Jianfeng Zhan

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Jianfeng Zhan(詹剑锋)

Professor
Deputy Director
Computer Systems Research Center
Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
E-mail:zhanjianfeng@ict.ac.cn

Dr. Jianfeng Zhan focuses on the following related research topics:

  • Benchmarks
  • Workload Characterization and Workload-optimized Systems
  • Operating Systems.
  • Data Center and Cloud Computing.
  • Big Data Systems
  • Parallel and Distributed Systems

Dr. Jianfeng Zhan is Full Professor and Deputy Director at Computer Systems Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research work is driven by interesting problems. He enjoys building new systems, and collaborating with researchers with different background. He founded the BPOE workshop, focusing on big data benchmarks, performance optimization and emerging hardware.

Research highlights

Benchmarks for Datacenter Computing (2010- 2015)

Data center, big data, and cloud applications are emerging important workloads. Funded and supported by the 973 program, and several Industry funding from Huawei etc, we are proposing performance metrics, and developing benchmarks for big data ( BigDataBench ), data centers ( DCBench ), and cloud computer systems ( CloudRank ), which we name ICTBench and release on http://prof.ict.ac.cn/ICTBench with an open-source license.

Selected publications and released systems
  • ICTBench: Benchmark Suites for Datacenter Workloads, Big Data, and Cloud Computing.
  • Characterizing data analysis workloads in data centers [pdf]. Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Lixin Zhang, and Chunjie Luo. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2013). Best paper award. DCBench Sourcecode and user manual.
  • BigDataBench: a Big Data Benchmark Suite from Internet Services. [pdf] Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Chunjie Luo, Yuqing Zhu, Qiang Yang, Yongqiang He, Wanling Gao, Zhen Jia, Yingjie Shi, Shujie Zhang, Cheng Zhen, Gang Lu, Kent Zhan, Xiaona Li, and Bizhu Qiu. The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014), February 15-19, 2014, Orlando,Florida, USA. Source code and user manual.
  • BigOP: generating comprehensive big data workloads as a benchmarking framework. [pdf] Yuqing Zhu, Jianfeng Zhan, ChuliangWeng, Raghunath Nambiar, Jingchao Zhang, Xingzhen Chen, and Lei Wang. The 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2014), 2014.
  • High Volume Throughput Computing: The Motivations, Metrics, and Benchmarks Suite for Data Center Computer Systems. Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Wanling Gao, Lin Cai, Jing Quan. A full-day tutorial, in conjunction with The 19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2013) [HVC Tutorial]
  • CloudRank-D: Benchmarking and Ranking Cloud Computing Systems for Data Processing Applications [pdf]. Source code and user manual. Chunjie Luo, Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Gang Lu, Lixin Zhang, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Ninghui Sun Front. Comput. Sci., 2012, 6(4): 347–362

Operating systems for data centers (2012-2015)

We are investigating innovative OS architecture, mechanisms, and system supports for scale-out data center workloads. We believe heterogeneous system architecture will play an important role in improving performance and energy efficiency of data center computer systems. We are building an innovative operating system RainForest, which is compatible with Linux ABI, for one of world-class major players in communication and computers industries.

Semantics Search Engine (2010-now)

We believe how to automate understanding Internet web pages is a key issue in evolving future Internet applications. We are building a prototype system, named ProfSearch, which provides a service for searching professionals according to the extracted meaning from massive web pages.

Performance Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems

We feel great interests and engage in proposing approaches and developing performance analysis tools for large-scale scientific computing and datacenter, and cloud computing.

