 |
 |
|||||||
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CHECS News
CHECS building world's largest power-aware research cluster. We have recently taken delivery of the components necessary to assemble a new cluster dedicated to high-end computing systems research, with a particular emphasis on power-aware systems. The system consists of 324 Mac Pro towers, with each node containing dual quad core 2.8GHz Xeon processors for a total of 2,592 cores. The system interconnect is a quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand network, making this the first large-scale cluster to employ QDR. In addition to work in power-aware systems, the cluster will support a wide range of basic and applied high-end computing research, including projects in transparent distributed shared memory systems and high-performance distributed storage systems, and collaborations with computational scientists and engineers. The cluster is funded in part by significant support from NSF and from Virginia Tech's College of Engineering.
ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award. Wu Feng and Jeremy Archuleta 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 named recipient of the ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award. The paper will be presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden, Germany on June 15-20, 2008.
Congratulations to Ali Butt on being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The $400,000 award will support research on “A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for High-Performance Data Storage.” See this article on the CS department website for more information.
A team lead by Wu Feng was named winner of the SC07 Storage Challenge yesterday. The project, titled ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing, also involved VT PhD student Jeremy Archuleta and collaborators Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) and Heshan Lin (North Carolina State Univeristy). See this VT news article for more details.
Dimitris Nikolopoulos and Cal Ribbens are organizing a workshop on "Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems" (PPABS). Jose Moreira (IBM) serves as the third co-organizer of this workshop, to be held February 23 in Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'08). See the PPABS homepage for more details.
CHECS News Archive...
July 21, 2008
CHECS building world's largest power-aware research cluster. We have recently taken delivery of the components necessary to assemble a new cluster dedicated to high-end computing systems research, with a particular emphasis on power-aware systems. The system consists of 324 Mac Pro towers, with each node containing dual quad core 2.8GHz Xeon processors for a total of 2,592 cores. The system interconnect is a quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand network, making this the first large-scale cluster to employ QDR. In addition to work in power-aware systems, the cluster will support a wide range of basic and applied high-end computing research, including projects in transparent distributed shared memory systems and high-performance distributed storage systems, and collaborations with computational scientists and engineers. The cluster is funded in part by significant support from NSF and from Virginia Tech's College of Engineering.
May 23, 2008
ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award. Wu Feng and Jeremy Archuleta 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 named recipient of the ISC'08 Distinguished Paper Award. The paper will be presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden, Germany on June 15-20, 2008.
January 18, 2008
Congratulations to Ali Butt on being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The $400,000 award will support research on “A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for High-Performance Data Storage.” See this article on the CS department website for more information.
November 16, 2007
A team lead by Wu Feng was named winner of the SC07 Storage Challenge yesterday. The project, titled ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing, also involved VT PhD student Jeremy Archuleta and collaborators Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) and Heshan Lin (North Carolina State Univeristy). See this VT news article for more details.
November 10, 2007
Dimitris Nikolopoulos and Cal Ribbens are organizing a workshop on "Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems" (PPABS). Jose Moreira (IBM) serves as the third co-organizer of this workshop, to be held February 23 in Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'08). See the PPABS homepage for more details.
CHECS News Archive...
© 2006 Virginia Tech