The High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing (HPDIC) research lab conducts research in database systems, distributed computing, and machine intelligence; results are published at SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SC, IPDPS, TPDS, AAAI, and TPAMI. The Lab usually takes in one new Ph.D. student every year; interested applicants are encouraged to email the following information to dzhao at unr dot edu: (1) educational background; (2) a list of publications and/or technical reports; and (3) the link to the applicant's Github repository, if available.

News:

• 2023
  • [June] Radix caching of homomorphic encryption accepted by SIGMOD'23.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao served on the Program Committee for AAAI'23.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao served on the Program Committee for KDD'23.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at University of Washington.
• 2022
  • [Dec.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at Indiana University Bloomington.
  • [Nov.] MPI-based Federated Learning (MPI-FL) presented at SC'22.
  • [Feb.] Grant proposal of blockchain warehousing recommended for funding by NSF.
  • [Jan.] Edge-computing blockchain protocols accepted by IEEE IPDPS'22.
  • [Jan.] Topological distributed computing accepted by IPDPS'22, first-round 46/474 = 9.7%.
• 2021
  • [Nov.] Blockchain-as-a-Service for HPC (BAASH) accepted by ACM/IEEE SC'21.
  • [Nov.] Scientific data compression accepted by ACM/IEEE SC'21.
  • [Nov.] Prof. Zhao joined the Board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
  • [Jan.] Machine Learning-based Memory Scaling accepted by IEEE Trans. on Big Data.
  • [Jan.] Scientific Provenance on Blockchains (SciChain) accepted by IEEE ICDE'21.
• 2020
  • [Feb.] Edge Computing Blockchain (a.k.a. DEAN) accepted by NDSS'20, San Diego, California.
  • [Feb.] Supply Chain Blockchain accepted by NDSS'20, San Diego, California.
  • [Feb.] Fine-Grained I/O Tracker (a.k.a. Reflector) accepted by PPoPP'20, San Diego, California.
  • [Feb.] Parallel Deep Learning accepted by AAAI'20, oral presentation.
  • [Jan.] Cross-Blockchain Transactions accepted by CIDR'20, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • [Jan.] Grant proposal extending HPChain recommended for funding by U.S. DOE.
• 2019
  • [Nov.] High-Performance Blockchain accepted by ACM/IEEE SC'19, Denver, Colorado.
  • [Nov.] Machine-Learning-as-a-Service accepted by ACM/IEEE SC'19, Denver, Colorado.
  • [Sept.] Prof. Zhao received Amazon Web Services research grant.
  • [July] Blockchain Emulator won Best Paper Award at CLOUD'19, San Diego, California.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao received Google Cloud Platform research grant.
  • [Jan.] Prof. Zhao on the Organization Committee of ACM Middleware'19, Davis, California.
• 2018
  • [Dec.] In-Memory Blockchain accepted by IEEE BigData'18, Seattle, Washington.
  • [Aug.] Energy-Efficient Edge Computing accepted by ICPP'18, Eugene, Oregon.
  • [July] Symbiosis RAM won Best Student Paper Award at CLOUD'18, San Francisco, California.
  • [May] Prof. Zhao joined UC Davis as a Visiting Professor.
  • [Jan.] Performant Docker Scheduling accepted by IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing.
• 2017
  • [Sept.] Prof. Zhao received Microsoft Azure research grant.
  • [Aug.] Scientific Big-Data System Benchmarking accepted by VLDB'17, Munich, Germany.
  • [June] Prof. Zhao received Amazon Web Services research grant.
  • [Mar.] Distributed Scientific Metadata accepted by IEEE Trans. on Big Data.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao founded HPDIC Lab at University of Nevada, Reno.
  • [Jan.] Prof. Zhao completed postdoctoral fellowship at University of Washington, Seattle.

Cryptographic database research timeline
• 2023: Radix-caching prototyped for homomorphic encryption (ACM SIGMOD)

Topological distributed computing research timeline
• 2022: MPI-parallelism using algebraic topology (IEEE IPDPS)
• 2020: Topological estimation through deep learning (AAAI)
• 2018: Graph-theoretical parallelism prototyped (IEEE BigData)

Blockchain research timeline
• 2022: Lightweight blockchain prototyped for edge computing (IEEE IPDPS)
• 2021: Blockchain-as-a-service prototyped for high-performance computing (IEEE ICDE, ACM/IEEE SC)
• 2020: Cross-blockchain transaction protocols proposed (CIDR)
• 2019: Blockchain emulator prototyped for cloud computing (IEEE CLOUD)
• 2018: In-memory blockchain prototyped (IEEE BigData)

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• Conference and journal tiers by Argonne National Lab
• When your paper is rejected...
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sudo usermod -aG vboxsf [your username]

$ git init

$ git remote add origin git@bitbucket.org:dongfang/fusionfs-zht.git

$ git config branch.master.remote origin

$ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

$ git pull

• su -; mount /dev/mapper/sil_biabahcbebch /home/dongfang/ssd

Win10: 216.47.142.210

hec.cs.iit.edu: 216.47.152.30:8080

• FUSE module is not properly loaded: sudo ldconfig

sirius: 216.47.152.142

cosmos: 216.47.142.129

wells: 71.57.46.129:8080, 24.1.58.64

Kodiak: dzhao@kodiak.nmc-probe.org

NERSC: dzhao@hopper.nersc.gov
myquota

BlueGene/P: dzhao@eureka.alcf.anl.gov
cqsub -p FusionFS -k zepto-vn-eval -n 4 -t 5 /bin/hostname
cqstat -f
less 542069.output
less 542069.error
cqdel
cbank
/intrepid-fs0/users/dzhao/persistent/

Selected publications:

• [AAAI] HDK: Toward High-Performance Deep-Learning-Based Kirchhoff Analysis. The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. *Oral Presentation (5.8% acceptance rate: 453 out of 7,737 submissions)
• [SC] Swift Machine Learning Model Serving Scheduling: A Region Based Reinforcement Learning Approach. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, 2019.
• [CLOUD] Toward Accurate and Efficient Emulation of Public Blockchains in the Cloud. The 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2019. *Best Paper Award (1 out of ??? submissions)
• [TCC] Locality-aware Scheduling for Containers in Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2018. (early access https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.2018.2794344)
• [CLOUD] Toward Cost-effective Memory Scaling in Clouds: Symbiosis of Virtual and Physical Memory. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2018. *Best Student Paper Award (1 out of 300+ submissions)
• [TBD] Toward Efficient and Flexible Metadata Indexing of Big Data Systems. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 3(1):107-117, 2017.
• [VLDB] Comparative Evaluation of Big Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads. The 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2017.
• [TSC] Dynamic Virtual Chunks: On Supporting Efficient Accesses to Compressed Scientific Data. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 9(1):96-109, 2016.
• [TPDS] Towards Exploring Data-Intensive Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales through Systems and Simulations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(6):1824-1837, 2016.
• [PAMI] Incremental Isometric Embedding of High-Dimensional Data Using Connected Neighborhood Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 31(1):86-98, 2009.

(I stopped updating this page) A more complete list of publications can be found at DBLP.

CS 457 Database Management Systems, Spring 2020, UNR

CS 791 Distributed Computing, Spring 2021, UNR

Prof. Dr. Dongfang Zhao

University of Nevada, Reno
Computer Science and Engineering, MS-171
1664 N. Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89557

University of California, Davis
Department of Computer Science
Kemper Hall 3062
Davis, CA 95616