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Inaugural lecture

On May 8 2019, I gave my inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam. You can find a written version here, or download the PDF.

Peer-Reviewed Journals and Conferences

2025

  • Miguel Blom, Kristian Rietveld, Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    Experimental Framework for Multi-Strided Compute Kernels
    Accepted for publication in the16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), 2025.

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Floris-Jan Willemsen, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Ben van Werkhoven:
    Bayesian Optimization for auto-tuning GPU kernels.
    2021 International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS), pages 106-117, 2021.

2020

2019

2018

2017

  • Allen, Alice ; Aragon, Cecilia ; Becker, Christoph ; Carver, Jeffrey ; Chis, Andrei ; Combemale, Benoit ; Croucher, Mike ; Crowston, Kevin ; Garijo, Daniel ; Gehani, Ashish ; Goble, Carole ; Haines, Robert ; Hirschfeld, Robert ; Howison, James ; Huff, Kathryn ; Jay, Caroline ; Katz, Daniel S. ; Kirchner, Claude ; Kuksenok, Katie ; Lämmel, Ralf ; Nierstrasz, Oscar ; Turk, Matt ; van Nieuwpoort, Rob ; Vaughn, Matthew ; Vinju, Jurgen J:
    Engineering Academic Software.
    Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252, vol 6, no 1, Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, doi:10.4230/DagMan.6.1.1, 2017.
  • L Levin, W Armour, C Baffa, E Barr, S Cooper, R Eatough, A Ensor, E Giani, A Karastergiou, R Karuppusamy, M Keith, M Kramer, R Lyon, M Mackintosh, M Mickaliger, R van Nieuwpoort, M Pearson, T Prabu, J Roy, O Sinnen, L Spitler, H Spreeuw, BW Stappers, W van Straten, C Williams, H Wang, K Wiesner and the SKA TDT team:
    Pulsar Searches with the SKA
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 13, Symposium S337 (Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years), pp. 171-174, September 2017.
    DOI: 10.1017/S1743921317009528.
  • Jason Maassen, Niels Drost, Willem van Hage, Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    Software Development Best Practices at the Netherlands eScience Center
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1). University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 6 September 2017. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3869782.
  • P. Chris Broekema, Damiaan R. Twelker, Daniel C. Romão, Paola Grosso, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Henri E. Bal:
    Software-defined networks in large-scale radio telescopes
    CF’17 Proceedings of the Computing Frontiers Conference, Pages 263-266, Siena, Italy — May 15 – 17, 2017.
    DOI:10.1145/3075564.3075594

2016

2015

2014

  • Oonk, J. B. R., van Weeren, R. J., Salgado, F., Morabito, L. K., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Rottgering, H. J. A., Asgekar, A., White, G. J., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Avruch, I. M., Batejat, F., Beck, R., Bell, M. E., van Bemmel, I., Bentum, M. J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., Brentjens, M., Broderick, J., Bruggen, M., Butcher, H. R., Ciardi, B., Conway, J. E., Corstanje, A., de Gasperin, F., de Geus, E., de Vos, M., Duscha, S., Eisloffel, J., Engels, D., van Enst, J., Falcke, H., Fallows, R. A., Fender, R., Ferrari, C., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M. A., Griessmeier, J., Hamaker, J. P., Hassall, T. E., Heald, G., Hessels, J. W. T., Hoeft, M., Horneffer, A., van der Horst, A., Iacobelli, M., Jackson, N. J., Juette, E., Karastergiou, A., Klijn, W., Kohler, J., Kondratiev, V. I., Kramer, M., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., van Leeuwen, J., Maat, P., Macario, G., Mann, G., Markoff, S., McKean, J. P., Mevius, M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Mol, J. D., Mulcahy, D. D., Munk, H., Norden, M. J., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pandey, V. N., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A. G., Reich, W., Scaife, A. M. M., Schoenmakers, A., Schwarz, D., Shulevski, A., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Sobey, C., Stappers, B. W., Steinmetz, M., Swinbank, J., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., Tasse, C., Veen, S. T., Thoudam, S., Toribio, C., van Nieuwpoort, R., Vermeulen, R., Vocks, C., Vogt, C., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Wise, M. W., Wucknitz, O., Yatawatta, S., Zarka, P., Zensus, A.:
    Discovery of carbon radio recombination lines in absorption towards Cygnus A.
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 437, Issue 4, Pages 3506-3515, Feb 2014.
    arXiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2876. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2158.
  • Souley Madougou, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Cees de Laat, and Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    An Empirical Evaluation of GPGPU Performance Models
    Twelfth International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar’2014) August 25, 2014, Porto, Portugal.
    L. Lopes et al. (Eds.): Euro-Par 2014 Workshops, Part I, LNCS 8805, pp. 165–176. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.
  • Souley Madougou, Ana L. Varbanescu and Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    Optimizing a calibration software for radio astronomy
    2014 IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), August 2014
    ISBN: 978-1-4799-6122-1,
    DOI:10.1109/HPCC.2014.189
  • Alessio Sclocco, Henri E. Bal, Jason Hessels, Joeri van Leeuwen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort:
    Auto-Tuning Dedispersion for Many-Core Accelerators
    28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pages 952-961, DOI:10.1109/IPDPS.2014.101, Phoenix, USA, May 2014.
  • Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and the LOFAR team:
    Exascale Real-Time Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation
    Exascale Radio Astronomy, AAS Topical Conference Series Vol. 2. Proceedings of the conference held 30 March – 4 April, 2014 in Monterey, California. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 46, #3, #403.01
    Abstract. Slides.
  • Alessio Sclocco, Henri E. Bal, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort:
    Real-Time Pulsars Pipeline Using Many-Cores. Exascale Radio Astronomy, AAS Topical Conference Series Vol. 2. Proceedings of the conference held 30 March – 4 April, 2014 in Monterey, California. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 46, #3, #203.01
    Abstract. Slides.
  • Engbersen, Ton, Boonstra, A., Anghel, A., Broekema, C., Dangel, R., van Diepen, G., Dittmann, G., Doering, A., Hagleitner, C., Holties, H., Horst, F., Hurley, P., Iliadis, I., Jelitto, J., Jongerius, R., Kim, Y., Luijten, R., van Lunteren, J., Maat, P., van Nieuwpoort, R. Nijboer, R., Offrein, B., Paredes, S., Ratcliffe, S., Romein, J. W., Sarafijanovic, S., Schmatz, M., Schoonderbeek, G., Venkatesan, V., Weiss, J., Wijnholds, S. J.
    SKA a bridge too far, or not? Exascale Radio Astronomy, AAS Topical Conference Series Vol. 2. Proceedings of the conference held 30 March – 4 April, 2014 in Monterey, California. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 46, #3, #101.01
    Abstract.

2013

  • P. Schellart, A. Nelles, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, J. E. Enriquez, H. Falcke, W. Frieswijk, J. R. Horandel, A. Horneffer, C. W. James, M. Krause, M. Mevius, O. Scholten, S. ter Veen, S. Thoudam, M. van den Akker, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, I. M. Avruch, L. Bahren, R. Beck, M. E. Bell, P. Bennema, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, J. Bregman, F. Breitling, M. Brentjens, J. Broderick, M. Bruggen, B. Ciardi, A. Coolen, F. de Gasperin, E. de Geus, A. de Jong, M. de Vos, S. Duscha, J. Eisloffel, R. A. Fallows, C. Ferrari, M. A. Garrett, J. Griessmeier, T. Grit, J. P. Hamaker, T. E. Hassall, G. Heald, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Hoeft, H. A. Holties, M. Iacobelli, E. Juette, A. Karastergiou, W. Klijn, J. Kohler, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, P. Maat, G. Macario, G. Mann, S. Markoff, D. McKay-Bukowski, J. P. McKean, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. D. Mol, D. D. Mulcahy, H. Munk, R. Nijboer, M. J. Norden, E. Orru, R. Overeem, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, A. Renting, J. W. Romein, H. Rottgering, A. Schoenmakers, D. Schwarz, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, B. W. Stappers, M. Steinmetz, J. Swinbank, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, C. Toribio, J. van Leeuwen, R. van Nieuwpoort, R. J. van Weeren, N. Vermaas, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, C. Vogt, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. J. Wijnholds, M. W. Wise, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Zensus:
    Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope.
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 560 (2013) A98.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322683.
  • A. R. Offringa, A. G. de Bruyn, S. Zaroubi, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. J. Wijnholds, F. B. Abdalla, W. N. Brouw, B. Ciardi, I. T. Iliev, G. J. A. Harker, G. Mellema, G. Bernardi, P. Zarka, A. Ghosh, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, R. Beck, M. E. Bell, M. R. Bell, M. J. Bentum, P. Best, L. Birzan, F. Breitling, J. Broderick, M. Bruggen, H. R. Butcher, F. de Gasperin, E. de Geus, M. de Vos, S. Duscha, J. Eisloffel, R. A. Fallows, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, J. Griessmeier, T. E. Hassall, A. Horneffer, M. Iacobelli, E. Juette, A. Karastergiou, W. Klijn, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, J. van Leeuwen, M. Loose, P. Maat, G. Macario, G. Mann, J. P. McKean, H. Meulman, M. J. Norden, E. Orru, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, D. Rafferty, W. Reich, R. van Nieuwpoort, H. Rottgering, A. M. M. Scaife, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, S. ter Veen, C. Toribio, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, R. J. van Weeren, M. W. Wise, O. Wucknitz:
    The brightness and spatial distributions of terrestrial radio sources
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013.
    arXiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5580v1.
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1337.
  • M. P. van Haarlem, M. W. Wise, A. W. Gunst, G. Heald, J. P. McKean, J. W. T. Hessels, A. G. de Bruyn, R. Nijboer, J. Swinbank, R. Fallows, M. Brentjens, A. Nelles, R. Beck, H. Falcke, R. Fender, J. Horandel, L. V. E. Koopmans, G. Mann, G. Miley, H. Rottgering, B. W. Stappers, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. Zaroubi, M. van den Akker, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, K. Anderson, A. van Ardenne, M. Arts, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, F. Batejat, L. Bahren, M. E. Bell, M. R. Bell, I. van Bemmel, P. Bennema, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, L. Birzan, A. Bonafede, A. J. Boonstra, R. Braun, J. Bregman, F. Breitling, R. H. van de Brink, J. Broderick, P. C. Broekema, W. N. Brouw, M. Bruggen, H. R. Butcher, W. van Cappellen, B. Ciardi, T. Coenen, J. Conway, A. Coolen, A. Corstanje, S. Damstra, O. Davies, A. T. Deller, R. J. Dettmar, G. van Diepen, K. Dijkstra, P. Donker, A. Doorduin, J. Dromer, M. Drost, A. van Duin, J. Eisloffel, J. van Enst, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, H. Gankema, M. A. Garrett, F. de Gasperin, M. Gerbers, E. de Geus, J. M. Griessmeier, T. Grit, P. Gruppen, J. P. Hamaker, T. Hassall, M. Hoeft, H. Holties, A. Horneffer, A. van der Horst, A. van Houwelingen, A. Huijgen, M. Iacobelli, H. Intema, N. Jackson, V. Jelic, A. de Jong, E. Juette, D. Kant, A. Karastergiou, A. Koers, H. Kollen, V. I. Kondratiev, E. Kooistra, Y. Koopman, A. Koster, M. Kuniyoshi, M. Kramer, G. Kuper, P. Lambropoulos, C. Law, J. van Leeuwen, J. Lemaitre, M. Loose, P. Maat, G. Macario, S. Markoff, J. Masters, D. McKay-Bukowski, H. Meijering, H. Meulman, M. Mevius, E. Middelberg, R. Millenaar, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. N. Mohan, J. D. Mol, J. Morawietz, R. Morganti, D. D. Mulcahy, E. Mulder, H. Munk, L. Nieuwenhuis, R. van Nieuwpoort, J. E. Noordam, M. Norden, A. Noutsos, A. R. Offringa, H. Olofsson, A. Omar, E. Orru, R. Overeem, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, R. Pizzo, A. Polatidis, D. Rafferty, S. Rawlings, W. Reich, J. P. de Reijer, J. Reitsma, A. Renting, P. Riemers, E. Rol, J. W. Romein, J. Roosjen, M. Ruiter, A. Scaife, K. van der Schaaf, B. Scheers, P. Schellart, A. Schoenmakers, G. Schoonderbeek, M. Serylak, A. Shulevski, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, H. Spreeuw, M. Steinmetz, C. G. M. Sterks, H. J. Stiepel, K. Stuurwold, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, I. Thomas, S. Thoudam, M. C. Toribio, B. van der Tol, O. Usov, M. van Veelen, A. J. van der Veen, S. ter Veen, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. Vermeulen, N. Vermaas, C. Vocks, C. Vogt, M. de Vos, E. van der Wal, R. van Weeren, H. Weggemans, P. Weltevrede, S. White, S. J. Wijnholds, T. Wilhelmsson, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Zensus, J. van Zwieten:
    LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray
    Astronomy and Astrophysics 556, 2013.
    arXiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3550.
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220873.
  • Pieter Hijma, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and Henri E. Bal:
    Programming Many-Cores on Different Levels of Abstraction.
    HotPar ’13 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (Poster presentation), July 2013.
  • Roalt Aalmoes, Ronald Erkamp, Yuk Shan Cheung, Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    Performance improvements for calculations of third party risk around airports
    The 5th International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering, 17 – 19 September, 2013, Rome, Italy.
  • Alessio Sclocco, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort.
    Pulsar Searching with Many-Cores.
    Facing the Multicore-Challenge III, September 19-21, 2012, Stuttgart, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7686, 2013, pp 123-124.
    Abstract. Poster.

2012

  • Pieter Hijma, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs and Henri E. Bal:
    Generating synchronization statements in divide-and-conquer programs
    Parallel Computing, Volume 38, Issues 1-2, Pages 75-89, January-February 2012.
  • P. Chris Broekema, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and Henri E. Bal:
    ExaScale High performance computing in the Square Kilometer Array
    First Workshop on High Performance Computing in Astronomy (AstroHPC 2012)
    In conjunction with the 21-st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2012) June 19, 2012, Delft, the Netherlands.
  • P. Chris Broekema, Albert-Jan Boonstra, Victoria Caparrós Cabezas, Ton Engbersen, Robert Haas, Hanno Holties, Jens Jelitto, Ronald P. Luijten, Peter Maat, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Ronald Nijboer, John W. Romein, and Bert Jan Offrein:
    DOME: Towards the ASTRON & IBM Center for ExaScale Technology
    Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy (AstroHPC’12), Delft, the Netherlands, June, 2012.
    In conjunction with the 21-st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2012).
  • Karel van der Veldt, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Chris Jesshope:
    A Polyphase Filter For GPUs And Multi-Core Processors
    First Workshop on High Performance Computing in Astronomy (AstroHPC 2012)
    In conjunction with the 21-st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2012) June 19, 2012, Delft, the Netherlands.
  • Alessio Sclocco, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Jan David Mol, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort:
    Radio Astronomy Beam Forming on Many-Core Architectures
    26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 21-25, 2012, Shanghai, China.

2011

2010

2009

2008

  • A.L. Varbanescu, A.S. van Amesfoort, T. Cornwell, A. Mattingly, B.G. Elmegreen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, G. van Diepen and H.J. Sips:
    Radioastronomy Image Synthesis on the Cell/B.E.,
    Proceedings of Euro-Par 2008, pp. 749-762. LNCS 5168, 2008
  • H.E. Bal, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, T. Kielmann, N. Drost, C. Jacobs, F.J. Seinstra, R. Kemp, and K. Verstoep:
    The Ibis Project: Simplifying Grid Programming and Deployment,
    European Projects Showcase, special track at the
    8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008),
    Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008.
  • Niels Drost, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal:
    Resource tracking in parallel and distributed applications.
    Poster in Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing (HPDC), pages 221-222, June 2008.

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

  • Ronald Veldema, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, and Aske Plaat:
    Efficient Remote Method Invocation,
    Technical Report IR-450, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, September, 1998.

Books / Book Chapters

Demonstrators and Prizes

  • F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal:
    Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing with Ibis
    Live demonstration at the International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, Ma, USA, June 23-27, 2008.
  • F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal:
    Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing,
    1st IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008.
    First Prize Winner.
  • Rob van Nieuwpoort:
    Ibis: Efficient Java-centric Grid Computing
    Demo at the Dutch booth at Super Computing 2007 (SC07)
    Reno, Nevada, USA, 2007
  • Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen:
    Grids@work event in Sophia Antipolis, France, October 2005.
    First prize for the largest number of parallel nodes deployed during the contest.

Media

PhD Thesis

Master’s thesis

  • Jason Maassen and Rob V. van Nieuwpoort:
    Fast Parallel Java,
    Master’s thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 1998.