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ISTC-CC Summer 2012 Newsletter — The ISTC-CC Update — now available.
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2013
Asymmetry-aware Execution Placement on Manycore Chips. Alexey Tumanov, Joshua Wise, Onur Mutlu, Gregory R. Ganger. In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures (SFMA'13), EuroSys'13, Apr. 14-17, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
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2012
VScope: Middleware for Troubleshooting Time-Sensitive Data Center Applications. Chengwei Wang, Infantdani Abel Rayan, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Vanish Talwar, Matthew Wolf, and Chad Huneycutt. ACM Middleware (Middleware'12), December 2012.
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SOFTScale: Stealing Opportunistically For Transient Scaling. Anshul Gandhi, Timothy Zhu, Mor Harchol-Balter, Michael A. Kozuch. ACM Middleware (Middleware'12), December 2012.
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Faster, Larger, Easier: Reining Real-Time Big Data Processing in Data Centers. Chengwei Wang, Infantdani Abel Rayan, and Karsten Schwan. ACM Middleware (Middleware'12) Poster Session, December 2012.
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Theia: Visual Signatures for Problem Diagnosis in Large Hadoop Clusters. Elmer Garduno, Soila P. Kavulya, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA'12), December 2012. Best Student Paper Award.
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AutoScale: Dynamic, Robust Capacity Management for Multi-Tier Data Centers. Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ram Raghunathan, Mike Kozuch. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) vol. 30, No. 4, Article 14, 2012.
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Discovering Structure in Unstructured I/O. Jun He, John Bent, Aaron Torres, Gary Grider, Garth Gibson, Carlos Maltzahn, and Xian-He Sun. Proc. of the Seventh Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW12), co-located with the Int. Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), November 2012.
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A Case for Scaling HPC Metadata Performance through De-specialization. Swapnil Patil, Kai Ren, Garth Gibson. Proc. of the Seventh Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW12), co-located with the Int. Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), November 2012.
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TABLEFS: Embedding a NoSQL Database inside the Local File System. Kai Ren and Garth Gibson. 1st Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit, IEEE Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference (APMRC), November 2012.
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Performance Isolation and Fairness for Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage. David Shue, Michael J. Freedman, Anees Shaikh. Proc. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12), October 2012.
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PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs. Joseph E. Gonzalez, Yucheng Low, Haijie Gu, Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin. (OSDI'12), October 2012.
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GraphChi: Large-Scale Graph Computation on Just a PC. Aapo Kyrola, Guy Blelloch, Carlos Guestrin. (OSDI'12), October 2012.
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Heterogeneity and Dynamicity of Clouds at Scale: Google Trace. C. Reiss, A. Tumanoy, G. R. Ganger, R. H. Katz, M. A. Kozuch. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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Cake: Enabling High-level SLOs on Shared Storage Systems. A. Wang, S. Venkataraman, S. Alspaugh, R. H. Katz, I. Stoica. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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Using Vector Interfaces to Deliver Millions of IOPS from a Networked Key-value Storage Server. Vijay Vasudevan, Michael Kaminsky, David Andersen. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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alsched: algebraic scheduling of mixed workloads in heterogeneous clouds. Alexey Tumanov, James Cipar, Michael Kozuch, Gregory Ganger. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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The Potential Dangers of Causal Consistency and an Explicit Solution. Peter Bailis, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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True Elasticity in Multi-Tenant Clusters through Amoeba. Ganesh Anantharanayanan, Christopher Douglas, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Sriram Rao, Ion Stoica. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'12), October 2012.
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DCast: Sustaining Collaboration in Overlay Multicast despite Rational Collusion. Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Chenwei Shi. (CCS'12), October 2012.
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A Reference Architecture for Mobile Code Offload in Hostile Environments. Simanta, S., Lewis, G., Morris, E., Ha, K., Satyanarayanan, M. Fourth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCase'12), October 2012.
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HAT: Heterogeneous Adaptive Throttling for On-Chip Networks. Kevin Chang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chris Fallin, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, October 2012.
