News

[MASCOTS'09] Guanying wins Best Paper Award

[NAE US FOE'09] Ali selected to participate as one of nation's promising young engineers

[MASCOTS'09] Paper on Hadoop Simulation, Poster on disk energy management

[ICS'09] Paper on HPC Scratch Cache

[OSR'09, IPDPS'09] Paper on MapReduce for Cell

[HotPower'08] Paper on impact of disk scrubbing on energy savings

[Funding] Ali receives an IBM Faculty Award

[SC'08 PDS-Workshop] Paper on data staging for supercomputing jobs

[ICS'08] Paper on data offloading in HPC centers

[Funding] Ali receives an NSF CAREER award

[CF'08] Paper on I/O techniques for CELL/BE

[IPDPS'08] Paper on using contributory storage in grids
[FAST'08] Posters on CELL I/O and ReplayCache
[SC'07 PDS-Workshop] Paper on Data management for HPC centers

[HiPC'07] Poster on supporting Disconnected Operation in Grid environments

[HPDC'07] Short paper on PeerStripe: P2P-based large-file storage

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[August 2006] DSSL is born!

Information

  • Our research group meets weekly on Friday 12pm in KWII 2-225.
  • If you are interested in joining our research group, please contact Dr. Butt.

Introduction

Our research group is interested in exploring the design, development, and evaluation of next-generation storage and file systems. Specifically, our research focuses on tailoring these systems for the growing data demands of modern high-end computing applications running on existing as well as emerging multicore architectures. To this end, we aim for innovation in systems that range from large-scale distributed setups to specialized kernel-level optimizations.

Contact

Inquiries or correspondence should be sent to:

Ali R. Butt
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mailing address: 2202 Kraft Drive (0106), Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Office: 2-227 Knowledge Works II (KWII @ CRC)
Phone: (540) 231-0489
Email: butta AATT vt.edu