Weikuan Yu, faculty member in the department, and students in Auburn’s Parallel Architecture and Systems Laboratory have been recognized by Mellanox Technologies Inc. for their research and software development. Mellanox presented Auburn with a $150,000 grant to conduct research that led to the development of a Hadoop acceleration software product called Unstructured Data Accelerator. The software, which allows large volumes of commercial data to be analyzed quickly, is being used by top data companies throughout the nation. Mellanox is a leading supplier of high-performance InfiniBand and Ethernet input/output solutions and services in the high-performance computing, enterprise, mega warehouse data centers, cloud computing and web 2.0 markets.
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- NSF funds Auburn materials engineering research into combining light and matter August 25, 2025The National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research (DMR) has awarded Siyuan Dai, associate professor and Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow in the Department of Materials Engineering, a $600,000 grant to explore ways of fusing light and matter that are literally opening new dimensions in nano-optics.
- Tiger Cage, Halloween Pitch Competition kickoff meetings Sept. 2 and Sept. 4 August 22, 2025Students interested in turning innovative ideas into viable startups are encouraged to attend the Tiger Cage Business Idea Competition Kickoff on Tuesday, Sept. 2, and Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Horton-Hardgrave Hall’s Innovation Lab.
- #GINNing Podcast: Moore Miles August 22, 2025Nathan Moore, new assistant director of the National Center for Asphalt Technology's famed test track, discusses the past, present and future of the glorious 1.7-mile loop on this, its 25th anniversary year.