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

Ali received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2006. Ali received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008. Ali's research interests are in operating systems, distributed systems, file and storage systems, grid environments, peer-to-peer systems, and self-organizing systems. At Virginia Tech. he leads the Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory (DSSL).

Publications

[new] Timely Offloading of Result-Data in HPC Centers (ICS 2008)
[new] DMA-based Prefetching for I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture (CF 2008)
[new] On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids (IPDPS 2008)
ReplayCache: Exploiting Similarities for Predicting the Future (Poster@FAST 2008)
Supporting I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture (Poster@FAST 2008)

The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms (SIGMETRICS 2005, IEEE TOC 2007)
A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors (SC 2003, JPDC 2006)
Program Counter Based Pattern Classification in Buffer Caching (OSDI 2004)
Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System (SC 2004, JGrid 2006)

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Teaching

CS3204 Operating Systems (Spring 2008)
CS6204 File and Storage Systems (Fall 2007)
CS3204 Operating Systems (Spring 2007)
CS5204 Operating Systems (Fall 2006)
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