Conference Publications [Check Selected List]
  1. Pengyu Wang, Chao Li, Jing Wang, Taolei Wang, Lu Zhang, Jingwen Leng, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo. “Skywalker: Efficient Alias-method-based Graph Sampling and Random Walk on GPUs”. Proc. the 30th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Sep. 2021

  2. Weihao Cui, Han Zhao, Quan Chen, Ningxin Zheng, Jingwen Leng, Jieru Zhao, Chao Li, Minyi Guo. “Enable Simultaneous DNN Services Based on Deterministic Operator Overlap and Precise Latency Prediction”. Proc. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), Nov. 2021

  3. Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Lu Zhang, Shaolei Ren, Jingwen Leng, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo. “AlphaR: Learning-Powered Resource Management for Irregular, Dynamic Microservice Graph”. Proc. the 35th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2021

  4. Liang Zhang, Wenli Zheng, Chao Li, Yao Shen, and Minyi Guo. “AuTraScale: An Automated and Transfer Learning Solution for Streaming System Auto-Scaling”. Proc. the 35th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2021

  5. Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Lu Zhang, Yang Hu, and Minyi Guo. “ANT-Man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era”. Proc. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), Nov. 2020

  6. Xiaoqing Cai, Jiuchen Shi, Rui Yuan, Chang Liu, Wenli Zheng, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Jingwen Leng, and Minyi Guo. “OVERSEE: Outsourcing Verification to Enable Resource Sharing in Edge Environment”. Proc. the 49th Int. Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Aug. 2020

  7. Han Zhao, Weihao Cui, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Kai Yu, Deze Zeng, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “CODA: Improving Resource Utilization by Slimming and Co-locating DNN and CPU Jobs”. Proc. the 40th Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July. 2020

  8. Cong Guo, Yangjie Zhou, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu, Zidong Du, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Bin Yao, and Minyi Guo. “Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility for DNN Acceleration via Temporal GPU-Systolic Array Integration”. Proc. Design Automation Conference (DAC), July. 2020

  9. Pu Pang, Quan Chen, Deze Zeng, Chao Li, Jingwen Leng, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo. “Sturgeon: Preference-aware Co-location for Improving Utilization of Power Constrained Computers”. Proc. the 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2020

  10. Jianzong Wang, Zhangcheng Huang, Lingwei Kong, Jing Xiao, Pengyu Wang, Lu Zhang, and Chao Li. “Performance of Training Sparse Deep Neural Networks on GPUs”. Proc. the 23rd Annual High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sep. 2019

  11. Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “Unleashing the Scalability Potential of Power-Constrained Data Center in the Microservice Era”. Proc. the 48th Int. Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Aug. 2019

  12. Xiaofeng Hou, Mingyu Liang, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo. “When Power Oversubscription Meets Traffic Flood Attack: Re-thinking Data Center Peak Load Management”. Proc. the 48th Int. Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Aug. 2019

  13. Lu Zhang, Chao Li, Pengyu Wang, Yunxin Liu, Yang Hu, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo. “Characterizing and Orchestrating NFV-Ready Servers for Efficient Edge Data Processing”. Proc. the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), June 2019

  14. Quan Chen, Zhenning Wang, Jingwen Leng, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo. “Avalon: Towards QoS Awareness and Improved Utilization through Multi-Resource Management in Datacenters”. Proc. the 33rd International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2019

  15. Wei Zhang, Weihao Cui, Kaihua Fu, Quan Chen, Bo Wu, Daniel Mawhirter, Chao Li and Minyi Guo. “Laius: Towards Latency Awareness and Improved Utilization of Spatial Multitasking Accelerators in Datacenters”. Proc. the 33rd International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2019

  16. Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu, Cong Guo, Quan Chen, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “Adversarial Defense Through Network Profiling Based Path Extraction”. Proc. the 33rd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2019

  17. Pengyu Wang, Lu Zhang, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “Excavating the Potential of GPU for Accelerating Graph Traversal”. Proc. the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Sypmosium (IPDPS), May 2019

