Xiao Qin's Research

BUD: A Buffer-Disk Architecture for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems

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Outreach Activities

The BUD outreach activities include curriculum enrichment presentations, engineering clubs, and tutorial services.

We offered a presentation in the Commodity Cluster Symposium 2007 in Baltimore, MD. In this presentation, we described the design and performance analysis of an energy-efficient parallel storage systems tailored for cluster computing platforms. In addition, we give a presentation in the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 2007. We described to the audience the design of the BUD disk architecture. We also shared our experience of carrying out the BUD project with the audience.

To attract the best minority undergraduate to participate in this project, the PI offered an undergraduate course – introduction to computer and network security – at the Alabama State University, which is one of the historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

Secured storage systems were introduced in this class. The PI educated the minority students about important security issues in in large-scale storage systems. The PI also shared our experience of reliable and energy-efficient parallel disk systems with the African-American students who took this class.

Dr. Tao Xie, a co-PI of this project, gave a presentation entitled “Understanding the Relationship Between Energy-Saving and Disk Reliability,” at the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of California, Riverside on May 30, 2008.

In the past year, the PI had given the following research talks related to this NSF funded project.

1. “An Application-Oriented Approach for Computer Security Education,” invited talk at the Information Security and Computer Applications (ISCA2011) Conference, Feb. 25, 2011.
2. “A Novel Application-Oriented Approach to Teaching Computer Security Courses”. Poster Session at NSF CCLI/TUES Conference, January 27, 2011.
3. “Energy Efficient Prefetching – From models to Implementation”. Seminar talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 2010.
4. “How to Read Papers?” Training Session for REU students at Auburn University, May 18, 2010.
5. “How to Succeed in the AU REU Program?” Training Session for REU students at Auburn University, May 17, 2010. “Improving Energy-Efficiency and Reliability of Storage Systems,” Seminar talk at the University of New Orleans, Sept. 4, 2009.
6. “Can We Improve Energy Efficiency of Secure Disk Systems without Modifying Security Mechanisms?” the IEEE NAS’09 Conference, ZhangJiaJie, China, July 10, 2009.
7. “Security-Aware Scheduling for Real-Time Parallel Applications on Clusters,” Lecture at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 22, 2009.
8. “How to Read Papers?” Seminar talk at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China, June 17, 2009.
9. “Energy Efficient Scheduling for High-Performance Clusters,” Seminar talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. June 8, 2009.
10. “An Overview of Auburn University,” Seminar talk at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, June 3, 2009.
11. “Thinking About Going to Graduate School?” Seminar talk at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, June 3, 2009.
12. “How to Write Research Papers, Part 1 – General Principles,” Seminar talk at Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, May 27, 2009.
13. “Energy Efficient Scheduling for High-Performance Clusters,” Seminar talk at Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. May 26, 2009.
14. “Energy Efficient Resource Management for High-Performance Computing Platforms,” Seminar talk at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China, May 15, 2009.
15. 15. “How to Write Research Papers, Part 1 – General Principles,” Seminar talk at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China, May 12, 2009.