Jiaying Zhang

I am a graduate student at the Computer Science & Engineering department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I completed my Bachelor's degree at the Computer Science & Technology department of Tsinghua University in 2001, and am currently working with Prof. Peter Honeyman towards my PhD.

 

 

Application Materials

Publications:

·         Jiaying Zhang and Peter Honeyman, Hierarchical Replication Control in a Global File System, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007.

·         Jiaying Zhang and Peter Honeyman, NFSv4 Replication for Grid Storage Middleware, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2006), Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2006.

·         Jiaying Zhang and Peter Honeyman, Naming, Migration and Replication for NFSv4, in Proceedings of the 5th System Administration and Network Engineering Conference (SANE 2006), Delft, the Netherland, May 2006.

·         William A. (Andy) Adamson, Dean Hildebrand, Peter Honeyman, Shawn McKee, and Jiaying Zhang, Extending NFSv4 for Petascale Data Management, in 2006 HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management, Paris, France, June 2006.

·         Larry Huston, Alex Nizhner, Padmanabhan Pillai, Rahul Sukthankar, Peter Steenkiste, and Jiaying Zhang, Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Search, in Proceedings of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2005), Research Triangle Park, NC, July 2005.

·         Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Derek Hoiem, and Jiaying Zhang, SnapFind: Brute Force Interactive Image Retrieval, in Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing and Graphics (ICIG’4), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 2004.

 

Ph.D. Dissertation:

“Network Transparency in Wide Area Collaborations”. To meet the demands of large-scale data sharing in Grid computing, I developed a replicated file system that allows users and applications to access widely distributed data as simple and efficiently as they access them locally. The file system includes a naming scheme that supports a global name space and location independent naming, which facilitates data sharing, distribution, and management. It uses a replication protocol that supports mutable (read/write) replication with strong consistency guarantees, enabling the re-use of existing software in Grid computing. I have implemented the design in NFSv4 (based on the latest version in Linux 2.6.16 kernel), the new standard Internet distributed file system protocol, and evaluate the performance of the system with scientific applications and Grid benchmarks. These studies demonstrate that a replicated file system framework addressing the data access and storage requirements of emerging global collaborations is vital and feasible.

 

Contact:

535 W. William St., Suite 3100

Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4978

(734)647-4216

Email: jiayingz AT umich DOT edu