ECE Department Head Making Data Centers More Efficient
August 31, 2021
Dr. Samee U. Khan, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department Head, has joined with Devesh Tiwari of Northeastern University in Boston to develop self-regulatory methods to efficiently utilize data centers.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding the project, titled Collaborative Research; CNS Core: Small: HARMONIA: New Methods for Colocating Multiple QoS-Sensitive Jobs. The project is being funded over the course of three years.
Data centers and high-performance computing systems are considered the backbone of modern-day computational needs, including Web search, emails, video streaming, file sharing, social media and scientific computing. Current methods for utilizing data centers are conservative and inefficient, resulting in a waste of computing and networking resources as well as energy.
This project will develop self-regulatory methods to efficiently use data centers that will cater to response-oriented tasks, such as financial transactions and emergency response. It will also cater to long-running tasks, such as system monitoring and resource orchestration. The innovation, called HARMONIA, is to utilized a new class of methods that can direct performance, finetuning in real-time, without requiring knowledge about the underlying system parameters and system requirements.
For more information about Dr. Khan and his research, visit here.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University consists of 23 faculty members (including 7 endowed professors), 3 clinical faculty, 10 professional and support staff, and over 700 undergraduate and graduate students with approximately 88 being at the Ph.D. level. With research expenditure of the department in excess of $10M, the department houses the largest High Voltage Laboratory among North American Universities. For more detailed information on the department please visit our website www.ece.msstate.edu.