Xiao Qin's Research

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

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Training and Development

3.1 Student Support

This project has directly supported about 8 students including 6 doctoral students and 2 undergraduate students. The project also indirectly contributed to approximately 17 graduate students who took the COMP7500 (i.e., Advanced Operating systems) class and 65 undergraduate students.

The following 6 doctoral students have been partially supported by this NSF grant in year 1 (i.e., 2009-2010):

• Adam Manzanares
• Jiong Xie
• James Majors
• Zhiyang Ding
• Xiaojun Ruan
• Shu Yin

The following 9 doctoral/master’s students have been partially supported by this NSF grant in year 2 (i.e., 2010-2011):

• Xiaojun Ruan (Doctoral Student)
• Zhiyang Ding (Doctoral Student)
• Shu Yin (Doctoral Student)
• Jiong Xie (Doctoral Student)
• Maen Al Assaf (Doctoral Student)
• Yixian Yang (Doctoral Student)
• Yun Tian (Doctoral Student)
• James Majors (Master’s Student)
• Jianguo Lu (Master’s Student)

The following 2 undergraduate students have been partially supported by this NSF grant in year 1 (i.e., 2009-2010):

• Joshua Lewis
• Tsukasa Ogihara

Figure 33: Our undergraduate research assistants helped in building a cluster system.

The following 4 undergraduate students have been partially supported by this NSF grant in year 2 (i.e., 2010-201a):

• Joshua Lewis
• Alfred Nelson
• Drew Pitchford
• John Barton
• Greg Poirier
• Alexander Luchs
• Bryant Haley
• Kathryn Catlett
• Riley Spahn

Figure 34: The cluster computing system built by our undergraduate research assistants.

3.2 Research Experience for Undergraduate Students

To recruit new undergraduate students, especially women and minorities, to conduct research in the area of storage systems, we designed a research program that offers ample opportunity to undergraduate students to do intensive research in data-intensive computing with the PIs. In particular, students and the PIs are brought together to conduct research experiments in the field of high-performance storage systems. The photo below shows two undergraduate students - Tsukasa Ogihara (right) and Joshua Lewis (middle) - are building a cluster computing system using commodity-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware components.

The cluster system (see Figs. 33 and 34) built by our undergraduate research assistants will be used as a high-performance computing platform to support our computer security education. The cluster recently build in our department at Auburn supports security middleware services for secure software applications. We will use this cluster computing platform to design and implement study how to improve software application’s quality-of-security without adversely affecting performance.

3.3 Contributions to Courses

This project has directly and indirectly contributed to the following classes:

• COMP7970: Storage Systems
• COMP7500 Advanced Operating Systems
• COMP4370: Computer and Network Security
• COMP2710 Software Construction
• COMP4300: Computer Architecture
• COMP7370: Advance Computer and Network Security