Zhiwei Xu
Zhiwei Xu
Professor: Professor
Address: Kexueyuan South Road #6, Haidian,
Beijing 100190, P. R. China
Email: zxu@ict.ac.cn

Zhiwei Xu is a professor of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main interests are computer architecture and distributed system. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, an MS degree from Purdue University, and a BS degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

    Selected Publications

  • Journal Papers

    • Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Yongwei Zhao, Xi Zeng , Ling Li, Limin Cheng, Zhiwei Xu, Ninghui Sun, Yunji Chen: Breaking the Interaction Wall: A DLPU-centric Deep Learning Computing System[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020. [link]

    • Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Yongwei Zhao, Tian Zhi, Yunji Chen, Zhiwei Xu: Self-aware neural network systems: A survey and new perspective[J]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020, 108(7): 1047-1067. [link]

    • Yongwei Zhao, Zhe Fan, Zidong Du, Tian Zhi, Ling Li, Qi Guo, Shaoli Liu, Zhiwei Xu, Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen: Machine Learning Computers With Fractal von Neumann Architecture[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020, 69(7): 998-1014. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Yifan Wang, Yongwei Zhao, Chundian Li: Computation Protocols: Analyzable Abstractions for Computing Systems[J]. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2020, 57(5): 897. [link]

    • Lu Chao, Xiaohui Peng, Zhiwei Xu, Lei Zhang: Ecosystem of things: Hardware, software, and architecture[J]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019, 107(8): 1563-1583. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Chen Zeng, Lu Chao, Xiaohui Peng: Zone-Oriented Architecture: An Architectural Style for Smart Web of Everything[J]. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2019, 56(1): 90. [link]

    • Lu Chao, Xiaohui Peng, Zhiwei Xu: Variant Entropy Profile: A Multi-Granular Information Model for Data on Things with Order-of-Magnitude Compression Ratios[J]. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2018, 55(8): 1653. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Lu Chao, Xiaohui Peng: T-REST: An open-enabled architectural style for the Internet of Things[J]. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018, 6(3): 4019-4034. [link]

    • Lu Chao, Xiaohui Peng, Zhiwei Xu: Variant Entropy Profile: A Multi-Granular Information Model for Data on Things with Order-of-Magnitude Compression Ratios[J]. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2018, 55(8): 1653. [link]

    • Zakir Ullah, Zhiwei Xu, Zhang Lei, Libo Zhang: A robust localization, slip estimation, and compensation system for WMR in the indoor environments[J]. Symmetry, 2018, 10(5): 149. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Chundian Li: Low-entropy cloud computing systems[J]. Scientia Sinica Informationis, 2017, 47(9): 1149-1163. [link]

    • Tao Luo, Shaoli Liu, Ling Li, Yuqing Wang, Shijin Zhang, Tianshi Chen, Zhiwei Xu, Olivier Temam, Yunji Chen: DaDianNao: A neural network supercomputer[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2016, 66(1): 73-88. [link]

    • Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, Zhiwei Xu, Ninghui Sun, Olivier Temam: DianNao family: energy-efficient hardware accelerators for machine learning[J]. Communications of the ACM, 2016, 59(11): 105-112. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Xuebin Chi, Nong Xiao: High-performance computing environment: a review of twenty years of experiments in China[J]. National Science Review 3(1): 36-48 (2016) [link]

    • Shaoli Liu, Tianshi Chen, Ling Li, Xiaoxue Feng, Zhiwei Xu, Haibo Chen, Frd Chong, Yunji Chen: IMR: High-performance low-cost multi-ring NoCs[J]. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2015, 27(6): 1700-1712. [link]

    • Tianshi Chen, Qi Guo, Olivier Temam, Yue Wu, Yungang Bao, Zhiwei Xu, Yunji Chen: Statistical performance comparisons of computers[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014, 64(5): 1442-1455. [link]

    • Xingzhou Zhang, JingJie Liu, Zhiwei Xu: Tencent and Facebook data validate Metcalfe's law[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2015, 30(2): 246-251. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu: Cloud-sea computing systems: Towards thousand-fold improvement in performance per watt for the coming zettabyte era[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2014, 29(2): 177-181.  [link]