  18. Wenyi Zhao, Quan Chen, Hao Lin, Jianfeng Zhang, Jingwen Leng, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, Li Li, and Minyi Guo. “Themis: Predicting and Reining in Application-Level Slowdown on Spatial Multitasking GPUs”. Proc. the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Sypmosium (IPDPS), May 2019
    - Invited for Journal Publication

  19. Wenli Zheng, Xiaorui Wang, Yue Ma, Chao Li, Hao Lin, Bin Yao, Jianfeng Zhang, and Minyi Guo. “SprintCon: Controllable and Efficient Computational Sprinting for Data Center Servers”. Proc. the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Sypmosium (IPDPS), May 2019

  20. Yuhai Cao, Chao Li, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Jing Wang, and Weigong Zhang. “DR DRAM: Accelerating Memory-Read-Intensive Applications”. Proc. the 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct. 2018

  21. Xiaofeng Hou, Luoyao Hao, Chao Li, Quan Chen, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo. “Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done about It”. Proc. the 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct. 2018
    - Best Paper Award

  22. Dongliang Xue, Chao Li, Linpeng Huang, Chentao Wu, and Tianyou Li. “Adaptive Memory Fusion: Towards Transparent, Agile Integration of Persistent Memory”. Proc. the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2018

  23. Peitian Pan and Chao Li. “Congra: Towards Efficient Processing of Concurrent Graph Queries on Shared-Memory Machines”. Proc. the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Nov. 2017

  24. Naifeng Jing, Jianfei Wang, Fengfeng Fan, Wenkang Yu, Li Jiang, Chao Li, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Cache-Emulated Register File: An Integrated On-Chip Memory Architecture for High Performance GPGPUs”. Proc. the 49th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct. 2016

  25. Mingcong Song, Yang Hu, Yunlong Xu, Chao Li, Huixiang Chen, Jingling Yuan, and Tao Li. “Bridging the Semantic Gaps of GPU Acceleration for Scale-out CNN-based Big Data Processing: Think Big, See Small”. Proc. the 25th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Sep. 2016

  26. Yang Hu, Chao Li, Longjun Liu, and Tao Li. “HOPE: Enabling Efficient Service Orchestration in Software-Defined Data Centers”. Proc. the 30th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Jun. 2016

  27. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Nanning Zheng, and Tao Li. “Towards an Adaptive Multi-Power-Source Datacenter”. Proc. the 30th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Jun. 2016

  28. Chao Li, Zhenhua Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Haopeng Chen, Xiaoyao Liang, and Minyi Guo. “Power Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data Centers”. Proc. the 43rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2016

  29. Li Jiang, Xiangwei Huang, Hongfeng Xie, Qiang Xu, Chao Li, Xiaoyao Liang, and Huiyun Li. “A Novel TSV Probing Technique with Adhesive Test Interposer”. Proc. the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct. 2015

  30. Weichao Tang, Yu Wang, Haopeng Liu, Tao Zhang, Chao Li, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Exploring Hardware Profile-Guided Green Datacenter Scheduling”. Proc. the 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sep. 2015

  31. Naifeng Jing, Shuang Chen, Shunning Jiang, Li Jiang, Chao Li, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Bank Stealing for Conflict Mitigation in GPGPU Register File”. Proc. the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Aug. 2015

  32. Yiqing Hua, Chao Li, Weichao Tang, Li Jiang, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Building Fuel Powered Supercomputing Data Center at Low Cost”. Proc. the 29th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Jun. 2015

  33. Chao Li, Yang Hu, Longjun Liu, Juncheng Gu, Mingcong Song, Jingling Yuan, Xiaoyao Liang, and Tao Li. “Towards Sustainable in-Situ Server Systems in the Big Data Era”. Proc. the 42nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2015

  34. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun, Yang Hu, Juncheng Gu, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. “HEB: Deploying and Managing Hybrid Energy Buffers for Improving Datacenter Efficiency and Economy”. Proc. the 42nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2015

  35. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun, Yang Hu, Juncheng Gu, and Tao Li. “BAAT: Towards Dynamically Managing Battery Aging in Green Datacenters”. Proc. the 45th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Jun. 2015