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Generation Smartphone. Dan Siewiorek. IEEE Spectrum, vol. 49, no. 9, September, 2012, pp. 54-58 (cover article).
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When Average is Not Average: Large Response Time Fluctuations in N-tier Systems. Qingyang Wang, Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Motoyuki Kawaba, Calton Pu, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'12), September 2012.
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Net-Cohort: Detecting and Managing VM Ensembles in Virtualized Data Centers. Liting Hu, Karsten Schwan, Ajay Gulati, Junjie Zhang, Chengwei Wang. Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'12), September 2012.
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Project Hoover: Auto-Scaling Streaming Map-Reduce Applications. Rajalakshmi Ramesh, Liting Hu, Karsten Schwan. MDBS Workshop at ICAC Conference, September 2012.
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Row Buffer Locality Aware Caching Policies for Hybrid Memories. HanBin Yoon, Justin Meza, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Rachael Harding, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'12), September 2012. Best paper award (in Computer Systems and Applications track).
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Flash Correct-and-Refresh: Retention-Aware Error Management for Increased Flash Memory Lifetime. Yu Cai, Gulay Yalcin, Onur Mutlu, Eric Haratsch, Adrian Cristal, Osman Unsal, Ken Mai. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'12), September 2012.
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A Case for Small Row Buffers in Non-Volatile Main Memories. Justin Meza, Jing Li, and Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'12) Poster Session, September 2012.
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Base-Delta-Immediate Compression: A Practical Data Compression Mechanism for On-Chip Caches. Gennady Pekhimenko, Vivek Seshadri, Onur Mutlu, Todd C. Mowry, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'12), September 2012.
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Chrysalis Analysis: Incorporating Synchronization Arcs in Dataflow-Analysis-based Parallel Monitoring. Michelle Goodstein, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, and Todd Mowry. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'12), September 2012.
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The Evicted-Address Filter: A Unified Mechanism to Address Both Cache Pollution and Thrashing. Vivek Seshadri, Onur Mutlu, Todd C Mowry, Michael A Kozuch. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'12), September 2012.
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Application-to-Core Mapping Policies to Reduce Memory Interference in Multi-Core Systems. Reetuparna Das, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Onur Mutlu, Akhilesh Kumar, Mani Azimi. Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'12) Poster Session, September 2012.
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Architecture and Applications of Virtual Coaches. D. Siewiorek, Smailagic, A., Dey, A. Chapter 11 in Quality of Life Technology Handbook, Richard Schulz (ed), CRC Press, 2013, pp. 197-226.
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Wearable Computers. D. Siewiorek, Smailagic, A., Starner, T. Chapter 12 in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition, J. A. Jacko (ed), CRC Press, pp. 273-296.
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Scalable Dynamic Partial Order Reduction. Jiri Simsa, Randy Bryant, Garth Gibson, and Jason Hickey, Int. Conf. on Runtime Verification (RV'12), September 2012.
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On-Chip Networks from a Networking Perspective: Congestion and Scalability in Many-core Interconnects. George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, Onur Mutlu, Srinivasan Seshan. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM'12), August 2012.obilgir-chants2012
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Adaptive Usage of Cellular and WiFi Bandwidth: An Optimal Scheduling Formulation. Ozlem Bilgir Yetim, Margaret Martonosi. ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks, August 2012.
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Architecture and Applications of Virtual Coaches. Special Issue on Quality of Life Technology. D. Siewiorek, Smailagic, A, Dey, A. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 100, No. 8, August 2012, pp 2472-2488.
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Interactive Analytical Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads. Y. Chen, S. Alspaugh, R. H. Katz. 38th International Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB'12), August 2012.
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RainMon: An Integrated Approach to mining bursty timeseries monitoring data. Ilari Shafer, Kai Ren, Vishnu Boddeti, Yashihisa Abe, Greg Ganger, Christos Faloutsos. Proc. 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), August 2012.
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A Reference Architecture for Mobile Code Offload in Hostile Environments. (Working session paper) Simanta, S., Lewis, G., Morris, E., Ha, K., Satyanarayanan, M. Proceedings of the 10th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) & 6th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), August 2012.
