About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at Computer Science and Engineering Department, The Ohio State University. My advisor is Dr. Xiaodong Zhang. Before joining the Ohio State University, I was a graduate student in Department of Computer Science, College of William and Mary.

Publications

• 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", To appear in Proc. of 22nd ACM/IEEE Annual Conference on Supercomputing (SC09), 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'08), 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-14), Salt Lake City, Utah, February 16-20, 2008.
• 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)
• 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'07), Santa Clara, CA, 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, 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.
• 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'05, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2005.
• 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.

Links

IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society

USENIX Association

Paper formatting templates for ACM proceedings

Paper formatting templates for IEEE transactions

DBLP Computer Science Bibliography

KernelTrap

WWW Computer Architecture Page

CLiki for the TUNES project