    • Lei Nie, Xian Yang, Ian Adcock, Zhiwei Xu, Yike Guo: Inferring cell-scale signalling networks via compressive sensing[J]. Plos one, 2014, 9(4): e95326. [link]

    • Lei Nie, Jingjie Liu, Haicang Zhang, Zhiwei Xu: On the inapproximability of minimizing cascading failures under the deterministic threshold model[J]. Information Processing Letters, 2014, 114(1-2): 1-4. [link]

    • Jian Lin, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: Consolidated cluster systems for data centers in the cloud age: A survey and analysis[J]. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2013, 7(1): 1-19. [link]

    • Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen, Qi Guo, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Ling Li, Zhiwei Xu: Effective and efficient microprocessor design space exploration using unlabeled design configurations[J]. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2014, 5(1): 1-18. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu: Measuring green IT in society[J]. Computer, 2012, 45(05): 83-85. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu: How much power is needed for a billion-thread high-throughput server?[J]. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2012, 6(4): 339-346. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Guojie Li: Computing for the masses[J]. Communications of the ACM, 2011, 54(10): 129-137. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Dandan Tu: Three new concepts of future computer science[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2011, 26(4): 616-624. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Bo Yan, Yongqiang Zou: Beyond hadoop: Recent directions in data computing for internet services[J]. International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), 2011, 1(1): 45-61.[link]

    • Rubao Lee, Zhiwei Xu: Exploiting stream request locality to improve query throughput of a data integration system[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2009, 58(10): 1356-1368. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Yongqiang He, Wei Lin, Li Zha: Four styles of parallel and net programming[J]. Frontiers of Computer Science in China, 2009, 3(3): 290-301. [link]

    • Xingwu Liu, Zhiwei Xu, Jianzhong Pan: Classifying rendezvous tasks of arbitrary dimension[J]. Theoretical Computer Science, 2009, 410(21-23): 2162-2173. [link]

    • Lijuan Xiao, Yanmin Zhu, Lionel M. Ni, Zhiwei Xu: Incentive-based scheduling for market-like computational grids[J]. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008, 19(7): 903-913. [link]

    • Frank Zhigang Wang, Sining Wu, Na Helian, Zhiwei Xu, Yuhui Deng, Vineet R. Khare, Chenhan Liao, Chris Thompson, Michael Parker: Grid-based data access to nucleotide sequence database[J]. New Generation Computing, 2007, 25(4): 409-424. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Haojie Zhou, Guojie Li:  Usability issues of grid system software[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2006, 21(5): 641-647. [link]

    • Yanmin Zhu, Lijuan Xiao, Zhiwei Xu, Lionel M. Ni, Incentive-based scheduling in Grid computing[J]. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2006, 18(14): 1729-1746.  [link]

    • Wen Gao, Lionel M. Ni, Zhiwei Xu, S. C. Cheung, Li Cui, Qiong Luo: BLOSSOMS: Building lightweight optimized sensor systems on a massive scale[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2005, 20(1): 105-177. [link]



    Conference Papers


    • Ke Zhang, Yisong Chang, Ran Zhao, Zelin Wang, Mingyu Chen, Yungang Bao, Zhiwei Xu: EdUCAS: An In-house CI/CD Platform with Cloud FPGAs for Agilely Conducting Computer Systems Course Projects[C]//Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation, Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2. 2021: 662-662. [link]

    • Yongwei Zhao, Chang, Liu, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Xing Hu, Yimin Zhuang, Zhenxing Zhang, Xinkai Song, Wei Li, Xishan Zhang: Cambricon-Q: a hybrid architecture for efficient training[C]//2021 ACM/IEEE 48th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). IEEE, 2021: 706-719. [link]

    • Chundian Li, Mingzhe Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Xianhe Sun: Self-adaptive Address Mapping Mechanism for Access Pattern Awareness on DRAM[C]//2019 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking (ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom). IEEE, 2019: 61-70. [link]

    • Yongwei Zhao, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Shaoli Liu, Ling Li, Zhiwei Xu, Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen: Cambricon-F: machine learning computers with fractal von neumann architecture[C]//2019 ACM/IEEE 46th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). IEEE, 2019: 788-801. [link]

    • Ke Zhang, Yisong Chang, Mingyu Chen, Yungang Bao, Zhiwei Xu: ZyCube: An In-House Mini-Cluster for Agilely Developing and Conducting Computer Systems Course Projects[C]//Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education. 2019: 242-242. [link]

