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2012
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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2011
User Preferences for Indicator And Feedback Modalities: A preliminary survey study for developing a coaching system to facilitate wheelchair power seat function usage. H-Y. Liu, G. Grindle, F-C. Chuang, A. Kelleher, R. Cooper, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, R. Cooper. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 10, October-December 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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Prefetch-Aware Memory Controllers. Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, Veynu Narasiman, and Yale N. Patt, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 60(10), October 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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ActiveSLA: A Profit-Oriented Admission Control Framework for Database-as-a-Service Providers. Pengcheng Xiong, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Junichi Tatemura, Calton Pu, Hakan Hacigumus. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Cascais, Portugal, Oct 27-28, 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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Switching the Optical Divide: Fundamental Challenges for Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Networks. Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz, Malveeka Tewari, Guohui Wang, George Porter, T. S. Eugene Ng, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael A. Kozuch, Amin Vahdat. 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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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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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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IdleChat: Enabling High Bandwidth Real-time Applications in Residential Broadband Networks. Ramya Raghavendra, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Srinivasan Seshan, and Elizabeth Belding. In ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) (invited paper), July 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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