Journal Publications, Conference Publications, Presentations, Technical Reports

Journal Papers:

    1. P. Gu, J. Wang, Y. Zhu and H. Jiang, "A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Grouping Algorithm for Metadata Prefetching," IEEE Transactions on Computer (Accepted, to appear, preprint)
    2. J. Yue, Y. Zhu and Z. Cai, "An Energy-Oriented Evaluation of Buffer Cache Algorithms Under Parallel I/O Workloads", Special issue on Power-Aware Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transaction on Distributed and Parallel Computing, Volume 19, Number 11, Pages 1565-1578, November 2008. pdf
    3. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, J. Wang and F. Xian, "HBA: Distributed Metadata Management System for Large Cluster-based Storage", IEEE Transaction on Distributed and Parallel Systems, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 750-763, June 2008. pdf
    4. Y. Zhu, and H. Jiang, "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffer Cache", IEEE Transaction on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 25-40, January 2008. pdf
    5. Y. Zhu, and H. Jiang, "A Novel Buffer Cache Management Scheme Based on Context and Location Awareness", ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, 24.1 (2006): 26-35.
    6. 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. pdf
    7. 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. pdf
    8. 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. pdf
    9. Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, and David R. Swanson, "A Feedback Control Mechanism for Balancing I/O- and Memory-Intensive Applications on Clusters", Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, ISSN 1895-1767, Volume 6, Number 4, pp. 95-107, 2005. pdf
    10. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters," to appear in Journal of Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Parallel I/O in Computational Grids and Cluster Computing Systems. (to appear)
    11. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, and D. Swanson. "A Case Study of Parallel I/O for Biological Sequence Search on Linux Clusters," International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) , Vol. 1, No.4 pp. 214 - 222, 2004. link
    12. 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. pdf
    13. 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. pdf
    14. 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 link
    15. 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%). pdf

Edited Proceedings/journal issues:

    1. Special Issue in International Journal on High Performance Computing and Networking, 2009
    2. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'2007), IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 0-7695-3097-4, 138 pages, September 2007

Book Chapters:

