Xiao Qin's Research
Final Report
BUD: A Buffer-Disk Architecture for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems
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Findings
An Energy-Efficient Framework for Large-Scale Parallel Storage Systems
A Simulation Framework for Energy-efficient Data Grids
An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling
for Parallel Applications on Clusters
Load-Balancing Strategies for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks
Sacrificing Reliability for Energy Saving: Is It Worthwhile for Disk Arrays
Load-Balancing Strategies for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks
Energy-Efficient Prefetching for Parallel I/O Systems with Buffer Disks
Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control
Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness
An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems
DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency
MICRO: A Multi-level Caching-based Reconstruction Optimization for Mobile Storage Systems
PEARL: Performance, Energy, and Reliability Balanced Dynamic Data Redistribution for Next Generation Disk Arrays
HyBUD: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Hybrid Parallel Disk Systems
Energy-Aware Prefetching for Parallel Disk Systems
DORA: A Dynamic File Assignment Strategy with Replication
Collaboration-Oriented Data Recovery for Mobile Disk Arrays
A File Assignment Strategy Independent of Workload Characteristic Assumptions
References
References
[Zong et al. 2007a] Z.-L. Zong, M.E. Briggs, N.W. O'Connor, and X. Qin, “An Energy-Efficient Framework for Large-Scale Parallel Storage Systems,” Proc. 21st Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. (IPDPS), 8th IEEE Int'l Workshop Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, Long Beach, CA, March 2007.
[Zong et al., 2007b] Z.-L. Zong, M.E. Briggs, N.W. O'Connor, X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, and Y.-M. Yang, “Design and Performance Analysis of Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems,” the Commodity Cluster Symposium 2007 (CCS), Annapolis, Maryland, July 2007.
[Zong et al., 2007c] Z.-L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, and Y.-M Yang, “A Simulation Framework for Energy-efficient Data Grids,” Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2007.
[Zong et al., 2007d] 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 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2007.
[Ruan et al., 2007] X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and K. Bellam, “An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters,” Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007.
[Zong et al., to be published] Z.-L. Zong, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, “Load-Balancing Strategies for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks.”
[Manzanares et al., to be published] A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, and X. Qin, “Energy-Efficient Prefetching for Parallel I/O Systems with Buffer Disks.”
[Xie and Sun, 2008] T. Xie and Y. Sun, “Sacrificing Reliability for Energy Saving: Is It Worthwhile for Disk Arrays?,” Proc. 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-18, 2008.
[Madathil et al., 2008] D. K. Madathil, R. B. Thota, P. Paul, and Tao Xie “A Static Data Placement Strategy towards Perfect Load-Balancing for Distributed Storage Clusters," The 7th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Ubiquitous Computing and Networked Systems (PMEO UCNS 2008), in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-18, 2008.
[Xie and Sun, 2007] T. Xie and Y. Sun, “No More Energy-Performance Trade-Off: A New Data Placement Strategy for RAID-Structured Storage Systems," Proc. 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3834), pp.35-46, Goa, India, December 18-21, 2007.
[Xie, 2007] T. Xie, “SOR: A Static File Assignment Strategy Immune to Workload Characteristic Assumptions in Parallel I/O Systems,” Proc. 36th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2007), XiAn, China, September 10-14, 2007.
[Bellam et al., 2008] K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X. 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.
[Liu et al., 2008a] 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.
[Liu et al., 2008b] C. Liu, X. Qin, S. Kulkarni, C.-J. Wang, S. Li, A. Manzanares, and S. Baskiyar, “Distributed Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications with Deadline Constraints on Data Grids,” Proc. 27th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Dec. 2008.
[Manzanares et al., 2008a] A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, and X. Qin, “A Prefetching Scheme for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems,” Proc. NSF Next Generation Software Program Workshop, April 2008.
[Manzanares et al., 2008b] 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.
[Nijim et al., 2008a] M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, “An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems,” Proc. the 12th IEEE Int'l Symp. Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Oct. 2008.
[Nijim et al., 2008b] M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan and X. Qin, “Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems,” Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
[Roth et al., 2008] 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.
[Ruan et al., 2009] X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, “DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency,” Proc. the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2009.
[Xie and Wang, 2008] T. Xie and H. Wang, “MICRO: A Multi-level Caching-based Reconstruction Optimization for Mobile Storage Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 1386-1398, October 2008.
[Xie and Sun, 2008b] T. Xie and Y. Sun, “PEARL: Performance, Energy, and Reliability Balanced Dynamic Data Redistribution for Next Generation Disk Arrays," The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, September 8-10, 2008.
[Zong et al., 2008] Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, “Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications on Mobile Clusters,” Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 91 - 113, March 2008.