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Unsupervised Conversion of 3D Models for Interactive Metaverses. Jeffrey Terrace, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Philip Levis, Michael J. Freedman. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'12), July 2012.
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The Cost of Fault Tolerance in Multi-Party Communication Complexity. Binbin Chen, Haifeng Yu, Yuda Zhao, Phillip B. Gibbons. Proc. 31st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'12), July 2012.
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Towards Predictable Multi-Tenant Shared Cloud Storage. David Shue, Michael J. Freedman, Anees Shaikh. Proc. Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS '12), July 2012. One of 6 best papers selected to appear in extended format in special issue of SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.
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A Power Capping Controller for Multicore Processors. N. Alamoosa, W. J Song, Y Wardi, and S. Yalamanchili. IEEE American Control Conference (ACC'12), June 2012.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Consolidation at High Resource Utilization: Non-monotonic Response Time Variations in n-Tier Applications. Simon Malkowski, Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Hanwei Chen, Masao Yamamoto, Qingyang Wang, Deepal Jayasinghe, Calton Pu. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE CLOUD Conference (CLOUD'12), June 2012.
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Reliability Implications of Power and Thermal Constrained Operation of Asymmetric Multicore Processors. W. Song, S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Yalamanchili. Dark Silicon Workshop, June 2012, Portland, Oregon USA. Co-located with ISCA 2012.
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Xerxes: Distributed Load Generator for Cloud-scale Experimentation. Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. 7th OpenCirrus Summit, June 2012.
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Role-Based and Time-Bound Access and Management of EHR Data. Rui Zhang, Ling Liu, Xue Rui. International Journal of Security and Communication Networks, 2012 Wiley.
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v-Bundle: Flexible Group Resource Offerings in Clouds. Liting Hu, Kyung Dong Ryu, Dilma Da Silva, and Karsten Schwan, ICDCS'12, June 2012.
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Draco: Statistical Diagnosis of Chronic Problems in Large Distributed Systems. Soila Pertet Kavulya, Kaustubh Joshi, Matti Hiltunen, Scott Daniels, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan, IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'12), June 2012.
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Expertus: A Generator Approach to Automate Performance Testing in IaaS Clouds. Deepal Jayasinghe, Galen Swint, Simon Malkowski, Jack Li, Qingyang Wang, and Calton Pu, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE CLOUD Conference (CLOUD'12), June 2012.
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Reliable State Monitoring in Cloud Datacenters. Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar, Isabelle Rouvellou, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, and Balaji Palanisamy, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE CLOUD Conference (CLOUD'12), June 2012.
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Characterizing and Improving the Use of Demand-Fetched Caches in GPUs. Wenhao Jia, Kelly A. Shaw, and Margaret Martonosi, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '12), June 2012.
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Brief Announcement: The Problem Based Benchmark Suite. Julian Shun, Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, Phillip B. Gibbons, Aapo Kyrola, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, and Kanat Tangwongsan, Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'12), June 2012.
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Commodity Converged Fabrics for Global Address Spaces in Accelerator Clouds. J. Young and S. Yalamanchili, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC'12), June 2012.
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Saving Cash by Using Less Cache. Anshul Gandhi, Timothy Zhu, Mor Harchol-Balter, Michael Kozuch, HotCloud'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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A Case for Performance-Centric Network Allocation. Gautam Kumar, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Ion Stoica, HotCloud'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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Discretized Streams: An Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Model for Stream Processing on Large Clusters. Matei Zaharia, Tathagata Das, Haoyuan Li, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, HotCloud'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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Sweet Storage SLOs with Frosting. Andrew Wang, Shivaram Venkataraman, Sara Alspaugh, Ion Stoica, and Randy Katz, HotCloud'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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Why Let Resources Idle? Aggressive Cloning of Jobs with Dolly. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, HotCloud'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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Automated Diagnosis without Predictability is a Recipe for Failure. Raja R. Sambasivan & Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '12), June 12-13, 2012, Boston, MA.
