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[04/08] Engineering at AU was ranked 42nd among public institutions and 73rd among public and private institutions in the rankings, which U.S. News released on March 28. Read more... [05/08] A. Roth, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, "Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness," Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop Next Generation Autonomous Storage and High Performance Computing , St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008. [Abstract | PDF] [05/08] C. Liu, X. Qin, and S. Li, "PASS: Power-Aware Scheduling of Mixed Applications with Deadline Constraints on Clusters," Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008. [05/08] A. Manzanares, D. Hamilton, and X. Qin, "The Relationship Between Software Architecture and Visual Programming Languages," Proc. Grand Challenges in Modeling & Simulation, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2008. [04/08] K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control," Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08), July 2008. [03/08] Tao Xie and Xiao Qin, An Energy-Delay Tunable Task Allocation Strategy for Collaborative Applications in Networked Embedded Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 329-343, March 2008. [Abstract | PDF] [02/08] X. Qin and T. Xie, "An Availability-Aware Task Scheduling Strategy for Heterogeneous Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 188-199, Feb. 2008. [Abstract | PDF] [01/08] Tao Xie and Xiao Qin, Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, May 2007. [Abstract | PDF] [01/08] X. Qin, "Performance Comparisons of Load Balancing Algorithms for I/O-Intensive Workloads on Clusters," Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 32-46, January 2008. [Abstract | PDF] 2007 [12/07] Auburn University has been ranked among the top 50 Public National Universities in the U.S. again (USNews and World Report, 2008). Read more... [10/07] X. Qin et al., “Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Submitted Feb. 2007; revised Sept. 2007; accepted Oct. 2007. [10/07] NSF Computer System Research (CSR) Award, 2007-2010. Our NSF Computer System Research/SMA proposal was selected for funding (PI: Xiao Qin). This allows us to build mathematical reliability models for fault-tolerant energy-aware parallel disk systems. Read more... [09/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Performance Evaluation of a New Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Systems with Security Heterogeneity," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 1067-1081, October 2007. [Abstract | PDF] [08/07] We welcome Adam Manzanares who joined the
research group this fall as a Ph.D. student. Prior to joining us, he was a
M.S. student in the [07/07]
Double Congratulations to Mais Nijim!
After she defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Mais accepted a tenure-track
faculty position at the [07/07] Congratulations to Kiranmai Bellam for winning a Nokia Student Travel Award from IEEE-AINA’07, July 2007. Read more... [07/07] M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and X. Qin, "StReD: A Quality of Security Framework for Storage Resources in Data Grids," Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l J. of Grid Computing, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 816-824, July 2007. [Abstract | PDF] [06/07] Congratulations to Mohammed Alghamdi for wining a
Student Award from the Ministry of Higher Education of Saudi Arabia and a Excellence
in Education Award from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, July 2007. [05/07] NSF
Computing Processes & Artifacts (CPA) Award, 2007-2010. This
award allows us to investigates novel energy conservation techniques to
provide significant energy savings while achieving low-cost and
high-performance for parallel disk systems. Read more... [05/07] Congratulations to Ziliang Zong, Mohammed Alghamdi, and Kiranmai Bellam for winning three NMT 2007 Summer Graduate Student Travel Awards, May 2007.
[05/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Security-Driven
Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications on Grids," Cluster
Computing: The J. of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, vol. 10,
no. 2, pp. 145-153, June 2007. [Abstract | PDF] [04/07] X. Qin and T. Xie, "An
Availability-Aware Task Scheduling Strategy for Heterogeneous Systems," IEEE
Transactions on Computers. Submitted March 2006; revised Aug. 2006 and
Dec. 2006; accepted April 2007. [In press] [04/07] Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan,
K. Bellam, and M. Alghamdi, "Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel
Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters," Proc. 36th Int'l
Conf. Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2007. [Abstract | PDF] [04/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Improving Security
for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling," ACM
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007. [04/07] Congratulation to Xiaojun Ruan for his first paper:
"An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling
for Parallel Applications on Clusters," Pcoc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conf.
Computer Comm. and Networks (ICCCN), [04/07] K. Bellam, R. K. Vudata, X. Qin, Z.-L.
Zong, M. Nijim, and X.-J. Ruan, "Interplay of Security and Reliability
using Non-Uniform Checkpoints," Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer
Comm. and Networks (ICCCN), |