Xiaoning Ding

Email: dingxn AT cmu DOT edu
Office: 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410

About Me

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University. I was a member of High Performance Computing and Software Lab (HPCS). I am a CIFellow in Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC) at CMU.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the memory hierarchy in computer systems, including CPU caches and memory buffer caches in operating systems and database systems. The objective is to accelerate data accesses through improved caching and prefetching mechanisms. My research interests include operating system, computer architecture, distributed system, and database system.

I also cooperated with researchers at IBM T.J Watson Research Lab to explore practical solutions for testing and diagnosing applications migrated into the emerging cloud computing environments.

Refereed Conference Publications

• Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Xiaodong Zhang
  BWS: Balanced Work-Stealing for Time-Sharing Multicores
  In Proc. of the ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EUROSYS 2012), Bern, Switzerland, Apr. 2012 (to appear).

• Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, and Xiaodong Zhang
  SRM-Buffer: an OS Buffer Management Technique to Prevent Last Level Caches from Thrashing in Multicores
  In Proc. of the ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EUROSYS 2011), Salzburg, Austria, April 10-13, 2011.

• Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, and Xiaodong Zhang
  ULCC: A User-Level Facility for Optimizing Shared Cache Performance on Multicores
  In Proc. of 16th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2011), San Antonio, TX, February 12-16, 2011.
  You may find the source code here

• Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, Brian Peterson, and Xiaodong Zhang
  Splitter: A Proxy-based Approach for Post-Migration Testing of Web Applications
  In Proc. of the ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EUROSYS 2010), Paris, France, April 13-16, 2010.

• Jiang Lin, Qingda Lu, Xiaoning Ding, Z. Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and P. (Saday) Sadayappan
  Enabling Software Management for Multicore Caches with a Lightweight Hardware Support
  In Proc. of 22nd ACM/IEEE Annual Conference on Supercomputing (SC 2009), Portland, Oregon, November 14-20, 2009.

• Qingda Lu, Jiang Lin, Xiaoning Ding, Z. Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and P. (Saday) Sadayappan
  Soft-OLP: Improving Hardware Cache Performance through Software-Controlled Object-Level Partitioning
  In Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2009), Raleigh, North Carolina, September 12-16, 2009.

• Rubao Lee, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Qingda Lu, and Xiaodong Zhang
  MCC-DB: Minimizing Cache Conflicts in Multi-Core Processors for Databases
  In Proc. of 35th International Conference on Very large Databases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France, August 24-28, 2009.

• Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, and Xiaodong Zhang
  BP-Wrapper: A System Framework Making Any Replacement Algorithms (Almost) Lock Contention Free
  In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 29 - April 4, 2009.
  Full paper with long presentation

• Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, and Xiaodong Zhang
  Automatic Software Fault Diagnosis by Exploiting Application Signatures
  In Proceedings of 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA 2008), San Diego, CA, November 9-14, 2008.
  Best Student Paper Award.

• Jiang Lin, Qingda Lu, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and P. Sadayappan
  Gaining Insights into Multi-Core Cache Partitioning: Bridging the Gap between Simulation and Real Systems
  In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2008), Salt Lake City, Utah, February 16-20, 2008.

• Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, and Xiaodong Zhang
  DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
  In Proceedings of 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2007), Santa Clara, CA, June 2007.
  SOFTWARE: Source code of DiskSeen based on Linux 2.6.11.9

• Song Jiang, Kei Davis, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaodong Zhang
  A locality-aware cooperative cache management protocol to improve network file system performance
  In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006.

• Lei Guo, Xiaoning Ding, Haining Wang, Qun Li, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang
  Exploiting Idle Communication Power to Improve Wireless Network Performance and Energy Efficiency
  In Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2006), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

• Xiaoning Ding, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Song Jiang, Xiaodong Zhang
  MESA: Reducing Cache Conflicts by Intergrating Static and Run-Time Cache Methods
  In Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2006), Austin, Texas, March 2006.

• Song Jiang, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, Xiaodong Zhang
  DULO: An Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit Both Temporal and Spatial Localities
  In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2005), San Francisco, CA, December 2005.
  SOFTWARE: tarball and patch of Linux Kernel 2.6.11.9 with DULO enhancement

• Lei Guo, Songqing Chen, Zhen Xiao, Enhua Tan, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaodong Zhang
  Measurements, Analysis, and Modeling of BitTorrent-like Systems
  In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference 2005 (IMC 2005), Berkeley, CA, October 2005.

• Christos D. Antonopoulos, Xiaoning Ding, Andrey Chernikov, Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S.Nikolopoulos, Nikos Chrisochoides
  Multigrain Parallel Delaunay Mesh Generation: Challenges and Opportunities for Multithreaded Architectures
  In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2005), Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2005.

Refereed Journal Publications

• Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, and Feng Chen
  A Buffer Cache Management Scheme Exploiting Both Temporal and Spatial Localities
  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 3 , Issue 2 (June 2007)

• Lei Guo, Xiaoning Ding, Haining Wang, Qun Li, Songqing Chen, and Xiaodong Zhang
  Cooperative Relay Service in a Wireless LAN
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 355-368.

• Lei Guo, Songqing Chen, Zhen Xiao, Enhua Tan, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaodong Zhang
  A Performance Study of BitTorrent-like Peer-to-Peer Systems
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007, pp. 155-169.

Workshop Paper

• Matthew Curtis-Maury, Xiaoning Ding, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
  An Evaluation of OpenMP on Current and Emerging Multithreaded/Multicore Processors
  In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP 2005), Eugene, Oregon, June 2005.
  Best Paper Award.

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