Weikuan Yu

Assistant Professor, Auburn University Joint Faculty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 3101 Shelby Center Auburn, AL 36849-5347 Telephone: +1 (334) 844-6330 Google Voice: +1 (334) 246-1698 Fax: +1 (334) 844-6329 Email: wkyu [AT] auburn.edu or weikuan.yu [AT] gmail.com

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:
  • Parallel I/O, Storage, and File Systems
  • High Performance Computing and Fault Tolerance
  • Cloud Computing and Computer Virtualization
  • Scientific Computing for Physics, Biology, and Geoscience
• Research Honors and Recognitions:
  1. Keynote Talk on "Enabling Big Data Analytics in the Cloud with Hadoop Acceleration" at the HPC Advisory Council Workshop, Held in conjunction with HPC China. Jinan, China. October 2011.
  2. Outstanding Research Contribution to Hadoop Acceleration, 2011. Mellanox Technologies.
  3. Ph.D. student Xinyu Que won the George Michael HPC Fellowship award in the 2011 ACM/IEEE Conference for Supercomputing (SC'11). November 2011, Seattle, WA.
  4. Ph.D. student Yuan Tian won the First Prize research competition in the 2011 ACM International Conference for Supercomputing (ICS'11), June 2011, Tucson, AZ.
  5. Undergraduate student Patrick Carpenter won Auburn Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Auburn University, Office of Provost in April 2009.
• Software Products Featured by Press Releases:
  1. Big Data Analytics through Hadoop Acceleration
  • November 2011. Mellanox Announces Availability of UDA 2.0 for the acceleration of Big Data Analytics. UDA is jointly developed by the Auburn PASL group headed by Dr. Weikuan Yu and Mellanox. Announcements made at Yahoo.com, businesswire.com and mellanox.com
  2. Software Contribution to ADIOS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • September 2010, Say Hello the New ADIOS. HPCWire.com
  • October 2010. ADIOS Ignites Combustion Simulations. HPCWire.com
  • July 2011. ORNL ADIOS Team Releases Version 1.3 of Adaptive Input/Output System.
• Sponsors:
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) (CRI and CNS programs)
  • Department of Energy (DOE) (SciDAC and FastOS programs)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ROSES program)
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (various projects)
  • Mellanox (Cloud Computing)
  • NVIDIA (GPU acceleration)
  • Auburn University (Startup, URF and Breeden Projects)
• For more info: PASL Research Group

Teaching

• Spring 2012 - COMP 3500: Introduction to Operating Systems
  
• Archived Courses
  

Publications

• Recent Refereed Papers

  1. W. Yu., X. Que, V. Tipparaju, and J.S. Vetter. HiCOO: Hierarchical Cooperation for Scalable Communication in Global Address Space Programming Models on Cray XT Systems Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). 2012. In Press.
  2. D. Li, J.S. Vetter, G. Marin, C. McCurdy, C. Cira, Z. Liu, and W. Yu. An Analysis of Scientific Applications for Using Non-Volatile Memory in High Performance Computing. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'12). May 2012. Shanghai, China.
  3. Yuan Tian, Juan Gao, Weikuan Yu, and Jeffrey Vetter. RXIO: Design and Implementation of High Performance RDMA-capable GridFTP. International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering. 2012. In Press.
  4. A. Shoshani, I. Altintas, J. Chen, G. Chin, A. Choudhary, D. Crawl, T. Critchlow, K. Gao, B. Grimm, H. Iyer, C. Kamath, A. Khan, S. Klasky, S. Koehler, S. Lang, R. Latham, J. W. Li, W. Liao, J. Ligon, Q. Liu, B. Ludaescher, P. Mouallem, M. Nagappan, N. Podhorszki, R. Ross, D. Rotem, N. Samatova, C. Silva, A. Sim, R. Tchoua, R. Thakur, M. Vouk, K. Wu, W. Yu. The Scientific Data Management Center: Available Technologies and Highlights. SciDAC Conference, July 2011, Denver, CO.
  5. Scott Klasky, Hasan Abbasi, Jeremy Logan, Manish Parashar, Karsten Schwan, Arie Shoshani, Matthew Wolf, Sean Ahern, Ilkay Altintas, Wes Bethel, Luis Chacon, CS Chang, Jackie Chen, Hank Childs, Julian Cummings, Stephane Ethier, Ray Grout, Zhihong Lin, Qing Liu, Xiaosong Ma, Kenneth Moreland, Valerio Pascucci, Norbert Podhorszki, Nagiza Samatova, Will Schroeder, Roselyne Tchoua, John Wu, Weikuan Yu. In situ data processing for extreme scale computing. SciDAC Conference, July 2011, Denver, CO.
  6. Yandong Wang, Xinyu Que, Weikuan Yu, Dror Goldenberg, Dhiraj Sehgal. Hadoop Acceleration through Network Levitated Merging. SC11. Seattle, WA. To be presented.
     
