Publications

The following publications are based upon work supported by: the NSF under Grants CSR-2312785, CSR-2106634, CCF-1919113, OAC-2004751, CNS-1615411, CNS-1565314/1838271, CNS-1422788, CNS-1405697, CCF-0746832, CNS-1016793, CNS-1016408, and OISE 0940048; DOE ORNL; IBM Faculty Awards; an IBM SUR Award; and NetApp Faculty Fellowships.

• Ahmad Faraz Khan, Azal Ahmad Khan, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Samuel Fountain, Ali R. Butt, and Ali Anwar. FLOAT: Federated Learning Optimizations with Automated Tuning. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Athens, Greece, 12 pages, April 2024. (AR: 16%).
• Moiz Arif, Avinash Maurya, M. Mustafa Rafique, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, and Ali R. Butt. Application-Aware Memory Management for Containerized HPC Workflows. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), San Francisco, CA, 12 pages, May 2024.
• Ahmad Khan, Yuze Li, Xinran Wang, Sabaat Haroon, Haider Ali, Yue Cheng, Ali R. Butt, and Ali Anwar. Towards Cost-Effective and Resource-Aware Aggregation at Edge for Federated Learning. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Italy, 10 pages, December 2023. (AR: 17.49%).
• Haider Ali, Dian Chen, Matthew Harrington, Nathaniel Salazar, Mohannad Al Ameedi, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Ali R. Butt, and Jin-Hee Cho. A Survey on Attacks and Their Countermeasures in Deep Learning: Applications in Deep Neural Networks, Federated, Transfer, and Deep Reinforcement Learning. In IEEE Access: The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal, vol. 11, pp. 120095-120130, October 2023.
• Debasmita Biswas, Arnab K. Paul, Sarah Neuwirth, and Ali R. Butt. Modeling The Impact of System-level Parameters on I/O Performance of HPC Application. In Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Stony Brook, NY, pages 4, October 2023.
• Debasmita Biswas, Sarah Neuwirth, Arnab K. Paul, and Ali R. Butt. An I/O Performance Evaluation of Varying CephFS Striping Pattern. In Proceedings of The 3rd Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO) held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster, Santa Fe, NM, pages 7, October 2023.
• Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan, Ahmad H. Yazdani, Yuqi Fu, Arnab K. Paul, Bo Ji, Xun Jian, Yue Cheng, and Ali R. Butt. SHADE: Enable Fundamental Cacheability for Distributed Deep Learning Training. In Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Santa Clara, CA, 17 pages, February 2023. (AR: 22.8%).
• Jingoo Han, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Syed Zawad, Ali Anwar, Nathalie Baracaldo Angel, Yi Zhou, Feng Yan, and Ali R. Butt. Heterogeneity-Aware Adaptive Federated Learning Scheduling. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Osaka, Japan, 10 pages, December 2022. (AR: 19.2%).
• Gagandeep Panwar, Muhammad Laghari, David Bears, Yuqing Liu, Chandler Jearls, Esha Choukse, Kirk W. Cameron, Ali R. Butt, and Xun Jian. Translation-optimized Memory Compression for Capacity. In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Chicago, IL, 15 pages, October 2022. (AR: 23.9%).
• Jingoo Han, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Syed Zawad, Ali Anwar, Nathalie Baracaldo Angel, Yi Zhou, Feng Yan, and Ali R. Butt. TIFF: Tokenized Incentive for Federated Learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Barcelona, Spain, 10 pages, July 2022. (AR: 22.4%).
• Hadeel Albahar, Shruti Dongare, Yanlin Du, Nannan Zhao, Arnab K. Paul, and Ali R. Butt. SCHEDTUNE: A Heterogeneity-aware GPU Scheduler for Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Taormina (Messina), Italy, 10 pages, May 2022.
• Jingoo Han, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Syed Zawad, Ali Anwar, Nathalie Baracaldo Angel, Yi Zhou, Feng Yan, and Ali R. Butt. Tokenized Incentive for Federated Learning. In Proceedings of the AAAI International Workshop on Trustable, Verifiable and Auditable Federated Learning (FL-AAAI-22) in conjunction with AAAI 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9 pages, March 2022.
• Valentine Anantharaj, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Ali R. Butt, Sarp Oral, and Devesh Tiwari. AI-driven Storage Resource Provisioning and Operations: Revisiting Old Assumptions and Meeting New Expectations. In Proceedings of the ASCR Workshop on the Management and Storage of Scientific Data, virtual, 2 pages, January 2022.
• Debasmita Biswas, Sarah Neuwirth, Arnab K. Paul, and Ali R. Butt. Bridging Network and Parallel I/O Research for Improving Data-Intensive Distributed Applications.. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS) in conjunction with SC’21, St. Louis, MO, 6 pages, November 2021.
• Shunyu David Yao, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Liqing Zhang, and Ali R. Butt. Towards a Serverless Bioinformatics Cyberinfrastructure Pipeline. In Proceedings of 1st Workshop on High Performance Serverless Computing (HiPS'21@HPDC), Virtual Event Sweden, pages 33--40, June 2021.
• Awais Khan, Hyogi Sim, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Ali R. Butt, and Youngjae Kim. An Analysis of System Balance and Architectural Trends Based on Top500 Supercomputers. In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia), Virtual Event Republic of Korea, pages 11--22, January 2021.
• Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Arnab K. Paul, Keren Chen, and Ali R. Butt. Large-Scale Analysis of Docker Images and Performance Implications for Container Storage Systems. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pages 12, 2020. [Link to paper]
• Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror, and Ali R. Butt. Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics.. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) 2020, Pune, India, pages 10, December 2020.
• Tyler H. Chang, Layne T. Watson, Thomas C.H. Lux, Ali R. Butt, Kirk W. Cameron, and Yili Hong. Algorithm 1012: DELAUNAYSPARSE: Interpolation via a Sparse Subset of the Delaunay Triangulation in Medium to High Dimensions. In ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 46(4), pages 20, November 2020. [Link to paper]
• Nannan Zhao, Hadeel Albahar, Subil Abraham, Keren Chen, Vasily Tarasov, Dimitrios Skourtis, Lukas Rupprecht, Ali Anwar, and Ali R. Butt. DupHunter: Flexible High-Performance Deduplication for Docker Registries. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Boston, MA, pages 14, July 2020. (AR: 18.6%).
• Hyogi Sim, Awais Khan, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Seung-Hwan Lim, Ali R. Butt, and Youngjae Kim. An Integrated Indexing and Search Service for Distributed File Systems. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 31(10):2375-2391, October 2020. [Link to paper]
• Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, Jingoo Han, Hyogi Sim, Dongyoon Lee, Fred Douglis, and Ali R. Butt. Customizable Scale-Out Key-Value Stores. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 31(9): 2081-2096, September 2020. [Link to paper]
• Subil Abraham, Arnab K. Paul, Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan, and Ali R. Butt. On the Use of Containers in High Performance Computing Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Beijing, China, pages 9, October 2020. (AR: 17%).
• Jingoo Han, M. Mustafa Rafique, Luna Xu, Ali R. Butt, Seung-Hwan Lim, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. MARBLE: A Multi-GPU Aware Job Scheduler for Deep Learning on HPC Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pages 10, May 2020.
• Arnab K. Paul, Brian Wang, Nathan Rutman, Cory Spitz, and Ali R. Butt. Efficient Metadata Indexing for HPC Storage Systems. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Melbourne, Australia, pages 10, May 2020.
• Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror, and Ali R. Butt. Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics.. Poster in Proceedings of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) 2019, Denver, CO, pages 3, November 2019.
• Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror, and Ali R. Butt. Improving I/O Performance of HPC Application Using Intra-Job Scheduling. Work-In-Progress in Proceedings of the 4th Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISC'19) in conjunction with SC'19, Denver, CO, pages 1, November 2019.
• Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Mohamed Mohamed, and Ali R. Butt. Large-Scale Analysis of the Docker Hub Dataset. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Albuquerque, NM, pages 11, September 2019.
• Arnab K. Paul, Ryan Chard, Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, Ali R. Butt, and Ian Foster. FSMonitor: Scalable File System Monitoring for Arbitrary Storage Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Albuquerque, NM, pages 11, September 2019.
• Jingoo Han, Luna Xu, M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Seung-Hwan Lim. A Quantitative Study of Deep Learning Training on Heterogeneous Supercomputers. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Albuquerque, NM, pages 12, September 2019.
