All news in reverse-chronological order

• 2024
  • 04/12/24 : Submission Accepted to IPDPS 2024 Congratulations to Niteya Shah and Wu Feng for getting their submission accepted into the Ph.D. Forum at the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) to be held May 27-31, 2024 in San Francisco, California, USA. 
  • 02/22/24 : Paper Accepted to CF24 Congratulations to Wu Feng for getting his paper — BLP: Block-Level Pipelining for GPUs — accepted for publication at the 21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF' 24) to be held in Ischia, Italy on May 7-9, 2024.
  • 01/31/24 : Paper Accepted to IPDPS 2024 Congratulations to Niteya Shah and Wu Feng, in collaboration with Christine Sweeney, Vinay Ramakrishnaiah, and Jeffrey Donatelli of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for getting their paper — Optimizing and Scaling the 3D Reconstruction of Single-Particle Imaging — accepted for publication at the 38th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS) to be held in San Francisco, California, on May 27-31, 2024.
• 2023
  • 04/03/23 : Paper Accepted to CF 23 Congratulations to Wu Feng, Xuewen Cui and Thomas Scogland, in collaboration with Bronis de Supinski of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for getting their paper — BLP: Block-Level Data Pipelining for GPUs — accepted for publication at the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in Bologna, Italy, on May 9-11, 2023.
• 2022
  • 09/22/22 : Outstanding Student Paper Awards at HPEC 2022 Congratulations to Karim Youssef and Niteya Shah, for getting their papers — Optimizing Performance and Storage of Memory-Mapped Persistent Data Structures and AutoPager: Auto-tuning Memory-Mapped I/O Parameters in Userspace — recognized with Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2022 IEEE High-Performance Extereme Computing Conference. Their work was highlighted in CS@VT departmental news.
  • 08/17/22 : Paper Accepted to HPEC 2022 Congratulations to Karim Youssef and Wu Feng, in collaboration with Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam, Keita Iwabuchi, and Roger Pearce of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for getting their paper — Optimizing Performance and Storage of Memory-Mapped Persistent Data Structures — accepted for publication at the 2022 IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference to be virtually held in Waltham, MA on September 19-23, 2022.
  • 08/17/22 : Paper Accepted to HPEC 2022 Congratulations to Niteya Shah, Karim Youssef and Wu Feng, in collaboration with Maya Gokhale and Roger Pearce of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for getting their paper — AutoPager: Auto-tuning Memory-Mapped I/O Parameters in Userspace — accepted for publication at the 2022 IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference to be virtually held in Waltham, MA on September 19-23, 2022.
• 2021
• 2020
  • 10/05/20 : Paper Accepted to Journal of Signal Processing Systems Cui and Feng have their paper — IterML: Iterative Machine Learning for Intelligent Parameter Pruning and Tuning in Graphics Processing Units — accepted for publication in the Journal of Signal Processing Systems.
  • 08/05/20 : Paper Accepted HPEC 2020 Feng, D Zhang, J Zhang, Hou, Pumma, and Wang for getting their paper — A Feasibility Study for MPI over HDFS — accepted for publication at the 24th IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) Conference to be held virtually in Waltham, MA on 21-25 September 2020. http://www.ieee-hpec.org
  • 05/19/20 : Paper Accepted to FPL 2020 Gondhalekar and Feng have their paper — Exploring FPGA Optimizations in OpenCL for Breadth-First Search on Sparse Graph Datasets — accepted for publication at the 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, to be held virtually in Gothenburg, Sweden in August-September 2020.
  • 02/06/20 : Paper Accepted to CCGrid 2020 Pumma and Feng, in collaboration with Buono, Checconi, and Que of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, have their paper — Alleviating Load Imbalance in Data Processing for Large-Scale Deep Learning — accepted for publication into the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) to be held in Melbourne, Australia in May 2020.
• 2019
  • 03/06/19 : Paper Accepted to ACM CF 2019 Cui and Feng have their paper — Iterative Machine Learning (IterML) for Effective Parameter Pruning and Tuning in Accelerators — accepted for publication in the 16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy in April-May 2019.
• 2018
  • 12/15/18 : Paper Accepted to Scientific Reports Dash and Feng, in collaboration with Anandakrishnan, Kinney, Varghese, and Garner of VCOM at Virginia Tech, have their paper — Differentiating Between Cancer and Normal Tissue Samples Using Multi-Hit Combinations of Genetic Mutations — accepted for publication into Scientific Reports (A Nature Research Journal). The 2017 journal metrics — 2-year impact factor: 4.122 and 5-year impact factor: 4.609.
  • 10/31/18 : Paper Accepted to HPC Asia 2019 Sathre, Gardner, and Feng, have their paper — On the Portability of GPU-Accelerated Applications via Automated Source-to-Source Translation — accepted for publication at HPC Asia: International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region to be held in Guangzhou, China in January 2019.
