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* Category : Resource/Power/Thermal Management and Systems Software for Enterprise Computing

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2013


1. Aggressive Datacenter Power Provisioning with Batteries
   Sriram Govindan, Di Wang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar
   ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 31, 1, February 2013. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Performance Evaluation



2012


2. Using Batteries to Reduce the Power Costs of Internet-scale Distributed Networks
   Darshan S. Palasamudram, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Rahul Urgaonkar
   Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2012), San Jose, CA. October 2012. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Analytical Modeling, Performance Evaluation, Distributed/Clustered Systems
   Acceptance ratio: 21/163 (12.9%)
3. Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters
   Chuangang Ren, Di Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
   In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2012), Washington D.C. August 2012. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Analytical Modeling, Performance Evaluation, Distributed/Clustered Systems
   Acceptance ratio: 49/134 (36.6%) Best Paper Award!
4. Energy Storage in Datacenters: What, Where and How Much?
   Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Hosam Fathy
   In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2012), London, UK. June 2012. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Analytical Modeling, Performance Evaluation, Distributed/Clustered Systems
   Acceptance ratio: 31/203 (15.3%) Nominated for Best Paper!
5. Thermal Influence Indices: Causality Metrics for Efficient Exploration of Datacenter Cooling
   H. Bhagwat, A. Singh, A. Vasan, A. Sivasubramaniam
   In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing (IGCC 2012), San Jose, CA. June 2012. [bibtex]
   Acceptance ratio: 18/60 (30.0%)
6. Leveraging Stored Energy for Handling Power Emergencies in Aggressively Provisioned Datacenters
   Sriram Govindan, Di Wang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar
   In proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2012), Pick of the Month, IEEE Sust. Comp. Reg., Sept. 2012, London, UK. March 2012. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Performance Evaluation
   Acceptance ratio: 37/172 (21.5%) Pick of the Month!



2011


7. Towards Realizing a Low Cost and Highly Available Datacenter Power Infrastructure
   Sriram Govindan, Di Wang, Lydia Chen, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar
   Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (Hotpower), Cascais, Portugal. October 2011. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Fault Tolerance, Analytical Modeling, Computer Architecture
   Acceptance ratio: 26.31%
8. Benefits and Limitations of Tapping into Stored Energy for Datacenters
   Sriram Govindan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar
   Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011), San Jose, CA. June 2011. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Power Management, Computer Architecture, Operating System, Implementation and Protyping
   Acceptance ratio: 40/208 (19.2%)
9. Optimal Power Cost Management Using Stored Energy in Data Centers
   Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael Neely, Anand Sivasubramaniam
   In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2011), San Jose, CA. June 2011. [bibtex]
   Keywords: Performance Evaluation, Power Management, Data Analysis and Characterization, Analytical Modeling
   Acceptance ratio: 26/177 (14.7%)



2010


10. Reducing Datacenter Power with Server Consolidation: Approximation and Evaluation
    S. Chandrasekar, A. Vasan, A. Sivasubramaniam
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), December 2010. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems
    Acceptance ratio: 40/208 (19.2%)
11. Power Consumption Prediction and Power-Aware Packing in Consolidated Environments
    Jeonghwan Choi, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), August 2010. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Data Analysis and Characterization, Operating System
12. Worth their Watts? An Empirical Study of Datacenter Servers
    Arunchandar Vasan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Vikrant Shimpi, T. Sivabalan, Rajesh Subbiah
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2010), Bangalore, India. January 2010. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Performance Evaluation, Distributed/Clustered Systems
    Acceptance ratio: 32/175 (18.3%)



2009


13. An Activity Based Approach to Minimize Energy Usage of Service Sector Infrastructure
    S. Ramasubramaniam, Y. Avinash, S. Pragathi Chitra, T. Geetha, A. Sivasubramaniam
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Infrastructure Systems and Services, Nagar, India . December 2009. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Distributed/Clustered Systems, Power Management
14. Statistical Profiling-based Techniques for Effective Power Provisioning in Data Centers
    Sriram Govindan, Jeonghwan Choi, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Andrea Baldini
    In proceedings of EuroSys 2009 Conference (EuroSys'09), Nuremberg, Germany. March 2009. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Data Analysis and Characterization
    Acceptance ratio: 25/148 (16.9%)
15. Xen and Co.: Communication-aware CPU Management in Consolidated Xen-based Hosting Platforms
    Sriram Govindan, Jeonghwan Choi, Arjun R Nath, Amitayu Das, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. TBD, No. TBD, January 2009. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, I/O subsystem
16. Resource Overbooking and Application Profiling in Shared Internet Hosting Platforms
    Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, Timothy Roscoe
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (TOIT), Vol. TBD, No. TBD, January 2009. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems



2008


17. Managing Thermal Emergencies in Disk-Based Storage Systems
    Youngjae Kim, Jeonghwan Choi, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    Journal of Electronic Packaging, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 130, Issue 4, December 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Thermal Management, File Systems/Storage
18. Profiling, Prediction, and Capping of Power Consumption in Consolidated Environments
    Jeonghwan Choi, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    In proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), Baltimore, MD. September 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Data Analysis and Characterization
    Acceptance ratio: 36/94 (38.3%) Best Student Paper Award!
19. CFD-based Tool for Studying Temperature in Rack-mounted Servers
    Jeonghwan Choi, Youngjae Kim, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Jelena Srebric, Qian Wang, Joonwon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Computer, Vol. TBD, No. TBD, August 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Thermal Management
20. Cataclysm: Scalable Overload Policing for Internet Applications
    Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy
    Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 31:891-920, July 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems
21. RIVER: Resource Management Infrastructure for Consolidated Hosting in Virtualized Data Centers
    Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the NSF Next-Generation Software Workshop (NGS), held in conjunction with IPDPS 2008, Miami, FL. April 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Implementation and Protyping
22. Generalized Parallel-Server Fork-Join Queues with Dynamic Task Scheduling
    M. Squillante, Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, N. Gautam
    Annals of Operations Research, 160(1):227-255, April 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management
23. Agile Dynamic Provisioning of Multi-tier Internet Applications
    Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, Abhishek Chandra, Pawan Goyal, Timothy Wood
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 3(1):1-39, March 2008. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems



2007


24. Xen and Co: Communication-aware CPU Scheduling for Consolidated Xen-based Hosting Platforms
    Sriram Govindan, Arjun Nath, Amitayu Das, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of The Third International ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) , June 2007. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, I/O subsystem
    Acceptance ratio: 19/70 (27.1%)
25. Analytic Modeling of Multi-tier Internet Applications
    Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Giovanni Pacifici, Prashant Shenoy, Mike Spreitzer, Asser Tantawi
    ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), 1(1):1-35, May 2007. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems



2006


26. Consolidating Clients on Back-end Servers with Co-location and Frequency Control
    Y. Chen, A. Das, Q. Wang, A. Sivasubramaniam, R. Harper, M. Bland
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, pages 383-384, June 2006. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems



2005


27. Managing Server Energy and Operational Costs in Hosting Centers.
    Y.chen, A. Das, W. Qin, A. Sivasubramaniam, Q.Wang, N. Gautham
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems , June 2005. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Power Management, Scheduling and Resource Management, Performance Evaluation, Analytical Modeling
    Acceptance ratio: 31/238 (13.0%)
28. An Interposed 2-Level I/O Scheduling Framework for Performance Virtualization
    J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, Q. Wang, A. Riska, E. Riedel
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems , June 2005. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Performance Evaluation
29. Pro-active Page Replacement for Scientific Applications: A Characterization
    M. Vilayannur, A. Sivasubramaniam, M. Kandemir
    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) , March 2005. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Operating System, Scheduling and Resource Management
    Acceptance ratio: 27/92 (29.3%)



2004


30. Exploring the Possibility of Operating in the Compressed Domain
    V. De La Luz, M. Kandemir, A. Sivasubramaniam, M. J. Irwin
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par'04) , Pisa, Italy. September 2004. [bibtex]
31. Pricing and Autonomic Control of Web Servers with Time-Varying Request Patterns
    Y.chen, A. Das, N. Gautham, Q. Wang, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) , May 2004. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems



2003


32. Autonomic Computing Features for Large-scale Server Management and Control
    R. Sahoo, I. Rish, A. Oliner, M. Gupta, J. Moreira, S. Ma, R. Vilalta, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the Workshop on AI and Autonomic Computing (held in conjunction with IJCAI), August 2003. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Distributed/Clustered Systems, Data Analysis and Characterization
33. An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling and Migration
    Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(3):236-247, March 2003. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Parallel Computing
34. A Pipeline-based Approach for Scheduling Video Processing Applications on a NOW
    M-T. Yang, R. Kasturi, A. Sivasubramaniam
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(2):119-130, February 2003. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Parallel Computing



2002


35. Understanding and Improving Operating System Effects in Control Flow Transfer
    T. Li, L. K. John, A. Sivasubramaniam, N. Vijaykrishnan, J. Rubio
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X) , October 2002. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Operating System
    Acceptance ratio: 24/130 (18.5%)
36. Incorporating Quality-of-Service in the Virtual Interface Architecture.
    S. Nagar, C. Liu, G. Kandiraju, A. Sivasubramaniam, N. Gautam
    Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) , April 2002. [bibtex]
    Acceptance ratio: 42/300 (14.0%)



2001


37. An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling, and Migration
    Y. Zhang, J. Moreira, H. Franke, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, June 2001. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Parallel Computing
38. An Automatic Pipleline Scheduler for Real-Time Vision Applications.
    M-T. Yang, R. Kasturi, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium , April 2001. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Parallel Computing
    Acceptance ratio: 48/276 (17.4%)
39. Selectivity Estimation of Spatial Joins.
    N. An, Z. Yang, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) , April 2001. [bibtex]
    Acceptance ratio: 53/295 (18.0%)



2000


40. The Impact of Migration on Parallel Job Scheduling for Distributed Systems
    Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of Euro-par, September 2000. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Parallel Computing
41. A Simulation-based Study of Scheduling Mechanisms for a Dynamic Cluster Environment
    Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Moreira, H. Franke
    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, May 2000. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Performance Evaluation
    Acceptance ratio: 33/122 (27.0%)
42. Improving Parallel Job Scheduling by Combining Gang Scheduling and Backfilling Techniques
    Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2000. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Parallel Computing
    Acceptance ratio: 107/303 (35.3%)
43. Investigating QoS Support for Traffic Mixes Using MediaWorm
    K. H. Yum, A. Vaidya, C. R. Das, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-6), January 2000. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Distributed/Clustered Systems



1999


44. Alternatives to Coscheduling a Network of Workstations
    S. Nagar, A. Banerjee, A. Sivasubramaniam, C. R. Das
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Software Support for Distributed Computing, 59(2):302-327, November 1999. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems
45. A Closer Look at Coscheduling Approaches for a Network of Workstations
    S. Nagar, A. Banerjee, A. Sivasubramaniam, C. R. Das
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), June 1999. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Scheduling and Resource Management, Distributed/Clustered Systems, Parallel Computing



1998


46. Evaluating Parallel R-Tree Implementations on a Network of Workstations
    N. An, L. Qian, A. Sivasubramaniam, T. Keefe
    Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Geographical Information Systems, November 1998. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Distributed/Clustered Systems, Parallel Computing
47. Implementing Protected Multi-User Communication for Myrinet
    S. Nagar, D. Seed, A. Sivasubramaniam
    Workshop on Communication, Architecture and Applications for Network-based Parallel Computing (CANPC), February 1998. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing



1995


48. On Characterizing Bandwidth Requirements of Parallel Applications
    A. Sivasubramaniam, A. Singla, U. Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May 1995. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Performance Evaluation
49. Abstracting Network Characteristics and Locality Properties of Parallel Systems
    A. Sivasubramaniam, A. Singla, U. Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran
    Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1995. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing



1994


50. Parallelizing Sequential Algorithms for the Generalized Assignment Problem
    Ivan Yanasak, Gautam Shah, Kalyan Perumalla
    Proceedings of the DIMACS Implementation Challenge Workshop, October 1994. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Parallel Computing
51. An Approach to Scalability Study of Shared Memory Parallel Systems
    A. Sivasubramaniam, A. Singla, U. Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May 1994. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing



1992


52. A Computational Model for Message-Passing
    A. Sivasubramaniam, U. Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran
    Proceedings of the 6th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS), March 1992. [bibtex]
    Keywords: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing