Parallel computing is becoming the norm of today's computing practices at every scale. The Parallel Architecture and System Research Lab (PASL) at Auburn University, headed by Dr. Weikuan Yu, has broad interests in architectural and system research issues that are relevant for the advancement of parallel computing. This group is also committed to research efforts that aim at effective leverage of parallel computing power for scientific applications.

1. Mar. 2012: Congratulations to PASL students on obtaining internship opportunities to join prestigious research institutions in the Summer 2012. Among them, Xinyu Que and Yandong Wang will spend their summer at IBM T.J. Watson, Zhuo Liu at Sandia National Laboratories, and Cong Xu at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
2. Mar. 2012: Dr. Yu gives an invited talk at IBM T.J. Watson on Accelerating Hadoop with Scalable Algorithms on RDMA Networks.
3. Mar. 2012: Congratulations to Xinyu Que on winning the 2nd Place Award in the 2012 Graduate Research Competition of College of Engineering.
4. Feb. 2012: Congratulations to Xinyu Que, Patrick Carpenter and Bin on winning 1st and 3rd places in the 2012 research poster competition of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
5. Nov. 2011: Congratulations to Xinyu Que on winning the HPC George Michael Fellowship Award from SC11, the premium HPC conference in Seattle, WA. As a part of this fellowship, Xinyu receives a monetary award of $5,000 and full travel support to attend SC11 and SC12. War Eagle!!
6. Nov. 2011: Our Hadoop Acceleration framework is released by Mellanox as UDA 2.0 for fast Unstructured Data Acceleration. In the revised release announcement, Mellanox officially acknowledges the contribution from our PASL group and Dr. Yu.
7. Nov. 2011: Thanks for the generous support from SC11. Yuan Tian attends SC11 under the Broad Engagement program; Patrick Carpenter and Yandong Wang attend SC11 as student volunteers.
8. Oct. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu gives an invited Keynote Talk at the 2011 HPC China High Performance Advisory Council meeting in Jinan, China.
9. Oct. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu tours several research institutes in China and gives invited talks at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
10. Oct. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu gives an invited talk at GaTech in the 6th Open Cirrus Summit to leading researchers on cloud computing and big data analytics.
11. Sept. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu gives a Hadoop tutorial in the Cluster Computing conference. The number of attendees ranges around 15 for the most part of the tutorial, and peaks at 19.
12. Sept. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu gives an invited talk on enabling scalable I/O for NASA climate applications in the 3rd ADIOS meeting at ORNL.
13. Sept. 2011: NVIDIA selects Dr. Weikuan Yu to lead a CUDA teaching center at Auburn University on enabling multidisciplinary scientific computing with GPGPU technologies.
14. Aug. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu is awarded a contract from Mellanox to continue his effort on Hadoop Scalability Enhancements for Big Data Analytics.
15. Aug. 2011:The PASL group is thrilled with the visit of Mr. John Monson, Vice President of Mellanox. Mr. Monson honors the PASL group with an official recognition as a research partner of Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
16. Jul. 2011: As a part of a team effort, PASL group's contribution to ADIOS has been featured in HPCwire.
17. Jul. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu particiates in a team that wins 7.9 million core-hours from the Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences hosted by University of Tennessee Knoxville. The monetary value of the hours awarded is around $400,000.
18. June 2011: Our new 50-node heterogenous CPU+GPGPU cluster has arrived.
19. June 2011: Our paper on BMF: Bitmapped Mass Fingerprinting for fast protein identification has been accepted to Cluster 2011.
20. June 2011: Our paper on Elastic Data Organization for ADIOS has been accepted to Cluster 2011.
21. June 2011: Our paper on Hadoop Acceleration through Network Levitated Merging has been accepted to SC11.
22. June 2011: Congratulations to Yuan Tian on winning the first prize in the Student Research Competition of 2011 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'11), the flagship supercomputing conference of ACM. War Eagle!!
23. June 2011: A joint tutorial on Hadoop Acceleration with Emerging Interconnect Technologies by Dr. Weikuan Yu and Dror Goldenberg, VP of Mellanox, has been accepted, and will be hosted at Cluster 2011. Please join us for an in-depth walkthrough of the cutting-edge cloud computing paradigm for data analytics at Austin, Texas on September 26th.
24. May. 2011: Our paper (by Dr. Weikuan Yu and Xinyu Que, along with colleagues from ORNL) on virtual topologies for scalable global address space programming model has been accepted by ICPP 2011, to be presented in September at Taipei, Taiwan.
25. May. 2011: Congratulations to Dr. Weikuan Yu on winning a NASA award to enable elastic parallel I/O for NASA climate applications. Dr. Yu leads the multi-institution project with colleagues from NASA GSFC and ORNL.
26. Apr. 2011: Congratulations to Bin Wang, Yandong Wang, and Yuan Tian for obtaining summer research opportunities from ORNL.
27. Mar. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu is awarded a grant from NSF to pursue Multidisciplinary Research on Computer Systems and Scientific Simulations with a Compute and Storage Cluster.
28. Feb. 2011: Congratulations to Yuan Tian for winning the first prize of research poster competition in the department of CSSE.
29. Feb. 2011: Dr. Weikuan Yu is awarded a grant from ORNL to exploit emerging memory technologies and cloud computing for efficient data analysis.
30. Jan. 2011: Our paper on Network-Friendly One-Sided Communication on Petascale Cray XT5 Systems is selected for presentation in CCGrid 2011.
31. Archived Events.

• A dual-socket quad-core cluster with 27 nodes.
• A dual-socket hex-core cluster with 51 nodes.
• A GPGPU cluster with 25 nodes, equipped with Tesla C2050 cards.
• A QDR InfiniBand newtork with 108 ports.
• A 10-Gigabit Ethernet network with 48 ports.
• A developmental cluster of PlayStation 3 machines
• A developmental cluster of GeForce GTX 280 Nvidia GPGPU cards
• A network of student workstations, well suited for system administration practices.
• All clusters are connected to the student lab via fibre connections.

• Postdoctoral Associate
• Graduate Research Assistants
• Undergraduate Research Assistants

1. Call for Papers
2. HPCwire
3. LWN
4. USENIX