  • 10/05/18 : Papers Accepted to ReConFig 2018 Three papers — A Composable Workflow for Productive Heterogeneous Computing on FPGAs via Whole-Program Analysis and Transformation by Sathre, Helal, and Feng; Accelerating High-Performance Computing Workloads on FPGAs via OpenCL by Verma, Krommydas, and Feng; and Exploring FPGA-specific Optimizations for Irregular OpenCL Applications by Hassan, Helal, and Feng, in collaboration with Athanas and Hanafy of ECE — have been accepted for publication at the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig) to be held in Cancun, Mexico on December 3-5, 2018.
  • 09/14/18 : Poster Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC | 18 Cui and Feng, in collaboration with Scogland and de Supinski of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have their poster — Performance Evaluation of the NVIDIA Tesla V100: Block Level Pipelining vs. Kernel Level Pipelining %#8212; accepted for publication at SC|18: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA in November 2018.
  • 05/14/18 : Paper Accepted to ICPP 2018 Krommydas, Sathre, and Feng, in collaboration with Sasanka of Intel, have their paper — A Framework for Auto-Parallelization and Code Generation: An Integrative Case Study with Legacy FORTRAN Codes — accepted for publication at the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing to be held in Eugene, OR in August 2018.
  • 03/09/18 : Papers Accepted to ACM CF 2018 Zhang, Wang, and Feng, in collaboration with Aji and Chu of AMD, have their paper — Taming Irregular Applications via Dynamic Parallelism: How Far Have We Come? — accepted for publication in the 15th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF’18) to be held in Ischia, Italy, May 2018. Likewise, Dutta, Adhinarayanan, and Feng, have their paper — GPU Power Prediction via Ensemble Machine Learning for DVFS Space Exploration — accepted for publication in the 15th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF’18) to be held in Ischia, Italy, May 2018.
  • 03/06/18 : Paper Accepted to HPPAC 2018 Adhinarayanan, Dutta, and Feng, have their paper — Making a Case for Green High-Performance Visualization via Embedded Graphics Processors — accepted for publication in the 14th Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC'18) to be held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2018.
  • 02/13/18 : Paper Accepted to Journal of Signal Processing Systems Yu, Wang, Feng, in collaboration Gong and Cao of Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, have their paper — GPU-Based Iterative Medical CT Image Reconstructions — accepted for publication into Journal of Signal Processing Systems.
• 2017
  • 12/28/17 : Paper Accepted to IEEE TPDS Hou, Wang, and Feng, have their paper — A Framework for the Automatic Vectorization of Parallel Sort on x86-based Processors — accepted for publication in a future issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
  • 12/14/17 : Paper Accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2018 Hou, Wang, and Feng, in collaboration with Vetter and Lee of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have their paper — Highly Efficient Compensation-based Parallelism for Wavefront Loops on GPUs — accepted for publication in the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in May 2018.
  • 10/12/17 : Paper Accepted to IEEE BigData 2017 Yu, Hou, Wang, and Feng have their paper — Robotomata: A Framework for Approximate Pattern Matching of Big Data on an Automata Processor — accepted as a regular paper at the IEEE Big Data to be held in Boston, MA, USA on December 11-14, 2017.
  • 09/04/17 : Poster Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC | 17 Cui, and Feng, in collaboration with Scogland, de Supinski, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have their poster — Performance Evaluation of the NVIDIA Tesla P100: Our Directive-Based Partitioning and Pipelining vs. NVIDIA’s Unified Memory — accepted for publication at SC|17: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis to be held in Denver, Colorado, USA in November 2017.
  • 09/01/17 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ICPADS 2017 Pumma, and Feng, in collaboration with Si and Balaji at Argonne National Laboratory have their paper — Parallel I/O Optimizations for Scalable Deep Learning — accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) to be held in Shenzhen, China in December 2017.
  • 08/17/17 : Papers Accepted to IEEE HPCC 2017 Pumma, and Feng, in collaboration with Si and Balaji at Argonne National Laboratory have their paper — Towards Scalable Deep Learning via I/O Analysis and Optimization — accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2017. Likewise, Dash, Verma, and Feng, in collaboration with Prof. Chris North of CS@VT, for getting their paper — Portable Parallel Design of Weighted Multi-Dimensional Scaling for Real-Time Data Analysis — accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2017
  • 08/17/17 : Best Paper Finalist at IEEE HPCC 2017 Dash, Verma, and Feng, in collaboration with Prof. Chris North of CS@VT, have their paper — Portable Parallel Design of Weighted Multi-Dimensional Scaling for Real-Time Data Analysis — selected as one of five Best Paper Finalists at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2017.
  • 08/01/17 : Poster Accepted to IEEE IISWC 2017 Yu, Hou, Wang, and Feng have their poster — A Framework for Fast and Fair Evaluation of Automata Processing Hardware — accepted for publication into the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), to be held in Seattle, WA in October 2017.
