Jianwei Li Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Alok Choudhary) Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Northwestern University

Research Areas

• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• High-Performance Application I/O
• Parallel File Systems
• Scientific Data Management
• Data Mining Systems

Recent Projects

• Feb. 2004 - Oct. 2006
  
  High-Performance Practical Data Mining Systems

  Published Paper (PDF)

• Apr. 2002 - Feb. 2004
  
  I/O Improvement with MEMS-based Storage for Scientific Applications

  Old Project Webpage

  Related Papers

• Feb. 2002 - Oct. 2006
  
  Parallel netCDF: A High-Performance Scientific I/O Interface

  Presentations ()

  Published Paper (PDF)

  Project Webpage and software release: Parallel netCDF Library

• Jun. 2001 - Jun. 2002
  
  Meta-Data Management System for High-Performance Large-Scale Scientific Data Access

  Related Papers

• Sep. 2000 - Jun. 2001
  
  I/O Analysis and Optimization for ENZO --- An AMR Cosmology Application.

  Presentations ()

  Poster (Power Point/PDF)

  Published Paper (PDF)

  Related Papers

Publications

1. Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, and Valerie Taylor. "I/O Analysis and Optimization for an AMR Cosmology Application". In Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pages 119-126, September 2002.
2. Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, Robert Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, Rob Latham, Andrew Siegel, Brad Gallagher, and Michael Zingale. "Parallel netCDF: A High-Performance Scientific I/O Interface". In Proceedings of 15th SuperComputing conference, CD-ROM, November 2003.
3. Jianwei Li, Alok Choudhary, Nan Jiang, and Wei-keng Liao. "Mining Frequent Patterns by Differential Refinement of Clustered Bitmaps". In Proceedings of Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, pages 294-305, April 2006.
4. Jianwei Li, Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary. "Parallel Data Mining Algorithms for Association Rules and Clustering". (to appear) In Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John Reif, editors, Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms and Applications. CRC Press, 2007.
5. Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Jianwei Li, Alok Choudhary, and Wei-keng Liao. "High-Performance Techniques for Parallel I/O". (to appear) In Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John Reif, editors, Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms and Applications. CRC Press, 2007.

References

1. MPI References by MCS, Argonne National Lab, MPI-2 Reference Book(.ps, 2.4MB, 362 pages).
2. ROMIO User's Guide(.ps).
3. HDF5 References by NCSA, HDF5 User's Guide(HTML), HDF5 Reference Manual(HTML).
4. NetCDF User's Guide(HTML).
5. The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS)(HTML).

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