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The Forgotten 'Uncore': On the Energy-Efficiency of Heterogeneous Cores. Vishal Gupta, Paul Brett, David Koufaty, Dheeraj Reddy, Scott Hahn, Karsten Schwan, Ganapati Srinivasa, Usenix ATC'12, Boston, MA, June 12-13, 2012.
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Staged Memory Scheduling: Achieving High Performance and Scalability in Heterogeneous Systems. Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Gabriel Loh, Kevin Chang, Lavanya Subramanian, and Onur Mutlu, Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'12), Portland, OR, June 12-13, 2012.
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Understanding TCP Incast and Its Implications for Big Data Workloads. Y. Chen, R. Griffith, D. Zats, A. D. Joseph, and R. H. Katz, USENIX ;login;, 37(3), June 2012.
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Evaluating the Need for Complexity in Energy-Aware Management for Cloud Platforms. Pooja Ghumre, Junwei Li, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, Greenmetrics'12, in conjunction with Sigmetrics, London, UK, June 11, 2012.
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Are Sleep States Effective in Data Centers? Anshul Gandhi, Michael Kozuch, and Mor Harchol-Balter, Proceedings of the International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12), San Jose, CA, June 5-8, 2012.
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A Cyber-Physical Integrated System for Application Performance and Energy Management in Data Centers. Hui Chen, Pengcheng Xiong, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan and Chengzhong Xu, Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12), San Jose, CA, June 5-8, 2012.
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Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees. Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu, IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2011 Computer Architecture Conferences, May-June 2012.
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File System Virtual Appliances: Portable file system implementations. Abd-El-Malek, M., M. Wachs, J. Cipar, K. Sanghi, G. Ganger, G. Gibson, M. Reiter. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), vol 8, no 3, May 2012.
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Dynamic Management of Resources and Workloads for RDBMS in Cloud: a Control-theoretic Approach. Pengcheng Xiong, Proc. of ACM SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ, May 20, 2012.
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Interactive Use of Cloud Services: Amazon SQS and S3. Hobin Yoon, Jim Donahue, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid'12), Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 13-16, 2012.
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MinBD: Minimally-Buffered Deflection Routing for Energy-Efficient Interconnect. Chris Fallin, Greg Nazario, Xiangyao Yu, Kevin Chang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, and Onur Mutlu, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS'12), Lyngby, Denmark, May 9-11, 2012.
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Optimizing Data Warehousing Applications for GPUs using Kernel Fusion/Fission. H. Wu, G. Diamos, J. Wang, H. Cadambi, S. Yalamanchili, and S. Chakradhar. Workshop on Multicore and GPU Programming Models, Languages and Compilers, May 2012.
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Dynamic Compilation of Data Parallel Kernels for Vector Processors. A. Kerr, G. Diamos, and. S. Yalamanchili, International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, April 2012.
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Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing. Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, NSDI '12, San Jose, CA, April 25-27, 2012.
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PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs. Ganesh Anantharanayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Wang, Dhruba Borthakur, Srikanth Kandula, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, NSDI '12, San Jose, CA, April 25-27, 2012.
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Reoptimizing Data Parallel Computing. Sameer Agarwal, Srikanth Kandula, Nico Bruno, Ming-Chuan Wu, Ion Stoica, and Jingren Zhou, NSDI '12, San Jose, CA, April 25-27, 2012.
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Jettison: Efficient Idle Desktop Consolidation with Partial VM Migration. Nilton Bila, Eyal de Lara, Kaustubh Joshi, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Matti Hiltunen, and M. Satyanarayanan, EuroSys'12. Bern,Switzerland, April 10-13, 2012.
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LazyBase: Trading Freshness for Performance in a Scalable Database. James Cipar, Greg Ganger, Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N. Soules, Alistair Veitch. EuroSys 2012, April 10-13, 2012, Bern, Switzerland.
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Energy Efficiency for Large-Scale MapReduce Workloads with Significant Interactive Analysis. Y. Chen, S. Alspaugh, D. Borthakur, and R. H. Katz, EuroSys'12. Bern,Switzerland, April 10-13, 2012.