  • 08/01/17 : Paper Accepted to IEEE IISWC 2017 Helal and Feng, in collaboration with Jung (CS@VT) and Hanafy (ECE@VT), have their paper — An Automated Framework for Relative Performance Estimation and Workload Distribution on Heterogeneous HPC Systems — accepted for publication in the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) to be held in Seattle, WA in October 2017.
  • 04/02/17 : Papers Accepted to ICS 2017 Hou, Wang, and Feng, in collaboration with Liu at Niels Bohr Institute have their paper — Fast Segmented Sort on GPUs — accepted for publication in the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) to be held in Chicago, IL in June 2017. Likewise, Yu and Feng, in collaboration with Nourian, Wang, and Becchi at the University of Missouri, also have their paper — Demystifying Automata Processing: GPUs, FPGAs or Micron’s AP? — accepted for publication in the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) to be held in Chicago, IL in June 2017.
  • 03/14/17 : Papers Accepted to ACM Computing Frontiers 2017 Hou, Wang, and Feng have their paper — GPU-UniCache: Automatic Code Generation of Spatial Blocking for Stencils on GPUs — accepted for publication in the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in Siena, Italy in May 2017. Likewise, Yu, Wang, and Feng, in collaboration with Gong and Cao at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, also have their paper — An Enhanced Image Reconstruction Tool for Computed Tomography on GPUs — accepted for publication in the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in Siena, Italy in May 2017.
  • 02/21/17 : Paper Accepted to AsHES 2017 Kaixi and Feng, in collaboration with Che at AMD, have their paper — Auto-Tuning Strategies for Parallelizing Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) Multiplication on Multi- and Many-Core Processors — accepted for publication in the 7th International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) to be held in Orlando, Florida in May 2017.
  • 01/09/17 : Papers Accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2017 Adhinarayanan and Feng, in collaboration with Rogers, Ahrens, and Pakin at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have their paper — Characterizing and Modeling Energy for Extreme-Scale In-Situ Visualization — and Cui and Feng, in collaboration with Scogland and de Supinski at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have their paper — Directive-Based Partitioning and Pipelining for Graphics Processing Units and Zhang, Wang, and Feng, in collaboration with Misra at Intel, have their paper — Eliminating Irregularities of Protein Sequence Search on Multicore Architectures and Wang, Zhang, Zhang, Pumma, and Feng have their paper — PaPar: A Parallel Data Partitioning Framework for Big Data Applications — accepted for publication in the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA in May-June 2017.
• 2016
  • 12/10/16 : Poster Accepted to CGO 2017 Verma and Feng have their poster — Accelerating 3D-Structured Grid on FPGAs via OpenCL: A Case Study with OpenDwarfs — accepted into the Student Research Competition (SRC) at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), to be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming in Austin, TX in February 2017.
  • 09/06/16 : Paper Accepted to IEEE HiPC 2016 Krommydas and Feng have their paper — Telescoping Architectures: Evaluating Next-Generation Heterogeneous Computing — accepted for publication in the 23rd IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) to be held in Hyderabad, India in December 2016.
  • 08/11/16 : Paper Accepted to ACM BCB 2016 Feng, in collaboration with Anandakrishnan, Daga, and Onufriev, have their paper — Multiscale Approximation with Graphical Processing Units for Multiplicative Speedup in Molecular Dynamics — accepted for publication in the 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA in October, 2016.
  • 06/28/16 : Paper Accepted to IEEE MASCOTS 2016 Harb and Feng have their paper — Characterizing Performance and Power Towards Efficient Synchronization of GPU Kernels — accepted for publication as a short paper in the IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), to be held in London, England in September 2016.
  • 06/15/16 : Paper Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC|16 Helal, Sathre and Feng have their paper — MetaMorph: A Library Framework for Interoperable Kernels on Multi- and Many-core Clusters — accepted for publication in ACM/IEEE Supercomputing, to be held in Salt Lake City, UT in November 2016.
  • 04/29/16 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ASAP 2016 Krommydas and Feng, in collaboration with Sasanka at Intel, have their paper — Bridging the FPGA Programmability-Portability Gap via Automatic OpenCL Code Generation and Tuning — accepted into the 27th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), to be held in London, England in July 2016.
  • 03/22/16 : Paper Accepted to ICS 2016 Wang, Hou and Feng, in collaboration with Liu at University of Copenhagen, have their paper — Parallel Transposition of Sparse Data Structures — accepted into the 30th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) to be held in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2016.
  • 03/16/16 : Poster Paper Accepted to IEEE FCCM 2016 Krommydas, Helal, Verma, and Feng have their poster — Bridging the Performance-Programmability Gap for FPGAs via OpenCL: A Case Study with OpenDwarfs — accepted for publication into the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, to be held in Washington DC, in May 2016.
  • 01/20/16 : Papers Accepted to IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2016 Adhinarayanan and Feng, in collaboration with Subramaniam at Argonne National Laboratory, have their paper — Online Power Estimation of Graphics Processing Units — and Yu and Feng, in collaboration with Gong and Cao at School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, have their paper — cuART: Fine-Grained Image Reconstruction Algorithm of ART-Based Computed Tomography on GPUs — accepted into the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), to be held in Cartagena, Colombia, in May 2016.
