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Current Members

  • Dr. Wang
  • Current Students: 
    • Saba Sehrish (Beginning Fall 2007) Master program under Dr. Mark Heinrich's supervision)
    • Pengju Shang (Beginning Fall 2007)
    • Grant Mackey (Beginning Fall 2008) (joint appointment with Los Alamos National Lab)
    • Christopher Mitchell (Beginning Fall 2008) (joint appointment with Los Alamos National Lab)
    • Lu Cheng (Beginning Fall 2009)
    • Zhengkai Wu (Beginning Fall 2009)
    • Junyao Zhang (Beginning Fall 2009)
    • Sandesh Shankarappa (Beginning January 2009)
    • Mao Ye (Beginning Summer 2009)

If you are interested in our research program, please contact us.

 

Alumni

  • Huijun Zhu, Master in Fall 2008.
  • Peng Gu, PhD in Summer 2008, Thesis: Metadata and Data Management in High-performance File and Storage Systems; First employment after graduation: Microsoft.
  • Xiaoyu Yao, PhD in Spring 2007, Thesis: Improving Performance and Energy-efficiency in Storage Server Systems; First employment after graduation: Microsoft.
  • Dong Li, PhD in Summer 2006, Thesis: High Performance Energy-efficient File and Storage Systems; First employment after graduation: Pillar Data Systems.
  • Hailong Cai, PhD in Summer 2006, Thesis: Self-organization and Content Location for Data Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems; First employment after graduation: Google Inc.
  • Jeffrey Gerard, BS with distinction in Spring 2006.
  • Brandon Smith, UNL UCARE project 2005.
  • Tallman Tyler, UNL UCARE project 2006.
  • Matthew Landowski, UCF 2006.
  • Matthew Beiser, UCF 2006.
  • Dr. Kening Zhang, Research Associate, 2008 (Ph.D. program under Dr. Ron DeMara's supervision).
  • Johnny Morris, Master, Spring 2009

Group News

Current Research Projects

 

·       Fast Recovery Using Optimal and Near-Optimal Parallelism in Data-Intensive Computing (NSF) sole PI.

 

·       Energy-efficient, high performance storage array systems (NSF) sole PI.

 

·       A Lightweight, High-performance I/O Management Package for Data-intensive Computing (DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award) sole PI.

 

                  I.    An Allocation Year 2009 award, AY 2009 runs from January 13, 2009 through January 11, 2010.

The MPP award is:       50,000 Cray XT4-equivalent MPP hours for repository m827

The HPSS award is:         500 SRUs for repository m827

 

·       HEC: Collaborative Research: SAM^2 Toolkit: Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management for High-End Computing (NSF) w/ Prof. Jiang from Nebraska, etc.

 

 

Past Research Projects

·       Collaborative Research: Energy conservation in storage systems using coding techniques (NSF) w/ Prof. Varman from Rice.

·       An NERSC Allocation Year 2008 Startup award,  AY 2008 runs from January 8, 2008 through January 12, 2009, enable our group to experiment with supercomputers such as Franklin (19,320-processor Opteron MPP/Lustre), Jacquard (712-CPU Opteron Linux cluster/GPFS) (DOE). 

·       An I/O buffer cache architecture for RDMA (NSF)

  • Caching and Searching in Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • UCFS -- A User-space, High Performance, Custom File System for Web Proxy Servers
  • WOLF -- A Novel Reorder Write Buffer for log-structured File System
  • PROFS -- Data Placement Scheduling for Log-structured File System on Multi-Zone Disks  

 

Facilities

 

·       A New 16-node Dell Power-edge 1950 cluster, per node Dual Dual-core Intel Xeon Processor, 4 GB memory, 2 500/144 GB SATA/SAS hard drives

·       A data archive center for SEECS Data warehouse project, including two Dell storage servers and four PowerVault MD1000 Storage Trays (20 TB capacity)

·       Seven Dell precision 690 workstations

·       An 8-SCSI-Disk RAID System

·       A HP/Agilent 34970A System

 

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