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Kineograph: Taking the Pulse of a Fast-Changing and Connected World. Raymond Cheng, Ji Hong , Aapo Kyrola, Youshan Miao, Xuetian Weng, Ming Wu, Fan Yang, Lidong Zhou, Feng Zhao, and Enhong Chen, EuroSys'12. Bern,Switzerland, April 10-13, 2012.
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Stargazer: Automated Regression-Based GPU Design Space Exploration. Wenhao Jia, Kelly A. Shaw, Margaret Martonosi, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'12), New Brunswick, NJ, April 1-3, 2012.
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Lynx: A Dynamic Instrumentation System for Data-Parallel Applications on GPGPU Architectures. Naila Farooqui, Andrew Kerr, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, and Sudhakar Yalamanchili, 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'12), New Brunswick, NJ, April 1-3, April 2012.
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Towards Understanding Heterogeneous Clouds at Scale:
Google Trace Analysis. Charles Reiss, Alexey Tumanov, Gregory R. Ganger, Randy H. Katz, Michael A. Kozuch. Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing Technical Report ISTC-CC-TR-12-101, April 2012.
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How Close is Close Enough? Understanding the Role of Cloudlets in Supporting Display Appropriation by Mobile Users. Sarah Clinch, Jan Harkes, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012). Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.
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Enabling Efficient and Scalable Hybrid Memories Using Fine-Granularity DRAM Cache Management. Justin Meza, Jichuan Chang, HanBin Yoon, Onur Mutlu, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), March 2012.
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Bottleneck Identification and Scheduling in Multithreaded Applications. José A. Joao, M. Aater Suleman, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt. ASPLOS'12 March 3–7, 2012, London, England, UK.
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Region Scheduling: Efficiently Using the Cache Architectures via Page-level Affinity. Min Lee, Karsten Schwan. ASPLOS'12, March 3–7, 2012, London, England, UK.
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Experiences Teaching MapReduce in the Cloud. Ariel Rabkin, Charles Reiss, Randy Katz, David Patterson. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE), February 29 - March 3, 2012. Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Benchmarking Next Generation Hardware Platforms: An Experimental Approach. Vishakha Gupta, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. 3rd Workshop on SoCs, Heterogeneous Architectures and Workloads (SHAW-3), held in conjunction with HPCA-18. Feb 26th 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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2011
PACMan: Prefetch-Aware Cache Management for High Performance Caching. Carole-Jean Wu, Aamer Jaleel, Margaret Martonosi, Simon C. Steely Jr., Joel Emer. MICRO '11 December 3-7, 2011, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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SIMD Re-Convergence At Thread Frontiers. Gregory Diamos, Benjamin Ashbaugh, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Andrew Kerr, Haicheng Wu, Sudhakar Yalamanchili. MICRO'11, December 3-7, 2011, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Why Do Migrations Fail and What Can We Do about It? Gong Zhang and Ling Liu. Usenix 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference, Boston, MA, December 2011.
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SHiP: Signature-Based Hit Predictor for High Performance Caching. Carole-Jean Wu, Aamer Jaleel, William Hasenplaugh, Margaret Martonosi, Simon Steely Jr., and Joel Emer. The 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, December 2011.
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Reducing Memory Interference in Multicore Systems via Application-Aware Memory Channel Partitioning. Sai Prashanth Muralidhara, Lavanya Subramanian, Onur Mutlu, Mahmut Kandemir, and Thomas Moscibroda. The 44th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.
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Improving GPU Performance via Large Warps and Two-Level Warp Scheduling. Veynu Narasiman, Chang Joo Lee, Michael Shebanow, Rustam Miftakhutdinov, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt. The 44th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.
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Precomputing Possible Configuration Error Diagnoses. Ariel Rabkin and Randy Katz. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Lawrence, KS, November 2011.
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Purlieus: Locality-aware Resource Allocation for MapReduce in a Cloud. Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu, Bhushan Jain. ACM/IEEE International Conference on SuperComputing (SC2011), Seattle WA, Nov. 12-18, 2011.
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On the Duality of Data-intensive File System Design: Reconciling HDFS and PVFS. Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson, Seung Woo Son, Samuel J. Lang, Robert B. Ross. SC11, November 12-18, 2011, Seattle, Washington USA. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-11-108. April 2011.