  • 01/19/16 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ISPASS 2016 Adhinarayanan and Feng have their paper — An Automated Framework for Characterizing and Subsetting GPGPU Workloads — accepted into the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), to be held in Uppsala, Sweden, in April 2016.
• 2015
  • 12/18/15 : Paper Accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2016 Hou, Wang and Feng have their paper — AAlign: A SIMD Framework for Pairwise Sequence Alignment on x86-based Multi- and Many-core Processors — accepted into the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), to be held in Chicago, IL, USA in May 2016.
  • 11/04/15 : Paper Accepted to IEEE TIFS Shu, Zhang, Yao and Feng have their paper — Fast Detection of Transformed Data Leaks — accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
  • 09/09/15 : Posters Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC|15 Adhinarayanan and Feng, in collaboration with Ahrens, Pakin, and Rogers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have their poster — Performance, Power, and Energy of In-Situ and Post-Processing Visualization: A Case Study in Climate Simulation — Cui and Feng, in collaboration with de Supinski and Scogland at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have their poster — Directive-Based Pipelining Extension for OpenMP — and A. Feng, Tilevich, and Feng have their poster — PPP: Parallel Programming with Pictures — accepted for publication in ACM/IEEE Supercomputing, to be held in Austin, TX, USA in November, 2015.
  • 09/09/15 : Paper Accepted to IEEE/ACM TCBB Zhang, Wang and Feng have their paper — cuBLASTP: Fine-Grained Parallelization of Protein Sequence Search on CPU+GPU — accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB).
  • 09/01/15 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ICCABS 2015 Zhang, Wang, Hou, Zhang and Feng have their paper — Accelerating InDel Detection on Modern Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture — accepted into the 5th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), to be held in Miami, FL, USA in October, 2015.
  • 05/09/15 : Paper Accepted to ICPP 2015 Krommydas, Sasanka, and Feng have their paper — GLAF: A Visual Programming and Auto-Tuning Framework for Parallel Computing — accepted into the 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) to be held Beijing, China in September, 2015.
  • 04/07/15 : Paper Published in Computers and Fluids 2015 Scogland and Feng in collaboration with lead authors Pickering, Jackson and Roy at the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, have their paper — Directive-Based GPU Programming for Computational Fluid Dynamics— published in Computers and Fluids, 2015.
  • 03/15/15 : Paper Accepted to ICS 2015 Hou, Wang and Feng have their paper — ASPaS: A Framework for Automatic SIMDization of Parallel Sorting on x86-based Many-core Processors — accepted into the 29th International Conference on Supercomputing to be held in Newport Beach, CA, USA in June, 2015.
• 2014
  • 10/16/14 : Paper Accepted to ACM/SPEC ICPE 2015 Scogland and Feng have their paper — Design and Evaluation of Scalable Concurrent Queues for Many-Core Architectures — accepted into the ACM International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) to be held in Austin, TX in January, 2015.
  • 09/30/14 : Paper Accepted to IEEE TPDS Scogland and Feng, in collaboration with de Supinski and Rountree from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have their paper — CoreTSAR: Core Task-Size Adapting Runtime — accepted into the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
  • 09/30/14 : Paper Accepted to ReConFig 2014 Adhinarayanan and Feng, in collaboration with Koehn, Kepa, and Peter Athanas, have their paper — On the Performance and Energy Efficiency of FPGAs and GPUs for Polyphase Channelization — accepted into ReConFig 2014 to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2014.
  • 09/05/14 : Poster Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC|14 Sathre and Feng have their poster — MetaMorph: A Modular Library for Democratizing the Acceleration of Parallel Computing across Heterogeneous Devices — accepted into the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing to be held in New Orleans, LA in November, 2014.
  • 06/28/14 : Poster Accepted to PACT 2014 Scogland and Feng have their poster — Locality-Aware Memory Association for Multi-Target Worksharing in OpenMP — accepted into the 23rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques to be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in August 2014.
  • 6/19/14 : Best Paper Finalist at IEEE ASAP 2014 Krommydas and Feng, in collaboration with Owaida, Antonopoulos, and Bellas, have their paper — On the Portability of OpenCL Dwarfs on Fixed and Reconfigurable Parallel Platforms — selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, held in Zurich, Switzerland in June 2014.
  • 05/08/14 : Paper Accepted to P2S2 2014 Hou, Wang and Feng have their paper — Delivering Parallel Programmability to the Masses via the Intel MIC Ecosystem: A Case Study — accepted into the 7th International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in September, 2014.
  • 04/30/14 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ICCABS 2014 Timoshevskaya and Feng have their paper — SAIS-OPT: On the Characterization and Optimization of the SA-IS Algorithm for Suffix Array Construction — accepted into the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advanced in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) to be held in Miami Beach, FL in June, 2014.