• Kirk W. Cameron, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Li Xu, Bo Li, Uday Ananth, Jon Bernard, Chandler Jearls, Thomas Lux, Yili Hong, Layne T. Watson, and Ali R. Butt. MOANA: Modeling and Analyzing I/O Variability in Parallel System Experimental Design. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 30(8):1843-1856, August 2019. [Link to paper]
• Michael Littley, Ali Anwar, Hannan Fayyaz, Zeshan Fayyaz, Vasily Tarasov, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Mohamed Mohamed, Heiko Ludwig, Yue Cheng, and Ali R. Butt. Bolt: Towards a Scalable Docker Registry. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Milan, Italy, pages 8, July 2019. (AR:20.8%)
• Bharti Wadhwa, Arnab K. Paul, Sarah Neuwirth, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Ali R. Butt, Jon Bernard, and Kirk W. Cameron. iez: Resource Contention Aware Load Balancing for Large-Scale Parallel File Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pages 11, May 2019.
• Hyogi Sim, Geoffroy R. Vallee, Youngjae Kim, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Devesh Tiwari, and Ali R. Butt. An Analysis Workflow-Aware Storage System for Multi-Core Active Flash Arrays. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 30(2):271--285, February 2019. [Link to paper]
• Hyogi Sim, Arnab K. Paul, Eli Tilevich, Ali R. Butt, and Muhammad Shahzad. CSLIM: Automated Extraction of IoT Functionalities from Legacy C Codebases. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computing and Networking for IoT and Beyond (ComNet-IoT ’19) in conjunction with ICDCN '19, Bangalore, India, pages 6, January 2019.
• Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, Dongyoon Lee, Jingoo Han, Hyogi Sim, Fred Douglis, and Ali R. Butt. BESPOKV: Application Tailored Scale-Out Key-Value Stores. In Proceedings of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), Dallas, TX, pages 16, November 2018. (AR:23.6%)
• Luna Xu, Ali R. Butt, Seung-Hwan Lim, and Ramakrishnan Kannan. A Heterogeneity-Aware Task Scheduler for Spark. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Belfast, UK, pages 11, September 2018.
• Zhao Zhao, Langshi Chen, Mihai Avram, Meng Li, Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Maleq Khan, Madhav Marathe, Judy Qiu, and Anil Vullikanti. Finding and Counting Tree-Like Subgraphs using MapReduce. In IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, 4(3):217--230, July 2018. [Link to paper]
• J Khan, Muhammad Shahzad, and Ali R. Butt. Sizing Buffers of IoT Edge Routers. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany, pages 6, June 2018.
• Ali Anwar, Mohamed Mohamed, Vasily Tarasov, Michael Littley, Lukas Rupprecht, Yue Cheng, Nannan Zhao, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Heiko Ludwig, Dean Hildebrand, and Ali R. Butt. Improving Docker Registry Design based on Production Workload Analysis. In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'18), Oakland, CA, pages 14, Feb 2018. (AR:16.5%)
• Nannan Zhao, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng , Mohammed Salman, Daping Li, Jiguang Wan, Changsheng Xie, Xubin He , Feiyi Wang, and Ali R. Butt. Chameleon: An Adaptive Wear Balancer for Flash Clusters. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Vancouver, Canada, pages 10, May 2018. (AR: 24.5%)
• Bharti Wadhwa, Suren Byna, and Ali R. Butt. Toward Transparent Data Management in Multi-layer Storage Hierarchy of HPC Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Orlando, FL, pages 7, April 2018. (AR: 27.5%)
• Arnab K. Paul, Arpit Goyal, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Ali R. Butt, Michael J. Brim, and Sangeetha B. Srinivasa. I/O Load Balancing for Big Data HPC Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Boston, MA, pages 10, December 2017. (AR: 18%).
• Luna Xu, Seung-Hwan Lim, Min Li, Ali R. Butt, Ramakrishnan Kannan. Scaling Up Data-Parallel Analytics Platforms: Linear Algebraic Operation Cases. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Boston, MA, pages 10, Dec 2017. (AR: 18%).
  An initial version of this work, FatMan vs. LittleBoy: Scaling up Linear Algebraic Operations in Scale-out Data Platforms. appeared in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS) in conjunction with SC '16, Salt Lake City, UT, pages 5, Nov 2016. (AR: 27%).
• Hyogi Sim, Youngjae Kim, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Geoffroy R. Vallee, Seung-Hwan Lim, and Ali R. Butt. TagIt: A Fast and Efficient Scientific Data Discovery Service. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'17), Denver, CO, pages 10, November 2017. (AR:18.7%).
• Arnab K. Paul, Ryan Chard, Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, Ali R. Butt, and Ian Foster. Toward Scalable Monitoring on Large-Scale Storage for Software Defined Cyberinfrastructure. In Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISC'17) in conjunction with SC'17, Denver, Colorado, pages 6, November 2017.
