Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory (DISCL)

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Faculty and Staff Members

Name Contact Research Areas
Dr. Yong Chen
  • Data-intensive computing
  • High-performance computing
  • Parallel and distributed computing
  • Cloud computing
  • Computer architectures
  • Systems software
Dr. Yong Chen

Director, founder

Dr. Yu Zhuang
  • Email: yu.zhuang@ttu.edu
  • Website: Dr. Yu Zhuang
  • Phone: 806.742.3527
  • Office: EC-306E
  • Parallel computing
  • High performance memory system
  • Large scale computing
  • Data intensive computing
Dr. Yu Zhuang

Associate Director

Dr. Jiang Zhou
  • Email: jiang.zhou@ttu.edu
  • Website: Dr. Jiang Zhou
  • Phone: 806.392.2966
  • Office: EC-314
  • Big data
  • Distributed file system
  • High-performance computing
  • Parallel and distributed computing
  • Computer architectures
  • Systems software design
Dr. Jiang Zhou

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. John Leidel
  • High performance computing system architecture
  • CPU micro architecture
  • Compiler architecture
  • Parallel programming models & runtime libraries
  • Graph algorithms
  • Architecture simulation
Dr. John Leidel

Adjunct Research Scientist, Chief Scientist/Founder at Tactical Computing Laboratories

Student Members

Ph.D. Students

Name Contact Research Areas
  • Email: elham.hojati@ttu.edu
  • Website: Ms. Elham Hojati
  • Phone: 806.834.7530
  • Office: EC-304
  • Publications: CCIS'16
  • Posters: UCC'17
  • Instructor for CS4352 Operating Systems (Spring'16)
  • NSF travel award for UCC'17
  • Best Student Poster Award at UCC'17
Ms. Elham Hojati
  • Email: X-Spirit.zhang@ttu.edu
  • WebSite: Mr. Wei Zhang
  • Phone: 806.834.7247
  • Office: EC-304
  • Conference Publications: HiPC'19, SC'19, PACT'18, CCGrid'18, HPDC'17, Cluster'16
  • Journal Publications: JAG, TPDS, TGRS, ISPRS
  • Posters: SC'20, SC'18, CCGrid'18, PPoPP'17
  • Distributed Metadata Indexing for Scientific Data Management
  • Graph-based Data Management System for High Performance Computing
  • Geospatial Analytics on Social Network Data
  • Internship: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • ACM travel award for PACT '18
  • SC'18 student volunteer, SC'18 travel award
  • NSF travel award for HPDC'17
  • TCHPC and NSF travel award for CCGrid'18
Mr. Wei Zhang
  • Email: xi.wang@ttu.edu
  • Website: Mr. Xi Wang
  • Phone: 806.742.3527
  • Office: EC-304
  • Publications: HPDC'20, DAC'20, ICPP'19, MEMSYS'19, HPEC'18, MCHPC'18, ICPP'18, IA3'17, P2S2'17, WP3'17, MemSys'16
  • Posters: PACT'19, ICPP'19, ICPP'18, DAC'17
  • SC'15 Emerging Technologies forum and demo (GoblinCore-64 project)
  • Internship: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Micron Technology, Inc.
  • SC'16 student volunteer, SC'16 travel award
  • SC'16 Emerging Technologies forum and demo (OpenSoC project)
  • SC'18 student volunteer, SC'18 travel award
  • NSF travel award for ICPP'18
  • Helen DeVitt Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
  • P2S2'20 Publicity Chair
Mr. Xi Wang
  • Email: ghazanfar.ali@ttu.edu
  • Phone: 806.724.5332
  • Office: EC-304
  • Data-centric HPC systems, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and HPC
  • Publications:
  • Posters:
  • NSF travel award for UCC'17
Mr. Ghazanfar Ali
  • Email: misha.ahmadian@ttu.edu
  • Website: Mr. Misha Ahmadian
  • Phone: 806.620.1834
  • Office: ESB-140
  • Provenance Systems for HPC Clusters
  • Publications: BDR'17, PEARC’19
  • Posters: CoDA’16, PEARC’19
  • Best Student Poster Award at PEARC’19
  • LUG’19 student volunteer, LUG’19 travel award
  • PEARC’19 student volunteer, PEARC’19 travel award
  • Workshops: NCSI'14, NCSI'15, TACC'16
Mr. Misha Ahmadian
  • Email: daniel.dunning@ttu.edu
  • Phone: 505.670.0336
  • Office: -
  • Research interests: Parallel and Scientific Computing
Mr. Daniel Dunning
  • Email: jie.li@ttu.edu
  • Website(LinkedIn): Mr. Jie Li
  • Phone: +1 806.787.8258
  • Office: EC-304
  • Monitoring health status of HPC systems
  • Processing in Memory
Mr. Jie Li
  • Email: brody.williams@ttu.edu
  • Office: EC-304
  • Concurrent Dynamic Memory Coalescing on GoblinCore-64 Architecture
Mr. Brody Williams
  • Email: chenxu.niu@ttu.edu
  • Office: EC-304
  • Distributed Metadata Indexing for Scientific Data Management
  • Data Management for Scientific Datasets
Mr. Chenxu Niu
  • Email: ruonan.wu@ttu.edu
  • Phone: 806.786.7382
  • Office: EC-304
  • Database monitoring
  • Machine learning
Ms. Ruonan Wu

Masters Students

Name Contact Research Areas
  • Email: xueyuan.ji@ttu.edu
  • Office: EC-304
  • Graph storage system
  • Graph computing
Mr. Xueyuan Ji
  • Lustre File System
  • Provenance Data
  • Graph Databases
Ms. Harichandana Byna
  • Email: yuanxu.xu@ttu.edu
  • Compiler architecture
  • LLVM compiler
Mr. Cristiano Caon
  • Email: cristiano.caon@ttu.edu
  • HPC Systems Monitoring
  • Cloud Computing
  • Machine Learning
Mr. Cristiano Caon

Undergraduate Students

Name Contact Research Areas
Mr. Casey Root
  • Email: casey.root@ttu.edu
  • Phone: 512.992.9189
  • Website: caseyroot.com
  • Monitoring Status of HPCC System
Mr. Casey Root

Visiting Scholars

Name Contact Research Areas
Mr. Yusheng Hua
  • Email: yushua@ttu.edu
  • Office: EC-304
  • High Performance Computing
  • System Architecture
  • Parallel File System
  • Burst Buffer
  • Big Data
Mr. Yusheng Hua

Alumni

Please visit this alumni page for a list of DISCL alumni with their degree, year of graduation, and first employment.

Photo Gallery

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