News
The following collection of news items are in reverse
chronological order.
- 2009
- 2008
- 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.
- 10/31/08:
SURA IP2M Award
Feng and Huang win the
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
"Intellectual Property to Market" (IP2M) competition
for their entry EcoDaemon: Power-Aware Systems Software.
The invention ranked first among submissions from 60+ research
institutes in the Southeast as well as U. Maryland
and MIT. See the
VT
news release.
- 10/08/08:
Program Co-Chair for 5th IEEE HPPAC
Feng was selected as program co-chair, along with Laurent
Lefevre of INRIA, for the
5th IEEE Workshop on
High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC), which
will occur on May 25, 2009.
- 09/01/08:
IBM Faculty Award
Feng receives IBM faculty award for his innovations in large scale bioinformatics.
- 08/18/08:
Workshops Chair for IEEE Cluster 2009
Feng was selected as the Workshops Chair for the
11th International
Conference on Cluster Computing, which will be held
on September 4, 2009 in New Orleans, LA.
- 08/02/08:
Multiple Papers Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC|08
Feng has an accepted paper, co-authored with collaborators from
NCSU, ANL, and IBM, entitled Massively Parallel Genomic
Sequence Search on the Blue Gene/P Architecture, which will
appear in
ACM/IEEE SC|08
in Austin, TX on Nov. 17-21, 2008. Scogland and Feng also
have an accepted paper, co-authored with ANL, entitled
Asymmetric Interactions in Symmetric Multi-core Systems.
- 08/01/08:
CREU Award From CRA-W and CDC
Feng and Undergraduate students, Martinez and Gomez receive award
for collaborative research experience for undergraduates(CREU) for a
proposal entitled "Virtual Ecosystems for K-12 Pedagogy in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics". This award was sponsored by
the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women
in Computing Research(CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing.
- 08/01/08:
New NSF Grant Awarded in Green Computing
Synergy lab receives NSF CISE grant for Metrics And Methodologies for High Performance System Energy Benchmarking
- 07/31/08:
Paper Accepted to IEEE BIBE 2008
Aji and Feng have an accepted paper entitled Optimizing
Performance, Cost, and Sensitivity in Pairwise Sequence Search
on a Cluster of PlayStations, which will appear in the
IEEE
International Conference on BioInformatics & BioEngineering
in Athens, Greece on Oct. 8-10, 2008.
- 06/28/08:
IBM Faculty Award
Feng received an IBM Faculty Award
for innovations in large-scale bioinformatics, as exemplified by
mpiBLAST
and recent parallel transformations
to bioinformatics codes on emerging chip multiprocessing
platforms such as the
Cell and GPGPU.
- 06/22/08:
Workshops Co-Chair for ICPP 2009
Feng was selected as the Workshops Co-Chair, along with
Leonard Barolli of Fukuoka Institute of Technology, for the
, which
will be held September 22-25, 2009 in Vienna, Austria.
- 06/01/08:
ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award
Archuleta and Feng have an accepted paper, co-authored with an
international team of collaborators, entitled Distributed I/O with
ParaMEDIC: Experiences with a Worldwide Supercomputer, that has
been bestowed the ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award and will be
presented at the International Supercomputing Conference
(ISC) in Dresden, Germany on June 15-20, 2008.
- 05/22/08:
Accepted Talk at the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Feng, along with collaborators from IBM and North Carolina State
University, have been invited to present the following talk at
ISMB 2008 in Toronto, Canada on July 19-23, 2008: Next Generation
of Selected Bioinformatics Applications: Using Massively Parallel
Supercomputers.
- 04/11/08:
Paper Accepted to ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing
Feng has an accepted paper, co-authored with Balaji and Lin of
Argonne National Laboratory and North Carolina State University,
respectively, entitled
Semantic-based Distributed
I/O with the ParaMEDIC Framework, which will appear in the
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed
Computing in Boston, MA on June 23-27, 2008.
- 03/12/08:
Paper Accepted to ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
Aji and Feng have an accepted paper, co-authored with
Blagojevic and Nikolopoulos of Virginia Tech, entitled
Cell-SWat: Modeling and Scheduling Wavefront Computations on the
Cell Broadband Engine, which will appear in the ACM
International Conference on Computing Frontiers in Ischia, Italy
on May 5-7, 2008.
- 02/14/08:
Narayanaswamy Receives Outstanding M.S. Student Award
The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech selected
Ganesh Narayanaswamy as the Outstanding
M.S. Student of 2008.
- 01/24/08:
Paper Accepted to IEEE IPDPS Workshop on High-Performance,
Power-Aware Computing
Huang and Feng have an accepted paper, co-authored with Yan Luo (U.
Massachusetts), entitled "Modeling and Analysis of Power in Multicore
Network Processors," which will appear in the IEEE IPDPS Workshop on High-Performance, Power-
Aware Computing in Miami, FL on April 14, 2008.
- 01/21/08:
Feature Article on Green Computing in IT Professional
Feng et al. land the "Cover Feature" article for the January/February
2008 issue of IT Professional with an article entitled Green Supercomputing Comes of Age.
- 01/01/08:
The Synergy Lab Receives NSF Grant for Genome Sequencing
with a SmartNIC
Wu Feng, director of the Synergy Lab at Virginia Tech, and Gerald
Sabin of RNet Technologies received a National Science Foundation
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant of $150,000 for the
first phase of a research project entitled Network Offloading for
Genome Sequence Searching using the SmartNIC.
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