• Madiha Hanif, Abdul Hafeez, Yusuf Suleman, M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Samir M. Iqbal. An Accelerated Framework for the Classification of Biological Targets from Solid-State Micropore Data. In Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 134:53--67, October 2016. [Link to paper]
• Arnab Kumar Paul, Wenjie Zhuang, Luna Xu, Min Li, Mustafa Rafique, and Ali R. Butt. CHOPPER: Optimizing Data Partitioning for In-Memory Data Analytics Frameworks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Taipei, Taiwan, pages 10, September 2016. (AR: 24%).
• Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, and Ali R. Butt. ClusterOn: Building Highly Configurable and Reusable Clustered Data Services using Simple Data Nodes. In Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), Denver, CO, pages 5, June 2016. (AR: 36.9%).
• Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Aayush Gupta, and Ali R. Butt. MOS: Workload-aware Elasticity for Cloud Object Stores. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), Kyoto, Japan, pages 12, May 2016. (AR: 15.5%).
  An initial design, Taming the Cloud Object Storage with MOS, appeared in Proceedings of the 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW), Austin, Texas, pages 6, November 2015. (AR: 36%).
  A related poster was presented in 6th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2015), Tokyo, Japan, July 2015.
• Luna Xu, Min Li, Li Zhang, Ali R. Butt, Yandong Wang, and Zane Zhenhua Hu. MEMTUNE: Dynamic Memory Management for In-memory Data Analytic Platforms. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Chicago, IL, pages 10, May 2016. (AR: 23%).
• Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, and Ali R. Butt. Provider versus Tenant Pricing Games for Hybrid Object Stores in the Cloud. In IEEE Internet Computing: Special Issue on Cloud Storage, 20(3):28-35, May/June 2016. [Link to paper]
• Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, and Ali R. Butt. Towards Managing Variability in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Variability in Parallel and Distributed Systems (VarSys), Chicago, IL, pages 4, May 2016.
• Krish K. R., Bharti Wadhwa, M. Safdar Iqbal, M. Mustafa Rafique, and Ali R. Butt. On Efficient Hierarchical Storage for Big Data Processing. In 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Cartagena, Colombia, pages 6, May 2016. (AR: 36%).
• Hyogi Sim, Youngjae Kim, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Devesh Tiwari, Ali Anwar, Ali R. Butt, and Lavanya Ramakrishnan. AnalyzeThis: An Analysis Workflow-Aware Storage System. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'15), Austin, TX, pages 12, Nov. 2015. (AR: 22.1%).
• Min Li, Dakshi Agrawal, Frederick Reiss, Berni Schiefer, Ali R. Butt, Josep Lluis Larriba Pey, Francois Raab, Doshi Kshitij and Yinglong Xia. SparkBench: A Spark Performance Testing Suite. In Proceedings of the Seventh TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2015), Kohala Coast, HI, pages 20, August 2015.
• Ali Anwar, Anca Sailer, Andrzej Kochut, Ali R. Butt. Anatomy of Cloud Monitoring and Metering: A case study and open problems. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2015), Tokyo, Japan, pages 7, July 2015. (AR: 29.4%).
• Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, and Ali R. Butt. Pricing Games for Hybrid Object Stores in the Cloud: Provider vs. Tenant. In Proceedings of the the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), Santa Clara, CA, pages 7, July 2015. (AR: 32.8%).
• Hyogi Sim, Youngjae Kim, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Devesh Tiwari, Ali Anwar, Ali R. Butt, and Lavanya Ramakrishnan. AnalyzeThis: An Analysis Workflow-Aware Storage System. Poster in the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Santa Clara, CA, July 2015.
• Ali Anwar, Anca Sailer, Andrzej Kochut, Charles O. Schulz, Alla Segal, and Ali R. Butt. Cost-Aware Cloud Metering with Scalable Service Management Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud), New York, pages 8, June 2015. (AR: 17%).
  An earlier version of the paper, Scalable Metering for an Affordable IT Cloud Service Management, appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Tempe, AZ, pages 6, March 2015.
• Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, and Ali R. Butt. CAST: Tiering Storage for Data Analytics in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Portland, Oregon, pages 12, June 2015. (AR: 16.4%).
• Hung-Ching Chang, Bo Li, Godmar Back, Ali R. Butt, and Kirk Cameron. LUC: Limiting the Unintended Consequences of Power Scaling on Parallel Transaction-Oriented Workloads. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Hyderabad, India, pages 10, May 2015. (AR: 21.8%).
