Storage Systems
| Storage Systems description |
Ali R Butt
Associate Professor
College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
| Office: | 2207 KWII |
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| Email: | butta@cs.vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-0489 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/butta/ |
| Office Hours: | By appointment |
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2010
2008
C.N., G., J. Sundararaman, A. R. Butt, and G. Back,
ReplayCache: Exploiting Similarities for Predicting the Future,
, San Jose, CA, 2008.
Miller, C., A. R. Butt, and P. Butler,
"On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids",
Proc. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08), Miami, FL, April, 2008.
Rafique, M. M., A. R. Butt, and D. S. Nikolopoulos,
"DMA-based Prefetching for I/O-intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture",
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 23-32, May, 2008.
Rafique, M. M., A. R. Butt, and D. S. Nikolopoulos,
"Supporting I/O-intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture",
Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Systems, San Jose, CA, USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, pp. 2pp, 2008.
2007
Yang, S., A. R. Butt, Y. C. Hu, and S. P. Midkiff,
"Lightweight Monitoring of the Progress of Remotely Executing Computations",
{Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing}, vol. 4339, pp. 319–333, 2007.
Butt, A. R., C. Gniady, and C. Y. Hu,
"The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms",
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 889–908, 2007.
Konanki, P., and A. R. Butt,
"FlexiCache: {A} Flexible Interface for Customizing {L}inux File System Buffer Cache Replacement Policies",
Work-in-Progress, 5th USENIX FAST, San Jose, CA, Feb., 2007.
Miller, C., P. Butler, A. Shah, and A. R. Butt,
"PeerStripe: A P2P-Based Large-File Storage for Desktop Grids",
Proceedings of IEEE HPDC, Monterey, CA, June, 2007.
Miller, C., P. Butler, A. Shah, and A. R. Butt,
On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids,
, no. TR-07-16: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, May, 2007.
Konanki, P., and A. R. Butt,
"On Supporting Disconnected Operation in Grid Computing",
Poster in IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), Goa, India, Dec., 2007.
2006
Gniady, C., A. R. Butt, C. Y. Hu, and Y. - H. Lu,
"Program Counter-Based Prediction Techniques for Dynamic Power Management",
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 641–658, 2006.
Yang, S., A. R. Butt, X. Fang, C. Y. Hu, and S. P. Midkiff,
"A Fair, Secure and Trustworthy Peer-to-Peer Based Cycle-Sharing System",
Journal of Grid Computing: Special issue on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 265–286, 2006.
Butt, A. R., T. A. Johnson, Y. Zheng, and C. Y. Hu,
"Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System",
Journal of Grid Computing: Special issue on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 323–341, 2006.
2005
Zhang, R., A. R. Butt, and Y. C. Hu,
"MetaStream: Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming",
Proc. IFIP Networking Conference, Waterloo, Canada, pp. 1–14, May, 2005.
Yang, S., A. R. Butt, Y. C. Hu, and S. P. Midkiff,
"Trust but Verify: Monitoring Remotely Executing Programs for Progress and Correctness",
Proc. ACM SIGPLAN PPoPP, Chicago, IL, pp. 196–205, June, 2005.
Butt, A. R., C. Gniady, and C. Y. Hu,
"The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms",
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June, 2005.
2004
Zhang, R., A. R. Butt, and Y. C. Hu,
"Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming",
Poster in 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2004), Berlin, Germany, Oct., 2004.
2002
Goasguen, S., A. R. Butt, K. D. Colby, and M. Lundstrom,
"Parallelization of Nanoscale Device Simulator nanoMOS 2.0 Using a 100 node Linux Cluster",
Proc. IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, Washington, DC, Aug., 2002.
CAREER: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for High Performance Data Storage
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
