Applications of Nonmaterial Performance to Failure Analysis in High Performance Computing, Side-Channel Vulnerabilities and Facial Hallucination Software

Barry Rountree
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

The Nonmaterial Performance (NMP) frame borrows concepts from Performance Studies, Actor-Network Theory and Vibrant Matter to create a framework for analyzing the performance of software artifacts.  In this talk I will be discussing the musical capabilities of the Univac I, loading dynamic libraries on massivesly parallel system, the Platypus side-channel attack, and a machine-learning approach to facial hallucination.  Each artifact is examined in terms of the four tenets of NMP:  code abstracts, code performs, code acts within a network, and code is vibrant.  This work has been done in close collaboration with Dr. William Condee (Ohio University emeritus) and draws from recent work published in The Drama Review, Theater Journal, and an upcoming issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Dr. Rountree holds an BA in Theater from the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, an MS in System and Network Administration from Florida State University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona.  He was worked for the past decade as a Computer Scientist at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  He has taught two classes on system programming at Sonoma State.