computing- Scheduling and Routing- Software Interfaces for Parallel Computing, for example Message-Passing Interface (MPI)- High-Performance Computing- experimental parallel Algorithmics- Performance Analysis and Benchmarking

Roles

2026

  • Lectures on Parallel Computing / Träff, J. L. (2026). Lectures on Parallel Computing (Vol. 14600). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86578-7

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2016

2015

2014

  • Implementing a classic: zero-copy all-to-all communication with mpi datatypes / Träff, J. L., Rougier, A., & Hunold, S. (2014). Implementing a classic: zero-copy all-to-all communication with mpi datatypes. In M. Gerndt, P. Stenström, L. Rauchwerger, B. Miller, & M. Schulz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th ACM international conference on Supercomputing - ICS ’14. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2597652.2597662
  • Selected Papers from EuroMPI 2012 : 19th European MPI Users’ Group Meeting / Träff, J. L., & Benkner, S. (2014). Selected Papers from EuroMPI 2012 : 19th European MPI Users’ Group Meeting. Computing, 96(4), 259–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-013-0335-z
  • Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think / Hunold, S., Carpen-Amarie, A., & Träff, J. L. (2014). Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn’t As Easy As You Think. In J. Dongarra, Y. Ishikawa, & A. Hori (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st European MPI Users’ Group Meeting. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642769.2642785
    Projects: MPI (2013–2018) / ReproPC (2013–2016)
  • Optimal MPI Datatype Normalization for Vector and Index-block Types / Träff, J. L. (2014). Optimal MPI Datatype Normalization for Vector and Index-block Types. In J. Dongarra, Y. Ishikawa, & A. Hori (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st European MPI Users’ Group Meeting. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642769.2642771
    Project: EPiGRAM (2013–2016)
  • Zero-copy, Hierarchical Gather is not possible with MPI Datatypes and Collectives / Träff, J. L., & Rougier, A. (2014). Zero-copy, Hierarchical Gather is not possible with MPI Datatypes and Collectives. In J. Dongarra, Y. Ishikawa, & A. Hori (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st European MPI Users’ Group Meeting. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642769.2642772
  • MPI Collectives and Datatypes for Hierarchical All-to-all Communication / Träff, J. L., & Rougier, A. (2014). MPI Collectives and Datatypes for Hierarchical All-to-all Communication. In J. Dongarra, Y. Ishikawa, & A. Hori (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st European MPI Users’ Group Meeting. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642769.2642770
  • Data structures for task-based priority scheduling / Wimmer, M., Versaci, F., Träff, J. L., Cederman, D., & Tsigas, P. (2014). Data structures for task-based priority scheduling. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming - PPoPP ’14. 19th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPoPP 2014, Orlando, United States of America (the). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2555243.2555278
  • Implementing a classic: zero-copy all-to-all communication with MPI datatypes / Träff, J. L. (2014). Implementing a classic: zero-copy all-to-all communication with MPI datatypes. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85783
  • The Power of Structured Data in MPI / Träff, J. L. (2014). The Power of Structured Data in MPI. I3MS Seminar Series, Aachen GRS, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85805
    Projects: EPiGRAM (2013–2016) / MPI (2013–2018)
  • The Power of Structured Data in MPI / Träff, J. L. (2014). The Power of Structured Data in MPI. Compiler Technology and Computer Architecure Group at the University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85832
  • An improved, easily computable combinatorial lower bound for weighted graph bipartitioning / Träff, J. L., & Wimmer, M. (2014). An improved, easily computable combinatorial lower bound for weighted graph bipartitioning. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1410.0462
  • Perfectly Load-Balanced, Stable, Synchronization-Free Parallel Merge / Siebert, C., & Träff, J. L. (2014). Perfectly Load-Balanced, Stable, Synchronization-Free Parallel Merge. Parallel Processing Letters, 24(01), 1450005. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129626414500054
  • Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think / Hunold, S., Carpen-Amarie, A., & Träff, J. L. (2014). Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn’t As Easy As You Think. Research Group Theory and Applications of Algorithms, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85872
    Projects: MPI (2013–2018) / ReproPC (2013–2016)
  • The Power of Structured Data in MPI / Träff, J. L. (2014). The Power of Structured Data in MPI. Research Group Theory and Applications of Algorithms and Research Group Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85825

2013

2012

2011

 

  • Innovation Radar: Innovation Title: PGAS-based MPI with interoperability; Innovation Category: Exploration; FP 7 project EPiGRAM
    2018 / Project
  • Best Paper Award: "Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think", S. Hunold, A. Carpen-Amarie, J. Träff, 21st European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI/ASIA 2014, Kyoto, Japan, September 9-12, 2014
    2014 / Program Chairs of EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 / Japan

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