Xianan (Shannon) Zhang

I am a graduate student at the Computer Science and Engineering department, University of California, San Diego. I completed my Bachelor's degree at the Computer Science department of Peking University in 1999, and am currently working with Prof. Keith Marzullo towards my PhD.

Application Materials

Curriculum Vitae: (PDF) (PS)

Publications:

Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen, Keith Marzullo, Richard D. Schlichting, Replicating Nondeterministic Services on Grid Systems, submitted to the 15^th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15), 2006.

Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Keith Marzullo, Fast Paxos vs. Classic Paxos: Caveat Emptor, submitted to the 2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006).

Xianan Zhang, Matti A. Hiltunen, Keith Marzullo, and Richard D. Schlichting, Customizable Service State Durability for Service Oriented Architecture, submitted to the 3^rd International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2006).

Xianan Zhang, Dmitrii Zagorodnov, Matti A. Hiltunen, Keith Marzullo, and Richard D. Schlichting. Fault-tolerant Grid Services Using Primary-Backup: Feasibility and Performance, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2004), September 2004.

James Blythe, Richard Cavanaugh, Ewa Deelman, Ian Foster, Seung-Hye Jang, Cal Kesselman, Keith Marzullo, Reagan Moore, Valerie Taylor, and Xianan Zhang, Types of Editors and Specifications, GriPhyN technical report 2004-23, 2004.

Kjetil Jacobsen, Xianan Zhang, and Keith Marzullo. Group Membership and Wide-Area Master-Worker Computations, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2003), May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Hyojong Song, Xin Liu, Denis Jakobsen, Ranjita Bhagwan, Xianan Zhang, Kenjiro Taura, and Andrew Chien. The MicroGrid: a Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids, Super Computing 2000 (SC 2000), Nov. 4-10, 2000, Dallas, TX.

Xianan Zhang, Luis Rivera, and Andrew Chien, HPVM MinuteSort, Tech Report, UCSD, 2000.

Projects:

Primary-backup Paxos: Designed and implemented practical protocols to replicate nondeterministic services on asynchronous systems.

GriPhyN: Developing Grid technologies for scientific and engineering projects that must collect and analyze distributed, petabyte-scale datasets.

Asterina: Designing and implementing protocols which can provide robust and efficient service for Grid applications.

MicroGrid: Online simulation tools for Grids, distributed systems and the Internet.

Disk-to-Disk sorting on High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVM): Designed and implemented high performance algorithms for disk-to-disk sorting on clusters and held the minute sorting World record during 2000-2002.

Contact:

UCSD/CSE-EBU3B 3140
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
(858)822-5647
Email: xzhang@cs.ucsd.edu