Song Jiang     
Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI 48202

Phone: (313) 577-8944

Fax: (313) 578-5860   

 

 

 

 

Research

 

My research interests include operating system, file and storage system, and high-performance computing.

 

GRA Opening

 

There is a GRA (Graduate Research Assistantship) position available in the group starting from the fall of 2012 for new Ph.D students. Interested students are welcome to contact Dr. Jiang with their CVs and transcripts.

 

Teaching

Winter 2012 ECE 2610: Digital Logic

Winter 2012 ECE 7660: Parallel Computer Architecture

 

Representative and Recent Publications (see also Full publication list):

 

v      Berk Atikoglu, Yuehai Xu, Eitan Frachtenberg, Song Jiang, and Mike Paleczny, "Workload Analysis of a Large-Scale Key-Value Store", to appear in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 Conference (SIGMETRICS’12), London, United Kingdom, June, 2012.

v      Xuechen Zhang, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, "iTransformer: Using SSD to Improve Disk Scheduling for High-performance I/O", to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'12), Shanghai, China, May, 2012.

v      Xuechen Zhang, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, "Opportunistic Data-driven Execution of Parallel Programs for Efficient I/O Services", to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'12), Shanghai, China, May, 2012.

v      Yizhe Wang, Kei Davis, Yuehai Xu and Song Jiang, "iHarmonizer: Improving the Disk Efficiency of I/O-intensive Multithreaded Codes", to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'12), Shanghai, China, May, 2012.

v      Xuechen Zhang, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, "QoS Support for End Users of I/O-intensive Applications using Shared Storage Systems", in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'11), Seattle, WA, November, 2011.

v      Xuechen Zhang, Yuehai Xu, and Song Jiang, "YouChoose: A Performance Interface Enabling Convenient and Efficient QoS Support for Consolidated Storage Systems", in Proceedings of 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'11), Denver, CO, May, 2011. [Best Student Paper Award]

v      Yuehai Xu and Song Jiang, "A Scheduling Framework that Makes any Disk Schedulers Non-work-conserving solely based on Request Characteristics", in Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'11),  San Jose, CA, February, 2011.

v      Xuechen Zhang, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, "IOrchestrator: Improving the Performance of Multi-node I/O Systems via Inter-Server Coordination", in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'10), New Orleans, LA, November, 2010.

v      Xuechen Zhang and Song Jiang, "InterferenceRemoval: Removing Interference of Disk Access for MPI Programs through Data Replication", in Proceedings of 24th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'10), Tsukuba, Japan, June, 2010.

v      Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, and Xiaodong Zhang, "A Framework Making Any Replacement Algorithms (Almost) Lock Contention Free", in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’09), Shanghai, China, March, 2009.

v      Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch", in Proceedings of 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'07), Santa Clara, CA, June, 2007.

v      Song Jiang, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DULO: an Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit both Temporal and Spatial Locality", in Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05) , San Francisco, CA, December, 2005.

v      Song Jiang, Feng Chen, and Xiaodong Zhang, ``CLOCK-Pro: An Effective Improvement of the CLOCK Replacement ", in Proceedings of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'05), Anaheim, CA, April, 2005.

v      Song Jiang and Xiaodong Zhang, "LIRS: An Efficient Low Inter-Reference Recency Set Replacement Policy to Improve Buffer Cache Performance" in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'02), Marina Del Rey, CA, June, 2002.

 

Book

 

Advanced Operating Systems and Kernel Applications: Techniques and Technologies  (pdf)

 

Impacts of Dr. Jiang’s Representative Work:   

 

Students:

 

·        Ke Liu (Summer internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2012)

·        Yuehai Xu (Summer internships at Facebook 2011 and 2012)

·        Xuechen Zhang (Summer internships at VMware and Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2011)

·        Yizhe Wang (graduated in 2011, now at VMware)

 

 

Research Supports:

 

v     Twelve servers (Intel 8-core Xeon and 64GB DRAM) donated by Facebook.

v     NSF, “Enabling Dual-mode Execution for Removing I/O Bottleneck: A Highly Applicable Design and Implementation”, 2011-2012 (PI).

v     NSF, “CAREER: Building Virtual Devices with QoS Assurance in a Consolidated Storage Infrastructure”, 2009-2014 (PI).

v     NSF, “Collaborative Research: Algorithms Design and Systems Implementation to Improve Buffer Management for I/O Data Accesses”, 2007-2010, (PI).

v     NSF, “CRI: Reconfigurable High Performance Cluster Computing and Medical Engineering Applications” 2007-2009 (co-PI).