    1. Y. Zhu and H. Jiang, "Efficient Update Control of Bloom Filter Replicas in Large-Scale Distributed Systems", Handbook of research on scalable computing technologies, IGI Global, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60566-661-7, July 2009 (pdf)
    2. A. Shareef and Y. Zhu, "Localization Using Extended Kalman Filters in Wireless Sensor Networks", book chapter of Kalman Filter: Recent Advances and Applications, edited by Victor M. Morend and Alberto Pigazo, ISBN: 953307000-5, Pages 297-320, April 2009.
Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings:
    1. Y. Hua, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, D. Feng, and L. Tian, "A New Metadata Organization Paradigm with Semantic-Awareness for Next-Generation File Systems", ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2009 (SC09), Portand, Oregon (Accepted, to appear).
    2. X. Liu, M. Schauffler, M.K. Anderson, L. Schultz, B. Segee, Y. Zhu, and P. Koons, "Inquiry-based Dynamic Earth Applications of Supercomputing (IDEAS): An ITEST project to enhance middle school science and technology education in rural Maine", presented at the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, Charleston, SC., March, 2009
    3. D. Feng, Q. Zou, H. Jiang, and Y. Zhu, "A Novel Model for Synthesizing Parallel I/O Workloads in Scientific Applications", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pp. 252-261, Tsukuba, Japan, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2008 (acceptance rate: 28/92 = 30%)
    4. Q. Zou, D. Feng, Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Ge, and Z. Zhou, "A Novel and Generic Model for Synthesizing Disk I/O Traffic Based on The Alpha-stable Process",in Proceedings of 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pp. 133-142, Baltimore, MD, Sept 8-10, 2008 (acceptance rate: 36/94 = 38%)
    5. J. Yue, Y. Zhu, Z. Cai,"Energy Efficient Buffer Cache Replacement", in Proceedings of 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pp. 385-387, Baltimore, MD, Sept 8-10, 2008 (Short Paper)
    6. J. Yue, Y. Zhu, Z. Cai, "Impacts of Indirect Blocks on Buffer Cache Energy Efficiency", in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008), pp.\ 546-553, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 2008 (acceptance rate: 81/263 = 31%)
    7. A. Shareef, Y. Zhu, "Energy Modeling of Processors in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Petri Nets", in Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Next Generation of Wireless and Mobile Networks (NGWMN-08), held in conjuction with ICPP-08, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 8-12, 2008/li>
    8. Y. Hua, Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, D. Feng, and L. Tian, "Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management in Ultra Large-Scale File Systems", in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), pp. 403-410, Beijing, June 17-20, 2008 (acceptance rate: 16%)
    9. L. Lin, M. Li, H. Jang, Y. Zhu, and L. Tian, "AMP: An Affinity-based Metadata Prefetching Scheme in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems", in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'08) , pp. 459-466 May 19-22, 2008, Lyon, France
    10. X. Liu, M. Schauffler, B. Segee, P. Koons, Y. Zhu, and A. Tweedie, "Using inquiry-based applications of supercomputing to enhance science education in middle schools," paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, March, 2008, Las Vegas, NV.
    11. A. Shareef, Y. Zhu and M. Musavi, "Localization using neural networks in wireless sensor networks", in Proceedings of ACM First International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobileware), pp. 1-7, Innsbruck, Austria, Februray 12-15, 2008
    12. A. Shareef, Y. Zhu, M. Musavi and B. Shen,"Comparison of MLP Neural Networks and Kalman Filter for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proceedings of 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, November 19-21, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Pages 323-330 (acceptance rate: 49%).
    13. J. Yue, Y. Zhu and Z. Cai, "Evaluating Memory Energy Efficiency in Parallel I/O Workloads", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pp. 21-30, September, 2007, Austin, TX, pp. 21-30 (Best Paper Award)
    14. Y. Zhu and A. Shareef, "Comparisons of Three Kalman Filter Tracking Models in Wireless Sensor Network," in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Network, Architecture and Storages, Shengyang, China, August 1-3, 2006.
    15. Y. Zhu and H. Jiang, "On the Analysis and Impact of False Rates of Bloom Filters in Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Columbus, pp. 255-262, OH, August, 2006 (Acceptance rate: 64/200 = 32%).
    16. P. Gu, Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, and J. Wang, "Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems," in Proceedings of International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid, 2006), May 16-19, 2006, Singapore, pp. 409-416. (Acceptance rate: 61/257 = 25.7%)
    17. Y. Zhu and H. Jiang, "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffer Cache," 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI-2006), held in conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Austin, Texas, February, 2006, pp. 36-24 (Acceptance rate: 12/27 = 44%)
    18. Y. Zhu, "An Overview on MEMS-based Storage, Its Research Issues and Open Problems," in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, in conjunctions with 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Sept. 30, 2004, Antibes Juan-les-pins, French (Acceptance rate: unkown).
    19. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, and J. Wang, "Hierarchical Bloom Filter Arrays (HBA): A Novel, Scalable Metadata Management System for Large Cluster-based Storage," in Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Sept. 2004, San Diego, CA, pp. 165-174 (Acceptance rate: 48/150 = 32.0%).
    20. D. Feng, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, "I/O Response Time In A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," in Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Oct. 2004, Wuhan, China (short paper), published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Acceptance rate: unkown).
    21. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, and D. Swanson, "A Case Study of Parallel I/O for Biological Sequence Analysis on Linux Clusters," in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Hong Kong, Dec. 1-4, 2003, pp.308-315 (accpetance rate: 29.3%).
    22. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster," in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Hong Kong, Dec. 1-4, 2003, pp.100-107 (accpetance rate: 29.3%).
    23. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng and D. Swanson, "Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation of a Cost-Effective Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," in Proceedings of International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, in conjunctions with 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), New Orleans, LA, Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, 2003 (accpetance rate: 49%).
    24. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Boosting Performance for I/O-Intensive Workload by Preemptive Job Migrations in a Cluster System," in Proceedings of the IEEE 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Brazil, November 10-12, 2003 (Accpetance rate: 30%).
    25. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, "Scheduling for Improved Write Performance in a Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System (CEFT-PVFS)," in Proceedings of The 4th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2003, June 24-26, 2003, San Jose, California (Accpetance rate: unkown).
    26. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng, and D. Swanson, "Improved Read Performance in a Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System (CEFT-PVFS)," in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Cluster Computing and Computational Grids (CCGRID), pp. 730-735, May 2003, Japan (accpetance rate: unkown).
    27. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters," in Proceedings of International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), December 17-20, 2003, Hyderabad, India (acceptance rate: 27%).
    28. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. R. Swanson, "A Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for I/O-Intensive Applications in Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Parallel Workshops (ICPP 2003 Workshops), Workshop on Compile/Runtime Techniques for Parallel Computing, Taiwan, Oct. 2003, pp.79-86 (Acceptance rate: unkown).
    29. 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," in Proceedings of the 9th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2003), Klagenfurt, Austria, August 26-29, 2003, pp. 224-229(158/338 = 46.7%).
    30. L. Acar, B. H. Chowdhury, M. L. Crow, and Y. Zhu, "Aggregated Fuzzy Control Systems," in Proceedings of the American Control Conf., Anchorage, AK, pp. 975-980, May 8-10, 2002.
    31. S. Zheng, Y. Tan, S. Cheng, and Y. Zhu, "Dynamic Characteristic Study of UPFC Based on a Detail Simulation Model," in Proceedings of IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, vol.2, pp.1360-1364, Jan. 2000, Singapore.
    32. B. Li, Y. Zhu, S. Chen, "Analysis of the Static and Dynamic Characteristics of ASVG Based on Detailed Time Domain Simulation," Automation of Electric Power Systems, Vol.25, No.4, 2001, pp. 1-6 (in Chinese).

