Parallel and Distributed Processing group in the Systems and Security (SAS) theme focuses on developing workload, resource and data management solutions for computing frameworks (such as machine/deep learing frameworks, graph processing frameworks and so on) and parallel/distributed systems (such as cluster, cloud, edge computing systems and so on).

The examples of our research can be seen from the selected publications below.

• W. Wu, L. He, W. Lin, R. Mao, C. Maple, S. Jarvis, "SAFA: a Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning with Low Overhead", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TC.2020.2994391.
• J. Li, L. He, S. Ren, R. Mao, "Developing a Loss Prediction-based Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm for Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks", Proceedings of the 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing(ICPP2020), 2020
• H. Zhu, L. He, M. Leeke, R. Mao, "WolfGraph: The edge-centric graph processing on GPU", Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2019.09.052
• X Shi, W Liu, L He, H Jin, M Li, Y Chen, "Optimizing the SSD Burst Buffer by Traffic Detection", ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 17 (1), 1-26, 2020
• Wu, W. Lin, L. He, “An On-line Virtual Machine Consolidation Strategy for Dual Improvement in Performance and Energy Conservation of Server Clusters in Cloud Data Centers”, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 10.1109/TSC.2019.2961082, 2019
• Wu, W. Lin, L. He, G. Wu, and CH Hsu, “A power consumption model for cloud servers based on Elman Neural Network”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. doi:10.1109/TCC.2019.2922379, 2019
• Zhao, Y. Zhang, X. Liao, L. He, B. He, H. Jin, H. Liu, Y. Chen, "GraphM: an efficient storage system for high throughput of concurrent graph processing", Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, November 2019 (SC '19), Article No.: 3, pp 1–14
• L. He, H. Zhu and S. Jarvis, "Developing Graph-based Co-scheduling Algorithms on Multicore Computers", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2016, DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2015.2468223
• C. Chen, L. He, B. Gao, C. Chang, KL Li and KQ Li, "Modelling and Optimizing Bandwidth Provision for Interacting Cloud Services", The International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2015), Goa, India, 16-19, Nov, 2015

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