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Collaborating with Executable Content Across Space and Time. Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Vasanth Bala, Gloriana St. Clair, Erika Linke, 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 15-18, 2011.
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YCSB++: Benchmarking and Performance Debugging Advanced Features in Scalable Table Stores. Swapnil Patil, Milo Polte, Kai Ren, Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Lin Xiao, Julio Lopez, Garth Gibson, Adam Fuchs, Billie Rinaldi. Proc. of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC '11), October 27–28, 2011, Cascais, Portugal. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-11-111, August 2011.
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SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store. Hyeontaek Lim, Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. To appear in 23nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'11), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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Don't Settle for Eventual: Stronger Consistency for Wide-Area Storage with COPS. Wyatt Lloyd, Michael J. Freedman, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen. To appear in 23nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'11), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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Design Implications for Enterprise Storage Systems via Multi-Dimensional Trace Analysis. Y. Chen, K. Srinivasan, G. Goodson, R. Katz. In 23nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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Small Cache, Big Effect: Provable Load Balancing for Randomly Partitioned Cluster Services. Bin Fan, Hyeontaek Lim, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. To appear in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'11), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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The Case for Sleep States in Servers. Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Michael Kozuch. In 4th ACM Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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How Data Center Size Impacts the Effectiveness of Dynamic Power Management. Anshul Gandhi and Mor Harchol-Balter, 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2011.
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Adaptive Filter with Frequency Tracking and Variable Learning Rate for Line Noise Removal. J. W. Kelly, J. L. Collinger, A. D. Degenhart, D. P. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, W. Wang. Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, MA, September 2011.
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State Monitoring in Cloud Datacenters. Shicong Meng, Ling Liu, and Ting Wang. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Cloud Data Management. September 2011.
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ResourceExchange: Latency-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Environments with High Performance Fabrics. Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. IEEE Cluster'11, Austin, TX, Sep. 2011.
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Recipes for Baking Black Forest Databases: Building and Querying Black Hole Merger Trees from Cosmological Simulations. Lopez, J., C. Degraf, T. DiMatteo, B. Fu, E. Fink, G. Gibson. 23rd Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM'11), July 2011.
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dBug: Systematic Testing of Distributed and Multi-threaded Systems. Jiri Simsa, Randy Bryant, Garth Gibson.18th International Workshop on Model Checking of Software (SPIN'11), Snowbird UT, July 2011.
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FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes. David G. Andersen, Jason Franklin, Michael Kaminsky, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Vijay Vasudevan. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 101-109, July 2011.
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Spatially-aware Optimization of Energy Consumption in Consolidated Datacenter Systems. Hui Chen, Pramod Kumar, Mukil Kesavan, Karsten Schwan, Ada Gavrilovska, Yogendra Joshi. InterPACK2011, Portland, OR, July 2011.
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CACM: Current-aware Capacity Management in Consolidated Server Enclosures. Hui Chen, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Mukil Kesavan. Second International Green Computing Conference, Work-in-Progress, Orlando, FL, Jul. 2011.
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Variations in Performance and Scalability when Migrating n-Tier Applications to Different Clouds. Deepal Jayasinghe, Simon Malkowski, Qingyang Wang, Jack Li, Pengcheng Xiong and Calton Pu. CLOUD 2011, July 4-9, 2011. Washington, DC. [Best Paper Award].
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GraphLab: A Distributed Framework for Machine Learning in the Cloud. Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, Aapo Kyrola, Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin. arXiv:1107.0922v1 [cs.LG] 5 July 2011.
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Performance Analysis of Network I/O Workloads in Virtualized Data Centers. Yiduo Mei, Ling Liu, Xing Pu, Sankaran Sivathanu, and Xiaoshe Dong. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, June 2011.
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Economical and Robust Provisioning of N-Tier Cloud Workloads: A Multi-level Control Approach. Pengcheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qingyang Wang, Deepal Jayasinghe and Calton Pu. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Jun 21-24, 2011.
