dssl_ Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory

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.

Publications

Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Prashant Pandey, and Karan Gupta. A Simulation Approach to Evaluating Design Decisions in MapReduce Setups. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '09), London, UK. Sep. 2009 (AR: 20.0%). Best Paper Award
Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady. Mitigating Disk Energy Management Delays by Exploiting Peer Memory. Poster at 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '09), London, UK. Sep. 2009.
Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. /Scratch as a Cache: Rethinking HPC Center Scratch Storage. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '09), New York, NY. Jun. 2009 (AR: 25.0%).
Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Prashant Pandey, and Karan Gupta. Using Realistic Simulation for Performance Analysis of MapReduce Setups. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Large-Scale System and Application Performance (LSAP '09), Garching, Germany. Jun. 2009.
M. Mustafa Rafique, Benjamin Rose, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. Supporting MapReduce on Large-Scale Asymmetric Multi-Core Clusters. In ACM Operating Systems Review, 43(2):25-34, 2009. [on ACM Portal]
M. Mustafa Rafique, Benjamin Rose, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. CellMR: A Framework for Supporting MapReduce on Asymmetric Cell-based Clusters. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy. May 2009. (AR: 22.7%).
Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Prashant Pandey, and Karan Gupta. Using Realistic Simulation to Identify I/O Bottlenecks in MapReduce Setups. Poster at 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'09), San Francisco, CA, February 2009.
M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. Supporting Data-Intensive Applications on Accelerator-Based Distributed Systems. Poster at 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'09), San Francisco, CA, February 2009.
Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, and Chris Gniady. On the Impact of Disk Scrubbing on Energy Savings. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), San Diego, CA. Dec. 2008 (AR: 30%).
Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Prashant Pandey, and Karan Gupta. Dumbo: Realistically Simulating MapReduce for Performance Analysis. Poster at USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Diego, CA. Dec. 2008
Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. Just-in-time Staging of Large Input Data for Supercomputing Jobs. In Proceedings of the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop @SC'08, Austin, TX. Nov. 2008
Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. Timely Offloading of Result-Data in HPC Centers. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '08), Island of Kos, Greece. Jun. 2008 (AR: 25.0%).
M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. DMA-based Prefetching for I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conferene on Computing Frontiers (CF '08), Ischia, Italy, May 2008 (AR: 27.3%).
Chreston Miller, Ali R. Butt, and Patrick Butler. On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '08), Miami, FL, April 2008 (AR: 25.6%). slides
Ganesh Narayanaswamy, Jaishankar Sundararaman, Ali R. Butt, and Godmar Back. ReplayCache: Exploiting Similarities for Predicting the Future. Poster at 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'08), San Jose, CA, February 2008.
M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. Supporting I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture. Poster at 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'08), San Jose, CA, February 2008.
Pavan Konanki and Ali R. Butt. On Supporting Disconnected Operation in Grid Computing. Poster at IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), Goa, India. Dec. 2007.
Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. A Result-Data Offloading Service for HPC Centers . In Proceedings of the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop @SC'07, Reno, NV. Nov. 2007 (AR: 54.6%).
Chreston Miller, Patrick Butler, Ankur Shah, and Ali R. Butt. PeerStripe: A P2P-Based Large-File Storage for Desktop Grids. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Monterey Bay, CA. June 2007 (AR: 20%).
Pavan Konanki and Ali R. Butt. FlexiCache: A Flexible Interface for Customizing Linux File System Buffer Cache Replacement Policies. In Work-in-Progress, 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA. February 14 - 16, 2007. [Slides]
Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, and Y. Charlie Hu. The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, 56(7):889-908, July 2007.
Ali R. Butt, Troy A. Johnson, Yili Zheng and Y. Charlie Hu. Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System. In Journal of Grid Computing - Special issue on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, 4(3):323-341, 2006. [ Link to online version]
Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. A Fair, Secure and Trustworthy Peer-to-Peer Based Cycle-Sharing System. In Journal of Grid Computing - Special issue on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, 4(3):265-286, September 2006. [ Link to online version]
