Publications

Selected Publications:

Z. Zheng and Z. Lan, "Reliability-Aware Scalability Models for High Performance Computing", Proc. of IEEE Cluster'09, 2009.
W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, and D. Buettner, "Fault-Aware Utility-Based Job Scheduling on Blue Gene/P Systems", Proc. of IEEE Cluster'09, 2009.
Z. Lan, Z. Zheng, and Y. Li, "Toward Automated Anomaly Identification in Large-Scale Systems", to appear in IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009.
Y. Li, Z. Lan, P. Gujrati, and X. Sun, "Fault-Aware Runtime Strategies for High Performance Computing", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems , vol. 20(4), pp. 460-473, 2009.
Z. Zheng, Z. Lan, B-H. Park, and A. Geist, "System Log Pre-processing to Improve Failure Prediction", Proc. of DSN'09, 2009. [PDF]
H. Jin, X. Sun, Z. Zheng, Z. Lan and B. Xie, "Performance under Failures of DAG-based Parallel Computing", Proc. of CCGrid'09, 2009. [PDF]
B-H. Park, Z. Zheng, Z. Lan, and A. Geist, "Analyzing Failure Events on ORNL's Cray XT4", Proc. of SC'08 (research poster), 2008.
J. Gu, Z. Zheng, Z. Lan, J. White, E. Hocks, and B-H. Park, "Dynamic Meta-Learning for Failure Prediction in Large-scale Systems: A Case Study", Proc. of ICPP'08 , 2008. [PDF]
Y. Li and Z. Lan, "A Fast Recovery Mechanism for Checkpointing in Networked Environments", Proc. of DSN'08, 2008. [PDF]
Z. Lan and Y. Li, "Adaptive Fault Management of Parallel Applications for High Performance Computing", IEEE Trans. on Computers ,vol. 57(12), pp. 1647-1660, 2008. [PDF]
Z. Lan, Y. Li, Z. Zheng, and P. Gujrati, "Enhancing Application Robustness through Adaptive Fault Tolerance", Proc. of the NSFNGS Workshop (in conjunction with IPDPS'08), 2008. [PDF]
X. Sun, Z. Lan, Y. Li, H. Jin, and Z. Zheng, "Towards a Fault-Aware Computing Environment", Proc. of High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop,, 2008.
Z. Zheng, Y. Li, and Z. Lan, "Anomaly Localization in Large-scale Clusters", Proc. of IEEE Cluster'07, 2007. [PDF]
P. Gujrati, Y. Li, Z. Lan, R. Thakur, and J. White,"Exploring Meta-learning to Improve Failure Prediction in Supercomputing Clusters", Proc. of ICPP'07 , 2007. [PDF]
Y. Li, P. Gujrati, Z. Lan, and X. Sun, "Fault-Driven Re-Scheduling for Improving System-Level Fault Resilience", Proc. of ICPP'07 , 2007. [PDF]
Z. Lan, Y. Li, P. Gujrati, Z. Zheng, R. Thakur, and J. White, "A Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Service for TeraGrid Clusters", Proc. of TeraGrid'07 , 2007. [PDF]
Y. Li and Z. Lan, "Using Adaptive Fault Tolerance to Improve Application Robustness on the TeraGrid", Proc. of TeraGrid'07 , 2007. [PDF]
Y. Li and Z. Lan, "Exploit Failure Prediction for Adaptive Fault-Tolerance in Cluster Computing", Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid06), 2006. [PDF]
Z. Lan and Y. Li, "Failure-Aware Resource Selection for Grid Computing", Proc. of IEEE Conference on Dependable Systems and networks (Fast Abstract) , 2006. [PDF]
Y. Li and Z. Lan, "Improving Fault Resilience of High Performance Applications", Research Poster at SC06 ,2006. [PDF]
Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and Y. Li, "DistDLB: Improving cosmology SAMR simulations on distributed computing systems through hierarchical load balancing", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 66(5), pp. 716-731,2006. [PDF]

J. Lee, Z. Lan, J. Amundson, and P. Spentzouris, "Evaluating Performance and Scalability of Advanced Accelerator Simulations",Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid06) , 2006. [PDF]

Z. Lan, Y. Li, and J. Lee, "Exploring Large-scale Applications on TeraGrid", The First Annual TeraGrid Conference , Presentation is available at [Conference Website], 2006.

Y. Li and Z. Lan, "Proactive Fault Manager for High Performance Computing", Proc. of The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (Fast Abstract) , 2005. [PDF]

Y. Li and Z. Lan, "A Novel Workload Migration Scheme for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing", Proc. of 5th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid(CCGrid05), 2005. [PDF]

Z. Lan and P. Deshikachar, "Performance Analysis of a Large-Scale Cosmology Application on Three Cluster Systems", Proc. of IEEE Cluster 2003, 2003.

Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, "Exploring Cosmology Applications on Distributed Environments", Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 19(6), pp. 839-847, August, 2003.

Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, "A Novel Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for Parallel Systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol 62/12, pp.1763-1781, 2002.

Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, "Dynamic Load Balancing of SAMR Applications on Distributed Systems", Proc. of SC01, 2001.

Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, "Dynamic load balancing for structured adaptive mesh refinement applications", Proc. of ICPP01, 2001.

V. Taylor, X. Wu, X. Li, J. Geisler, Z. Lan, M. Hereld, I. Judson and R. Stevens, "Prophesy: Automating the Modeling Process", Third Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (invited paper), 2001.

X. Wu, V. Taylor, X. Li, J. Geisler, Z. Lan, R. Stevens, M. Hereld, and I. Judson, "Design and Development of Prophesy Performance Database for Distributed Scientific Applications", Proc. 10th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 2001.

V. Taylor, X. Wu, J. Geisler, X. Li, Z. Lan, R. Stevens, M. Hereld and I. Judson, "Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Analyzing and Modeling the Performance of Parallel and Distributed Applications", Proc. HPDC 2000.

X. Shao and Z. Lan, "Stability Analysis of Finite Element Methods For The Acoustic Wave Equation With Absorbing Boundary Conditions", Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 17(3), pp. 293-306, 1999.