Selected Important Publications (and All)

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Selected Premier Journals

• Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Large Scale Storage Systems, IEEE transactions on computers, DOI Bookmark: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TC.2009.115.
• An Advertisement-based Peer-to-Peer Search Scheme, with Peng Gu and Hailong Cai, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 69, Issue 7, July 2009, Pages 638-651.
• A New Hierarchical Data Cache Architecture for iSCSI Storage Server, with Christopher Mitchell, Xiaoyu Yao and Peng Gu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.58 no.4, pp433-447, April 2009.
• Exploiting In-memory and On-disk Redundancy to Conserve Energy in Parity Disk Array, with Xiaoyu Yao, and Huijun Zhu, IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 733-747, June 2008.
• eRAID: Conserving Energy in Conventional Disk based RAID System, with Huijun Zhu, and Dong Li, IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 359-374, March 2008.
• HBA: Distributed Metadata Management for Large Cluster-based Storage Systems, with Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, and Feng Xian, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 750-763, June 2008.
• Exploiting Geographical and Temporal Locality to Boost Search Efficiency in Peer-to-peer Systems, with Hailong Cai, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17, No. 10, pp: 1189-1203, Oct. 2006.
• RIMAC: A Redundancy-based, Two-level Collaborative I/O Architecture for Energy-efficient Storage Systems, with Xiaoyu Yao. October 2006, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 40 Issue 4, Pages: 249 – 262.
• A Lightweight, Collaborative Temporary File System for Clustered Web Servers. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 66(2006) 750-762, June 2006.
• A Novel State Cache Scheme in Structured P2P Systems, with Hailong Cai, Dong Li, and Jitender S. Deogun, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 65(2): 154-168, Special issue on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks. Feb. 2005.
• A Novel Reorder Write Buffer to Boost Write Performance for Log-structured File System, with Yiming Hu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp 1559-1572, December 2003.
• UCFS -- A User-space, High Performance, Custom File System for Web Proxy Servers, with Rui Min, Yingwu Zhu, and Yiming Hu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp: 1056-1073, Sep. 2002.
• Boosting I/O Performance of Internet Servers with User-level Custom File Systems, with Rui Min, Yingwu Zhu, and Yiming Hu, ACM Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp 26-31, 2002.

Selected Important Conferences and Recent Works

• Self-detecting Locks to Support MPI-IO Atomicity, with Saba Sehrish and Rajeev Thakur (ANL). EuroPVM/MPI 2009.
• Introducing MapReduce to High End Computing, with Grant Mackey, Julio Lopez (CMU), Saba Sehrish, John Bent (LANL) and Salman Habib (LANL), Petascale Data Storage Workshop Held in conjunction with SC08.
• Bridging the Gap between Parallel File Systems and Local File Systems: A Case Study with PVFS, with Peng Gu, and Robert Ross (ANL), the 37^th International conference on Parallel Processing 2008. September 8–12, Portland, Oregon, USA (ICPP08).
• Shifted Declustering: An Ideal-placement Layout Scheme for Multi-way Replication Storage Architecture, with Huijun Zhu and Peng Gu, the 22nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS08). June 7–12, 2008 Island of Kos, Aegean Sea, Greece.
• Peng Gu, Jun Wang, and Hailong Cai, ASAP: An Advertisement-based Search Algorithm for Unstructured Peer-to-peer Systems. The 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2007), September 2007, Xi’an, China.
• RIMAC: A Redundancy-based, Hierarchical Cache Architecture for Energy-efficient Storage Systems, with Xiaoyu Yao, the 1st ACM EuroSys conference (EuroSys2006),pp249-262, April 2006, Belgium.
• Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems, with Peng Gu, Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang, ACM/IEEE CCGrid2006, April 2006, Singapore.
• Xiaoyu Yao and Jun Wang. Toward Effective NIC Caching: A Hierarchical Data Cache Architecture for iSCSI Storage Servers, in Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005), pp 492-499, June 2005, Oslu, Norway.
• Foreseer: A Novel, Locality-Aware Peer-to-peer System Architecture for Keyword Searches, with Hailong Cai, in Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2004), Oct. 19-23th, 2004, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• EERAID: Energy-efficient Redundant And Inexpensive Disk Array, with Dong Li, in Proceedings of 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, September 20-22, 2004, Leuven, Belgium.
• WOLF -- A Novel Reordering Write Buffer for Log-structured File System, with Yiming Hu, in USENIX Conference Proceedings on File And Storage Technologies (FAST’02), pp 47-61, Jan. 28-30, 2002, Monterey, California.