STAR Group News

• [09-18-09]HE's NSF proposal "Cross-Layer Exploration of Non-Volatile Solid-State Memories to Achieve Effective I/O Stack for High-Performance Computing Systems" was selected for funding (PI: Xubin He). This three-year collaborative project is conducted by PIs from U. of Florida, Tennessee Tech U., and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• [09-17-09] Welcome a new undergraduate student, Luke McNeese, to join STAR lab to perform NSF REU research. He is currently a senior in computer science.
• [09-16-09]Jimmy Warren's research abstract has been accepted for presentation at the 20th Undergraduate Symposium at Argonne National Laboratory. Jimmy has been working in STAR lab to conduct NSF REU research since June 2009.
• [08-24-09]X. Chen, J. Langston, X. He, S. Scott, "Design and Evaluation of a User-Oriented Availability Benchmark for Distributed File Systems", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, MA (accepted).
• [08-18-09]X. He, L. Ou, C. Engelmann, X. Chen, and S. Scott, "Symmetric Active/Active Metadata Service for High Availability Parallel File Systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, accepted.
• [08-10-09]Welcome a new graduate student, Ms. Fang Han, to join STAR lab.
• [08-06-09]HE's NSF HECURA proposal "Automatic Identification of I/O Bottleneck and Run-time Optimization for Cluster Virtualization" was selected for funding (PI: Xubin He, Co-PI: Stephen Scott). This three-year award will allow He and his STAR group to collaborate with ORNL to conduct cutting-edge research on I/O bottleneck idententification, profiling, and optimization for cluster virtualization.
• [07-01-09]X. Liu, J. Han, Y. Zhong, C. Han, and X. He, "Implementing WebGIS on Hadoop: A Case Study of Improving Small File I/O Performance on HDFS", IEEE Cluster, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2009 (accepted).
• [06-06-09]Welcome Jimmy Warren to join STAR lab. Jimmy is a senior undergraduate and he will conduct research on high availability benchmarking with other STAR lab members.
• [04-27-09]B. Eckart, X. He, H. Ong, S. Scott, "An Extensible I/O Performance Analysis Framework for Distributed Environments", Euro-Par, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009 (accepted, 85 out of 257 submissions).
• [02-17-09]B. Eckart, X. He, Q. Wu, C. Xie, "A Dynamic Performance-Based Flow Control Method for High-Speed Data Transfer", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted.
• [10-31-08]Shenggang Wan, Qiang Cao, Xubin He, Changsheng Xie, and Chentao Wu, "An Adaptive Cache Management Using Dual LRU Stacks to Improve Buffer Cache Performance", 27th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communication Conference (IPCCC), Austin, Dec 7-9, 2008 (accepted).
• [10-13-08]Welcome Ms. Jane Mao as a visiting scholar to STAR lab.
• [09-30-08]Dr. Hong Ong, an ORNL research scientist, gives a talk on virtualization to STAR lab.
• [08-25-08]Xin Chen and Xubin He, "Tolerating Temporal Correlated Failures from Cyclic Dependency in High Performance Computing Systems,"The 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'2008), Australia, Dec. 8-10, 2008 (Acceptance Rate: ~30% out of 221 submissions).
• [07-07-08]Li Ou, Xubin He, and Jizhong Han, “An Effective Design for Fast Memory Registration in RDMA”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, accepted, 2008.
• [06-12-08] Dr. He is invited to serve as the general co-chair of IEEE NAS'2009 conference.
• [05-18-08]Ben Eckart, Xin Chen, Xubin He, and Stephen Scott, “Failure Prediction Models for Proactive Fault Tolerance Within Storage Environment”, The16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS’2008), September 8-10, Baltimore, MD (Acceptance Rate: 36 out of 94 submissions).
• [02-22-08]Manjeera Jeedigunta and Xubin He, “Evaluation of Data Dissemination Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks,” 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008 (acceptance rate: 29%).
• [04-02-08] Congratulations to Ben Eckart for winning the 2008 TTU Derryberry Award.
• [03-28-08] Dr. He is invited to serve as the guest editor for a special issue on parallel and distributed computing, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking.
• [03-16-08] Xin Chen, Ben Eckart, Xubin He, Christian Engelmann, Stephen Scott, "An Online Controller towards Self-adaptive File System Availability and Performance," 5th High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop (HAPCW'08), Denver, April 2-4, 2008 (accepted).
• [03-06-08] Dr. He is elevated to IEEE senior member grade.
• [02-29-08] Ben Eckart and Xubin He, Best Poster Award, NSF REU PI Meeting 2008, Austin, Texas.
• [02-27-08] Dr. He attends the NSF REU PI meeting in Austin and re-unites with his first PhD student, Dr. Li Ou, who is with the Scalable Systems Research group of Dell.
• [02-26-08] Ben Eckart, Xin Chen, and Xubin He, A Failure Prediction Model for Disk arrays, High Performance Computer Science Symposium, Denver, April 2-4, 2008 (accepted).
• [02-21-08] Congratulations to Ben Eckart for winning the EJC scholarship.
• [12-08-07] Ben Eckart, Xubin He, and Qishi Wu, “Performance Adaptive UDP for High-Speed Bulk Data Transfer over Dedicated Links”, 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), April 2008, acceptance rate: 25% (accepted).
• [11-30-07] Christian Engelmann, Stephen Scott, C. Leangsuksun, and Xubin He, “Symmetric Active/Active Replication for Dependent Services,” International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2008, Barcelona, Spain, March 4-7, 2008, acceptance rate: 21% (accepted).
• [09-24-07] Dr. He chairs the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI), San Diego.
• [08-31-07] Dr. He receives Outstanding Service Award, International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-07).
• [08-15-08] NSF Computer System Research (CSR) award, "A Benchmarking Framework for High-Availability Distributed Storage Systems", 2007-2010 (PI: Xubin He, Co-PI: Stephen Scott).
• [07-08-07] Dr. He is invited to serve as the program co-chair of IEEE NAS'2008 conference.
• [04-2007] Xubin He, Li Ou, Martha Kosa, Stephen Scott, and Christian Engelmann, “A Unified Cache for High Performance Cluster Storage Systems”, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2007, pp. 97-109.