Chris Gniady, Ali R. Butt, Y. Charlie Hu, and Yung-Hsiang Lu. Program Counter-Based Prediction Techniques for Dynamic Power Management. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, 55(6):641-658, June 2006.
Ali R. Butt, Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 66(1):145-161, January 2006. [ Link to paper on ScienceDirect]
Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Y.Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. Lightweight Monitoring of the Progress of Remotely Executing Computations. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4339:319-333, Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC'05), Hawthorne, NY, October 20-22, 2005. © Springer-Verlag
A poster on this project also appears in IEEE/ACM SC2005, Seattle, WA, November 12-18, 2005.
Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, and Y. Charlie Hu. The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'05), Banff, Canada, June 6-10, 2005 (AR: 13.1%).
An extended version of this paper is available as Purdue University Technical Report #TR-ECE-05-04.
Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Y.Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. Trust but Verify: Monitoring Remotely Executing Programs for Progress and Correctness. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'05), Chicago, IL, June 15-17, 2005.
Rongmei Zhang, Ali R. Butt, and Y.Charlie Hu. MetaStream: Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming. In Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2-6, 2005.
Chris Gniady, Ali R. Butt, and Y. Charlie Hu. Program Counter Based Pattern Classification in Buffer Caching. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'04), San Francisco, CA, December 6-8, 2004.
Ali R. Butt, Troy A. Johnson, Yili Zheng and Y. Charlie Hu. Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2004: High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-12, 2004. [Slides]
An earlier version of this paper appeared as Purdue University Technical Report #TR-ECE-03-08.
Ali Raza Butt, Nipoon Malhotra, Sunil Patro and Y. Charlie Hu. On the Equivalence of Forward and Reverse Query Cache Proxying in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3293:169-181, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2004), Beijing, China, October 18-20, 2004. © Springer-Verlag
Rongmei Zhang, Ali R. Butt, and Y. Charlie Hu. Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming . Poster, 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2004), Berlin, Germany, October 5-8, 2004.
Ali Raza Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel Midkiff. Java, Peer-to-Peer, and Accountability: Building Blocks for Distributed Cycle Sharing. In Proceedings of the 3rd Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM'04), San Jose, CA, May 6-7, 2004. [Slides]
Ali Raza Butt, Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2003: International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications, Phoenix, AZ, November 15-21, 2003. (nominated for the Best Student Paper of SC2003 award). [Slides]
Ali Raza Butt, Sumalatha Adabala, Renato J. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia and Jose' A. B. Fortes. Computational Grid Portals and Security Issues . In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special Issue on Scalable Web Services and Architecture, 63(10):1006-1014, October 2003. [ Link to paper on ScienceDirect] JPDC most requested (Jan'04 - Aug'04)
Ali Raza Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, Sam Midkiff and Jan Vitek. An Open Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Cycle-Sharing . In Work-in-Progress, 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'03), Bolton Landing (Lake George), NY, October 19-22, 2003.
Ali Raza Butt and Y. Charlie Hu. Extending Peer-to-Peer Computing Infrastructures for Compute-Cycle Sharing. School of ECE, Purdue University Technical Report #TR-ECE-03-01, January 2003.
Sebastien Goasguen, Ali R. Butt, Kevin D. Colby and Mark Lundstrom. Parallelization of Nanoscale Device Simulator nanoMOS 2.0 Using a 100 node Linux Cluster. In Proceedings of the IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, DC, August 26-28, 2002.
Ali Raza Butt, Sumalatha Adabala, Renato J. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia and Jose' A. B. Fortes. Fine-grain Access Control for Securing Shared Resources in Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '02), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2002.
Ali Raza Butt, Sumalatha Adabala, Mark S. Lundstrom, Renato J. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jose' A. B. Fortes and Dolors Royo. PUNCH: The Purdue University Network Computing Hubs. Poster in Research@Indiana booth at SC '01, Denver, CO, November 2001.
Sumalatha Adabala, Ali Raza Butt, Renato J. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia and Jose' A. B. Fortes. Security Implications of Making Computing Resources Available via Computational Grids. School of ECE, Purdue University Technical Report #TR-ECE 01-2, September 2001.
Ali Raza Butt and Jahangir Hasan. Automated Installation of Large-Scale Linux Networks. In Linux Journal, vol. 78, October 2000. [ Html source at ACM Digital Library] [cached copy]
Ali Raza Butt, Jahangir Hasan, Kamran Khalid, Farhan-ud-din Mirza. Economical Fault-Tolerant Networks. In Linux Journal, vol. 74, June 2000. [ Html source at ACM Digital Library] [cached copy]