Overview

Clouds provide a public service where applications/services run in a virtual environment. The NiceX lab is focused on networked intelligent computing in cloud services, mainly including cloud operating systems, storage, reliable memory, networking, and scheduling. Currently, Prof. Yiming Zhang is the director of NICEX Lab.

Research

Deep Learning Acceleration: ParaX

Object Storage Service: MapX

Cloud Operating Systems: KylinX

Performance Debugging: PCatch

Block Storage Service: PariX and Ursa

Reliable Memory Service: MemCube and CubeX

Cloud Networking: OptaX

Cloud Server Consolidation: C4

Cloud VM Fast Booting: VirtMan

Cloud Graph Computing: TopoX

Machine Learning: FCSC

News

Apr 2022 FailureStudy accepted to ATC

Mar 2022 XTree accepted to ICDE

Dec 2021 InfiniFS accepted to FAST

Apr 2021 MapperX accepted to ATC

Mar 2020 ParaX accepted to VLDB

Dec 2019 MapX accepted to FAST

Dec 2019 Ursal accepted to INFOCOM

Nov 2019 PBS accepted to ToS

Jun 2019 FCSC accepted to TBD

Mar 2019 TopoX accepted to PVLDB

Dec 2018 Ursa accepted to EuroSys

Nov 2018 CubeX accepted to ToS

Oct 2018 Trans2Vec accepted to AAAI 2019

Apr 2018 KylinX accepted to ATC 2018

Apr 2018 cKernel accepted to ICDCS 2018 (Invited paper)

Jan 2018 PCatch accepted to EuroSys 2018

About us

NICEX is a research lab with collaboration of many world-class labs including MSRA, Cambridge University Computer Lab, AliCloud, Huawei Theory/OS Lab, Didi Chuxing, etc., being focused on design and implementation of networked intelligent computing systems for various applications.