  • 04/13/14 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ASAP 2014 Krommydas and Feng have their paper — On the Portability of OpenCL Dwarfs on Fixed and Reconfigurable Parallel Platforms — accepted into the 25th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP) to be held in Zurich, Switzerland in June, 2014.
  • 03/12/14 : Aji Receives NSF-TCPP Student Travel Grant Aji receives the NSF-TCPP Student Travel Grant to present his thesis to the PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS to be held in Phoenix, AZ in May 2014.
  • 03/10/14 : IEEE IPDPS 2014 Student Travel Awards Scogland and Subramaniam each receives an IPDPS Student Travel Award to present their theses to the PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS 2014 to be held in Phoenix, AZ in May 2014.
  • 03/10/14 : Paper Accepted to ISC 2014 Scogland and Feng in collaboration with Bronis de Supinski and Barry Rountree of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have their paper — CoreTSAR: Adaptive Worksharing for Heterogeneous Systems — accepted into the International Supercomputing Conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany in June 2014.
  • 03/02/14 : Papers Accepted to IEEE/ACM CCGrid Doctoral Symposium 2014 Scogland and Subramaniam have their papers, (1) Runtime Adaptation for Autonomic Heterogeneous Computing — and (2) Metrics, Models and Methodologies for Energy-Proportional Computing — respectively, accepted into the IEEE/ACM CCGrid Doctoral Symposium to be held in Chicago, IL, USA in May 2014.
  • 02/24/14 : Paper Accepted to 5th ACM/SPEC ICPE 2014 Scogland and Feng in collaboration with Steffen at University of Illinois, Wilde at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ), Parent at Calcul Quebec, Coghlan at Argonne National Laboratory, Bates at Energy-Efficient High-Performance Computing Working Group and Strohmaier at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have their paper — A Power-Measurement Methodology for Large-Scale, High-Performance Computing — accepted into the 5th ACM International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), to be held in Dublin, Ireland in March, 2014. The paper is nominated for the "Best Industrial Paper" award.
  • 02/24/14 : Paper Accepted to ACM CF 2014 del Mundo and Feng have their paper — Towards a Performance-Portable FFT Library for Heterogeneous Computing — accepted into the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF) to be held in Cagliari, Italy in May 2014.
  • 02/24/14 : Poster Accepted to GTC 2014 Zhang, Wang, Lin and Feng have their poster — cuBLASTP: Fine-Grained Parallelization of Protein Sequence Search on a GPU — accepted into the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to be held in San Jose, CA, USA in March 2014.
  • 02/10/14 : PhD Theses Accepted to PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS 2014 Scogland has his PhD thesis research, "Runtime Adaptation for Autonomic Heterogeneous Computing" and Subramaniam has his PhD thesis research, "Metrics, Models and Methodologies for Energy-Proportional Computing," accepted into the PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS 2014.
  • 01/31/14 : del Mundo Receives Outstanding Senior Award The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech selects Carlo del Mundo for the Outstanding Senior Award of 2014.
  • 01/29/14 : Paper Accepted to IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014 Subramaniam and Feng have their paper — Enabling Efficient Power Provisioning for Enterprise Applications — accepted into the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), to be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA in May 2014.
  • 01/24/14 : Feng Receives Outstanding Faculty Award The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has awarded Wu-chun Feng the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Award recognizing "excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service.”
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  • 1/14/14 : PhD Thesis Accepted to PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS 2014 Aji has his PhD thesis research, "A Runtime System for High-Performance Clusters with Heterogeneous Computing Devices," accepted into the PhD Forum at IEEE IPDPS 2014.
• 2013
  • 12/12/13 : Honorable Mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Carlo del Mundo, an undergraduate in the Synergy Lab, received an Honorable Mention from the Computing Research Association (CRA) in the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards Competition.
  • 12/11/13 : TEDxVirginiaTech Talk by Feng Now Available Online On Saturday, November 9, Feng delivered a TEDxVirginiaTech talk entitled BIG COMPUTE vs. BIG DATA at Virginia Tech, which drew attention to the challenges of BIG COMPUTE vs. BIG DATA and the different approaches that countries are taking. (HPCwire was the first to report on this talk. See Big Data versus Big Compute by Tiffany Trader.)
  • 12/08/13 : Papers Accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2014 Wang and Feng in collaboration with McClure of Advanced Research Computing at Virginia Tech and Miller and Prins at the University of North Carolina have their paper — Petascale Application of a Coupled CPU-GPU Algorithm for Simulation and Analysis of Multiphase Flow Solutions in Porous Medium Systems — and Zhang, Wang, Lin and Feng have their paper — cuBLASTP: Fine-Grained Parallelization of Protein Sequence Search on a GPU — accepted for publication into the 28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2014, to be held in Arizona, Phoenix, USA in May 2014.
