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The following collection of news items are in reverse chronological order.
- 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:
- Nov 17: "Hippie Geeks Threaten Supercomputing Masculinity" in The Register.
- May: "When Data Centers Lose Their Cool" in Government Computer News .
- Februrary: "New Frontiers in High-End Computing" in Government Computer News.
- January/February: "The Megascale-Processor Machine: Does It Compute?," Genome Technology: Inside Integrated Biology. http://www.genome-technology.com
- 2005:
- 16 Dec: The 10-Gigabit Ethernet work of the RADIANT team is featured in Researchers Find 10-Gigabit Ethernet As Speedy As Customized Interconnects in Government Computer News.
- 18 Nov: Feng moderates two panels at SC|05: The Six-Million Processor System and Tour de HPCycles.
- 15 Nov: Hsu and Feng present "A Power-Aware Run-Time System for High-Performance Computing" at ACM/IEEE SC|05.
- 2 Sep: "Los Alamos Gets EnergyFit" in HPCwire.
- 29 Aug: mpiBLAST receives a mention in "Seven Cheers for Technology" in The Scientist.
- 22 Aug: Green Destiny lives on in " Power Play: The Search for Energy-Efficient Chips" in ComputerWorld.
- 18 Aug: Feng serves on an "Ethernet vs. Ethernot" panel at IEEE Hot Interconnects. Click here for the slides.
- 5 May: The RADIANT team's software research on 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter receives an "Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer" from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC).
- 5 May: Green Destiny & mpiBLAST receive a combined "Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer" from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC).
- 4 Apr: Feng delivers the keynote speech at the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing --- " The Evolution of Power-Aware, High-Performance Computing: From the Datacenter to the Desktop"
- 16 Mar: Ayyorgun et al. publish " Q-Composer and CpR: A Probabilistic Synthesizer and Regulator of Traffic" in INFOCOM 2005.
- 15 Jan: Genome Technology does a feature article on mpiBLAST.
- 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:
- 19 Nov: Feng et al. present "Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study" at ACM/IEEE SC2003.
- 15 Oct: Best Paper: "CHEETAH: Circuit-Switched High-Speed End-to-End Transport ArcHitecture" at the 4th SPIE/IEEE Optical Networking and Computer Communications Conference (Opticomm).
- 7 Jul: Our Internet2 Land Speed Record is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records.
- 1 Jul: Green Destiny, a 240-node supercomputing cluster in 6 square ft. that sips only 3.2 kW of power, wins an R&D 100 Award.
- 29 Jun: "Los Alamos Lends Open-Source Hand to Life Sciences" in The Register.
- 26 Jun: Best Paper: "The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of mpiBLAST" at ClusterWorld Conference & Expo.
- 15 May: "MAGNET: A Tool for Debugging, Analysis and Adaptation in Computing Systems" is presented at the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2003).
- 23 Apr: "MUSE: A Software Oscilloscope for Clusters and Grids" is presented at the 17th IEEE Int'l Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium.
- 23 Jan: The MAGNET User-Space Environment (MUSE) is now available.
- 2002:
- 6 Nov: The Monitoring Apparatus for Generic kerNel Event Tracing (MAGNET) toolkit is released.
- 17 May: Supercomputing in Small Spaces project launched..
- 11 January: DRS kernel patch released.
- 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".
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