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Please mark your calendar.
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Date: 10/09/2017

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Venue: Engineering Building 4801

Speaker: Dr. Dan Feng

Title: High Performance NVM-based Storage System
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Songqing


Abstract
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High performance computing requires storage system with huge capacity, 
high bandwidth, low access latency and good energy efficiency. Emerging 
technologies, such as nonvolatile memories (NVMs) are playing a more and 
more important role in high performance computing systems for lower power 
consumption and better scalability. The use of NVMs, however, has brought 
great opportunities as well as challenges to redesign the traditional 
storage architecture. In this talk, the weak points of existing NVMs 
including PCM, STT-RAM and RRAM will be reviewed. Then, the hardware and 
software challenges for applying emerging NVMs in computer architecture 
and storage system are presented and discussed. Keeping in mind these 
challenges, this talk will summarize recent developments of our group in 
high performance NVM-based storage system from hardware level (NVM-based 
storage devices, read and write optimizations in NVM) to software level 
(Object-based NVM Management, NVM-based File System and Metadata 
Accelerator with NVM).   Experiment results show that the advantage of NVM 
is enhanced and the disadvantage is avoided by the hardware and software 
we have designed.
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Speaker Bio
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Dan Feng received her B.E, M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and 
Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 
China, in 1991, 1994 and 1997 respectively. She is a professor and dean of 
the School of Computer Science and Technology, HUST. She also is director 
of Data Storage System Division, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics. 
Her research interests include computer architecture, solid-state storage 
techniques, large-scale network storage systems, parallel file systems, 
fault tolerance, RAID, etc. Her research has been supported by NSFC, 
National 973 Program, National 863 Program, CNGI program, etc. She holds 
the Distinguished Professorship of Changjiang Scholars and the Recipient 
of National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars. She has 
over 100 publications in journals and international conferences, including 
FAST, USENIX ATC, EuroSys, ICDCS, HPDC, SC, ICS, IPDPS, MSST, IEEE TC, 
IEEE TPDS, and ACM TOS.
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