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Godmar Back

Assistant Professor

Office: 2211 KWII
Email: gback@cs.vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-3046
Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gback/
Office Hours: McBryde 122-A: TR: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
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Systems Software Laboratory

Contact: Godmar Back
2009
Belgin M., Back G., Ribbens C.J., "A Pattern-based Sparse Matrix Representation for Memory-efficient SMVM Kernels", ICS '09: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing: ACM, New York, pp. 100-109, 2009. Tagged BibTex xml
2008
Nikolopoulos D.S., Back G., Tripathi J., Curtis-Maury M., "VT-ASOS: Holistic System Software Customization for Many Cores", Proceedings of the Workshop on the NSF Next Generation Software Program, held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Miami, FL, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 5pp, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
C.N. G., Sundararaman J., Butt A.R., Back G., ReplayCache: Exploiting Similarities for Predicting the Future, , San Jose, CA, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
Back G., Bailey A., "Increasing the visibility of web-based information retrieval systems via client-side mash-ups", JCDL '08: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA, ACM Press, June, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
Tilevich E., Back G., "Program, Enhance Thyself! Demand-Driven Pattern-Oriented Program Enhancement", AOSD '08: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Brussels, Belgium, ACM Press, April, 2008. Tagged BibTex xml
2007
Back G., Nikolopoulos D.S., "Application-Specific System Customization on Many-Core Platforms: The VT-ASOS Framework", STMCS: Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems, San Jose, CA, March, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Feizabadi S., Back G., "Garbage collection-aware utility accrual scheduling", Real-Time Systems, vol. 36, no. 1-2, Norwell, MA, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3–22, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Bailey A., Back G., "Retrieving Known Items with {LibX}", The Serials Librarian, vol. 53, no. 4: Haworth Press, Inc., pp. 125–140, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Back G., Nikolopoulos D.S., "Application-Specific Customization on Many-Core Platforms: The VT-ASOS Framework", Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software and Tools for Multi-Core Systems, held in conjunction with the 2007 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, San Jose, CA, pp. 6pp, March, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
Belgin M., Ribbens C.J., Back G., "An operation stacking framework for large ensemble computations", Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS07), New York, B. Smith (ed.), 2007, ACM, pp. 83–92, 2007. Tagged BibTex xml
2006
Feizabadi S., Back G., "Automatic Memory Management in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2006), Gyeongju, South Korea, IEEE, pp. 11–19, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Kremenek T., Twohey P., Back G., Engler D., Ng A., "From Uncertainty to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within", accepted to Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06), Seattle, WA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 161–176, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Bergstrom C., Varadarajan S., Back G., "The Distributed Open Network Emulator: Using Relativistic Time for Distributed Scalable Simulation", Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, Singapore, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 19–28, may, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
Bailey A., Back G., "{LibX} - A Firefox Extension for Enhanced Library Access", Library Hi Tech, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 290–304, 2006. Tagged BibTex xml
2005
Feizabadi S., Back G., "Java Garbage Collection Scheduling in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments", 3rd Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES) colocated with OOPSLA 2005: ACM, October, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
Back G., Hsieh W.C., "The {KaffeOS} {Java} Runtime System", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 27, no. 4, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, pp. 583–630, 2005. Tagged BibTex xml
2002
Back G., "DataScript - A Specification and Scripting Language for Binary Data", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering Proceedings (GPCE 2002), published as LNCS 2487, Pittsburgh, {PA}, ACM, pp. 66-77, oct, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
Back G., Isolation, Resource Management and Sharing in the KaffeOS Java Runtime System, : University of Utah, 2002. Tagged BibTex xml
2001
Hsieh W.C., Engler D.R., Back G., Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings, , Boston, {MA}, pp. 133–146, jun, 2001. Tagged BibTex xml
2000
Back G., Hsieh W.C., Lepreau J., Processes in {KaffeOS}: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in {Java}, , San Diego, CA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 333–346, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
Farkas K., Flinn J., Back G., Grunwald D., Anderson J., "Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java Virtual Machine", Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '00, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 252–263, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
Back G., Tullmann P., Stoller L., Hsieh W.C., Lepreau J., Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems, , San Diego, {CA}, USENIXASSOC, pp. 197–210, jun, 2000. Tagged BibTex xml
1999
Back G., Hsieh W.C., Drawing the Red Line in Java, , Rio Rico, Arizona, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 116–121, 1999. Tagged BibTex xml
1997
Tullmann P., Turner J., McCorquodale J., Lepreau J., Chitturi A., Back G., Formal Methods: A Practical Tool for {OS} Implementors, , Cape Cod, {MA}, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 20–25, may, 1997. Tagged BibTex xml
Ford B., Back G., Benson G., Lepreau J., Lin A., Shivers O., The {Flux} {OSKit}: A Substrate for {OS} and Language Research, , St. Malo, France, pp. 38–51, oct, 1997. Tagged BibTex xml
1996
Ford B., Hibler M., Lepreau J., Tullmann P., Back G., Clawson S., Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines, , Seattle, WA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 137–151, oct, 1996. Tagged BibTex xml

3000 Level Courses

  • CS3204: Operating Systems

5000 Level Courses

  • CS5204: Operating Systems
  • CS5565: Network Architectures and Protocols

6000 Level Courses

  • CS6304: Advanced Topics in Languages and Translation

Career: Advanced Execution Environment For Next-Generation Cloud Applications

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:

CSR--AES: VT-ASOS: Virtualization Technologies for Application-Specific Operating Systems on Many-Core HPC Systems

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:

Direct Access to Library Resources with LibX

Granting Institution: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $148,913

Reinvigorating CS1 by Enabling Creative Web 2.0 Programming

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:

VTASOS: Virtualization Technologies For Applied-Specific Operating Systems On Many-Core HPC Platforms

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $170,000

 
 
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