• Lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of  Technology

• PhD at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

• Mailing Address:

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Ho Chi Minh City University of  Technology                                        

268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM

• Tel: +84 8 8647256-5849

• Email: nam@dit.hcmut.edu.vn

• Parallel Processing
• Debugging of Parallel Programs
• Tools of Parallel Machines
• Checkpointing & Fault Tolerance
• Grid Computing
• Parallel & Distributed Simulation
• GIS-Geographic Information System

• Operating Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Parallel Processing & Distributed Systems

Journal Papers

1. Thoai, N., Kranzlmüller, D., and Volkert, J.
   An Approach to Provide Small Waiting Time During Debugging Message Passing Programs
   The Special Issue of Distributed and Parallel Systems, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 6(2) (Sep. 2005) 1-12

2. Kranzlmüller, D., Thoai, N. and Volkert, J.
   Error Detection in Large-Scale Paralell Programs with Long Runtimes
   Tools for Programs Development and Analysis (Best papers from two Technical Sessions, at ICCS2001, San Francisco, USA, and ICCS2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Future Generation Computer Systems, 19(5) (July 2003) 689-700.

Conference Papers

1. Thoai, N., Tran, D. T. and Tran, V. N. T.
   Resource Management and Scheduling on SupernodeII
   Proc. of the International School on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Applications (COSCI'05), Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (March 2005), pp. 137-147.

2. Thoai, N., Le, H. A. and Doan, V. H.
   SCK – A User-Level Transparent, Non-Bloking Coordinated Checkpointing of MPI Programs
   Proc. of the International School on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Applications (COSCI'05), Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (March 2005), pp. 123-136.

3. Thoai, N., Hoai, T. V., Trung, T. Q., Khoa, T. D. and An, T. N.
   A High Performance Computing System: Supernode II
   Proc. of BK21 GSNU.IJU-HCMUT  International Symposium on Transport Vehicle Engineering, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (December 2005), pp. H18-H21.

4. Thoai, N., Kranzlmüller, D., and Volkert, J.
   Using Checkpointing For Fault Tolerance and Parallel Program Debugging
   Proc. of Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, (PDCN2004), Innsbruck, Austria (February 2004).

5. Thoai, N., Kranzlmüller, D., and Volkert, J.
   EROS: An Efficient Method for Minimizing the Replay Time based on the Replay Dependence Relation
   Proc. of the 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (EUROMICRO-PDP 2003), IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-1875-3, Genova, Italy, pp. 23-30 (February 2003).

6. Thoai, N., and Volkert, J.
   Shortcut Replay: A Replay Technique for Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
   Proc. of the Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN’02), LNCS Vol. 2550, Springer-Verlag, pp. 34-46,

Hanoi, Vietnam (December 2002).

7. Thoai, N.,  and Volkert, J.
   MRT- An Approach to Minimize the Replay Time During Debugging Message-Passing Programs
   Proc. of the 4th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS'02), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Kluwer Intl. Series in Eng. and Comp. Science, Vol. 706, pp. 117-124,

Linz, Austria (Sep-Oct 2002).

8. Thoai, N., Kranzlmüller, D., and Volkert, J.
   Rollback-One-Step Checkpointing and Reduced Message Logging for Debugging Message-Passing Programs
   Proc. of the 5th International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing (VECPAR´2002),

Part 2, pp. 337-350, Porto, Portugal (June 2002).

9. Thoai, N., Kranzlmüller, D., and Volkert, J.
   ROS: The Rollback-One-Step Method to Minimize the Waiting Time during Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
   A revised version of “Rollback-One-Step Checkpointing and Reduced Message Logging for Debugging Message-Passing Programs”, Software Tools and Environments, Selected Papers of VECPAR´2002, LNCS Vol. 2550, Springer-Verlag, Chapter 8, pp. 657-660.

10. Kranzlmüller, D., Thoai, N., and Volkert, J.
    Debugging Large-Scale, Long-Running Parallel Programs
    Proc. of International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS´02), LNCS Vol. 2330, Springer-Verlag, pp. 913-922,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April 2002).

11. Thoai, N., and Volkert, J.
    Minimizing The Waiting Time During Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
    Proc. of School On Scientific Computing and Applications, pp. 79-88, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam (March 2002) .

12. Son, N. T., Khanh, D. T., and Thoai, N.
    DPPT - Distributed and Parallel Programming Tool
    High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC 2000) Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam (March 2000).

13. Son, N. T,  Minh, H. D., and Thoai, N.
    Static and Dynamic Reconfiguration for Supernode System
    High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC 2000) Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam (March 2000)

Thesis

• Thoai, N.
  Checkpointing Techniques for Minimizing the Waiting Time During Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
  PhD Thesis - Technical Computer Science and Telematics, Department for Graphics and Parallel Processing Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (July 2003). (Advisor: o.Univ.Prof.Dr. Jens Volkert, Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller)

• Thoai, N., and Duong, B. V.
  Developing a Distributed and Parallel Programming Tool
  Engineer Thesis - Department of Information Technology, HoChiMinh City University of Technology (July 1995) . (Advisor: Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son)

Technical Reports

1. Son, N. T., Thoai, N., Minh, H. D., Khanh, D. T., Truong, H. L., Thuan, H. Q., Le, L. S., Le, H. N., Phuong, H. H., Hoang, N. H., Dat, N. C., Anh, N. T., and Hoai, T. V.
   Researching and Building a Programming Environment for Parallel Processing on the Supernode Multiprocessing System
   In Supernode project at Department of Information Technology, HCMC University of Technology, Vietnam (2000) (in Vietnamese).

2. Son, N. T., Thoai, N., Minh, H. D., Khanh, D. T., Truong, H. L., Thuan, H. Q., Le, L. S., Le, H. N., Phuong, H. H., Hoang, N. H., Dat, N. C., Anh, N. T., and Hoai, T. V.
   A Library of Basic Functions and Some Applications Examples of Parallel Processing Tool on the Supernode Multiprocessing System
   In Supernode project at Department of Information Technology, HCMC University of Technology, Vietnam (2000) (in Vietnamese).

3. Son, N. T., Thoai, N., Minh, H. D., Khanh, D. T., Truong, H. L., Thuan, H. Q., Le, L. S., Le, H. N., Phuong, H. H., Hoang, N. H., Dat, N. C., Anh, N. T., and Hoai, T. V.
   An Installation and User’s Guide
   In Supernode project at Department of Information Technology, HCMC University of Technology, Vietnam (2000) (in Vietnamese).

4. Thoai, N., Cuong, N. D, and Son, N. T.
   Telephone Cable Management System based on GIS
   At Department of Information Technology, HCMC University of Technology, Vietnam (2000) (in Vietnamese).

1. Shortcut Replay: A Replay Technique for Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
   Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN’02),

Hanoi, Vietnam (December 2002).

2. MRT- An Approach to Minimize the Replay Time During Debugging Message-Passing Programs
   The 4th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS'02),

Linz, Austria (Sep-Oct 2002).

3. Rollback-One-Step Checkpointing and Reduced Message Logging for Debugging Message-Passing Programs
   The 5th International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing (VECPAR´2002),

Porto, Portugal (June 2002).

4.  Debugging Large-Scale, Long-Running Parallel Programs
   The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS´02),

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April 2002).

5. Minimizing The Waiting Time During Debugging Long-Running Parallel Programs
   School On Scientific Computing and Applications, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam (March 2002) .

6. DPPT - Distributed and Parallel Programming Tool
   High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC 2000) Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam (March 2000).

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