News
The following collection of news items are in reverse
chronological order.
- 2008:
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June 01:
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.
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May 22:
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.
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April 22:
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.
12 Mar:
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.
- 14 Feb:
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.
- 21 Jan:
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.
- 24 Jan:
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.
- 1 Jan:
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.”
2007:
- 10 Dec: Feature Article on Green Computing in IEEE Computer
Feng et al. land the "Cover Feature" article for the December 2007
issue of IEEE Computer with an article entitled The Green500 List: Encouraging
Sustainable Supercomputing.
- 15 Nov:
The article entitled "The Green500 List: Encouraging Sustainable Supercomputing" will appear in the December 2007 issue of IEEE Computer next month. The authors of the paper are Wu Feng and Kirk Cameron. A flyer for the article is available here.
- 15 Nov:
The Synergy Lab at VT, in collaboration with Argonne National Lab (ANL), landed the SC|07 Storage Challenge Award at SC|07 in Reno, NV for their entry entitled ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing. The team included Pavan Balaji (ANL), Wu Feng and Jeremy Archuleta (VT), and Heshan Lin (NCSU). The official press release for the awardees can be found here.
- 15 Nov:
The first installment of the Green500 List was announced at the VT booth at SC|07 in Reno, NV. The Green500 List ranks the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and serves as a complement to the Top500 List.
- 10 Nov:
Green500 media coverage reports:
- 30 Oct:
Official Launch of Green500 List Announced. The Green500 List will officially debut at SC|07 in November. Its purpose will be to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, and hopefully, shift the focus of supercomputer design to adopt a more energy-efficient and power- efficient approach. The Green500 List is intended to serve as a complement to the TOP500 List. For more information, see the following news story.
- 29 Aug:
Archuleta and Feng will be one of the four finalists in the SC|07 Storage Challenge. The entry, in collaboration with Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Lab), is entitled : "ParaMEDIC: Parallel Meta-data Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing".
- 28 Aug:
Feng awarded with a prestigious IBM Faculty Award. As noted by IBM, these awards are internationally competitive, and candidates are required to have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field. For additional information, see the following VT News Story.
- 22 Aug:
Narayanaswamy and Feng have a paper co-authored with Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Lab) titled "An Analysis of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Protocol Stacks in Multicore Environments" at HotI 2007 (IEEE Hot Interconnects) in Palo Alto, CA.
- 15 Aug:
Archuleta awarded an interdisciplinary fellowship from the Institute for
Critical Technology and Applied Science to pursue his PhD studies
at Virginia Tech.
- 02 Jun:
Archuleta, Feng and Tilevich have a paper titled A Pluggable Framework for Parallel Pairwise Sequence Search describing the new computational framework for mpiBLAST at the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2007) and will be presented in Lyon, France in August.
- 01 Jun:
Archuleta, Tlievich and Feng have a paper titled A Maintainable Software Architecture for Fast and Modular Bioinformatics Sequence Search describing the new software architecture for mpiBLAST-2.0 at the 23rd IEEE International Conference for Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007) and will be presented at the conference in Paris, France in October.
2006:
2005:
2004:
- 19 Oct: The Intel
and
the RADIANT team at LANL receive an R&D 100 Award for 10-Gigabit
Ethernet: Speed Really Changes Everything.
- 19 Oct: The
RADIANT team
receives an R&D 100 Award for mpiBLAST: A High-Speed
Software Catalyst for Genetic Research.
- 17 Aug: Feng
moderates a
panel on "Grids: Hype, Substance, or Renaissance" at the 33rd
International Conference on Parallel Processing.
- 24 Jun: Feng
&
Hsu receive the "Innovative Supercomputer Architecture Award" at the International
Supercomputer Conference for their work on "Green Destiny and its
Evolving Parts.
- 18 Mar:
Feng
is named to HPCwire's
Top People & Organizations to Watch List.
- 15 Mar: The
RADIANT
team, as part of a multi-institutional collaboration, receives an "On
the Road to a Gigabit Award" for the Ultralight Partnership Sponsored
by CENIC and Cal-(IT)2.
2003:
2002:
2001:
- 11 December: Our
RLX
cluster at SC 2001 was mentioned in an RLX press release and a Linuxgram article.
- 10 November: Mike Warren
and RADIANT, in conjunction with RLX Technologies,
demonstrated a fully populated RLX System 324 cluster running a
10-million N-Body simulation at SC
2001. Click here
for pictures.
- 31 October:The
NPACI
& SDSC Online, Volume 5, Issue 22 press release, "The
10-Gig Experience Comes to SDSC", announces our talk on
research directions in High-Performance Networking.
- 19 October The
news
release, "SDSC to Host NSF-Sponsored 10-Gigabit Ethernet Workshop",
announces our talk on research directions in High-Performance
Networking. It is available from:
- 1 August The Byte
Magazine coverage of SC 2000, "Report
from SC 2000, page 4", talks about our paper "The
Failure of TCP in High-Performance Computational Grids".
