Other Publications in English

• K. Le, R. Bianchini, M. Martonosi, and T. Nguyen. "Cost- and Energy-Aware Load Distribution Across Data Centers". Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), October 2009.

• A. Tjang, F. Oliveira, R. Bianchini, R. P. Martin, and T. Nguyen. "Model-Based Validation for Internet Services". Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2009.

• V. Anagnostopoulou, S. Biswas, A. Savage, R. Bianchini, T. Yang, and F. T. Chong. "Energy Conservation in Datacenters Through Cluster Memory Management and Barely-Alive Memory Servers". Proceedings of the Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED), June 2009.

• R. Bachwani, L. Gryz, R. Bianchini, and C. Dubnicki. "Quantifying and Improving the Reliability of Distributed Storage Systems". Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2008.

• W. Zheng, R. Bianchini, G. J. Janakiraman, J. R. Santos, and Y. Turner. "JustRunIt: Experiment-Based Management of Virtualized Data Centers". Technical Report DCS-TR-636, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, June 2008.

• A. Tjang, F. Oliveira, R. Bianchini, R. Martin, and T. Nguyen. "Model-Based Validation for Internet Services". Technical Report DCS-TR-601, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, May 2006, Revised January 2008.

• K. Le, R. Bianchini, and T. Nguyen. "A Cost-Effective Distributed File Service with QoS Guarantees". Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware), November 2007.

• R. Bianchini, R. P. Martin, K. Nagaraja, T. Nguyen, and F. Oliveira. "Human-Aware Computer System Design". Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), June 2005.

• T. Heath, B. Diniz, E. V. Carrera, W. Meira Jr., and R. Bianchini. "Energy Conservation in Heterogeneous Server Clusters". Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), June 2005.

• G. Gama, K. Nagaraja, R. Bianchini, R. P. Martin, W. Meira Jr., and T. Nguyen. "State Maintenance and Performability in Multi-tiered Internet Services". Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October 2004. Also published as Technical Report DCS-TR-553, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, April 2004.

• E. Pinheiro and R. Bianchini. "Energy Conservation Techniques for Disk Array-Based Servers". Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supercomputing, June 2004. Earlier version published as Technical Report DCS-TR-525, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, May 2003.

• K. Nagaraja, N. Krishnan, R. Bianchini, R. P. Martin, and T. Nguyen. "Quantifying and Improving the Availability of Cooperative Cluster-Based Services". Proceedings of the SC2003 Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communication, November 2003. Earlier version published as Technical Report DCS-TR-517, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, January 2003, Revised May 2003.

• T. Heath, B. Diniz, E. V. Carrera, W. Meira Jr., and R. Bianchini. "Self-Configuring Heterogeneous Server Clusters". Proceedings of the Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power (COLP), September 2003.

• E. V. Carrera, E. Pinheiro, and R. Bianchini. "Conserving Disk Energy in Network Servers". Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Supercomputing, June 2003. Longer version published as Technical Report DCS-TR-511, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, November 2002, Revised March 2003.

• K. Nagaraja, R. Bianchini, R. P. Martin, and T. Nguyen. "Using Fault Model Enforcement to Improve Availability". Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System Dependability, October 2002.

• M. Rangarajan, A. Bohra, K. Banerjee, E. V. Carrera, R. Bianchini, and L. Iftode. "TCP Servers: Offloading TCP Processing in Internet Servers. Design, Implementation, and Performance". Technical Report DCS-TR-481, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, March 2002.

• T. Heath, E. Pinheiro, and R. Bianchini. "Application-Supported Device Management for Energy and Performance". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2325. Also appeared in Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, February 2002.

• E. V. Carrera, M. Rangarajan, R. Bianchini, and L. Iftode. "Impact of Next-Generation I/O Architectures on the Design and Performance of Network Servers". Proceedings of the Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks, February 2002.

• L. Whately, R. Pinto, M. Rangarajan, L. Iftode, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "Adaptive Techniques for Home-Based Software DSMs". Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Computing, September 2001. Best paper award.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "Efficiency vs. Portability in Cluster-Based Network Servers". Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), June 2001. Longer version published as Technical Report DCS-TR-427, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, November 2000, Revised February 2001.

• R. Pinto, L. Whately, M. de Maria, R. dos Santos, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "Evaluating the Dynamic Diffing Technique for Distributed Shared-Memory Systems". Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Computing, October 2000.

• C. Osthoff, C. Seidel, R. Bianchini, M. Mattoso, and C. L. Amorim. "Evaluating Cache Coherence in the DSMIO System". Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Computing, October 2000.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "Evaluating Cluster-Based Network Servers". Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, August 2000.

• I. C. Dutra, V. S. Costa, and R. Bianchini. "The Impact of Cache Coherence Protocols on Parallel Logic Programming Systems". Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Logic, July 2000.

• C. Seidel, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "Exploiting Lock-Related Primitives in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems". Technical Report ES-517/99, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, November 1999.

• E. Pinheiro and R. Bianchini. "Nomad: A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing, December 1999.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "Disk Write Caching with an Optical Network". Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Parallel Interconnects, October 1999.

• C. Seidel, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "Evaluating the Impact of the Programming Model on the Performance and Complexity of Software DSM Systems". Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, September 1999. Also published as Technical Report ES-481/98, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, October 1998.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "NetCache: A Network/Cache Hybrid for Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Optics and Computer Science, April 1999. Also published as Technical Report ES-455/97, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, November 1997.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "NWCache: Optimizing Disk Accesses via an Optical Network/Write Cache Hybrid". Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Optics and Computer Science, April 1999. Also published as Technical Report ES-482/98, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, October 1998.