  • 11/22/13 : Winner of ACM Student Research Competition at IEEE/ACM SC|13 del Mundo was awarded the gold medal in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC|13, held in Denver, Colorado in November 2013, for his work on Enabling Efficient Intra-Warp Communication for Fourier Transforms in a Many-Core Architecture.
  • 09/11/13 : Paper Accepted to Journal of Parallel Computing 2013 Gardner, Sathre, Feng, and Martinez have their paper — Characterizing the Challenges and Evaluating the Efficacy of a CUDA-to-OpenCL Translator — accepted for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel Computing, 2013.
  • 09/10/13 : Papers Accepted to IEEE ICPADS 2013 Adhinarayanan and Feng have their paper — Wideband Channelization for Software-Defined Radio via Mobile Graphics Processors — Krommydas, Scogland and Feng have their paper — Accelerating Molecular Modeling on Heterogeneous Architectures — Krommydas and Feng have their paper — On the Portability of the OpenCL Dwarfs on Fixed and Reconfigurable Parallel Platforms — and Lokendra, Aji and Feng have their paper — Online Performance Projection for Clusters with Heterogeneous GPUs — accepted into the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), to be held in in Seoul, Korea in December, 2013.
  • 09/09/13 : Poster Accepted to ACM/IEEE SC|13 del Mundo has his submission entitled — Enabling Efficient Intra-Warp Communication for Fourier Transforms in a Many-Core Architecture — accepted into the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Student Research Competition, to be held in Denver, Colorado in November 2013.
  • 08/15/13 : Paper Accepted to IEEE HPCC 2013 Zhang, Wang and Feng have their paper — Energy Efficiency Aware Consolidation for Heterogeneous System with GPUs — accepted into the 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013), to be held in Zhangjiajie, China in November, 2013.
  • 04/26/13 : Best Undergraduate Poster Award at VTURCS 2013 del Mundo receives the Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) Research Symposium 2013, as selected by the CS@VT faculty.
  • 03/17/13 : Paper Accepted to ACM HPDC 2013 Aji, Panwar and Feng, in collaboration with Ji and Ma at North Carolina State University, Balaji, Dinan and Thakur at Argonne National Lab, Bisset at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and Chabbi, Murthy and Mellor-Crummey at Rice University have their paper — On the Efficacy of GPU-Integrated MPI for Scientific Applications — accepted into the 22nd ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), to be held in New York, NY, USA in June 2013.
  • 02/25/13 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2013 Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Lama and Zhou at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Li and Zhang at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Balaji, Dinan and Thakur at Argonne National Lab and Xiao at Advanced Micro Devices have their paper — pVOCL: Power-Aware Dynamic Placement and Migration in Virtualized GPU Environments — accepted into the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013), to be held in Philadelphia, PA in July 2013.
  • 02/25/13 : Paper Accepted to IEEE AsHES 2013 Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Balaji, Dinan and Thakur at Argonne National Lab have their paper — Synchronization and Ordering Semantics in Hybrid MPI+GPU Programming — accepted into the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES 2013) (in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium), to be held in Boston, MA in May 2013.
  • 01/27/13 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ICC 2013 del Mundo, Adhinarayanan and Feng have their paper — Accelerating Fast Fourier Transform for Wideband Channelization — accepted into the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), to be held in Budapest, Hungary, in June 2013.
  • 1/21/13 : Paper Accepted to IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2013 Zhang, Lin and Feng have their paper — Optimizing Burrows-Wheeler Transform-Based Sequence Alignment on Multicore Architectures — accepted into the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), to be held in Delft, the Netherlands, in May 2013.
• 2012
  • 12/30/12 : Paper Accepted to BICoB 2013 Nabeel, Lin and Feng have their paper — Accelerating Data-Intensive Genome Analysis in the Cloud — accepted into the 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2013), to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, in March, 2013.
  • 10/4/12 : NSF & NIH Highlight Inter-Agency Awardees for BIGDATA Eight grants were selected for NSF-NIH BIGDATA awards, including one from Feng and his collaborators Aluru (PI) at Iowa State U. and Olukotun at Stanford U entitled — Genomes Galore - Core Techniques, Libraries, and Domain Specific Languages for High-Throughput DNA Sequencing — [archive]
  • 6/14/12 : Synergy Lab Awarded PGI Accelerator Compiler Suite The Synergy Lab at Virginia Tech has been awarded PGI Accelerator Compiler Software, which includes OpenACC compilers for C and Fortran as well as CUDA Fortran, CUDA x86, and traditional x86 Compilers, to support its research in heterogeneous computing.
  • 6/8/12 : Paper Accepted to P2S2 2012 Sathre, Gardner and Feng have their paper — Lost in Translation: Challenges in Automating CUDA-to-OpenCL Translation — accepted into the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) (in conjunction with 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing), to be held in Pittsburgh, PA in September 2012.