Selected publications and released systems
  • PowerTracer: Tracing Requests in Multi-tier Services to Diagnose Energy Inefficiency. [pdf] [Technical Report] Gang Lu, Jianfeng Zhan, Haining Wang, and Chuliang Weng, The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)
  • Precise, Scalable, and Online Request Tracing of Multi-tier Services of Black Boxes [pdf]. Source code and user manual. Bo Sang, Jianfeng Zhan, Gang Lu, Haining Wang, Dongyan Xu, and Lei Wang IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 23(6): 1159-1167 (2012)
  • Performance analysis and optimization of MPI collective operations on multi-core clusters.[pdf] Bibo Tu, Jianping Fan, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao The Journal of Supercomputing 60(1): 141-162 (2012)
  • Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD-style Parallel Programs.[pdf]. Xu Liu, Jianfeng Zhan, Kunlin Zhan, Weisong Shi, Lin Yuan, and Lei Wang Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). Volume 71, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 925-937.
  • Precise Request Tracing and Performance Debugging of Multi-tier Services of Black Boxes. [pdf] Zhihong Zhang, Jianfeng Zhan, Yong Li, Lei Wang, Meng Dan, Bo Sang, Regular paper, 39th Dependable System and Network (DSN 2009).
  • Accurate Analytical Models for Message Passing on Multi-core Clusters.[pdf] Bibo Tu, Jianping Fan, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao The 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing ( PDP 2009): 133-139

Cluster and Cloud system software (2002-2009)

We built three innovative cluster and cloud systems software: Phoenix, DawningCloud, and PhoenixCloud. Among them, GridView (one component of Phoenix Cluster operating system) was transferred to Sugon, which is a premier supercomputing company in China, and becomes its popular software product.

Selected publications, released systems, and organized conferences
  • Cost-aware Cooperative Resource Provisioning for Heterogeneous Workloads in Data Centers. [pdf]. Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Xiaona Li, Weisong Shi, Chuliang Weng, Wenyao Zhang, and Xiutao Zang. Accepted by IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC). May, 2012.
  • In Cloud, Can Scientific Communities Benefit from the Economics of Scale? [pdf]. Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Liang Yi. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 23(2): 296-303 (2012).
  • Phoenix Cloud: Consolidating Different Computing Loads on the Shared Cluster System for Large Organization. [pdf]. Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu etc. The first workshop of cloud computing and its application (CCA 08), Chicago, 2008.
  • Fire Phoenix Cluster Operating System Kernel and its Evaluation. Jianfeng Zhan, Ninghui Sun[pdf].Regular paper, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005 ), Boston, USA.

Bio

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Sep 2012-
Full Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
Mar 2004- Sep 2012
Associate Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
Aug 2002- Mar 2004
Assistant Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Ph. D.
Computer Software & Theory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China, 2002
M. Sc.
Solid Mechanics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, 1999
B. Sc.
Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, 1996

Honors and Awards

  • IISWC 2013 Best paper award.
  • Third Class of Cooperation and Contribution Prize, Huawei
  • Second Class of National Science and Technology Promotion Prize, The Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, 2006
  • Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences， Chinese Academy of Science, P. R. China, 2005
  • Outstanding faculty Prize，Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China, 2012

