HPC and Systems Laboratory

The faculty and students in the High Performance Computing (HPC) and Systems Lab are engaged in research involving different aspects of HPC, network, and cyber security. The HPC research involves complete HPC stack ranging from runtime systems to applications. The network research involves designing the next-generation Internet, network protocols for big science data and AR/VR technologies. The cyber security research involves cyber-physical systems, industrial control systems, smart grid security, and vehicle security, and includes securing both devices and protocols.

Key Research Activities:

• High Performance Message Passing at Scale
• Message Passing and Runtime support for Adaptive Application
• Programming Model and Tools for Performance Portable Parallel Applications
• Modelling and Simulation of Weather and Climate Related Applications
• Next Generation Internet
• Network Protocols for Large Science Data
• Network Protocols for AR/VR applications
• Application of machine learning for security and forensics of ICS and smart grid
• ICS and smart grid simulation
• In-vehicle network (CAN Bus) Security
• Secure Health Data Computing Architecture

Key Equipment:

• Four node Research Cluster with Accelerator

Ancillary Equipment:

• XiveNet Testbed (Research Testbed for In-Vehicle Network Security)
• ICS experimental setup (emulation and simulation)
• Black Box system for protocol and secure server research
• Graduate student research workstations

 

Contacts:

• Sheikh Ghafoor, Ph.D. sghafoor@tntech.edu
• Mike Rogers, Ph.D. mrogers@tntech.edu
• Susmit Shannigrahi, Ph.D.  sshannigrahi@tntech.edu
• Stephen Scott, Ph.D. sscott@tntech.edu