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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 University of Colorado at Boulder. Adam will be working on energy efficient and highly reliable wireless storage systems. To read more about his research Click Here.

[07/07] Double Congratulations to Mais Nijim! After she defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Mais accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Southern Mississippi, which is a Ph.D. granting institution. To read more about her dissertation research Click Here.

[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), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. [Abstract | PDF]

[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), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. [Abstract | PDF]