Selected Publications:

• Y. Yu, D. Rudd, Z. Lan, N. Gnedin, A. Kravtsov, and J. Wu, "Improving Parallel IO Performance of Cell-based AMR Cosmology Applications", to appear in the Proc. of IPDPS'12, 2012.
  
• W. Tang, N. Desai, V. Vishwanath, D. Buettner, and Z. Lan, "Multi-Domain Job Coscheduling for Leadership Computing Systems", Journal of Supercomputing, 2011. [link]
  
• J. Wu, R. Gonzalez, Z. Lan, N. Gnedin, A. Kravtsov, D. Rudd, and Y. Yu, "Performance Emulation of Cell-based AMR Cosmology Simulations", Proc. of Cluster'11, 2011. [PDF]
  
• L. Yu, Z. Zheng, Z, Lan, and S. Coghlan, "Practical Online Failure Prediction for Blue Gene/P: Period-based vs Event-Driven", Proc. of Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery, and Maintenance Workshop (PFARM) (in conjunction with DSN'11), 2011. [PDF]
  
• W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, D. Buettner, Y. Yu, "Walltime-Aware Spatial Job Scheduling on Blue Gene/P Systems", Proc. of IPDPS'11, 2011. [PDF]
  
• Z. Zheng, L. Yu, W. Tang, Z. Lan, R. Gupta, N. Desai, S. Coghlan, and D. Buettner, "Co-Analysis of RAS Log and Job Log on Blue Gene/P", Proc. of IPDPS'11, 2011. [PDF]
  
• Y. Li and Z. Lan, "FREM: A Fast Restart Mechanism for General Checkpoint/Restart", to appear in the IEEE Trans. on Computers, 2010.
  
• Z. Zheng, Z. Lan, R. Gupta, S. Coghlan, and P. beckman, "A Practical Failure Prediction with Location and Lead Time for Blue Gene/P", Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at Extreme Scale (FTXS), in conjunction with DSN'10, 2010. [PDF]
  
• Z. Lan, J. Gu, Z. Zheng, R. Thakur, and S. Coghlan, "A Study of Dynamic Meta-Learning for Failure Prediction in Large-Scale Systems" Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2010. [PDF]
  
• W. Tang, N. Desai, D. Buettner, and Z. Lan, "Analyzing and Adjusting User Runtime Estimates to Improve Job Scheduling on Blue Gene/P", Proc. of IPDPS'10, 2010. [Best Paper Award] [PDF]
  
• Z. Lan, Z. Zheng, and Y. Li, "Toward Automated Anomaly Identification in Large-Scale Systems", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(2), pp. 174-187, 2010. [PDF]
  
• Z. Zheng and Z. Lan, "Reliability-Aware Scalability Models for High Performance Computing", Proc. of IEEE Cluster'09, 2009. [PDF]
  
• 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. [PDF]
  
• 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. [PDF]
  
• 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.