• Luna Xu, Min Li, and Ali R. Butt. Gerbil: MPI+YARN. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, pages 10, May 2015. (AR: 25.7%).
• Yue Cheng, Aayush Gupta, and Ali R. Butt. An In-Memory Object Caching Framework with Adaptive Load Balancing. In Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Bordeaux, France, pages 16, April 2015. (AR: 20.8%).
• Fang Liu, Xiaokui Shu, Danfeng Yao, and Ali R. Butt. Privacy-Preserving Scanning of Big Content for Sensitive Data Exposure with MapReduce. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), San Antonio, TX, pages 12, March 2015. (AR: 21.3%).
• Tariq Kamal, Ali R. Butt, Keith Bisset, and Madhav Marathe. Cost Estimation of Parallel Constrained Producer-Consumer Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), Turku, Finland, pages 8, February 2015. (AR: 28.0%).
  An earlier version of the paper, Load Analysis and Cost Estimation of Parallel Constrained Producer-Consumer Algorithms, appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Madrid, Spain, pages 286--287, September 2014.
• Krish K. R., M. Safdar Iqbal, M. Mustafa Rafique and Ali R. Butt. Towards Energy Awareness in Hadoop. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Network-Aware Data Management (NDM) @SC'14, New Orleans, LA, pages 16-22, November 2014. (AR: 45.5%).
• Krish K. R., M. Safdar Iqbal, and Ali R. Butt. VENU: Orchestrating SSDs in Hadoop Storage. Short paper in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Washington, DC, pages 207-212, October 2014. (AR: 40.2%).
• Ali Anwar, Krish K. R., and Ali R. Butt. On the Use of Microservers in Supporting Hadoop Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Madrid, Spain, pages 66--74, September 2014. (AR: 23.8%).
• Krish K. R., Ali Anwar, and Ali R. Butt. ΦSched: A Heterogeneity-Aware Hadoop Workflow Scheduler. In Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Paris, France, pages 10, September 2014.
• Min Li, Liangzaho Zeng, Shicong Meng, Jian Tian, Li Zhang, Ali R. Butt, and Nicholas Fuller. mrOnline: MapReduce Online Performance Tuning. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), Vancouver, Canada, pages 12, June 2014. (AR: 16.2%).
• Krish K. R., Ali Anwar, and Ali R. Butt. hatS: A Heterogeneity-Aware Tiered Storage for Hadoop. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), Chicago, IL, pages 10, May 2014. (AR: 19.1%).
• Abdul Hafeez, M. Mustafa Rafique, and Ali R. Butt. Distributed Detection of Cancer Cells in Cellular Spike Streams. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Health (CCGRID-Health), Chicago, IL, pages 10, May 2014.
• Guanying Wang, Aleksandr Khasymski, Krish K. R., and Ali R. Butt. Towards Improving MapReduce Task Scheduling Using Online Simulation Based Predictions. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Seoul, Korea, pages 10, December 2013. (AR: 30.6%).
  An initial version of the work appeared as a short paper in In Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'13), San Francisco, CA, pages 323-327, August 2013.
• Krish K.R., Aleksandr Khasymski, Ali R. Butt, Sameer Tiwari, and Milind Bhandarkar. AptStore: Dynamic Storage Management for Hadoop. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Bristol, UK, pages 33--41, December 2013.
  An initial version of the work appeared as a short paper in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Indianapolis, IN, pages 1-5, September 2013.
• Yue Cheng, Aayush Gupta, Anna Povzner, and Ali R. Butt. High performance in-memory caching through flexible fine-grained services. Poster in the 4th annual Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'13), Santa Clara, CA, pages 2, October 2013.
• Krish K.R., Aleksandr Khasymski, Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, and Gaurav Makkar. On the Use of Shared Storage in Shared-Nothing Environments. Short paper in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Santa Clara, CA, pages 313--318, October 2013.
• Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. On Timely Staging of HPC Job Input Data. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(9):1841--1851, September 2013. [Link to paper]
• Krish K.R., Guanying Wang, Puranjoy Bhattacharjee, Ali R. Butt, and Chris Gniady. On Reducing Energy Management Delays in Disks. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 73(6):823--835, June 2013. [Link to paper]
• Min Li, Sushil Mantri, Pin Zhou, and Ali R. Butt. SMIO: I/O Similarity Aware Virtual Machine Management in Virtual Desktop Environments. Poster in the 27th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2013), Eugene, OR, pages 1, June 2013.
