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Welcome to the Systems, Networking & Renaissance Grokking ( Synergy

) Laboratory at Virginia Tech. The Synergy Lab, previously known as RADIANT, moved to Virginia Tech from Los Alamos National Laboratory in January 2006. The SyNeRGy Lab is now part of Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and is affiliated with the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC).

The following three projects are associated with the SyNeRGy Laboratory:
http://www.green500.org	http://www.mpiblast.org	http://sss.cs.vt.edu

Recent Publications

Making a Case for Proactive Flow Control in Optical Circuit-Switched Networks.
Mithilesh Kumar, Vineeta Chaube, Pavan Balaji, Wu-Chun Feng, Hyun-Wook Jin.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC), Bangalore, India, December 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Massively Parallel Genomic Sequence Search on the Blue Gene/P Architecture.
Heshan Lin, Pavan Balaji, Ruth Poole, Carlos Sosa, Xiaosong Ma, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC|08: The International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Austin, Texas, November 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Asymmetric Interactions in Symmetric Multi-core Systems: Analysis, Enhancements and Evaluation.
Thomas Scogland, Pavan Balaji, Wu-chun Feng, Ganesh Narayanaswamy.
In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC|08: The International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Austin, Texas, USA, November 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Characterizing and Optimizing Virtualization Overhead for Portable High-performance Networking.
Gabriel Martinez.
In ACM/IEEE SC|08: The International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Austin, Texas, USA, November 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Optimizing Performance, Cost, and Sensitivity in Pairwise Sequence Search on a Cluster of PlayStations.
Ashwin Aji, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Athens, Greece, October 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Impact of Network Sharing in Multi-core Architectures.
Ganesh, Narayanaswamy, Pavan Balaji, Wu-Chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Semantic-based Distributed I/O with the ParaMEDIC Framework.
Pavan Balaji, Wu-chun Feng, Heshan Lin.
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Towards a Virtual Ecosystem for K-8 Education.
Mark Gardner, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI), Research Triangle Park, NC, May 2008.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)

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Recent News

(05/15/09)
Aji Receives Outstanding M.S. Student Award
The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech selected Ashwin Aji as the Outstanding M.S. Student of 2009.
(04/15/09)
3 Papers Accepted to IPDPS and Associated Workshops
The Synergy Lab has an accepted paper to the IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) entitled Multi-Dimensional Characterization of Temporal Data Mining on Graphics Processors as well as two papers in the Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC).
(04/15/09)
Paper Accepted to IEEE CCGrid
Huang and Feng have an accepted paper entitled Energy-Efficient Cluster Computing Via Accurate Workload Characterization, which will appear in the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid in Shanghai, China on May. 18-21, 2009.
(04/14/09)
NDSEG Fellowship Award
Scogland receives prestigious fellowship from the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship program through the American Society for Engineering Education.
(04/01/09)
MAOP Award
Addesa was awarded an undergraduate summer research award by the Virginia Tech Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP).
(12/22/08)
Featured on /.
The SyMMer research of Scogland et al., which was recently published and presented at ACM/IEEE SC|08, was featured on /.
(12/01/08)
Paper Accepted to HiPC
Feng has an accepted paper entitled Making a Case for Proactive Flow Control in Optical Circuit-Switched Networks, which will appear in the 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing in Bangalore, India, December 2008.
(11/20/08)
SC|08 Best Undergraduate Poster Award
Martinez, a CS junior, wins the ACM Student Research Competition at SC|08 for his poster entitled Characterizing and Optimizing Virtual Machines for High-Performance Networking with Gardner and Feng. Here is a high-resolution picture of Gabriel and the poster.
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Our research is supported by
NSF, RNet Technologies, IBM, AMD, NVIDIA, Eli Lilly & Company, SURA, and the Virgnia Tech Foundation.