  36. Ming Liu, Chao Li, and Tao Li. “Understanding the Impact of vCPU Scheduling on DVFS-based Power Management in Virtualized Cloud Environment”. Proc. the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Sep. 2014

  37. Chao Li, Rui Wang, Tao Li, Depei Qian, and Jingling Yuan. “Managing Green Datacenters Powered by Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems”. Proc. the 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Jun. 2014

  38. Chao Li, Yang Hu, Ruijin Zhou, Ming Liu, Longjun Liu, Jingling Yuan, and Tao Li. “Enabling Datacenter Servers to Scale Out Economically and Sustainably”. Proc. the 46th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec. 2013

  39. Chao Li, Rui Wang, Nilanjan Goswami, Xian Li, Tao Li, and Depei Qian. “Chameleon: Adapting Throughput Server to Time-Varying Green Power Budget using Online Learning”. Proc. the 2013 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Sep. 2013

  40. Ruijin Zhou, Fang Liu, Chao Li, and Tao Li. “Optimizing Virtual Machine Live Storage Migration in Heterogeneous Storage Environment”. Proc. the 9th ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), Mar. 2013

  41. Chao Li, Ruijin Zhou, and Tao Li. “Enabling Distributed Generation Powered Sustainable High-Performance Data Center”. Proc. the 19th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2013

  42. Chao Li, Amer Qouneh, and Tao Li. “iSwitch: Coordinating and Optimizing Renewable Energy Powered Server Clusters”. Proc. the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2012

  43. Amer Qouneh, Chao Li, and Tao Li, “A Quantitative Analysis of Cooling Power in Container-based Data Centers”. Proc. the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Nov. 2011

  44. Chao Li, Wangyuan Zhang, Chang-Burm Cho, and Tao Li. “SolarCore: Solar Energy Driven Multi-core Architecture Power Management”. Proc. the 17th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2011
    - Best Paper Award

