Computer Systems and Storage System Laboratory (CASS)

Our Computer Architecture and Storage System (CASS) laboratory has primary research interests which cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and computer systems. A common thread among our research projects focuses on fast data accesses and resource sharing with cost- and energy-efficient management at different levels of memory and storage hierarchies in supercomputer, parallel and distributed computer systems. More recently, CASS research interests cover the areas of interdisciplinary computing, computer architecture, and low-power computing. A significant complimentary thread among CASS extensive research projects emphasize at developing new software tools and hardware platforms to stimulate advances in science and engineering research, where large digital data collections are increasingly prevalent. CASS research projects have been sponsored by several federal funding agencies such as National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and NASA. In the last five years, the total amount of research funding is approximately $3+M.

Current Members
Alumni Members

• Qiangju Xiao, Master degree conferred at UCF in Spring 2013.
• Christopher Deleuze, NSF REU, data intensive HPC, Summer 2013.
• Andrew Foran, NSF REU, data intensive HPC, Summer 2013.
• Alan Birmaher, the EXCEL program, Spring 2013.
• Ashish Naik, the EXCEL program, Spring 2012.
• Jeff Chenault, the EXCEL program, Spring 2012.
• Kwok Wai Ng, NSF REU, scalable reverse lookup, Spring 2012.
• Grant Mackey, Master degree conferred at UCF in Spring 2012.
• Christopher Mitchell, Master degree conferred at UCF in Fall 2011.
• Pengju Shang, PhD in Summer 2011, dissertation: “Research in high performance and low power computer systems for Data-intensive environment”, First employment after graduation: EMC.
• Lu Chen, Master in Fall 2010, Master thesis title: Concentric layout, a new data layout for matrix set in Hadoop file system.
• Zhengkai Wu, Master in Fall 2010
• Saba Sehrish, PhD in Summer 2010, dissertation: “Improving Performance and Programmer Productivity for I/O-Intensive High Performance Computing Applications”. Master program under Dr. Mark Heinrich's supervision. First employment after graduation: Postdoc in Northwestern University (Alok’s group).
• Sandesh Shankarappa, Master in Summer 2010.
• Johnny Morris, Master, Spring 2009
• Huijun Zhu, Master in Fall 2008.
• Peng Gu, PhD in Summer 2008, dissertation: Metadata and Data Management in High-performance File and Storage Systems; First employment after graduation: Microsoft.
• Dr. Kening Zhang, Research Associate, 2008 (Ph.D. program under Dr. Ron DeMara's supervision).
• Xiaoyu Yao, PhD in Spring 2007, dissertation: Improving Performance and Energy-efficiency in Storage Server Systems; First employment after graduation: Microsoft.
• Dong Li, PhD in Summer 2006, dissertation: High Performance Energy-efficient File and Storage Systems; First employment after graduation: Pillar Data Systems.
• Hailong Cai, PhD in Summer 2006, dissertation: Self-organization and Content Location for Data Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems; First employment after graduation: Google Inc.
• Jeffrey Gerard, BS with distinction in Spring 2006.
• Brandon Smith, UNL UCARE project 2005.
• Tallman Tyler, UNL UCARE project 2006.
• Matthew Landowski, UCF 2006.
• Matthew Beiser, UCF 2006.