• Tariq Kamal, Keith Bisset, Ali R. Butt, Youngyun Chungbaek, and Madhav Marathe. Performance Modeling and Load Balancing for Large Scale Epidemiological Simulation. Short paper/poster in Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), New York, NY, pages 2, June 2013.
• Min Li, Shravan Gaonkar, Ali R. Butt, Deepak Kenchammana, and Kaladhar Voruganti. Cooperative Storage-Level De-Duplication for I/O Reduction in Virtualized Data Centers. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Washington D.C., August 2012.
• Aleksandr Khasymski, M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. On the Use of GPUs in Realizing Cost-Effective Distributed RAID. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Washington D.C., August 2012.
• Min Li, Dinesh Subhraveti, Ali R. Butt, Aleksandr Khasymski, and Prasenjit Sarkar. CAM: A Topology Aware Minimum Cost Flow Based Resource Manager for MapReduce Applications in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), Delft, The Netherlands. June 2012. (AR: 16.1%).
• Abdul Hafeez, Waseem Asghar, M. Mustafa Rafique, Samir M. Iqbal, and Ali R. Butt. GPU-based Real-Time Detection and Analysis of Biological Molecules using Solid-state Nanopores. In Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 50(6):605--615, June 2012. (Impact Factor: 1.791). [Link to paper]
• Zhao Zhao, Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Maleq Khan, V. S. Anil Kumar, and Madhav V. Marathe. SAHAD: Subgraph Analysis in Massive Networks Using Hadoop. In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Shanghai, China. May 2012. (AR: 20.7%).
• Yung-Hsiang Lu, Qinru Qiu, Ali R. Butt, and Kirk W. Cameron. End-to-End Energy Management. In IEEE Computer, 44(11):75--77, November 2011. [Link to paper]
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Srihari Cadambi, Kunal Rao, Ali R. Butt, and Srimat Chakradhar. Symphony: A Scheduler for Client-Server Applications on Coprocessor-based Heterogeneous Clusters. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2011), Austin, TX. September 2011.
• Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. Timely Result-Data Offloading for Improved HPC Center Scratch Provisioning and Serviceability. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 22(8):1307--1322, August 2011. [Link to paper]
• Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Henry Monti, and Karan Gupta. Towards Synthesizing Realistic Workload Traces for Studying the Hadoop Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Singapore. July 2011
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Nishkam Ravi, Srihari Cadambi, Ali R. Butt, and Srimat Chakradhar. Power Management for Heterogeneous Clusters: An Experimental Study. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), Orlando, FL. July 2011.
• Ramya Prabhakar, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Youngjae Kim, Ali R. Butt, Min Li, and Mahmut Kandemir. Provisioning a Multi-Tiered Data Staging Area for Extreme-Scale Machines. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis, MN. June 2011.
• Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. CATCH: A Cloud-based Adaptive Data Transfer Service for HPC. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Anchorage, AK. May 2011. (AR: 19.6%).
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Eli Tilevich. Reusable Software Components for Accelerator-based Clusters. In Journal of Systems and Software, 84(7):1071--1081, July 2011. [Link to paper on ScienceDirect]
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. A Capabilities-Aware Framework for Using Computational Accelerators in Data-Intensive Computing. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing, 71(2):185-197, February 2011. [Link to paper on ScienceDirect] (AR: 21.4%).
• Min Li, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Ali R. Butt, Fei Meng, Xiaosong Ma, Youngjae Kim, Christian Engelmann, and Galen Shipman. Functional Partitioning to Optimize End-to-End Performance on Many-core Architectures. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC10), New Orleans, LA. November 2010. (AR: 20%).
• Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, and Puranjoy Bhattacharjee. A Light-weight Approach to Reducing Energy Management Delays in Disks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), Chicago, IL. August 2010. (AR: 30%).
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos. Designing Accelerator-Based Distributed Systems for High Performance . In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. May 2010. (AR: 23%).
• Henry Monti, Ali R. Butt, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai. Reconciling Scratch Space Consumption, Exposure, and Volatility to Achieve Timely Staging of Job Input Data . In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Atlanta, GA. April 2010. (AR: 24.1%).
• 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.
• Mario I. Romero-Ortega, Ali R. Butt, and Samir M. Iqbal. Carbon Nanotube Coated High-throughput Neurointerfaces in Assistive Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), Corfu, Greece. June 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. June 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 Conference 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]