Group

Publications

Data Centers, Big Data and Cloud

BigDataBench: a Big Data Benchmark Suite from Internet Services. [PDF]
Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Chunjie Luo, Yuqing Zhu, Qiang Yang, Yongqiang He, Wanling Gao, Zhen Jia, Yingjie Shi, Shujie Zhang, Cheng Zhen, Gang Lu, Kent Zhan, Xiaona Li, and Bizhu Qiu
The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014), February 15-19, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA. Source code and user manual
BigOP: generating comprehensive big data workloads as a benchmarking framework. [pdf]
Yuqing Zhu, Jianfeng Zhan, ChuliangWeng, Raghunath Nambiar, Jingchao Zhang, Xingzhen Chen, and Lei Wang.
The 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2014), 2014.
Characterizing data analysis workloads in data centers.[pdf]
Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Lixin Zhang, and Chunjie Luo
2013 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2013). Best paper award.DCBench Sourcecode and user manual.
Characterizing OS behavior of scale-out data center workloads.[pdf]
Chen Zheng, Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, and Lixin Zhang
The Seventh Annual Workshop on the Interaction amongst Virtualization, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIVOSCA 2013), 2013.
The Implications of Diverse and Scalable Data Sets in Benchmarking Big Data Systems[pdf]
Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Wanling Gao, Jianfeng Zhan, and Lixin Zhang
Second Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking. 2012.(Lecture note in computer sciences)
High Volume Computing: The Motivations, Metrics, and Benchmarks Suite for Data Center Computer Systems .
Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Wanling Gao, Jing Quan, Zhiguo Li
A full-day tutorial, in conjunction with The 19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture ( HPCA 2013 )[HVC Tutorial]
High Volume Computing: Identifying and Characterizing Throughput Oriented Workloads in Data Centers. [pdf].
Jianfeng Zhan, Lixin Zhang, Ninghui Sun, Lei Wang, Zhen Jia, Chunjie Luo
Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing (2012) in conjunction with IPDPS 2012.
Cost-aware Cooperative Resource Provisioning for Heterogeneous Workloads in Data Centers. [pdf]
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Xiaona Li, Weisong Shi, Chuliang Weng, Wenyao Zhang, and Xiutao Zang
Accepted by IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC). May, 2012.
In Cloud, Can Scientific Communities Benefit from the Economics of Scale? [pdf].
Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Liang Yi
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 23(2): 296-303 (2012).
CloudRank-D: Benchmarking and Ranking Cloud Computing Systems for Data Processing Applications [pdf]. Source code and user manual.
Chunjie Luo, Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, Lei Wang, Gang Lu, Lixin Zhang, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Ninghui Sun
Front. Comput. Sci., 2012, 6(4): 347–362
Characterization of Real Workloads of Web Search Engines [pdf]. Source code and user manual.
Huafeng Xi, Jianfeng Zhan, Zhen Jia, Xuehai Hong, Lei Wang, Lixin Zhang, Ninghui Sun, and Gang Lu
2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization （IISWC-2011）. 2011.
Transformer: A New Paradigm for Building Data-Parallel Programming Models. [pdf]
Peng Wang,Dan Meng, Jizhong Han, Jianfeng Zhan, Bibo Tu, Xiaofeng Shi, Le Wan
in IEEE Micro, pp.55-64, July/August, 2010.
In Cloud, Do MTC or HTC Service Providers Benefit from the Economics of Scale? [pdf]
Lei Wang,Jianfeng zhan, Weisong Shi, Liang Yi, Lin Yuan
in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, Co-located with ACM/IEEE SC09, Portland, Oregon, November 16, 2009.
Phoenix Cloud: consolidating different computing loads on the shared cluster system for large organization. [pdf]
Jianfeng zhan, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu etc
The first workshop of cloud computing and its application (CCA 08), Chicago, 2008.

Reliability, Dependability, and Security of Large-scale Computing Systems

LogMaster: Mining Event Correlations in Logs of Large-scale Cluster Systems. [pdf]
Rui Ren, Xiaoyu Fu, Jianfeng Zhan, Wei Zhou.
Technical report, CoRR abs/1003.0951, 2010.
LogMaster: Mining Event Correlations in Logs of Large-scale Cluster Systems. [pdf]
Xiaoyu Fu, Rui Ren, Jianfeng Zhan, Wei Zhou, Zhen Jia, Gang Lu
Regular paper, 31st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2012). 8th-11th October 2012. Irvine, California.
A Proactive fault-detection mechanism in Large-scale cluster Systems.[pdf]
Lingping Wu, Dan Meng, Wen Gao, Jianfeng Zhan
Regular paper, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Greece.
Easy and reliable cluster management: the self-management experience of Fire Phoenix.[pdf]
Zhi-Hong Zhang, Dan Meng, Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Linping Wu, Huang Wei
SMTPS workshop in conjunction with IPDPS 2006, Greece.

Performance (Energy Efficiency) Optimization and Debugging of Parallel and Distributed Systems