• M. G. Silva, I. C. Dutra, R. Bianchini, and V. S. Costa. "The Influence of Architectural Parameters on the Performance of Parallel Logic Programming Systems". Proceedings of the International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, January 1999.

• V. S. Costa and R. Bianchini. "Optimising Parallel Logic Programming Systems for Scalable Machines". Proceedings of the EUROPAR '98, Workshop on Symbolic Computation, September 1998. Extended version published as Technical Report DCC-97-7, DCC - FC & LIACC, Universidade do Porto, October 1997.

• R. dos Santos, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "High-Performance Networking for Software DSMs". Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Architecture, September 1998.

• R. Bianchini, R. Pinto, and C. L. Amorim. "Data Prefetching for Software DSMs". Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing '98, July 1998. Extended version published as Technical Report ES-463/98, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, March 1998.

• E. V. Carrera and R. Bianchini. "OPTNET: A Cost-Effective Optical Network for Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing '98, July 1998. Also published as Technical Report ES-457/97, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, December 1997.

• C. B. Seidel, R. Bianchini, and C. L. Amorim. "The Affinity Entry Consistency Protocol". Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1997. Earlier version published as Technical Report ES-388/96, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, May 1996.

• V. S. Costa, R. Bianchini, and I. C. Dutra. "Evaluating Parallel Logic Programming Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Parallel Symbolic Computation, July 1997. Earlier version published as Technical Report ES-390/96, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, May 1996.

• L. R. Monnerat and R. Bianchini. "ADSM: A Hybrid DSM Protocol that Efficiently Adapts to Sharing Patterns". Technical Report ES-425/97, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, March 1997.

• V. S. Costa, R. Bianchini, and I. C. Dutra. "Evaluating the Impact of Coherence Protocols on Parallel Logic Programming Systems". Proceedings of the 5th EUROMICRO Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, January 1997. Also published as Technical Report ES-389/96, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, May 1996.

• R. Bianchini, R. Pinto, and C. L. Amorim. "Page Fault Behavior and Prefetching in Software DSMs". Technical Report ES-401/96, COPPE Systems Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, July 1996.

• R. Bianchini, T. J. LeBlanc, and Jack E. Veenstra. "Categorizing Network Traffic in Update-Based Protocols on Scalable Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium, April 1996.

• L. I. Kontothanassis, M. L. Scott, and R. Bianchini. "Lazy Release Consistency for Hardware-Coherent Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, December 1995. Also published as TR 547, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, December 1994.

• R. Bianchini and L. I. Kontothanassis. "Algorithms for Categorizing Multiprocessor Communication Under Invalidate and Update-Based Coherence Protocols". Proceedings of the 28th Annual Simulation Symposium, April 1995. Also published as TR 533, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, September 1994.

• R. Bianchini, C. M. Brown, M. Cierniak, and W. Meira, Jr. "Combining Distributed Populations and Periodic Centralized Selections in Coarse-Grain Parallel Genetic Algorithms". Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms 95, April 1995.

• M. Marchetti, L. I. Kontothanassis, R. Bianchini, and M. L. Scott. "Using Simple Page Placement Policies to Reduce the Cost of Cache Fills in Coherent Shared-Memory Systems". Proceedings of the 9th International Parallel Processing Symposium, April 1995. Also published as TR 535, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, September 1994.

• R. Bianchini, T. J. LeBlanc, and Jack E. Veenstra. "Eliminating Useless Messages in Write-Update Protocols on Scalable Multiprocessors". TR 539, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, October 1994.

• R. Bianchini and T. J. LeBlanc. "Eager Combining: A Coherency Protocol for Increasing Effective Network and Memory Bandwidth in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, October 1994. Extended version published as TR 485, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, January 1994.

• R. Bianchini, M. Crovella, L. I. Kontothanassis, and T. J. LeBlanc. "Software Interleaving". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, October 1994.

• R. Bianchini. "Application Performance on the Alewife Multiprocessor". Memo 43, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1994.

• R. Bianchini and T. J. LeBlanc. "Can High Bandwidth and Latency Justify Large Cache Blocks in Scalable Multiprocessors?". Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1994. Extended version published as TR 486, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, January 1994.

• R. Bianchini. "Using High Bandwidth to Reduce Average Memory Access Time in Scalable Multiprocessors". In Proceedings of the Supercomputing Symposium '94, June 1994.

• R. Bianchini and T. J. LeBlanc. "A Preliminary Evaluation of Cache-Miss-Initiated Prefetching Techniques in Scalable Multiprocessors". TR 515, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, May 1994.

• R. Bianchini and C. M. Brown. "Parallel Genetic Algorithms on Distributed-Memory Architectures". Proceedings of Transputers: Research and Applications, May 1993. Extended version published as TR 436, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, May 1993.

• W. E. Garrett, M. L. Scott, R. Bianchini, L. I. Kontothanassis, R. A. McCallum, J. A. Thomas, R. Wisniewski, S. Luk. "Linking Shared Segments". Proceedings of the USENIX Winter '93 Technical Conference, San Diego, CA, January 1993.

• R. Bianchini and T. J. LeBlanc. "Software Caching on Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors". Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, December 1992.

• M. Crovella, R. Bianchini, T. J. LeBlanc, E. Markatos and R. Wisniewski. "Using Communication-to-Computation Ratio in Parallel Performance Prediction and Program Design". Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, December 1992.

• W. E. Garrett, R. Bianchini, L. I. Kontothanassis, R. A. McCallum, J. A. Thomas, R. Wisniewski, and M. L. Scott. "Dynamic Sharing and Backward Compatibility on 64-Bit Machines". TR 418, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, April 1992.