Wu Feng

Site Director

About

The overarching vision of my work is to democratize parallel computing for the masses, ranging from embedded and mobile environments to desktops and laptops to the datacenter, both physical and virtual (most notably, MOON computing, an alternative to cloud computing). Elizabeth & James E. Turner Fellow & Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, 2012-present. Associate Professor, 2006-2012. Research at the synergistic intersection of systems software, middleware, tools and frameworks, algorithms, and applications. Keywords: high-performance computing, GPU computing, heterogeneous computing, MOON computing, cloud computing, life sciences, computer science education for K-12. Sample artifacts include mpiBLAST, cuBLASTP, CU2CL, Cascaded TCP, CoreTSAR, BWA-Multicore, and SeqInCloud. Principal / Site Co-Director of the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). Research that focuses on heterogeneous computing systems with a slant towards reconfigurable software on CPUs, GPUs, APUs, and MIC. Adjunct Faculty Member, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Facilitating a bridge between high-performance computing and medicine. President and CEO of Abokia. Delivering massively parallel computing to the masses via consulting and HPC/BIGDATA products. President of CompuGreen. Providing independent review of energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Chief Scientist at Orion Multisystems. Provided leadership and guidance on delivering clusters to the desktop. Previous professional stints include EnergyWare, Los Alamos National Laboratory,The Ohio State University, Purdue University, Vosaic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and NASA Ames Research Center. For more information about Wu's endeavors, please visit http://synergy.cs.vt.edu/ http://www.mpiblast.org/ http://www.green500.org/ http://www.abokia.com/ Specialties: Computer science & engineering; information technology; bioinformatics; entrepreneurship; sustainable computing and the environment.

Country

United States

City

Blacksburg

Industry

Research

Skill

Artificial Intelligence (AI), OpenCL, Sequence Analysis, Philosophy, University Teaching, Independent Research, CUDA, Graduate Students, High Performance Computing, Research, Bioinformatics, Embedded Systems, Computer Science, Algorithms, Parallel Computing, Green IT, Green Computing, Life Sciences, Lifesciences, MPI

Experience

Site Director

NSF Center for Space, High-Performance, & Resilient Computing (SHREC)

2018-10 - Present · 8 yrs

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

From CHREC to SHREC: CHREC officially ended in Dec. 2017 and was reborn in 2018 as the new NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing, the NSF SHREC Center. Both are national research centers and consortia of the I/UCRC program at the National Science Foundation. Operational since 2007, CHREC has been recognized by NSF as one of its best centers, and the new SHREC will continue this tradition of excellence in research collaboration.

Professor, Director, and Elizabeth & James Turner Fellow

Virginia Tech

2013-6 - Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

Blacksburg, VA

Conduct interdisciplinary research, education, and service in computer science and engineering with a focus on parallel computing, both up and down the software stack (i.e., systems software, middleware, tools, and applications software) and spanning the domain sciences, engineering, and humanities.

Elizabeth & James Turner Fellow and Professor

Virginia Tech

2013-6 - Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Adjunct Faculty Member

Virginia Tech

2011-3 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

Foster collaboration at the intersection of computer science and the life sciences.

Elizabeth & James Turner Fellow and Associate Professor

Virginia Tech

2012-7 - 2013-6 · 1 yr

Blacksburg, VA

Site Co-Director

NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)

2007-6 - 2018-10 · 11 yrs 5 mos

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

This NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) is an Industrial/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that serves the synergistic interests and goals in reconfigurable, adaptive computing for a broad range of missions, ranging from embedded systems to supercomputing. The center receives seed funding from NSF and research funding from its industrial and government members. The lead co-director of the VT site of CHREC is Prof. Peter Athanas.

Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Medicine

Wake Forest University

2010-11 - 2011-11 · 1 yr 1 mo

Foster collaboration at the intersection of computer science and the life sciences.

Chief Scientist

Orion Multisystems

2004-6 - 2006-2 · 1 yr 9 mos

Provide technical direction on next-generation green computing systems in the form of a desktop and deskside supercomputer. (The first-generation system was a 12-node CLUSTER in the footprint of a couple of pizza boxes and consuming only 100 watts of power, i.e., a light bulb.)

Technical Staff Member, Team Leader, and Institute Fellow

Los Alamos National Laboratory

1998-9 - 2006-1 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Conduct research and development in high-performance computing, including high-performance networking (e.g., Quadrics and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, the latter resulting in a R&D 100 Award), green computing (e.g., Green Destiny, a 240-node supercomputer in 5 sq. ft. and consuming 3.2 kW of power, i.e., ~2 hairdryers' worth of power, resulting in another R&D 100 Award), and life sciences (e.g., mpiBLAST, a fast sequence-search tool, resulting in another R&D 100 Award).