Presentations:

    1. "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffe," 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI-2006), held in conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Austin, Texas, February, 2006
    2. "Hierarchical Bloom Filter Arrays (HBA): A Novel, Scalable Metadata Management System for Large Cluster-based Storage," at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2004), Sept. 21, 2004, San Diego, CA.
    3. "Design, Implementation, and Performance evaluation of a Cost-Effective Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," at the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI 2003), Sept. 26, 2003, New Orleans, LA.
    4. "Scheduling for improved write performance in a Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System (CEFT-PVFS)," at the 4th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters, June 25, 2003, San Jose, CA.
    5. "Improved Read Performance in CEFT-PVFS: Cost Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," at the International Workshop on Parallel I/O in Cluster Computing and Computational Grids, May 16, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.
    6. "An Overview on MEMS-based Storage, Its Research Issues and Open Problems," at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Sept 15, 2003. In fulfillment of the comprehensive examination requirement.
    7. "CEFT-PVFS: A Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System for Large Scale Clusters." Presented at SDI, 2003. [ppt, pdf]
    8. "Energy Consumption Characteristics of Mobile Storage," presented in the department Embedded System Seminar. [ppt]
    9. "Communication Networks in Clusters: Myrinet, Infiniband and Gigabit," presented in the department Network System Seminar [ppt]

Master's Thesis:

    1. Y. Zhu, "Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of A Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2002

Ph.D.'s Dissertation

    1. Y. Zhu, "Cluster-based storage systems with high scalability," Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2005
Technical Reports:
    1. Y. Zhu and H. Jiang, "An Overview on MEMS-based Storage, Its Research Issues and Open Problems," Technical Report TR03-10-01, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Qctober 2003.
    2. D. Feng, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, "I/O Response Time In A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System," Technical Report, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, July, 2003.
    3. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng and D. Swanson, "CEFT-PVFS: A Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System" Technical Report TR02-10-03, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.
    4. Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Qin, D. Feng and D. Swanson, "Scheduling for Improved Write Performance in A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System" Technical Report TR02-10-05, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.
    5. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "A Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for I/O-Intensive Applications in Distributed Systems," Technical Report TR02-10-02, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.
    6. X. Qin, H. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and D. Swanson, "Boosting Performance for I/O-Intensive Workload by Preemptive Job Migrations in a Cluster System," Technical Report TR02-10-04, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 2002.