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Cong Xu
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University
(334) 332-2573
[email protected]
www.auburn.edu/~czx0003/
Research Interests
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MapReduce, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing
High Performance Computing, MPI Programming, Parallel Computing
Parallel I/O, Storage, and File Systems
Education
2012 – 2015
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science & Software Engineering;
2009 – 2012
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Master of Science in Computer Science & Software Engineering;
2005 – 2009
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science;
Internship Experience
2012 Summer
Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
(1) Design and implement a novel logarithmic Alltoallv algorithm for MPI communication
(2) Further optimize algorithm for Hierarchical Multicore Systems
(3) Publish 1 CCGRID’13 Paper (Acceptance rate: 22%)
Research Experience
2010 - Present
Parallel Architecture & System Laboratory
Research Assistant
(1) Work with LLNL and Intel to exploit Analytics Shipping with Big Data framework on
HPC Backend Storage Servers. (Using Yarn Mapreduce and Lustre as the case study)
(2) Further optimize Yarn Mapreduce I/O performance over Lustre filesystem.
(3) Design and implement JVM-Bypass Shuffling (JBS) for Hadoop data shuffling, which
can avoid Java-based transport protocol, remove the overhead and limitations of the
JVM.
Publications
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[TPDS’15]: Cong Xu, Yandong Wang, Weikuan Yu. Design and Evaluation of Hadoop JVM-Bypass
Shuffling, (To be submitted)
[TPDS’15]: Cong Xu, Robin Goldsone, Zhuo Liu, Hui Chen, Bryon Neitzel, Weikuan Yu. Exploiting
Analytics Shipping with Virtualized MapReduce on HPC Backend Storage Servers, IEEE Transactions
on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2015.
[CCGRID'13]: Cong Xu, Manjunath G. Venkata, Richard L. Graham, Yandong Wang, Zhuo Liu,
Weikuan Yu. SLOAVx: Scalable LOgarithmic AlltoallV Algorithm for Hierarchical Multicore Systems,
CCGrid'13, Delft, Netherlands. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
[IPDPS'13]: Yandong Wang, Cong Xu, Xiaobing Li, Weikuan Yu. JVM-Bypass for Efficient Hadoop
Shuffling, IPDPS'13, Boston, MA. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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Curriculum Vitae
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[SC'13]: Xiaobing Li, Yandong Wang, Yizheng Jiao, Cong Xu, Weikuan Yu. CooMR: Cross-Task
Coordination for Efficient Data Management in MapReduce in Programs, SC'13, Denver, Colorado.
(Acceptance rate: 20%)
• [CLUSTER JOURNAL]: Yuan Tian, Cong Xu, Weikuan Yu, Scott Klasky, Honggao Liu. neCODEC:
Nearline Data Compression for Scientific Applications, Journal: Cluster Computing, 2013.
• [TC]: Weikuan Yu, Yandong Wang, Xinyu Que, Cong Xu. Virtual Shuffling for Efficient Data
Movement in MapReduce, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2013.
• [ICCCN’13]: Zhuo Liu, Bin Wang, Teng Wang, Yuan Tian, Cong Xu, Yandong Wang, Weikuan Yu,
Carlos A. Cruz, Shujia Zhou, Tom Clune, Scott Klasky. Profiling and Improving I/O Performance of a
Large-Scale Climate Scientific Application, ICCCN’13, Nassau, Bahamas.
• [MBDS'12]: Xinyu Que, Yandong Wang, Cong Xu, Weikuan Yu. Hierarchical Merge for Scalable
MapReduce, Workshop on Management of Big Data Systems (MBDS), in conjunction with ICAC 2012,
San Jose, CA.
• [CLUSTER'11]: Weikuan Yu, K. John Wu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Cong Xu, Juan Gao. BMF: Bitmapped
Mass Fingerprinting for Fast Protein Identification, Cluster 2011, Austin, TX.s
Master Thesis:
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Honors
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Graduate Research / Teaching Assistantship. (2009-2015)
ICCCN Travel Grants Award. (2013)
Student scholarship, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication. (2005-2009)
Computer Skills
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Strong object-oriented design, coding and testing skills in Java and C/C++
Development experiences on Unix/Linux distributed system
Familiar with MapReduce Cloud Computing, Hive for Big Data Analytics
Experience in High performance Computing, MPI programming, Parallel Programming, Storage
Skillful at Python, Html, Assembly language
About Me
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Very nice person that others would like to work with
Really interested in programming and algorithm
References
Dr. Weikuan Yu
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Auburn University
[email protected]
Dr. Yandong Wang
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J Watson Research
[email protected]
Dr. Kai Chang
Department Chair, Computer Science, Auburn University
[email protected]
Cong Xu,
Curriculum Vitae
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