News

    1. 05/2020: Zaid successfully defended his PhD prospectus, congratulations.
    2. 02/2020: Zaid’s paper on global link arrangement on Dragonfly has been accepted for publication in ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2020. Congratulations.
    3. 12/2019: Shafyat Rahman successfully defended his dissertation. He will be joining Amazon. Congratulations Dr. Rahman.
    4. 11/2019: Prof. Yuan accepted an invitation to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
    5. 11/2019: Shafayat Rahman presented a paper in SC’2019 at Denver.
    6. 09/2019: Fatema Tabassum Liza joined the group. Welcome!
    7. 08/2019: Prof. Yuan accepted an invitation to serve as the Experiments track-chair for IPDPS 2020.
    8. 06/2019: Congratulations to Shafayat whose paper, titled “Topology-Custom UGAL Routing on Dragonfly”, has been accepted by SC’19.
    9. 10/2018: Congratulations to Peyman, Juan, and others, whose paper, titled “TPR: Traffic Pattern-based Adaptive Routing for Dragonfly Networks”, has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems.
    10. 09/2018: Prof. Yuan (PI) receives a new grant with Prof. Xiuwen Liu (co-PI) from Los Alamos National Labortary to apply machine learning techniques to network design.
    11. 08/2018: Woohyeong (Willy) Kim and Ram Sharan Chaulagain joined the group. Welcome!
    12. 07/2018: Prof. Yuan receives a $700K equipment grant as a Co-PI (with Prof. Weikuan Yu (PI) and Prof. David Whalley (Co-PI)) from the National Science Foundation.
    13. 04/2018: Peyman and Atiqul successfully defended their dissertations. Congratulations!!
    14. 03/2018: Peyman Faizian accepted a job as a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Computing, University of North Florida to start in Fall 2018.
    15. 03/2018: Md. Atiqul Mollah accepted a job as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Computer Science Department, Oakland University (an R3 Doctoral University) to start in Fall 2018.
    16. 01/2018: Zhou Tong’s paper “Performance and Accuracy Trade-offs of HPC Application Modeling and Simulation” has been accepted by IEEE IPDPS’18, congratulations!
    17. 11/2017: Peyman Faizian, Atiqul Mollah, and Xin Yuan to attend ACM SC conference and present papers.
    18. 11/2017: Zhou Tong successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Improving the Effectiveness of Performance Analysis for HPC by Using Appropriate Modeling and Simulation Schemes.” Congratulations.
    19. 09/2017: Saptarshi Bhowmik and Mohammad Mohsen Gavahi joined the group. Welcome!
    20. 08/2017: Two papers from the Explorer lab have been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, a top journal in our area: Peyman’s paper titled “Random Regular Graph and De Bruijn Graph with k-shortest Path Routing” and Atiqul’s paper titled “Fast Calculation of Max-min Fair Rates for Multi-commodity Flows in Fat-Tree Networks”.
    21. 08/2017: Prof. Yuan receives a new grant as a co-PI from National Science Foundation to develop security mechanisms for High Performance Computing systems. This is a joint project with Prof. Zhi Wang (PI) and Prof. Viet Tung Hoang.
    22. 06/2017: Peyman’s paper “A Comparative Study of SDN and Adaptive Routing on Dragonfly Networks” is accepted by IEEE/ACM SC’17.
    23. 05/2017: Md Atiqul Mollah successfully defended his PhD prospectus, congratulations!
    24. 05/2017: Peyman Faizian successfully defended his PhD prospectus, congratulations!
    25. 01/2017: Michael Duckett joined the group. Welcome!
    26. 01/2017: Juan Alfaro joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
    27. 12/2016: Zaid Salamah A Alzaid joined the lab. Welcome!
    28. 11/2016: Jason Lee presented paper “Enhancing InfiniBand with OpenFlow-style InfiniBand Capability” in IEEE/ACM SC: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Salt Lake City, Utah.
    29. 11/2016: Zhou Tong successfully defended his PhD prospectus. Congratulations.
    30. 09/2016: Jason Lee successfully defended his Master thesis. Congratulations.
    31. 09/2016: Peyman successfully defended his area exam and is now a PhD candidate. Congratulations.
    32. 09/2016: Zhou Tong’s poster “Trade-off Analysis of Simulation Complexity and Accuracy Using SST/Macro,” has been accepted for presentation in ACM/IEEE SC’16.
    33. 08/2016: Peyman to present paper “Traffic Pattern-based Adaptive Routing for Intra-group Communication in Dragonfly Networks” in IEEE HOTI in Santa Clara.
    34. 07/2016: The EXPLORER laboratory website (this page) goes alive.