Faculty - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yifeng Zhu
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
5708 Barrows Hall
Orono, ME 04469
Education
Ph.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Research interests
Yifeng Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at University of Maine. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Before that, he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests are in computer architecture and systems, data storage systems, parallel/distributed computing, cluster computing, sensor networks and embedded systems.
His current research projects focus on cluster supercomputing, job scheduling, caching, middlewares, metadata management, networking, and energy-aware computing. He is associated with the High Performance Computing Lab (HPC). You can find nice pictures of our supercomputers here. We have 256-node dual Xserve G5 cluster (Bender) and 208-node dual P3 cluster (Blackbear).
He is the director of the research lab Archsys: Computer Architecture and Systems Lab. His research is currently supported by National Science Foundation (CCF #0621493, CNS #0723093, DRL #0737583, CNS #0619430), Maine Space Grant Consortium, Sun Microsystems, Altera, and Xilinx.
Publications
- Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, "Exploiting Redundancy to Boost Performance in a RAID-10 Style Cluster-based File System," Journal of Cluster Computing, Volume 9, Number 4, pages 433-447, October, 2006.
- X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson. "Improving the Performance of I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters of Workstations," Journal of Cluster Computing, Volume 9, Number 3, Pages 297-311, July, 2006.
- X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Dynamic Load balancing for I/O- and Memory-Intensive workload in Clusters using a Feedback Control Mechanism," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Practices, 2004.
- D. Feng, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, "I/O Response Time In A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3222), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Oct. 2004, ISBN 3-540-23388-1, pp.248-251, Editors: Hai Jin, Guang R. Gao, Zhiwei Xu, et al.
- D. Feng, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, "I/O Performance of A RAID-10 Style Parallel File System," Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol.19, 2004, pp.965-972
- X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters," Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2913), Springer, December 2003, pp. 300-309, Editors: Timothy M. Pinkston and Viktor K. Prasanna.(Proceedings of International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC2003), Hyderabad, India, Dec.17-20, 2003, Acceptance rate: 27%).
- Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, J. Wang and F. Xian, "A Novel Distributed Metadata Management System for Large Cluster-based Storage," IEEE Transaction on Distributed and Parallel Systems (accepted, to appear).
- Y. Zhu, and H. Jiang, "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffer Cache," IEEE Transaction on Computers (accepted, to appear)
- Y. Zhu, and H. Jiang, "A Novel Buffer Cache Management Scheme Based on Context and Location Awareness," ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, Volume 24, Number 1, April, 2006.
- Y. Zhu, and H. Jiang. "CEFT: A Cost-Effective Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 66, Issue 2, February 2006, Pages 291-306.
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