Xiao Qin's Research

Multicore-Based Disks for Data-Intensive Computing (2009 - )

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Outreach Activities

The outreach activities include curriculum enrichment presentations, engineering clubs, and tutorial services. In year 1 (i.e., 2009-2010), the PI had given 7 research talks related to this NSF funded project:

• Improving Energy-Efficiency and Reliability of Storage Systems, Seminar talk at the University of New Orleans, Sept. 4, 2009.
• Can We Improve Energy Efficiency of Secure Disk Systems without Modifying Security Mechanisms? the IEEE NAS09 Conference, ZhangJiaJie, China, July 10, 2009.
• Security-Aware Scheduling for Real-Time Parallel Applications on Clusters, Lecture at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 22, 2009.
• How to Read Papers? Seminar talk at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China, June 17, 2009.
• Energy Efficient Scheduling for High-Performance Clusters, Seminar talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 8, 2009.
• An Overview of Auburn University, Seminar talk at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, June 3, 2009.
• Thinking About Going to Graduate School? Seminar talk at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, June 3, 2009.

The PI gave a talk on high-performance clusters at Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China (see Figure 35). More than 30 faculty members and 300 undergraduate and graduate students attend the PIs seminar focusing on energy conservation techniques.

On April 23rd, Dr. Jiang with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and two of his doctoral student visited the PI’s new storage systems laboratory at Auburn University (see Figure 36). Dr. Dan Feng along with her two doctoral students also visited the PI’s research group. Seven doctoral student from the PI’s research group gave presentations, reporting their new findings from the projects supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Drs. Jiang and Feng provided insightful suggestions and comments on the research projects led by the PI at Auburn University.

Figure 35: The PI visited Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China.

Figure 36: Drs. Hong Jiang and Dan Feng along with their doctoral students visited the PI’s new storage systems laboratory at Auburn University

In year 2 (i.e., 2010-2011), the PI had given 7 research talks related to this NSF funded project:

• An Application-Oriented Approach for Computer Security Education, invited talk at the Information Security and Computer Applications (ISCA2011) Conference, Feb. 25, 2011.
• A Novel Application-Oriented Approach to Teaching Computer Security Courses. Poster Session at NSF CCLI/TUES Conference, January 27, 2011.
• Energy Efficient Prefetching From models to Implementation. Seminar talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 2010.
• How to Read Papers? Training Session for REU students at Auburn University, May 18, 2010.
• How to Succeed in the AU REU Program? Training Session for REU students at Auburn University, May 17, 2010.

References

[1] Gnu core utilities. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.

[2] Gnu grep. http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/.

[3] Postgresql. http://www.postgresql.org/.

[4] Apache hadoop, 2006. http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/.

[5] Corba. http://www.corba.org/, 2010.

[6] Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Mapreduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. Commun. ACM, 51(1):107–113, 2008.

[7] Zhiyang Ding, Xiaojun Ruan, Jiong Xie, Shu Yin, Yu Tian, Xiao Qin, and Kai H. Chang. Multicore-embedded smart disks. In Technical Report No. 1003, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, 2010.

[8] The PostgreSQL Gloabal Development Group. Postgresql developer’s guide. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/index.html.

[9] M. Henning. The rise and fall of corba. Queue, 4(5), 2006.

[10] III R. B. Ross P. H. Carns, W. B. Ligon and R. Thakur. Pvfs: a parallel file system for linux clusters. Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase and Conference, pages 28–28, 2000.

[11] S. Kleiman D. Walsh R. Sandberg, D. Goldberg and B. Lyon. Design and implementation or the sun network filesystem, 1985.

[12] Erik Riedel, Christos Faloutsos, Garth A. Gibson, and David Nagle. Active disks for large-scale data processing. Computer, 34(6):68–74, 2001.

[13] P. Schwan. Lustre: Building a file system for 1000-node clusters. In Proceedings of the 2003 Linux Symposium, 2003.

[14] Haiying Shen and Yingwu Zhu. A proactive low-overhead file replication scheme for structured p2p content delivery networks. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 69(5):429–440, 2009.

[15] Jiong Xie, Shu Yin, Xiaojun Ruan, Zhiyang Ding, Yun Tian, James Majors, Adam Manzanares, and Xiao Qin. Improving mapreduce performance through data placement in heterogeneous hadoop clusters. In Proceedings of the 2010 Int’l Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010.

[16] Ji Zhang, Xiaojun Ruan, Jiong Xie, Shu Yin, Yu Tian, Zhiyang Ding, and Xiao Qin. An offloading framework for i/o intensive applications on clusters. In Technical Report No. 1104, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, 2011.