CSE researchers gave the selection committee for the IEEE Cluster a very difficult task and they resorted to compromise; two papers tied for best paper! The papers are "Efficient One-Copy MPI Shared Memory Communication in Virtual Machines" by Wei Huang (CSE Grad Student), Matthew Koop (CSE Grad Student), and Dhabaleswar K. Panda (CSE Faculty) and "Are Non-Blocking Networks Really Needed for High-End-Computing Workloads?" by Pavan Balaji (CSE alum PhD '04) and Narayan Desai (Argonne National Laboratory), P. Sadayappan (CSE Faculty), and Mohammed Islam (CSE Grad Student).
The IEEE Cluster conference is a forum for fellow cluster researchers to present and discuss new directions, opportunities and ideas that will shape Cluster Computing. The department also received a best paper award at Cluster 2007 entitled "High Performance Virtual Machine Migration with RDMA over Modern Interconnects" by Wei Huang, Qi Gao, Jiuxing Liu and Dhabaleswar K.Panda.