Dr. Zizhong Chen

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Jacksonville State University

Address:   MCIS Department
           Jacksonville State University
           700 Pelham Road North
           Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602, USA

Office:    238 Ayers Hall
Telephone: +1 256 782 8457
Fax:       +1 256 782 5261
Email:     zchen_AT_jsu_DOT_edu

Zizhong Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the MCIS Department at Jacksonville State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2006, under the direction of Jack Dongarra.

• High Performance Computing
• Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Computing
• Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Computational Science and Engineering

• CS 550: Distributed Computing Systems, Spring 2008
• CS 201: Intro to Information Technology, Spring 2008
• MS 112: Precalculus Algebra, Spring 2008

• CS 553: Simulation, Modeling, and Forecasting, Fall 2007
• CS 450G: Graduate Level Computer Networking, Spring 2007
• CS 450: Computer Networking, Spring 2007
• CS 331: Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
• MATH 112: Precalculus Algebra, Fall 2007
• CS 201: Intro to Information Technology, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007

• "Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance for Fail-Stop Failures."
  Zizhong Chen and Jack Dongarra
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Accepted.
  
• "Recovery Patterns for Iterative Methods in a Parallel Unstable Environment."
  Julien Langou, Zizhong Chen, George Bosilca, and Jack Dongarra
  SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 30(1):102-116, 2007.
  
• "Self Adapting Numerical Software (SANS) Effort."
  Jack Dongarra, George Bosilca, Zizhong Chen, Victor Eijkhout, Graham Fagg, Erika Fuentes, Julien Langou, Piotr Luszczek, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Keith Seymour, Haihang You, and Satish S. Vadiyar.
  IBM Journal of Research and Development. Volume 50, Number 2/3, Page 223-238, 2006.
  
• "Condition Numbers of Gaussian Random Matrices."
  Zizhong Chen and Jack J. Dongarra.
  SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 27, Number 3, Page 603-620, 2005.
  
• "Process Fault-Tolerance: Semantics, Design and Applications for High Performance Computing."
  Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Zizhong Chen, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, and Jack Dongarra.
  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 19, Number 4, Page 465-477, Winter, 2005.
  
• "Self Adapting Software for Numerical Linear Algebra and LAPACK for Clusters."
  Zizhong Chen, Jack Dongarra, Piotr Luszczek, and Kenneth Roche.
  Parallel Computing, Volume 29, Number 11-12, Page 1723-1743, November-December, 2003.
  

• "Disaster Survival Guide in Petascale Computing: An Algorithmic Approach."
  Jack J. Dongarra, Zizhong Chen, George Bosilca, and Julien Langou.
  Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, 2007.
  

• "Extending Algorithm-based Fault Tolerance to Tolerate Fail-stop Failures in High Performance Distributed Environments."
  Zizhong Chen
  Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, DPDNS'08 Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, April 14-18, 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "Performance of MPI Broadcast Algorithms."
  Daniel M. Wadsworth and Zizhong Chen
  Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, PDSEC'08 Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, April 14-18, 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "An Efficient Packet Loss Recovery Methodology for Video-over-IP."
  Ming Yang, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Zizhong Chen, and Guillermo Francia, III.
  Proceeding of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 20-22, 2007.
  
• "An Efficient Recovery Scheme for Supercomputing Clusters and Grids."
  Zizhong Chen, Ming Yang, Monica Trifas, and Jack Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business, Engineering and Sciences (DCABES2007), Yichang, Hubei, P. R. China, August 14-17, 2007.
  
• "Self Adaptive Application Level Fault Tolerance for Parallel and Distributed Computing."
  Zizhong Chen, Ming Yang, Guillermo Francia, III, and Jack Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, DPDNS'07 Workshop, Long Beach, CA, USA, March 26-29, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "An Efficient Audio-Video Synchronization Methodology."
  Ming Yang, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Zizhong Chen, and Monica Trifas.
  Proceeding of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), Beijing, P. R. China, July 2-5 , 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "Algorithm-Based Checkpoint-Free Fault Tolerance for Parallel Matrix Computations on Volatile Resources."
  Zizhong Chen and Jack Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Rhodes Island, Greece, April 25-29, 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "Fault Tolerant High Performance Computing by a Coding Approach."
  Zizhong Chen, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Julien Langou, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, and Jack J. Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'05), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 15-17, 2005. ACM Press.
  
• "Numerically Stable Real Number Codes Based on Random Matrices."
  Zizhong Chen and Jack J. Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS2005), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 22-25, 2005. LNCS 3514, Springer-Verlag.
  
• "Extending the MPI Specification for Process Fault Tolerance on High Performance Computing Systems."
  Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, George Bosilca, Thara Angskun, Zizhong Chen, Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Kevin London and Jack J. Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 19th International Supercomputer Conference (ISC2004), Heidelberg, German, June 21-24, 2004.
  
• "LAPACK for Clusters Project: An Example of Self Adapting Numerical Software."
  Zizhong Chen, Jack Dongarra, Piotr Luszczek, and Kenneth Roche.
  Proceeding of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, January 5-8, 2004. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  
• "Fault Tolerant Communication Library and Applications for High Performance Computing."
  Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Zizhong Chen, Thara Angskun, George Bosilca, Antonin Bukovsky, and Jack J. Dongarra.
  Proceeding of the 4th Los Alamos Computer Science Institute Symposium (LACSI'03), Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 27-29, 2003.
  
• "Self Adaptive Software for Numerical Linear Algebra Library Routines on Clusters."
  Zizhong Chen, Jack Dongarra, Piotr Luszczek, and Kenneth Roche.
  Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Science, WoPLA'03 Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, June 7-9, 2003. LNCS 2659, Springer-Verlag.
  

• "Algorithm-Based Checkpoint-Free Fault Tolerance for Parallel Matrix Computations on Volatile Resources."
  The 12th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, California, USA, February 22-24, 2006.
  
• "Scalable Techniques for Fault Tolerant High Performance Computing."
  Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, February 20, 2006.
  
• "Scalable Fault Tolerance for Large Parallel Systems."
  The 5th ICL Retreat, Townsend, Tennessee, USA, August 22-23, 2005.
  
• "Fault Tolerant High Performance Computing by Coding Approaches."
  Invited Talk, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, July 12, 2005.
  
• "Random Matrices and Their Applications in Fault Tolerant Parallel Computing."
  The 12th International Linear Algebra Society Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 26-29, 2005.
  
• "Recovery Patterns for Iterative Methods in a Parallel Unstable Environment."
  The 7th IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 5-8, 2005.
  

• The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-08), April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida, USA

• The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08), DaLian, China, September 25-27, 2008.
• The 2008 International Conference on Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT 2008), Hainan Island, China, December 13 ~ 15, 2008.
• The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07), Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2007
• The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS-07), Guilin, P. R. China, July 29-31, 2007.
• The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'05), Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 27-30, 2005.

• ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
• Journal of Supercomputing
• BMC Genomics
• Various conferences and workshops in computer science and engineering

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