Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2024), held in Haikou, China on December 7, 2024. The talk was titled "Hermes, Coeus, and ChronoLog: Some big data I/O systems for network, parallel and distributed computing."
On March 6, 2023, the Hermes team at the Scalable Computing Software (SCS) Lab and The HDF Group published Hermes v0.9.8-beta (opens in a new tab), a beta of the heterogeneous-aware, multi-tiered I/O buffering system first described at HPDC'18.
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 13th International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM 2021), Workshop on Information Storage System and Technology (ISST), on November 8, 2021. The talk was titled "High Performance Data Access: The Hermes Approach."
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Framework Grant (OAC-1835764) to Dr. Xian-He Sun for the Hermes project, a heterogeneous-aware multi-tiered distributed I/O buffering system designed to address the growing performance gap between computing power and storage systems.