PowerTracer: Tracing Requests in Multi-tier Services to Diagnose Energy Inefficiency. [pdf] [Technical Report]
Gang Lu, Jianfeng Zhan, Haining Wang, and Chuliang Weng,
The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)
Precise, Scalable, and Online Request Tracing of Multi-tier Services of Black Boxes [pdf]. Source code and user manual.
Bo Sang, Jianfeng Zhan, Gang Lu, Haining Wang, Dongyan Xu, and Lei Wang
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 23(6): 1159-1167 (2012)
Performance analysis and optimization of MPI collective operations on multi-core clusters.[pdf]
Bibo Tu, Jianping Fan, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao
The Journal of Supercomputing 60(1): 141-162 (2012)
Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD-style Parallel Programs.[pdf].
Xu Liu, Jianfeng Zhan, Kunlin Zhan, Weisong Shi, Lin Yuan, and Lei Wang
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). Volume 71, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 925-937.
Precise Request Tracing and Performance Debugging of Multi-tier Services of Black Boxes. [pdf]
Zhihong Zhang, Jianfeng Zhan, Yong Li, Lei Wang, Meng Dan, Bo Sang,
Regular paper, 39th Dependable System and Network (DSN 2009).
Accurate Analytical Models for Message Passing on Multi-core Clusters.[pdf]
Bibo Tu, Jianping Fan, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao
The 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing ( PDP 2009): 133-139
Multi-core aware optimization for MPI collectives.[pdf]
Bibo Tu, Ming Zou, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao, and Jianping Fan.
2008 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 08).

Multidisciplinary Applications.

Parallel Streamline Placement for 2D Flow Fields [pdf]
Wenyao Zhang, Yi Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Beichen Liu, and Jianguo Ning
Accepted by IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2012. 8.1.

System Software for High Performance Cluster/Grid Computing

The design methodology of Phoenix cluster system software stack. [pdf]
Jianfeng Zhan , Wang, L., Tu, B., Wang, H., Zhang, Z., Jin, Y., Wen, Y., Chen, Y., Wang, P., Qiu, B., Meng, D., and Sun, N. 2007.
In Proceedings of the 2007 Asian Technology information Program's (Atip's) 3rd Workshop on High Performance Computing in China: Solution Approaches To Impediments For High Performance Computing (Reno, Nevada, November 11 - 11, 2007). CHINA HPC '07. ACM, New York, NY, 174-182.
An Integrated Adaptive Management System for Cluster-based Web Services.[pdf]
Ying Jiang, Dan Meng, Chao Ren, Jianfeng Zhan
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2006), Barcelona, Spain.
PhoenixG: A Unified Management Framework for Industrial Information Grid. [pdf]
Jianfeng Zhan, Gengpu Liu, Lei Wang etc
regular paper, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006), Singapore.
Design Patterns of Scalable Cluster System Software. [pdf]
Bibo Tu, Ming Zou, Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Jianping Fan
PDCAT 2006.
Fire Phoenix Cluster Operating System Kernel and its Evaluation. [pdf]
Jianfeng Zhan, Ninghui Sun
Regular paper, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005 ), Boston, USA.

Teaching

Students

Ph. D students

Master students

Professional Activities

BPOE-5 Chair, in conjunction with VLDB 2014

BPOE-4 chair, in conjunction with ASPLOS 2014

TPC member, IISWC 2014

TPC member, CCGrid 2014

TPC member. CCF Big Data conference 2013

TPC member, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014)

Founding Organizer, The First Workshop of Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware of Big Data Systems and Applications (BPOE 2013), In conjunction with IEEE Big Data Conference 2013, October 8, 2013, Silicon Valley, CA, USA

TPC Member, The second IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE),December 3-5, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.

TPC member, The ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC 2013), Miami, Florida, USA August 5-August 9, 2013

Organizer, HPCA 2013 Tutorial, High Volume Computing: The Motivations, Metrics, and Benchmarks Suites for Data Center Computer Systems, Shenzhen, 2013.

Track Chair of Utility Computing, HPCC 2013

PC Member and Publicity Chair, ICAC 2013

PC Member, SOSE 2013

PC member, NPC 2012

Guest editor, Cloud computing special issue of Frontier of Computer Sciences, 2012

PC Member, IDPDS 2012, Ph.D Forum

Publicity Chair for China of ICAC 2012 (The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing

PC Member, ICDCS 2012 (The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems)

PC Member, AINA 2012 (The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Tokyo, Japan, March 26-29, 2012.),

PC Member, NPC 2011, CSE 2011, GCC 2011, Cloud2011