  • 6/6/12 : Release of OpenDwarfs (a.k.a. OpenCL and the 13 Dwarfs) As part of a NSF CHREC-funded project entitled "Performance, Programmability, and Portability of Heterogeneous Computing," the Synergy Lab announces the availability of OpenDwarfs (version 0.9.0). For a preview of OpenDwarfs, please read OpenCL and the 13 Dwarfs from the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering in April 2012.
  • 4/23/12 : Papers Accepted to IEEE HPCC 2012 Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Dinan, Buntinas, Balaji and Thakur at Argonne National Lab, and Bisset at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (NDSSL) have their paper — MPI-ACC: An Integrated and Extensible Approach to Data Movement in Accelerator-Based Systems — and Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Ji and Ma at North Carolina State U. and Dinan, Buntinas, Balaji and Thakur at Argonne National Lab have their paper — DMA-Assisted, Intranode Communication in GPU Accelerated Systems — accepted into the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2012), to be held in Liverpool, UK, in June 2012.
  • 4/9/12 : Paper Accepted to IEEE AsHES Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Ji and Ma at NCSU and Dinan, Buntinas, and Balaji at Argonne National Laboratory have their paper — Efficient Intranode Communication in GPU-Accelerated Systems — accepted into the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium), to be held in Shanghai, China, in May 2012.
  • 4/6/12 : Paper Selected Among Best in 20 Years of IEEE/ACM HPDC Lin, Feng, and Gardner, in collaboration with Archuleta and with Ma and Zhang from NCSU, have their paper — MOON: MapReduce On Opportunistic eNvironments — selected as one of the best papers in the 20 years of IEEE/ACM HPDC publications. It will be published in a special proceedings issue at HPDC 2012 in Delft, Netherlands.
  • 3/20/12 : Aji Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Ashwin Aji was awarded a 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his research in high-performance computing. Approximately 10 students are selected each year in this highly competitive worldwide competition. Last year's awardees were from MIT, Stanford U., U. Edinburgh, KAIST, U. Utah, and U. Illinois.
  • 3/6/12 : Papers Accepted to ISC 2012 Lee, Lin and Feng have their paper — Performance Characterization of Data-Intensive Kernels on AMD Fusion Architectures; Scogland, Subramaniam and Feng have their paper — The Green500 List: Escapades to Exascale; and Subramaniam and Feng have their paper — GBench: Benchmarking Methodology for Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Supercomputers — accepted into the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2012 to be held in Hamburg, Germany in June 2012.
  • 2/27/12 : Papers Accepted to ACM/SPEC ICPE 2012 Braithwaite, Feng and McCormick have their paper — Automatic NUMA Characterization using Cbench — and Feng, Lin, Scogland and Zhang have their paper — OpenCL and the 13 Dwarfs: A Work In Progress — accepted into the 3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering to be held in Boston, MA in April 2012.
  • 2/10/12 : Paper Accepted to InPar 2012 Xiao, Balaji, Lin, Feng and team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have their paper — VOCL: An Optimized Environment for Transparent Virtualization of Graphics Processing Units — accepted into the IEEE Innovative Parallel Computing (InPar2012), to be held in San Jose, CA, in May 2012.
  • 1/31/12 : Paper Accepted to IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2012 Xiao, Lin and Feng and team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and Chinese Academy of Sciences have their paper — Transparent Accelerator Migration in a Virtualized GPU Environment — accepted into the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), to be held in Ottawa, Canada in May 2012.
• 2011
  • 11/17/11 : HokieSpeed: Highest-Ranked Commodity Supercomputer in the U.S. on the Green500 HokieSpeed debuted on the November 2011 Green500 List as the highest-ranked commodity supercomputer in the U.S. It is a GPU-accelerated supercomputer consisting of 209 2U server nodes, where each node contains two hex-core Intel Xeon E5645 CPUs, two 448-core NVIDIA M2050/C2050 GPUs, and a QDR Infiniband adapter. When running the LINPACK benchmark, HokieSpeed achieved 117 TFLOPS in a thermal envelope of 126 kW.
  • 02/12/11 : Paper Accepted to ACM CF 2011 Aji, Daga and Feng have their paper — Bounding the Effect of Partition Camping in GPU Kernels —accepted into the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in Ischia, Italy on May 3, 2011.
  • 01/10/11 : Paper Accepted to ICCABS 2011 Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Bisset and Marathe, have their paper — High-Performance Biocomputing for Simulating the Spread of Contagion over Large Contact Networks — accepted into the 1st IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) to be held in Orlando, Florida in February 2011.
  • 01/10/11 : Paper Accepted to ICCABS 2011 Daga, Scogland, and Feng have their paper — Towards Accelerating Molecular Modeling via Multi-Scale Approximation on a GPU — accepted into the 1st IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) to be held in Orlando, Florida in February 2011.
• 2010
  • 12/12/10 : Paper Accepted to IPDPS 2011 Xiao, Lin, and Feng have their paper — Accelerating Protein Sequence Search in a Heterogeneous Computing System —accepted into the 25th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium to be held in Anchorage, Alaska in May 2011.
