Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Yong Chen will receive the ACM/IEEE High Performance Computing Fellows Honorable Mention Award at SC07 on Nov. 16, in Reno, NV. SC07 is considered the flagship conference of high-end computing, with 8,000-plus attendees from around the world.Chen's adviser is Professor Xian-He Sun. And Chen's paper published in SC07 is Data Access History Cache and Associated Data Prefetching Mechanisms

Computer Science Professor Xian-He Sun won one of the two awards for excellence in research. "He has been an unbelievably prolific scholar all through his career, and last year was no exception," said McMorris. Sun's scholarly content is matched only by his skill at securing grants, including, most recently, a $650,000 National Science Foundation grant for his research in "push architecture."

The IPRO team 357 myWay+gWay: Touring the High-Tech-Way team won the first place of Tracks 6 and 7 and Top Business Plan.

For her paper, "MPI-Mitten: Enabling Migration Technology in MPI," lead author and CS Ph.D Candidate Cong Du was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Virginia Tech High-End Computing Challenge. Cong Du is completing her dissertation under Prof. Xian-He Sun, who collaborated with her on the winning paper. The VTHECC's purpose is to, "promote the involvement of graduate and undergraduate students in research to improve high-end systems and applications," through, "original, innovative approaches that increase efficiency and reduce the time to solution of real parallel applications on real high-end computing systems."

Virginia Tech Computing Challenge Winners Announced

In the early days of computing, machines were used for scientific applications that required computing power for number crunching. Today the uses of computers have grown exponentially, including business applications such as email, multimedia, data mining, and others which require intensive data retrieval. CPU speed has increased in accordance with Moore's law, or double every 18 months, while at the same time memory access speed has only been improved an average of 9% per year over the past 20 years. Peak CPU speed is no longer matched by the deliverable performance of your application, thus data-access has become the bottleneck of computing, especially for data-centric business applications. CS Professor Xian-He Sun has proposed a novel data access architecture, called server push architecture, to solve the data-access bottleneck. National Science Foundation grant to develop this architecture. In addition, Prof. Sun is a co-investigator for a five-year project entitled "National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory," for the Department of Energy, in which he is responsible for the workflow development. These two projects started in August and September of 2006, respectively.

The IPRO305 team, Leaded by Prof. Xian-He Sun and with student leader Mr. Alexander Pope, wins the overall 1st place for Web Design and is the winner of Track 2 (Information Technology) program in Spring 2006