Samuel Williams

10.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
135 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Samuel Williams is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel Williams has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 82 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 19 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Samuel Williams's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (84 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (58 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (36 papers). Samuel Williams is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (84 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (58 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (36 papers). Samuel Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Samuel Williams's co-authors include David A. Patterson, Andrew Waterman, John Shalf, Katherine Yelick, Leonid Oliker, Parry Husbands, Krste Asanović, Ras Bodik, Kurt Keutzer and Bryan Catanzaro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Samuel Williams

121 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Roofline

2009 1.4k citations Samuel Williams et al. profile →
The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley

2006 1.2k citations Parry Husbands, John Shalf et al. profile →
Stencil computation optimization and auto-tuning on state-of-the-art multicore architectures

2008 320 citations Kaushik Datta, Mark Murphy et al. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics profile →
AMReX: a framework for block-structured adaptive mesh refinement

2019 287 citations Weiqun Zhang, Ann Almgren et al. The Journal of Open Source Software profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel Williams based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Samuel Williams. Samuel Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Roofline Analysis of Tightly-Coupled CPU-GPU Superchips: A Study on MI300A and GH200 2025 ·(unknown), Leonid Oliker, Samuel Williams	0
2	Benchmark-driven Models for Energy Analysis and Attribution of GPU-Accelerated Supercomputing 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), Brian Austin, Nan Ding, Leonid Oliker, Nicholas J. Wright, Samuel Williams	0
3	Performance Portability Evaluation of Blocked Stencil Computations on GPUs 2023 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·(unknown), Samuel Williams, Hans Johansen, (unknown), (unknown), Priya Goyal, Mary Hall	10
4	Unified Communication Optimization Strategies for Sparse Triangular Solver on CPU and GPU Clusters 2023 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·(unknown), Nan Ding, (unknown), Samuel Williams, Xiaoye Sherry Li	4
5	Maximizing Performance Through Memory Hierarchy-Driven Data Layout Transformations 2022 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·(unknown), (unknown), Hans Johansen, Samuel Williams	2
6	FPGA‐based HPC accelerators: An evaluation on performance and energy efficiency 2021 ·Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience ·Tan Nguyen, (unknown), (unknown), Douglas W. Doerfler, Nicholas J. Wright, Samuel Williams	16
7	A Comprehensive Methodology to Optimize FPGA Designs via the Roofline Model 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Computers ·(unknown), Emanuele Del Sozzo, (unknown), Lorenzo Di Tucci, Samuel Williams, Donatella Sciuto, Marco D. Santambrogio	17
8	Experiences Porting the SU3_Bench Microbenchmark to the Intel Arria 10 and Xilinx Alveo U280 FPGAs 2021 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Douglas W. Doerfler, (unknown), (unknown), Tan Nguyen, Samuel Williams, Nicholas J. Wright, (unknown)	0
9	Timemory: Modular Performance Analysis for HPC. 2020 ·Jonathan Madsen, (unknown), (unknown), Jack Deslippe, Rahulkumar Gayatri, Leonid Oliker, Yunsong Wang, (unknown), Samuel Williams	2
10	AMReX-Codes/amrex: AMReX 19.05.1 2019 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·(unknown), Ann Almgren, Vince Beckner, (unknown), Cy Chan, Marc Day, Brian Friesen, Kevin Gott, Daniel Graves, (unknown), Andrew Myers, Tan Nguyen, Andrew Nonaka, Michele Rosso, Samuel Williams, Weiqun Zhang, M. Zingale	2
11	AMReX: a framework for block-structured adaptive mesh refinement breakdown → 2019 ·The Journal of Open Source Software ·Weiqun Zhang, Ann Almgren, Vince Beckner, John B. Bell, Johannes Blaschke, Cy Chan, Marc Day, Brian Friesen, Kevin Gott, Daniel Graves, Max Katz, Andrew Myers, Tan Nguyen, Andrew Nonaka, Michele Rosso, Samuel Williams, M. Zingale	287
12	International Workshop on Open MP (IWOMP) 2017 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Meng Zhang, Alice Koniges, Yingjie He, Samuel Williams, Thorsten Kurth, Brandon Cook, Jack Deslippe, (unknown)	2
13	Compiler generation and autotuning of communication-avoiding operators for geometric multigrid 2013 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Protonu Basu, Anand Venkat, Mary Hall, Samuel Williams, Brian Van Straalen, Leonid Oliker	25
14	Optimization of geometric multigrid for emerging multi- and manycore processors 2012 ·IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics ·Samuel Williams, Dhiraj Kalamkar, Amik Singh, (unknown), Brian Van Straalen, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Ann Almgren, Pradeep Dubey, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker	42
15	Free as in Freedom [Paperback]: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software 2012 ·Samuel Williams	2
16	Resource-Efficient, Hierarchical Auto-Tuning of a Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Computation on the Cray XT4 2009 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Samuel Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Katherine Yelick	1
17	A Generalized Framework for Auto-tuning Stencil Computations 2009 ·University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) ·Shoaib Kamil, Cy Chan, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Mark Howison, E. Wes Bethel, Prabhat	23
18	Lattice Boltzmann simulation optimization on leading multicore platforms 2008 ·Proceedings - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium ·Samuel Williams, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
19	Stencil computation optimization and auto-tuning on state-of-the-art multicore architectures breakdown → 2008 ·IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics ·Kaushik Datta, Mark Murphy, В. М. Волков, Samuel Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, David A. Patterson, John Shalf, Katherine Yelick	320
20	Dense and Sparse Matrix Operations on the Cell Processor 2005 ·University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) ·Samuel Williams, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker, Parry Husbands, Katherine Yelick	1

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