[Ruan et al. 2009a] X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin, “ECOS: An Energy-Efficient Cluster Storage System,” Proc. the 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 2009. (40%, 8 pages)
[Ruan et al. 2009b] X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, Z. -L. Zong, and X. Qin, “Performance Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Write Buffer Disks,” Proc. the 38th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 32.3%, 71/220) (40%, 8 pages)
[Nijim et al. 2009] M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "HYBUD: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Hybrid Parallel Disk Systems," Proc. the 18th Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 29%). (30%, 8 pages)
[Manzanares et al. 2009] BUD’09 A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, S. Yin, M. Nijim, X. Qin, and W. Luo, “Energy-Aware Prefetching for Parallel Disk Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluation,” Proc. the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), July 2009. (50%, 8 pages)
[Ruan et al. 2009c] X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, “DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency,” Proc. the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 29%) (50%, 8 pages)
[Tjioe, Widjaja, Lee, and Xie, 2009] J. Tjioe, R. Widjaja, A. Lee, and T. Xie, “DORA: A Dynamic File Assignment Strategy with Replication,” The 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009), Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.
[Xie and Sharma, 2009] T. Xie and A. Sharma, “Collaboration-Oriented Data Recovery for Mobile Disk Arrays,” The 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-26, 2009.
[Xie and Sun, 2009] T. Xie and Y. Sun, “A File Assignment Strategy Independent of Workload Characteristic Assumptions,” ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Article 10, November 2009.
[Lewis et al., 2010] J. Lewis*, M. I. Alghamdi*, M. A. Assaf*, X.-J. Ruan*, Z.-Y. Ding*, and X. Qin, “An Automatic Prefetching and Caching System,” Proc. the 29th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 2010.
[Ruan, et al. 2010] X.-J. Ruan*, Q. Yang*, M. I. Alghamdi*, S. Yin*, Z.-Y. Ding*, J. Xie*, J. Lewis*, and X. Qin, “ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security,” Proc. the 29th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 2010. (40%, 8 pages)
[Qiu, et al. 2010] M.-K. Qiu, J.-W. Niu, L. T. Yang, X. Qin, S.-L. Zhang, and B. Wang, “Energy-Aware Loop Parallelism Maximization for Multi-Core DSP Architectures,“ Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom-2010), Hangzhou, China, Dec 18-20, 2010. (Best Paper Award. 16%, 8 pages)
[Yang, et al. 2010] Q. Yang*, X.-J. Ruan*, A. Lim, and X. Qin, “Location Privacy Protection in Contention Based Forwarding for VANETs,” Proc. IEEE Globecom 2010 Wireless Networking Symposium, Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 35%, 1300/3688) (10%, 8 pages)
[Manzanares, et al. 2010] A. Manzanares*, X.-J. Ruan*, S. Yin*, J. Xie*, Z.-Y. Ding*, Y. Tian*, J. Majors*, and X. Qin, “Energy Efficient Prefetching with Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), San Diego, CA, Sept. 13-16, 2010. (40%, 10 pages)
[Nijim, et al. 2010] M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, Y. Nijim, “Multi-Layer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluations,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), San Diego, CA, Sept. 13-16, 2010. (10%, 6 pages)
[Yin, et al. 2010] S. Yin*, M. I. Alghamdi*, X.-J. Ruan*, M. Nijim, A. Tamilarasan*, Z.-L. Zong*, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, “Improving Energy Efficiency and Security for Disk Systems,” Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-10), Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 19%, 58/304) (40%, 8 pages).
[Liu, et al. 2010] Z. Liu*, F. Wu, X. Qin, C.-S. Xie, J. Zhou*, and J.-Z. Wang*, “TRACER: A Trace-Replay Based Load-controllable Scheme for Evaluating Energy-efficiency of Mass Storage Systems,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Sept. 20-24, 2010. (40%, 10 pages)
[Qiu, et al. 2010] J. Li, M. Qiu, J. Niu, W. Gao, Z. Zong, and X. Qin, “Feedback Dynamic Algorithms for Preemptable Job Scheduling in Cloud Systems”, Proc. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp. 561-564. Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2010. (10%, 4 pages)
[Wang, et al. 2010] P. Wang*, Diqing Hu, C.-S. Xie, J.-Z. Wang*, and X. Qin, “A Fine-grained Data Reconstruction Algorithm for Solid-state Disks,” Proc. the 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 24%, 43/178) (20%, 8 pages)
[Xie, et al. 2010] J. Xie*, S. Yin*, X.-J. Ruan*, Z.-Y. Ding*, Y. Tian*, J. Majors*, A. Manzanares*, and X. Qin, “Improving MapReduce Performance via Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters,” Proc. 19th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010. (40%, 8 pages)
[Zong et al., 2011] Z.-L. Zong, A. Manzanares, X.J. Ruan, K. Bellam, X. Qin, “Heat-Based Dynamic Data Caching: A Load Balancing Strategy for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks.” Proc. the 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies: Research Track (MSST), May 2011.