Xu Liu  Ph.D student  Department of Computer Science  Rice University Address: 6100 Main St.  MS-132  　 Houston, TX, 77005 Office: Duncan Hall 3063 (Map) Phone: 713-348-5710 (office) Email: xu.liu (at) rice (.) edu

Short Bio

      I am a Ph.D student at CS Department of Rice University. My advisor is Prof. John Mellor-Crummey.

Education

• Ph.D student in CS Department of Rice University. (2009.9 ~ Now. In Process.)

• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2009

• B.S. in Software Engineering, School of Software Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2006

Projects

• I am mainly involved in HPCToolkit at Rice University

• I also worked on Paradyn, especially symtabAPI at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Publication

Performance Analysis

Xu Liu, John Mellor-Crummey and Nathan Tallent, "Performance Bottleneck Analysis for Application Programs on Intel's SCC"  The third MARC Symposium, Ettlingen, Germany, July 2011, accepted

Xu Liu, Jianfeng Zhan, Kunlin Zhan, Weisong Shi, Lin Yuan, Dan Meng and Lei Wang, "Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD-style Parallel Programs"  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 71, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 925-937.

Xu Liu and John Mellor-Crummey, "Pinpointing Data Locality Problems Using Data-centric Analysis"  the 2011 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO11) April 2-6, Chamonix, France

Xu Liu, Jianfeng Zhan, Dan Meng, etc, "Similarity Analysis in Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD Parallel Programs"  International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis(SC 08) workshop on Node Level Parallelism for Large Scale Supercomputers. Austin, Texas, USA

Wei Zhou, Jianfeng Zhan, Xu Liu "Multidimensional Failure Analysis of System Logs in Largescale Cluster System" HPC China 2008, 10 October - 1 November in Wuxi, China

Parallel Environment

Peng Wang, Xu Liu, Dan Meng, Jianfeng Zhan, Bibo Tu, "Dual-Direction Backfilling Algorithm for Parallel Job Scheduling " HPC Asia 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Peng Wang, Xu Liu, Dan Meng, Jianfeng Zhan, Bibo Tu, "A job scheduling framework by exploiting workload characteristic " HPC Asia 2009 poster session, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Xu Liu, Bibo Tu, Jianfeng Zhan and Dan Meng "A Fast-start, Fault-tolerant MPILauncher on Dawning Supercomputers " The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, short paper(PDCAT08)

Virtualization

Yi Jin, Xu Liu, Jianfeng Zhan "A Dynamic Provisioning Framework for Multitier Internet Applications in Virtualized Data Center" The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, short paper(PDCAT08)

Awards

• 2011 - 2012: Schlumberger Fellowship, Rice University

• 2009 - 2010: Graduate Fellowship, Rice Univeristy

• 2007 - 2008: Outstanding research assistant award, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 2006 - 2007: Head of the Institute Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Professional Activities

• Invited talk on CScADS workshop, Lake Tahoe, CA, Aug 2011

• Invited talk on CScADS workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, Aug 2010

• Reviewer for Whist 11 (co-located with ICS 11)

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Working Experience

• 05.2011 - 08.2011: Honorary Fellow, the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Friends

• Shuyin Jiao

• Nan Li

• Zhuan Chen

• Ziyu Guo

• Xinyu Que

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