Journals and Magzines
  1. Jose Romero Hung, Chao Li, Pengyu Wang, Chuanming Shao, Jinyang Guo, Jing Wang, and Guoyong Shi. “ACE-GCN: A Fast Data-Driven FPGA Accelerator for GCN Embedding”. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2021
  2. Pengyu Wang, Jing Wang, Chao Li, Jianzong Wang, Haojin Zhu, and Minyi Guo. “Grus: Toward Unified-Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Graph Processing on GPU”. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2021
  3. Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jinghang Yang, Wenli Zheng, Xiaoyao Liang, and Minyi Guo. “Integrated Power Anomaly Defense: Towards Oversubscription-Safe Data Centers”. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020
  4. Rong Zeng, Xiaofeng Hou, Lu Zhang, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo. “Performance Optimization for Cloud Computing Systems in the Microservice Era: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities”. Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2020
  5. Zhihui Zhang, Jingwen Leng, Lingxiao Ma, Youshan Miao, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “ Architectural Implication of Graph Neural Networks”. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 19, Issue 1, 2020
  6. Mengze Wei, Wenyi Zhao, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, Minyi Guo. “Predicting and Reining in Application-level Slowdown on Spatial Multitasking GPUs”. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol 141, 2020
  7. Yuhai Cao, Chao Li, Jing Wang, Weigong Zhang, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Bin Yao, Yao Shen, Minyi Guo. “DR Refresh: Releasing DRAM Potential by Enabling Read Accesses under Refresh”. IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), Vol 68, Issue 11, 2019
  8. Dongliang Xue, Linpeng Huang, Chao Li, Chentao Wu. “Dapper: An Adaptive Manager for Large-Capacity Persistent Memory”. IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), Vol 68, Issue 7, 2019
    - Featured Paper of July 2019 Issue
  9. Peitian Pan, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo. “CongraPlus: Towards Efficient Processing of Concurrent Graph Queries on NUMA Machines”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 30, Issue 9, 2019
  10. Han Zhao, Quan Chen, Yuxian Qiu, Ming Wu, Yao Shen, Jingwen Leng, Chao Li, Minyi Guo. “Bandwidth and Locality Aware Task-stealing for Manycore Architectures with Bandwidth-Asymmetric Memory”. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 15, Issue 4, 2019
  11. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin, and Nanning Zheng. “Exploring Highly Dependable and Efficient Datacenter Power System Using Hybrid and Hierarchical Energy Buffers”. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC), accepted in 2018
  12. Fawaz AL-Hazemi, Yuyang Peng, Chan-Hyun Youn, Josip Lorincz, Chao Li, Song Guo, and Raouf Boutaba. “Dynamic Allocation of Power Delivery Paths in Consolidated Data Centers based on Adaptive UPS Switching”. Computer Networks (CN), Vol 144, 2018
  13. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Tao Li, and Nanning Zheng. “Exploring Customizable Heterogeneous Power Distribution and Management for Datacenter”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 29, Issue 12, 2018
  14. Jianfei Wang, Qin Wang, Li Jiang, Chao Li, Xiaoyao Liang, and Naifeng Jing. “IBOM: An Integrated and Balanced On-Chip Memory for High Performance GPGPUs”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 29, Issue 3, 2018
  15. Chao Li, Yushu Xue, Jing Wang, Weigong Zhang, and Tao Li. “Edge-Oriented Computing Paradigms: A Survey on Architecture Design and System Management”. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 51, Issue 2, 2018
  16. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin, and Nanning Zheng. “Managing Battery Aging for High Energy Availability in Green Datacenters”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 28, Issue 12, 2017
  17. Chao Li, Yang Hu, Juncheng Gu, Jingling Yuan, and Tao Li. “Oasis: Scaling Out Datacenter Sustainably and Economically”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 28, Issue 7, 2017
  18. Naifeng Jing, Shunning Jiang, Shuang Chen, Jingjie Zhang, Li Jiang, Chao Li, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Bank Stealing for a Compact and Efficient Register File Architecture in GPGPU”. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), Vol 25, Issue 2, 2017
  19. Chao Li, Rui Wang, Depei Qian, and Tao Li. “Managing Server Clusters on Renewable Energy Mix”. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), Vol 11, Issue 1, 2016
  20. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng, Tao Li. “RE-UPS: An Adaptive Distributed Energy Storage System for Dynamically Managing Solar Energy in Green Datacenters”. The Journal of Supercomputing (TJSC), Vol 72, Issue 1, 2016
  21. Naifeng Jing, Li Jiang, Tao Zhang, Chao Li, Fengfeng Fan, and Xiaoyao Liang. “Energy-Efficient eDRAM-Based On-Chip Storage Architecture for GPGPUs”. IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), Vol 25, Issue 2, 2017
  22. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun, Yang Hu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng, Tao Li. “Leveraging Heterogeneous Power for Improving Datacenter Efficiency and Resiliency”. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 14, Issue 1, 2015
    - Best of CAL Award
  23. Chao Li, Rui Wang, Yang Hu, Ruijin Zhou, Ming Liu, Longjun Liu, Jingling Yuan, Tao Li, Depei Qian. “Towards Automated Provisioning and Emergency Handling in Renewable Energy Powered Datacenters”. J. of Computer Sci. and Tech. (JCST), accepted in 2014
    - Top 30 Most Downloaded Articles (#2)
Short Papers, Abstracts, Posters
  1. Weixin Deng, Pengyu Wang, Jing Wang, Chao Li, Minyi Guo. “PSL: Exploiting Parallelism, Sparsity and Locality to Accelerate Matrix Factorization on x86 Platforms”. Proc. the 2019 Int. Symp. on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimization (Bench), Nov. 2019

  2. Nilanjan Goswami, Yuhai Li, Amer Qouneh, Chao Li, and Tao Li. “On Power-Performance Characterization of Concurrent Throughput Kernels”. Proc. the 2015 IEEE Int. Symp. on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Nov. 2015

  3. Chao Li, Amer Qouneh, and Tao Li. “Characterizing and Analyzing Renewable Energy Driven Data Centers”. Proc. the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Int. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Jun. 2011

- underlined names indicate students advised/co-advised by me