Wenbin Zhu
I am a PhD candidate working on light-weight system and application monitoring. I will graduate fall 2007.
Research Interests
I am interested in methods that are simple, easy to control yet powerful. My current research is about performance monitoring for large, long-running parallel or distributed applications.
Research Projects
- Embedded Gossip: This is my dissertation topic. We are trying to use existing communications inside applications to propage performance information. Our results show that this method can be effective and low-overhead for many parallel applications.
Embedded Gossip is a derivation from Message-Centric Monitoring.
Collaborators: Prof. Patrick G. Bridges and Prof. Arthur B. Maccabe (Both are my advisors).
- Offloading for Better Performance: This was my master's thesis. We offloaded one communication protocol, SMPP (a light-weight protocol similar to TCP), to programmable Network Interface Card (NIC) and obtained impressive results.
Collaborators: Prof. Arthur B. Maccabe (My Master's thesis advisor), Dr. James Otto, Dr. Rolf Riesen.
Research Papers
Wenbin Zhu, Patrick G. Bridges and Arthur B. Maccabe, “Embedded Gossip: Lightweight Online Measurement for Large-Scale Applications”, ICDCS 2007, to be published.
Wenbin Zhu, Patrick G. Bridges and Arthur B. Maccabe, “Online Critical Path Profiling for Parallel Applications”, Cluster 2005.
Arthur B. Maccabe, Wenbin Zhu, James Otto and Rolf Riesen, “Experience in Offloading Protocol Processing to a Programmable NIC”, Cluster 2002.
Contact Information
Phone: (505)277-3526
fax: (505)277-6927
Email: wenbin (at) cs.unm.edu
