On April 18, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent 11,630,834 B2 (opens in a new tab), "Label-Based Data Representation I/O Process and System", to Illinois Institute of Technology. The inventors are Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, and Xian-He Sun, and the patent covers the label-based I/O method behind LABIOS, which received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at HPDC'19.
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent System (HPBD&IS 2020) on May 23, 2020. The talk was titled "dLABEL: A Label-Based Data Representation and its implementation on Big Data I/O Systems."
The paper "LABIOS: A Distributed Label-Based I/O System" has received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the ACM 28th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'19). The award, named in honor of the late Professor Karsten Schwan for his contributions to high-performance systems, recognizes the most outstanding paper presented at the symposium.