Seung Woo Son Postdoctoral Fellow Email: sson at eecs dot northwestern dot edu CV: [pdf] |
Note: As of August 2014, I am no longer at Northwestern University. I am now at University of Masschusetts Lowell.
Research
-
Current Projects
- Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization
- Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach
- Parallel NetCDF
-
Past Projects
- Damsel - A Data Model Storage Library for Exascale
- X-Analytics: Scalable and Power Efficient Data Analytics for Hybrid Exascale Systems
- Comparing Data-intensive distributed file systems (in collaboration with CMU)
- Active Storage with Analytics Capabilities (in collaboration with NU)
- Compiler/runtime based disk power management for scientific applications
- Data prefetching for chip multiprocessors/shared storage caches
- Energy saving through embedded processing on the disks
- Integrated CPU/Link voltage scaling
- QoS in shared storage systems
Publications
(see my Google Scholar or DBLP Entry)-
Recent publications
- Z. Chen, S. W. Son, W. Hendrix, A. Agrawal, W-k. Liao, and A. Choudhary, NUMARCK: Machine Learning Algorithm for Resiliency and Checkpointing, To appear in SC14.
- S. W. Son, S. Sehrish, W-K. Liao, R. Oldfield, and A. Choudhary, Dynamic File Striping and Data Layout Transformation on Parallel System with Fluctuating I/O Workload, In IASDS 2013 (held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster'13).
- S. Sehrish, S. W. Son, W-K. Liao, A. Choudhary and K. Schuchardt, Improving Collective I/O Performance by Pipelining Request Aggregation and File Access, In EuroMPI 2013.
- S. J. Kim, S. W. Son, M. Kandemir, W.-K. Liao, R. Thakur, and A. Choudhary, IOPin: Runtime Profiling and Optimization of Parallel I/O in HPC Systems, In PDSW 2012 (held in conjunction with SC'12).
- W. Ding, Y. Zhang, M. Kandemir, and S. W. Son, Compiler-Directed File Layout Optimization for Hierarchical Storage Systems, In SC 2012.
- M. Kandemir, S. Srikantaiah, S. W. Son, Improving Shared Cache Behavior of Multithreaded Object-Oriented Applications in Multicores, In ICCAD 2011.
- W. Tantisiriroj, S. Patil, G. Gibson, S. W. Son, S. Lang, and R. Ross, On the Duality of Data-intensive File System Design: Reconciling HDFS and PVFS, In SC 2011.
- S. W. Son, S. Lang, R. Latham, R. Ross, and R. Thakur, Reliable MPI-IO through Layout-Aware Replication, In SNAPI 2011.
- S. J. Kim, Y. Zhang, S. W. Son, R. Prabhakar, M. Kandemir, C. Patrick, W-.K. Liao, and A. Choudhary, Automated Tracing of I/O Stack, In EuroMPI 2010.
- M. Kandemir, S. P. Muralidhara, M. Karakoy, and S. W. Son, Computation Mapping for Multi-Level Storage Cache Hierarchies, In HPDC 2010.
- J. Wozniak, S. W. Son, and R. Ross, Distributed Object Storage Rebuild Analysis via Simulation with GOBS, In FTXS 2010 (held in conjunction with DSN 2010).
- C. Patrick, M. Kandemir, M. Karakoy, S. W. Son, and A. Choudhary, Cashing in on Hints for Better Prefetching and Caching in PVFS and MPI-IO, In HPDC 2010.
- S. W. Son, S. Lang, P. Carns, R. Ross, R. Thakur, B. Ozisikyilmaz, P. Kumar, W. K. Liao, and A. Choudhary, Enabling Active Storage on Parallel I/O Software Stacks, In MSST 2010.
- S. W. Son, M. Kandemir, Y. Zhang, R. Garg, Topology-Aware I/O Caching for Shared Storage Systems, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS'09), Sept. 2009.
- O. Ozturk, M. Kandemir, S. W. Son, I. Kolku, Shared Scratch Pad Memory Space Management Across Applications, In International Journal of Embedded Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 54-65, 2009.
- C. Patrick, R. Garg, S. W. Son, M. Kandemir, Improving I/O Performance using Soft-QoS Based Dynamic Storage Cache Partitioning, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'09), Sept. 2009.
- R. Garg, S. W. Son, M. Kandemir, and P. Raghavan, Markov Model Based Disk Power Management for Data Intensive Workloads, In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'09), pages 76-83, May 2009.
- S. W. Son, M. Kandemir, M. Karakoy, D. Charkrabarti, A Compiler-Directed Data Prefetching Scheme for Chip Multiprocessors, In Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'09), Feb 2009.