2002

2012

DARK Lab: The Systems Design and Evaluation Laboratory

Research

New Stuff

• We have built Parasol, a solar-powered micro-datacenter
• 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'13)
• Greenmetrics 2013
• MemScale paper selected a Top Pick in Computer Architecture for 2011
• New research grants awarded by NSF in 2011 and 2012
• "DeepDive: Transparently Identifying and Managing Performance Interference in Virtualized Environments". USENIX 2013
• "Providing Green SLAs in High Performance Computing Clouds". IGCC 2013
• "Quantifying and Improving I/O Predictability in Virtualized Systems". IWQOS 2013
• "Parasol and GreenSwitch: Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy". ASPLOS 2013
• "CoScale: Coordinating CPU and Memory System DVFS in Server Systems". MICRO 2012
• "Exploiting Phase-Change Memory in Cooperative Caches". SBAC-PAD 2012
• "Mojave: A Recommendation System for Software Upgrades". MAD 2012
• "MultiScale: Memory System DVFS with Multiple Memory Controllers". ISLPED 2012
• "LogStore: Toward Energy-Proportional Storage Servers". ISLPED 2012
• "Leveraging Renewable Energy in Data Centers: Present and Future". Keynote address at HPDC 2012
• "GreenHadoop: Leveraging Green Energy in Data-Processing Frameworks". Eurosys 2012
• "Parasol: A Solar-Powered Micro-Datacenter". Best poster award at EuroSys 2012
• "Barely Alive Memory Servers: Keeping Data Active in a Low-Power State". ACM JETC 2012
• "DejaVu: Accelerating Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments". ASPLOS 2012
• "GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters". SC 2011
• "Reducing Electricity Cost Through Virtual Machine Placement in High Performance Computing Clouds". SC 2011
• "Intelligent Placement of Datacenters for Internet Services". ICDCS 2011
• "Page Placement in Hybrid Memory Systems". ICS 2011
• "MemScale: Active Low-Power Modes for Main Memory". ASPLOS 2011
• "Sahara: Guiding the Debugging of Failed Software Upgrades". ICSM 2011
• "Striking a New Balance Between Program Instrumentation and Debugging Time". Eurosys 2011
• "MassConf: Automatic Configuration Tuning By Leveraging User Community Information". ICPE 2011

Recent Top Conference Publications (note on conference vs. journal publication in computer systems)

• "DeepDive: Transparently Identifying and Managing Performance Interference in Virtualized Environments". USENIX 2013
• "Parasol and GreenSwitch: Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy". ASPLOS 2013
• "CoScale: Coordinating CPU and Memory System DVFS in Server Systems". MICRO 2012
• "GreenHadoop: Leveraging Green Energy in Data-Processing Frameworks". Eurosys 2012
• "DejaVu: Accelerating Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments". ASPLOS 2012
• "Striking a New Balance Between Program Instrumentation and Debugging Time". Eurosys 2011
• "MemScale: Active Low-Power Modes for Main Memory". ASPLOS 2011
• "Barricade: Defending Systems Against Operator Mistakes". Eurosys 2010
• "JustRunIt: Experiment-Based Management of Virtualized Data Centers". USENIX 2009
• "C-Oracle: Predictive Thermal Management for Data Centers". HPCA 2008
• "Staged Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and Distribution System". SOSP 2007
• "Limiting the Power Consumption of Main Memory". ISCA 2007
• "Automatic Configuration of Internet Services". Eurosys 2007
• "Mercury and Freon: Temperature Emulation and Management for Server Systems". ASPLOS 2006
• "Exploiting Redundancy to Conserve Energy in Storage Systems". SIGMETRICS 2006
• "Understanding and Validating Database System Administration". USENIX 2006
• "DMA-Aware Memory Energy Conservation". HPCA 2006

Teaching

• CS 416: Operating Systems Design (Spring 2013)

Service

Awards and Distinctions

Ricardo Bianchini (ricardob at cs.rutgers.edu)

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA