About

My name is Wataru Endo (given name / last name). I have acquired the PhD degree in Information and Communication Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Work & Education

April 2020 -: Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services Japan.
- April 2021 -: Solutions Architect for Financial Services Industry (FSI)
- April 2020 - March 2021: Associate Solutions Architect
April 2017 - March 2020: Doctor of Philosophy in Information and Communication Engineering.
- Taura Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
April 2015 - March 2017: Master of Information Science and Technology.
- Taura Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
April 2012 - March 2015: Bachelor of Engineering.
- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
April 2007 - March 2012: Associate Degree of Engineering.
- Department of Control and Information Systems Engineering, Tsuruoka National College of Technology.

Research

I had been working on the development of efficient & productive communication libraries for HPC systems. I have developed a distributed shared memory library MENPS.

Interests

High performance computing (HPC), parallel & distributed computing, global address space models, HPC interconnection, task-parallel programming, etc.

Publication

Papers

Wataru Endo, Shigeyuki Sato, Kenjiro Taura:
MENPS: A Decentralized Distributed Shared Memory Exploiting RDMA.
IPDRM 2020. 2020.
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Wataru Endo, Kenjiro Taura:
Parallelized Software Offloading of Low-Level Communication with User-Level Threads.
HPC Asia 2018. Tokyo, Japan. January 2018.
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Takuya Fukuoka, Wataru Endo, Kenjiro Taura:
An Efficient Inter-node Communication System with Lightweight-thread Scheduling.
HPCC 2019. Zhangjiajie, China. August 2019.
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Journal

Wataru Endo, Shigeyuki Sato, Kenjiro Taura:
ComposableThreads: Rethinking User-level Threads with Composability and Parametricity in C++.
Journal of Information Processing (JIP). 2022. Volume 30, Pages 269-282.
🏆 Specially Selected Paper (about top 10 percent of outstanding papers in each JIP issue).
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An Huynh, Christian Helm, Shintaro Iwasaki, Wataru Endo, Byambajav Namsraijav, Kenjiro Taura:
TP-PARSEC: A Task Parallel PARSEC Benchmark Suite.
Journal of Information Processing (JIP). 2019. Volume 27, Pages 211-220.
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Contributed Presentation

Wataru Endo, Kenjiro Taura:
A Distributed Shared Memory Library with Global-View Tasks on High-Performance Interconnects.
SIAM-PP 2018 Contributed Presentation. Tokyo, Japan. March 2018.
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Poster

Wataru Endo, Kenjiro Taura:
MGAS-2: Global Address Space Library with Dynamic Data Migration.
HPDC ‘16 Poster Session. Kyoto, Japan. June 2015.

Fellowship

JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, DC2. (April 2019 - March 2020)

Other experiences

IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists 2019 (March 2020)
International HPC Summer School Attendee (July 2018)

Dissertation

A Decentralized Implementation of Software Distributed Shared Memory.
Doctoral dissertation. January 2020.
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