    • Ke Zhang, Yisong Chang, Mingyu Chen, Yungang Bao, Zhiwei Xu: Computer organization, design course with fpga cloud[C]//Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2019: 927-933. [link]

    • Ke Zhang, Yisong Chang, Mingyu Chen, Yungang Bao, Zhiwei Xu: Engaging Heterogeneous FPGAs in the Cloud[C]//Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. 2019: 308-308. [link]

    • Xiaohui Peng, Lu Chao, Yifan Wang, Zhiwei Xu: T-Suite: A RESTful Distributed Development and Runtime Environment on Things Devices[C]//2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI). IEEE, 2018: 1057-1062. [link]

    • Zhenying Li, Xiaohui Peng, Lu Chao, Zhiwei Xu: EveryLite: A lightweight scripting language for micro tasks in IoT systems[C]//2018 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC). IEEE, 2018: 381-386. [link]

    • Zhiwei Xu, Xiaohui Peng, Lei Zhang, Dong Li, Ninghui Sun: The Φ-stack for smart web of things[C]//Proceedings of the Workshop on Smart Internet of Things. 2017: 1-6. [link]

    • Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang, Lu Chao, Chundian Li, Lang Wu, Xiaohui Peng, Zhiwei Xu: IEHouse: A non-intrusive household appliance state recognition system[C]//2017 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI). IEEE, 2017: 1-8. [link]

    • Xian Yang, Lei Nie, Paul M. Matthews, Valentina Tomassini, Zhiwei Xu, Yike Guo: The critical regularization value: Incorporating spatial smoothness to enhance signal detection in highly noisy fMRI data[C]//2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). IEEE, 2015: 1076-1079. [link]

    • Lei Nie, Xian Yang, Paul M. Matthews, Zhiwei Xu, Yike Guo: An accurate and parameter-free measure of functional connectivity in fMRI[C]//International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health. Springer, Cham, 2015: 125-134. [link]

    • Xi Yang, Chen Feng, Zhiwei Xu, Xian-He Sun: Dominoes: Speculative Repair in Erasure-coded Hadoop System[C]//2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). IEEE, 2015: 366-375. [link]

    • Chen Feng, Xi Yang, Fan Liang, Xian-He Sun, Zhiwei Xu: LCIndex: a local and clustering index on distributed ordered tables for flexible multi-dimensional range queries[C]//2015 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. IEEE, 2015: 719-728. [link]

    • Lu Chao, Chundian Li, Fan Liang, Xiaoyi Lu, Zhiwei Xu: Accelerating Apache hive with MPI for data warehouse systems[C]//2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE, 2015: 664-673. [link]

    • Zimu Yuan, Zhiwei Xu, Guojie Li: CIUV: Collaborating information against unreliable views[C]//2015 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC). IEEE, 2015: 568-573. [link]

    • Jian Lin, Fan Liang, Xiaoyi Lu, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: Modeling and designing fault-tolerance mechanisms for mpi-based mapreduce data computing framework[C]//2015 IEEE First International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications. IEEE, 2015: 176-183. [link]

    • Yongjun Xu, Lin Wu, Xianbin Wu, Zhiwei Xu: Belief fusion of predictions of industries in China's stock market[C]//International Conference on Belief Functions. Springer, Cham, 2014: 348-355. [link]

    • Xiaoyi Lu, Fan Liang, Bing Wang, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: DataMPI: Extending mpi to hadoop-like big data computing[C]//2014 IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. IEEE, 2014: 829-838. [link]

    • Tianshi Chen, Qi Guo, Ke Tang, Olivier Temam, Zhiwei Xu, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Yunji Chen: ArchRanker: A ranking approach to design space exploration. ISCA 2014: 85-96 [link]

    • Yunji Chen, Tao Luo, Shaoli Liu, Shijin Zhang, Liqiang He, Jia Wang, Ling Li, Tianshi Chen, Zhiwei Xu, Ninghui Sun, Olivier Temam: Dadiannao: A machine-learning supercomputer[C]//2014 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture. IEEE, 2014: 609-622. [link]

