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Allan Porterfield

Allan Porterfield publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Information Systems, on topics such as Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed systems and fault tolerance and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

World rank
#295,639
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#111,811
of 358,040
Works
17
Citations
236
Citations per work
13.9

What does Allan Porterfield research?

Computer Networks and Communications: 50.0%Hardware and Architecture: 27.8%Information Systems: 13.9%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 5.6%other fields: 2.7%50%top field
Computer Networks and Communications50.0%Hardware and Architecture27.8%Information Systems13.9%Electrical and Electronic Engineering5.6%other fields2.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications50% of their works
  2. 2Hardware and Architecture28% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems14% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allan Porterfield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, GPU Computing, Performance Optimization, Resource Management, Consistency and Fault Tolerance.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Distributed Systems154 topics
  2. High-Performance Computing152 topics
  3. Parallel Computing152 topics
  4. GPU Computing101 topic
  5. Performance Optimization101 topic
  6. Resource Management82 topics
  7. Consistency61 topic
  8. Fault Tolerance61 topic
  9. Distributed Storage51 topic
  10. Grid Computing51 topic
  11. Network Coding51 topic
  12. Task Scheduling51 topic
  13. Big Data31 topic
  14. Cloud Computing31 topic
  15. QoS-Aware Middleware21 topic
  16. Semantic Web Services21 topic
  17. Caching11 topic
  18. Information-Centric Networking11 topic
  19. Log Analysis11 topic
  20. Performance Prediction11 topic

Where does Allan Porterfield work?

Allan Porterfield's main affiliation in the publication record is Renaissance Computing Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Allan Porterfield have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 236 citations for Allan Porterfield, ranking #295,639 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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