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. Oct. 2009: Yuan Tian selected for Chen-Wu Fellowship Award by Auburn University Graduate School.
2. Oct. 2009: ORNL Award to Weikuan Yu on Storage Efficient Access for Scientific Data Management
3. Oct. 2009: ORNL Award to Weikuan Yu on Minimizing System Noise Effects for Extreme-Scale Scientific Simulation
4. Sept. 2009: Patrick Carpenter selected to attend the premier HPC conference SC09 through its Student Volunteer Program
5. Sept. 2009: NSF Award to Xiao Qin, Wei-shinn Ku and Weikuan Yu. CNS-0917137: FastStor: Data-Mining-Based Multilayer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems
6. Sept. 2009: A conference participation grant awarded to Yuan Tian through the SC09 Broader Engagement (BE) Program
7. Jul. 2009: NSF TeraGrid Award to Mitch Pindzola and Weikuan Yu. 4 million hours on Kraken Computer at UTK/NICS, 2009
8. Jun. 2009: Yuan Tian's research poster selected for TeraGrid 2009, along with a travel award
9. Apr. 2009: Patrick Carpenter Awarded 2009 Undergraduate Research Fellowship by Auburn University.

• A dual-socket quad-core cluster, just expanded to 17 nodes.
• An InfiniBand newtork with 36-port switch and four HCAs
• Two sets of back-to-back 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards
• 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.

• Graduate Research Assistants
• Undergraduate Research Assistants

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