opera

Operating Systems Research Group
Operating Systems Research on Energy, Reliability and Autonomy
Research Statement

As rapid advances in computing hardware have led to dramatic improvement in computer performance, the issues of reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost of ownership are becoming increasingly important. The Opera research group conducts research in operating systems with focuses on power management, autonomic computing, and software reliability and availability.

Our research also involves other disciplinary such as architecture, database, data mining and artificial intelligence. Basically, the theme of our research investigate innovative ideas by exploiting the new features of modern architecture, applying database and data mining solutions and machine learning algorithms to improve system performance, robustness, reliability and manageability.

Recent News
  • [Publication] April 2008: Lin, Xiao, and Weiwei's paper is accepted to USENIX Security'08!
  • [Press] Feb 2008: Our research on storage system failure has made to several news posts:
  • [Publication] Dec 2007, Ding, Kyuhyung, Gopal, Zhenmin, Xiao, YY and Jiawei's paper is accepted by SDM'08!
  • [Publication] Nov 2007, Weihang, Chongfeng's paper is accepted by FAST'08!
  • [Publication] Oct 2007, Shan, Soyeon, Eunsoo's paper is accepted by ASPLOS'08!
  • [Publication] Jun 2007, we have three papers accepted by SOSP '07, one of the best conferences in operating systems. Congratulations to Lin for iComment, Shan for MUVI, Joe for Triage and all other authors!
  • [Publication] Mar 2007, YY, Darko, William, Craig, Marcelo, Steven, Ryan and Joe' paper is accepted by HotDep '07.
  • [Publication] Dec 2006, Joe, Shan, Spiros' paper (collaborated with CMU) is accepted by EuroSys'07, a top conference in operating systems.
  • [Publication] Nov 2006, Shan, Joe and Feng's AVIO (published in ASPLOS'06) is selected into IEEE Micro Special Issue on Top Picks from Architecture Conferences, 2006 based on significance and relevance to Industry. Only 11 papers are selected!
  • [Funding] Oct 2006, NetApp has provided our group a $40,000 Gift grant to collaborate on system mining.
  • [Publication] Sept 2006, Pin's HARD paper is accepted into HPCA'07, a top conference in Computer Architecture.
  • [Promotion] August 2006: YY is promoted to a tenured associate Professor 2 years earlier than scheduled!
  • [Publication] August 2006: the TWO papers we submitted to Micro'06, a top-tier conference in computer architecture, are all accepted! Congratulations to Shan Lu, Pin Zhou, Feng Qin and Zhenmin Li!
  • [Funding] July 2006: YY just obtained another grant from NSF on a collaboration project with NC-State and Penn State on high performance I/Os.
  • [Funding] July 2006, Motorola has provide us a 3-year grant to work on software reliability
  • [Press] July 2006: Our research on software reliability has made to several news posts:
  • [Funding] June 2006: YY got a new NSF grant on storage systems jointly with professors from NC-State and Penn-State for 3 years.
  • [Job]May 2006: Report on job searches of our three soon-to-be-doctors from the Opera group:
    • Feng Qin, will join Ohio-State University as an assistant professor in the CS department this coming Fall (Fall 2006)
    • Zhenmin Li, have accepted the offer from IBM Almaden Research Lab
    • Pin Zhou, is still deciding between an assistant professor position at Waterloo University and industrial research labs
  • [Publication]May 2006: Shan, Joe and Feng's AVIO paper on atomicity violation detection has been accepted into the International Conference of Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), a flagship conference (held only once every two years) in multi-disciplinary research between architecture, operating system and compiler/program language.
  • [Funding] May 2006: A NSF proposal led by Yuanyuan (YY) with three other faculty (Craig Zilles, Darko Marinov, Bill Sanders) got funded with $750K for 3 years!
  • [Funding] May 2006: Yuanyuan (YY)'s two Intel grants will be renewed for the next year!
  • [Job]Apr 2006: Lin Tan and Weihang Jiang will, respectively, go to Microsoft Research Redmond and HP Labs for their summer internships (summer 2006)
  • [Funding] Mar 2006: Yuanyuan(YY) has got one new NSF grant to work on power management for data servers
  • [Publication]Oct 2005: Feng Qin and Joe's paper "Rx" was selected as one of the five awarded paper at SOSP'05 and is fast forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (ACM-TOCS) Special Issues on Best papers from SOSP-2005.
  • [Publication] August 2005: We have 2 papers into SOSP'05! Feng and Joe's paper "Rx" and Qingbo, Zhifeng and Lin's paper "Hibernator" have been accepted by ACM's SOSP 2005, the best conference on operating systems. This time, only 20 papers are accepted from 155 submissions, with a 13% acceptance rate
  • [Publication] July 2005: Zhenmin's PR-Miner paper is accepted by FSE (ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundation of Software Engineering) of 2005, one of the best conferences in software engineering
  • [Job] May 2005: Four members from our group, Feng, Vivek, Shan and Joe, will spend their summers as interns working at Microsoft Research Labs, Intel Labs and IBM Almaden Lab, respectively.
  • [Funding] May 2005: Yuanyuan(YY) got the DOE Early career award, which will provide her $300K for 3 years to support her research
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Funding

  • NSF HECURA grant on I/O (2006-2009)
  • NSF CNS grant on reliability (2006-2009)
  • NSF CCF grant on power management (2006-2009)
  • 2 Intel gift grants (2005-2008)
  • DOE Early Career Award (2005-2008)
  • Microsoft grant (2005-2006)
  • NSF Career Award (2004-2009)
  • IBM Faculty Award (2004, 2005)
  • NSF CCR (single-PI) 2003-2004
  • NSF Small-ITR (with Prof. Adve) 2003-2006
  • NSF Medium-ITR (with Prof. Torrelas, Prof. Han, Prof. Midkiff) 2004-2008
  • IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Equipment Award
  • IBM CAS Fellowship (2003, 2004)
  • Intel Equipment Donation

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Last updated: 06/01/2006.