Institute of High Performance Computing

• Directors
• Computing Science (CS)
• Electronics & Photonics (EP)
• Engineering Mechanics (EM)
• Fluid Dynamics (FD)
• Material Science & Engineering (MSE)
• IHPC Independent Investigatorship (I³)

Computing Science (CS)

Dr. QIN Zheng

• Title: Scientist
• Tel: 64191452
• Email: qinz@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Research Interests:

Cloud/Grid/HPC: fault tolerance, pricing, MapReduce/Hadoop, data management, power awareness, load balancing, robust scheduling

Qualifications:

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, January 2006
• B.Eng., Information Engineering, Xi’an JiaoTong University, July 2001
   

Published Journals/ Articles:

Journals

1. Q. Zheng and B. Veeravalli, ``On the Design of Mutually Aware Optimal Pricing and Load Balancing Strategies for Grid Computing Systems," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
2. Q. Zheng and B. Veeravalli, ``Utilization-Based Pricing for Power Management and Profit Optimization in Data Centers," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier Science, Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2012.
3. Q. Zheng, B. Veeravalli, and C.K. Tham, ``On the Design of Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Strategies Using Primary-Backup Approach for Computational Grids with Low Replication Costs," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 2009.
4. Q. Zheng and B. Veeravalli, ``On the Design of Communication-Aware Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Algorithms for Precedence Constrained Tasks in Grid Computing Systems with Dedicated Communication Devices," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, March 2009. 
   
5. Q. Zheng and G. Mohan, ``LSP Partial Spatial-Protection in MPLS over WDM Optical Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume 57, Issue 4, April 2009.
6. Q. Zheng, C.K. Tham, and B. Veeravalli, `` Dynamic Load Balancing and Pricing in Grid Computing with Communication Delay," Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, special issue on Grid Economics and Business Models, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2008.
7. Q. Zheng and G. Mohan, ``Multi-Layer Protection in IP-over-WDM Networks With and With No Backup Lightpath Sharing," Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 50, Issue 3, February 2006.
8. Q. Zheng and G. Mohan, ``LSP Protection for Delay-Differentiated Dynamic Traffic in IP-over-WDM Networks with Port Constraints," Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, Volume 29, Issue 9, May 2006.
9. Q. Zheng and G. Mohan, ``Dynamic Protection Using Integrated Routing Approach in IP-over-WDM Networks," Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 43, Issue 3, October 2003.
10. Q. Zheng and G. Mohan, ``Protection Approaches for Dynamic Traffic in IP/MPLS-over-WDM Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 41, Issue 5, May 2003. 

 

Other(s)

• Workshop Chair, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Singapore, Dec. 2012.
• Vice Program Chair, the 20th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW), held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2011, Anchorage (Alaska) USA, May 2011.