IACS student presents at multiple IEEE conferences

Tan Li (www.ece.sunysb.edu/~tanli/) is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Dr. Dantong Yu from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as his adviser. His research involves high-performance data transfer and multicore resource scheduling. He received a travel award from the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) to present his paper, as the first author, at the 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2015).

He is the primary developer for the Multicore-Aware Data Transfer Application (MDTMApp) software system. This work is an ongoing project of Fermilab and BNL, whose goals are to design and build middleware and data transfer application to accelerate data movement at multicore systems. The proposed software was proven to provide 1.3x to 1236x speedup to existing popular data transfer tools, such as GridFTP, BBCP and Aspera, on the Department of Energy’s nationwide network testbeds.

Tan is a student member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and has published and presented multiple technical papers at other IEEE sponsored conferences, such as Supercomputing (SC) and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Tan will graduate in December 2015 and will work for VMware, Inc. upon graduation. His future goals include understanding and making key contributions to the high-performance computing community. Tan will work to design, develop, and optimize the next generation snapshot technology in VMware.