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A Flexible Architecture Integrating Monitoring and Analytics for Managing Large-Scale Data Centers. Chengwei Wang, Karsten Schwan, Vanish Talwar, Greg Eisenhauer, Liting Hu, Matthew Wolf. The 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2011). June 14-18, 2011.
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Automated Control for Elastic n-Tier Workloads based on Empirical Modeling. Malkowski, S., Hedwig, M., Li, J., Pu, C., and Neumann, D. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing. (ICAC 2011) June 14-18, 2011.
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Exertion-based Billing for Cloud Storage Access. Matthew Wachs, Lianghong Xu, Arkady Kanevsky, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '11). June 14-15, 2011, Portland, OR.
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Otus: Resource Attribution in Data-Intensive Clusters. Kai Ren, Julio López, Garth Gibson.
MapReduce'11, June 8, 2011, San Jose, California, USA.
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Cloud4Home — Enhancing Data Services with @Home Clouds. Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, MN, Jun. 2011.
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Shadowfax: Dynamically Composed GPGPU Assemblies. Alexander Merritt, Vishakha Gupta, Abhishek Verma, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. 5th Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC), in conjunction with HPDC 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011.
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Distributed Cloud Storage Services with FleCS Containers. Hobin Yoon, Madhumitha Ravichandran, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan. 5th OpenCirrus Summit, Moscow, Russia, June 2011.
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Statistical Techniques for Online Anomaly Detection in Data Centers. Chengwei Wang, Krishna Viswanathan, Lakshminarayan Choudur, Vanish Talwar, Wade Satterfield, Karsten Schwan. In 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011). May 23-27, 2011.
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The Case for VOS: The Vector Operating System. Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. In 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII). Napa, CA, May 2011.
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Disks Are Like Snowflakes: No Two Are Alike. Elie Krevat, Joseph Tucek, Gregory R. Ganger. 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS 2011), Napa Valley, CA. May 2011.
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Intelligent Management of Virtualized Resources for Database Management Systems in Cloud Environment. Pengcheng Xiong, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Hyun Jin Moon, Calton Pu, Hakan Hacigumus. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover, Germany, April 11-16, 2011.
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Continuous Inference of Psychological Stress from Sensory Measurements Collected in the Natural Environment. Plarre, K., Raij, A.,Hossain, S., Ali., Nakajimaz,M., Al’Absiz, M.,Emre Ertin, E., Kamarck, T., Kumar, S., Scott, M., Siewiorek, D.P., Smailagic, A., Wittmers, L. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011), Chicago, IL, April 12-14, 2011.
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Diagnosing Performance Changes by Comparing Request Flows. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Michael De Rosa, Elie Krevat, Spencer Whitman, Michael Stroucken, William Wang, Lianghong Xu, Gregory R. Ganger. 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'11). March 30 - April 1, 2011. Boston, MA.
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Fully Automated Reduction of Ocular Artifacts in High-Dimensional Neural Data. J. Kelly, Siewiorek, D.P., Smailagic, A., Collinger, J. L., Weber, D. J., Wang, W. Transaction/Journal: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Part: 1. March 2011.
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HyperTransport Over Ethernet – A Scalable Commodity Standard for Resource Sharing in the Data Center. J. Young, S. Yalamanchili, B. Holden, M. Cavalli, and P. Miranda. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on
HyperTransport Research and Applications (WHTRA2011) Feb. 09, 2011, Mannheim, Germany.
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2010
dBug: Systematic Evaluation of Distributed Systems. Jiri Simsa, Randy Bryant, Garth Gibson. 5th Int. Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV’10), co-located with 9th USENIX Symp. on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’10), Vancouver BC, October 2010.
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Capping the Brown Energy Consumption of Internet Services at Low Cost. Kien Le, Ricardo Bianchini, Thu D. Nguyen, Ozlem Bilgir, Margaret Martonosi. Proceedings of the First International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), Chicago, IL, August 2010. Best Paper Award.
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GraphLab: A New Parallel Framework for Machine Learning. Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, Aapo Kyrola, Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin, and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). Catalina Island, CA, July 8-11, 2010.
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