    • Fan Liang, Chen Feng, Xiaoyi Lu, Zhiwei Xu: Performance characterization of hadoop and data mpi based on amdahl's second law[C]//2014 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage. IEEE, 2014: 207-215. [link]

    • Fan Liang, Chen Feng, Xiaoyi Lu, Zhiwei Xu: Performance benefits of DataMPI: a case study with BigDataBench[C]//Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware. Springer, Cham, 2014: 111-123. [link]

    • Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, Qi Guo, Zhiwei Xu, Lei Zhang: An elastic architecture adaptable to millions of application scenarios[C]//IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: 188-195. [link]

    • Xiaoyi Lu, Jian Lin, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: Vega LingCloud: a resource single leasing point system to support heterogeneous application modes on shared infrastructure[C]//2011 IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications. IEEE, 2011: 99-106.  [link]

    • Zimu Yuan, Lizhao You, Wei Li, Biao Chen, Zhiwei Xu: History-aware adaptive backoff for neighbor discovery in wireless networks[C]//2011 Seventh International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. IEEE, 2011: 174-181. [link]

    • Jingjie Liu, Lei Nie, Zhiwei Xu: The input-sensing problem in ternary computing and its application in household energy-saving[C]//2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications. IEEE, 2011: 131-138. [link]

    • Yongqiang He, Rubao Lee, Yin Huai, Zheng Shao, Namit Jain, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, RCFile: A fast and space-efficient data placement structure in MapReduce-based warehouse systems[C]//2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on Data Engineering. IEEE, 2011: 1199-1208. [link]

    • Xiaoyi Lu, Bing Wang, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: Can MPI benefit Hadoop and MapReduce applications?[C]//2011 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops. IEEE, 2011: 371-379. [link]

    • Wei Li, Deng Li, Shuhui Yang, Zhiwei Xu, Wei Zhao, Design and analysis of a new gps algorithm[C]//2010 IEEE 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE, 2010: 40-51. [link]

    • Yongqiang Zou, Jia Liu, Shicai Wang, Li Zha, Zhiwei Xu: CCIndex: A complemental clustering index on distributed ordered tables for multi-dimensional range queries[C]//IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: 247-261. [link]

    • Qiang Yue, Xiaoyi Lu, Zhiguang Shan, Zhiwei Xu, Haiyan Yu, Li Zha: A model of message-based debugging facilities for web or grid services[C]//2009 Congress on Services-I. IEEE, 2009: 155-162. [link]

    • Qiang Yue, Zhiwei Xu, Haiyan Yu, Wei Li, Li Zha: An approach to debugging grid or web services[C]//IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007). IEEE, 2007: 330-337.  [link]

    • Xingwu Liu, Zhiwei Xu, Juhua Pu: Revisiting the impossibility for boosting service resilience[C]//International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: 715-727. [link]

    • Yili Gong, Yongqiang Xiong, Qian Zhang, Zhensheng Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Zhiwei Xu: WSN12-3: Anycast routing in delay tolerant networks[C]//IEEE Globecom 2006. IEEE, 2006: 1-5. [link]

    • Xiaoning Wang, Wei Li, Hong Liu, Zhiwei Xu: A language-based approach to service deployment[C]//2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'06). IEEE, 2006: 69-76. [link]

    • Yili Gong, Wei Li, Yuzhong Sun, Zhiwei Xu: AC/S and P2P hybrid resource discovery framework in grid environments[C]//2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'05). IEEE, 2005: 261-268. [link]

    • Xiaoning Wang, Lijuan Xiao, Wei Li, Haiyan Yu, Zhiwei Xu: Abacus: a service-oriented programming language for grid applications[C]//2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'05) Vol-1. IEEE, 2005, 1: 225-232. [link]

    • Lijuan Xiao, Yanmin Zhu, Lionel M. Ni, Zhiwei Xu: GridIS: An incentive-based grid scheduling[C]//19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. IEEE, 2005: 10 pp. [link]

    • Li Zha, Wei Li, Haiyan Yu, Xianghui Xie, Nong Xiao, Zhiwei Xu: System software for China national grid[C]//IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: 14-21. [link]

    • Haijun Yang, Zhiwei Xu, Yuzhong Sun, Qinghua Zheng: Modeling and performance analysis of the VEGA grid system[C]//First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science'05). IEEE, 2005: 8 pp.-303. [link]

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