UMaine Researcher Aims to Speed UP Supercomputers
Contact: Yifeng Zhu (207) 581-2499; David Munson (207) 581-3777
ORONO, Maine — UMaine Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Yifeng Zhu’s latest research project promises to increase the speed and efficiency of supercomputers by improving the access speed of hard disks.
Disks are the slowest components of supercomputers, and can be a major obstacle to improving system speed. Utilizing a $236,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Zhu plans to develop an adaptive disk data management scheme that allows computers to more efficiently handle large-volume access traffic, which can reach as high as 10,000 operations per second in some supercomputers.