SCAPE News

New USENIX Workshop on Power

cameron — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:52:42 -0400

USENIX is sponsoring a workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT). The following is link, a description of the workshop and the cfp.

http://www.usenix.org/events/sustainit10/

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SCAPE Research Spins out Company

cameron — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:02:08 -0400

Two venture firms invest in university faculty member green information technology invention

By Susan Trulove

BLACKSBURG, Va., December 5, 2008 -- Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. announces that Valhalla Partners and Virginia's Center for Innovative Technologies (CIT) GAP Funds have invested in MiserWare, Inc., a Blacksburg, Va. software company based on power-saving technologies for computing devices invented by Kirk Cameron, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.

SCAPE receives IBM Faculty Award

cameron — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:15:32 -0400

Dr. Kirk W. Cameron, leader of the SCAPE laboratory and an associate professor in Computer Science, has received an IBM Faculty Award for his work entitled "Building the Tree of Life on IBM Blue Gene/L and the Cell Broadband Engine." This award, in collaboration with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Xizhou Feng, will fund research with IBM researchers Carlos Sosa and Brian Smith to execute a new parallel implementation of the Bayesian phylogenetic inference method for DNA sequence data on the IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer and the Cell Broadband Engine. The PBPI software identifies

Cameron named COE Fellow

cameron — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:15:21 -0400

Prof. Kirk W. Cameron, director of the SCAPE Laboratory, was named a 2007 Faculty Fellow of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering in recognition of excellence in research. Prof. Cameron accepted this prestigious award on behalf of the students that have contributed to the success of the SCAPE Laboratory since its inception. The award provides $5,000 in discretionary funding for each of the next three years. Congratulations to Dr. Cameron and the SCAPE team.

SCAPE releases Tempest 1.0

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:04:53 -0400

SCAPE Laboratory researchers have created a first-of-its-kind tool for profiling the temperature of source codes. Tempest is a "Temperature Estimator" that runs on any system with LMSensors installed and has been successfully tested on a number of x86, x86_64, PowerPC, multi-core, and multi-processor systems. Tempest provides a thermal profile of an application and correlates temperature data to source code. Tempest development was led by Hari K. Pyla and Prof. Kirk W. Cameron of SCAPE. The Tempest toolkit and source code are available from the Software tab on this page.

SCAPE undergrads attend top schools

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:24 -0400

SCAPE undergraduates Chris Jones (BS USC, 2006) and Joseph Turner (BS USC, 2006) will both attend top graduate schools in pursuit of PhD's in Computer Science. Both students received honorable mentions for NSF Fellowships. Both students were highly recruited from several schools and offered full tuition and stipends. Chris has decided to attend UCLA to pursue studies at the intersection between biomedical applications and computing. Joseph has decided to attend Virginia Tech to pursue research in the SCAPE Laboratory.

Turner awarded cunningham Fellowship

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:11:59 -0400

SCAPE researcher Joseph Turner was recently offered a Cunningham Fellowship to pursue his PhD studies at Virginia Tech. The Cunningham Fellowship is the most prestigious Fellowship offered by Virginia Tech and comes with four years of stipend, tuition, and discretionary funds for travel and equipment. Congratulations to Joseph on this outstanding achievement.

SCAPE researcher tackles Appalachian Trail

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:03:04 -0400

SCAPE researcher Joseph Turner (B.S. USC, 2006) recently set his sites on a new challenge: walking from Georgia to Virginia. Joseph began his trek in January of 2007 and proceeded to march over 700 miles to just outside Roanoke, Virginia. At peak, he was traveling 20 miles per day by foot. Joseph plans to spend the rest of the summer realxing and traveling with friends before embarking on his PhD here at Virginia Tech in Fall 2007.

Power-aware memory paper debut

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:59:10 -0400

SCAPE researchers have been working for some time on extending power-related work to the memory subsystem. Matt Tolentino has led efforts on this thread resulting in a publication at ACM Computing Frontiers 2007. The paper, co-authored with Joseph Turner and Prof. Cameron, described formal control theoretic techniques for turning memory chips off and back on while limiting negative impact on performance. Congratulations to Matt and Joseph!

SCAPE increases presence at IPDPS 2007

cameron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:51:59 -0400

Another SCAPE first this year. SCAPE researchers have two papers at IPDPS, one of our top HPC conferences. The first paper, led by Rong Ge entitled "Power-aware Speedup" describes an analytical performance model of power-aware clusters. The second paper, led by Dr. Xizhou Feng describes the use of PBPI on the world's fastest supercomputer and is entitled "Building the Tree of Life on Terascale Systems." This work was accomplished in collaboration with Brian Smith and Carlos Sosa of IBM Rochester. IPDPS had only a 25% acceptance rate this year making these papers quite an accomplishment.