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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