Weikuan Yu

Assistant Professor, Auburn University Joint Faculty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 3101-R Shelby Center Auburn, AL 36849-5347 Tel: +1 (334) 844-6330 Fax: +1 (334) 844-6329 Email: wkyu@auburn.edu; wyu@ornl.gov

About

Weikuan Yu, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Auburn University. He leads the Auburn Parallel Architecture and System Laboratory (PASL), which has its research agenda in the areas of high performance computing, fault tolerance, high speed networks, parallel I/O, file and storage systems. Yu is also affiliated as a Joint Faculty in the Future Technologies Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Research

• Interests
  • Storage, File Systems, and Parallel IO
    
  • High Performance Computing, Network and Grid Computing
    
  • Fault Tolerance and Virtualization
    
  • Computational Biology and Reconfigurable Computing with FPGA
    
  
  
• Research Grants
  • PI (Principal Investigator), Startup Grant from Auburn University
    
  • Co-PI, National Science Foundation Award CNS-0917137. Lead PI: Dr. Xiao Qin. 09/2009-08/2012
    
  • PI, UT-Battelle, parallel NFS study, 10/2009-09/2010
    
  • PI, UT-Battelle, Minimizing System Noise Effects, 10/2009-06/2011
    
  
  
• Computer Time Awards
  • DOE INCITE Award
    
  • High Performance Computing at Louisiana State University
    
  • NSF TeraGrid
    
  • Southeastern Universities Research Association
    
  
  
• For more info: Research Group

Teaching

• Spring 2009 - COMP 7970: Special Topics in High Performance Computing
  
• Fall 2009 - COMP 7330: Advanced Parallel and Distributed Computing
  
• Spring 2010 - COMP 3500: Introduction to Operating Systems
  
• Summer 2010 - COMP 4970/7970: Concepts in Computer Virtualization
  

Publications

• Recent Refereed Papers

  1. Weikuan Yu, Oleg Drokin, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Transparent pNFS on Lustre. 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'09). Rome, Italy. To be presented.
     
  2. Alam, S., Barrett, B., Bast, M., Fahey, M.R., Kuehn, J., McCurdy, C., Rogers, J., Roth, P., Sankaran, R., Vetter, J., Worley, P., Yu, W. (2008). Early Evaluation of IBM BlueGene/P. Supercomputing 2008 (SC'08), Austin, TX, USA.
     
  3. N. S. V. Rao, Weikuan Yu, W. R. Wing, S. W. Poole, and Jeffrey Vetter. Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and Infiniband Technologies. Supercomputing 2008 (SC'08). Austin, TX, USA.
     
  4. Weikuan Yu, Nageswara S.V. Rao, Pete Wyckoff, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Performance of RDMA-capable Storage Protocols on Wide-Area Network. Peta-byte Storage Workshop (PDSW'08). Held in Conjunction with SC'08. Austin, TX, USA.
     
  5. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter. ParColl: Partitioned Collective I/O on the Cray XT. The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-08). September, 2008. Portland, Oregon, USA. To be presented.
     
  6. Weikuan Yu, Sarp Oral, Shane Canon, Jeffrey Vetter, Ramanan Sankaran. Empirical Analysis of a Large-Scale Hierarchical Storage System . The 14th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2008). August 2008. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. To be presented
     
  7. Weikuan Yu, Nageswara Rao, Jeffrey Vetter. Experimental Analysis of InfiniBand Transport Services on WAN. The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage. June 2008. Chongqing, China.
     
  8. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter. Xen-Based HPC: A Parallel IO Perspective. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'08). May 2008. Lyon, France.
     
  9. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter, Sarp Oral. Performance Characterization and Optimization of Parallel I/O on the Cray XT. 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08). April 2008. Miami, FL.
     
  10. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter, Shane Canon. OPAL: An Open-Source MPI-IO Library over Cray XT. International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI'07). September 2007. San Diego, CA.
      
  11. Feng Chen, Song Jiang, Weisong Shi, Weikuan Yu. FlexFetch: A History-Aware Scheme for I/O Energy Saving in Mobile Computing. International Conferen on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07). September 2007. Xi'an, China.
      
  12. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter, R. Shane Canon, Song Jiang. Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO . Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), May 2007.
      

Service Activities

1. Publicity Chair, Hot Interconnect 2007 and 2008
2. TPC Member, ICPP 2007 and 2008
3. TPC Member, NAS 2008
4. TPC Member, HiPC'08
5. Session Chair, IPDPS'08, ICPP'08 and P2S2'08
6. Publicity Chair/TPC Member, SMTPS'08
7. Technical Referees (2006 onwards):
   • IEEE Micro (2006)
   • Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE (2006, 2007, 2008)
   • Transactions on Computers, IEEE (2007)
   • SC'07, SC'08
   • IPDPS'08
   • TeraGrid'08
   • JPDC '08
   • SNAPI'07