  • 11/18/10 : Feng Interviewed by HPCwire Feng is interviewed by HPCwire to discuss the greening of high performance computing, his contributions and approach to research.
  • 11/17/10 : ACM Distinguished Scientist Award Feng is recognized as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in recognition of achievements and contributions to "practical and theoretical aspects of computing that drive innovation and sustain economic competitiveness," as noted in the ACM press release.
  • 10/28/10 : Feng Quoted in The New York Times Feng is quoted in The New York Times on a story about China wresting supercomputing supremacy from the U.S.
  • 10/20/10 : Paper Accepted to IEEE CSE Aji and Feng, in collaboration with Liqing Zhang, have their paper — GPU-RMAP: Accelerating Short-Read Mapping on Graphics Processors — accepted into the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) to be held in Hong Kong, China in December 2010.
  • 09/16/10 : Feng Delivers Keynote at EnA-HPC Feng provided the opening keynote speech entitled "Energy-Efficient Exascale Computing: An Oxymoron?" at the International Conference on Energy-Aware High-Performance Computing in Hamburg, Germany in September 2010.
  • 09/07/10 : Poster Accepted to GTC Daga and Feng have their poster — Accelerating Molecular Modeling Using GPUs — accepted for presentationin the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to be held in San Jose, CA, USA in September 2010.
  • 06/23/10 : Paper Accepted to EnA-HPC Scogland, Lin, and Feng have their paper — A First Look at Integrated GPUs for Green High-Performance Computing — accepted for publication in the International Conference on Energy-Aware High-Performance Computing to be held in Hamburg, Germany in September 2010.
  • 04/19/10 : Feng Delivers Keynote at HPPAC Feng provided the opening keynote speech entitled "Green Supercomputing Comes of Age" at the 6th Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC), held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) in April 2010.
  • 04/07/10 : Paper Accepted to Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling Scogland and Feng, in collaboration with Ramu Anandakrishnan, Andrew Fenley, John Gordon, and Alexey Onufriev, have their paper — Accelerating Electrostatic Surface Potential Calculation with Multi-Scale Approximation on Graphics Processing Units — accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling.
  • 01/08/10 : Paper Accepted to IEEE ISCAS Feng and Xiao have their paper — To GPU Synchronize or Not GPU Synchronize? —accepted for publication at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) to be held in Paris, France in May-June 2010.
• 2009
  • 12/08/09 : Paper Accepted to IEEE IPDPS Xiao and Feng have their paper — Inter-Block GPU Communication via Fast Barrier Synchronization — accepted for publication at the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA in April 2010.
  • 11/30/09 : Two Honorable Mentions for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Jacqueline Addesa and Gabriel Martinez, two undergraduates in the Synergy Lab, each receive Honorable Mention from the Computing Research Association in the 2010 Outstanding UndergraduateResearcher Awards Competition.
  • 11/19/09 : The Latest Green500 List Released At the ACM/IEEE SC|09 Conference, the latest Green500 List was announced at the Green500 List Birds-of-a-Feather(BoF). For more information, go to the Green500 web site.
  • 11/19/09 : ACM Best Undergraduate Poster Award at ACM/IEEE SC|09 Addesa receives the “Best Undergraduate Poster Award” as part of the ACM Student Research Competition at ACM/IEEE SC|09. In recognition of her efforts, Addesa received a monetary award, certificate, and travel expenses paid.
  • 10/16/09 : Scientific American: New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps Feng talks about turning to the emerging Open Computing Language, and the work done by Feng and Scogland, in collaboration with Alexey Onufriev and his research group, in Scientific American, read here.
  • 10/06/09 : Interview about Green Computing on National Public Radio (NPR) Feng is interviewed on WVTF’s NPR about his efforts in green computing in southwest Virginia. For the audio, click here.
  • 10/04/09 : Paper Accepted to ICVCI Gardner, Herr, Mazary, Lin, Scogland, and Feng have their paper — A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Delivering Designer Images for K-12 Pedagogy — accepted for publication at the 3rd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative in Raleigh, NC, USA in October 2009.
  • 09/01/09 : Paper Accepted to ICPADS Xiao, Aji, and Feng have their paper — On the Robust Mapping of Dynamic Programming onto a Graphics Processing Unit — accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) to be held in Shenzhen, China in December2009.
  • 05/21/09 : Paper Accepted into ICPP Singh and Feng, in collaboration with Pavan Balaji at Argonne National Lab, have their paper —GePSeA: A General-Purpose Software Acceleration Framework for Lightweight Task Offloading — acceptedinto the 38th International Conference onParallel Processing (ICPP) to be held in Vienna, Austria in September 2009.
  • 05/15/09 : 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 entitledEnergy-Efficient Cluster Computing via Accurate Workload Characterization — which will appear in the 9th IEEEInternational 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 EngineeringGraduate Fellowship program through the American Society forEngineering Education.
• 2008
  • 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.
• 2007