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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

On the Robust Mapping of Dynamic Programming onto a Graphics Processing Unit.
Shucai Xiao, Ashwin M. Aji, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Shenzhen, China, To appear December 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Delivering Designer Images for K-12 Pedagogy.
Mark K. Gardner, Adam Herr, David Mazary, Heshan Lin, Thomas Scogland, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI), Research Triangle Park, NC, October 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
GePSeA: A General-Purpose Software Acceleration Framework for Lightweight Task Offloading.
Ajeet Singh, Pavan Balaji, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Vienna, Austria, September 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Energy-Efficient Cluster Computing via Accurate Workload Characterization.
Song Huang, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Shanghai, China, May 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
On the Energy Efficiency of Graphics Processing Units for Scientific Computing.
Song Huang, Shucai Xiao, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (in conjunction with the 23rd International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), Rome, Italy, May 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Multi-Dimensional Characterization of Temporal Data Mining on Graphics Processors.
Jeremy Archuleta, Yong Cao, Tom Scogland, Wu-chun Feng.
In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
The Green500 List: Year One.
Wu-chun Feng, Tom Scogland.
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (in conjunction with the 23rd International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), Rome, Italy, May 2009.
BibTeX Paper (PDF)
Network Interface Cards as First-Class Citizens.
Wu-chun Feng, Pavan Balaji, Ajeet Singh.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on the Influence of I/O on Microprocessor Architecture, Raleigh, NC, February 2009.
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.