Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science

Top researchers in high performance computing were recognized by the Supercomputing Conference 2007 (SC07) held recently in Reno Nevada.  Sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, this international conference showcases the latest advances in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.    On November 15, 2007 the SC07 conference announced winners of the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Poster, ACM Student Research Competition, Analytics Challenge, Bandwidth Challenge, Storage Challenge, and Gordon Bell Prize.  The Synergy Lab at Virginia Tech, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, was awarded the Storage Challenge Award.  The winning entry is entitled “ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing.”  The team includes Jeremy Archuleta, ICTAS Doctoral Scholar at Virginia Tech, Pavan Balaji of the Argonne National Laboratory,  Wu-chun Feng of the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech, and Heshan Lin of North Carolina State University.   Jeremy’s advisors are Drs. Wu-chun Feng and Eli Tilevich.