  7. Yuan Tian, Scott Klasky, Hasan Abbasi, Jay Lofstead, Ray Grout, Norbert Podhorszki, Qing Liu, Yandong Wang, Weikuan Yu. EDO: Improving Read Performance for Scientific Applications Through Elastic Data Organization. Cluster 2011. Austin, TX. To be presented.
     
  8. Weikuan Yu, K. John Wu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Cong Xu, Juan Gao. BMF: Bitmapped Mass Fingerprinting for Fast Protein Identification. Cluster 2011. Austin, TX. To be presented.
     
  9. Weikuan Yu, Vinod Tipparaju, Xinyu Que, and Jeffrey Vetter. Virtual Topologies for Scalable Resource Management and Contention Attenuation in a Global Address Space Model on the Cray XT5. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'11). September 2011. Taipei, Taiwan. To be presented.
     
  10. Zhuo Liu, Jian Zhou, Weikuan Yu, Fei Wu, Xiao Qin and Changsheng Xie. MIND: A Black-Box Energy Consumption Model for Disk Arrays. The First International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS'11), July 2011. Orlando, FL.
      
  11. Bongen Gu, Weikuan Yu, and Yoonsik Kwak. Communication and Computation Overlap through Task Synchronization in Multi-Locale Chapel Environment . The 3rd International Workshop on IT Service and Cloud Computing (ISCC'11). June, 2011. Crete, Greece.
      
  12. Xinyu Que, Weikuan Yu, Vinod Tipparaju, Jeffrey Vetter, and Bin Wang. Network-Friendly One-Sided Communication Through Multinode Cooperation on Petascale Cray XT5 Systems. IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'11). May 2011. Newport Beach, California.
      
  13. Weikuan Yu, Yuan Tian, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Efficient Zero-Copy Noncontiguous I/O for Globus on InfiniBand. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing. Held in Conjunction with ICPP10. September 2010.
      
  14. Weikuan Yu, Xinyu Que, Vinod Tipparaju, Richard L. Graham, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Cooperative Server Clustering for a Scalable GAS Model on Petascale Cray XT5 Systems. International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany. May 2010.
      
  15. Vinod Tipparaju, Edoardo Apra, Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Enabling a highly-scalable global address space model for petascale computing. International Conference on Computing Frontiers. Bertinoro, Italy. May 2010.
      
  16. Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey S. Vetter. Initial Characterization of Parallel NFS Implementations. The Sixth International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS). April 2010. Atlanta, GA.
      
  17. Jeffrey S. Vetter, Vinod Tipparaju, Weikuan Yu, Philip C. Roth. HPC Interconnection Networks: The Key to Exascale Computing. Book Chapter of High Speed and Large Scale Scientific Computing. Vol 18, Pages 95-106. 2009.
      
  18. 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.
      

Selected Services

1. Panelist: NSF CISE 2012, DOE ASCR 2011, NSF CNS 2011, NSF OCI/CISE 2010; NIST BTOP 2009
2. Program Committee Vice-Chair: ISPA 2011 Middleware Track.
3. Editorial Board of PDCN-Journal (2011-13).
4. PC Member: SC10 (Doctoral Showcase); ICPP (2007-08); NAS (2008, 2010); HiPC (2008-10); SMTPS'08; P2S2 (2008-11); HPI-DC 2009; ICPADS 2010; IANA 2011; INFOCOMP 2011.
5. Publicity Chair: Hot Interconnect (2007-08); SMTPS'08.
6. Session Chair: ICPP (2008); IPDPS (2008); P2S2 2008.
7. Technical Reviewers for major journals and conferences such as TPDS, TC, JPDC, SC, IPDPS, IEEE Micro, IEEE Computer, among many others.