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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 and an IBM Faculty Award in 2008. He was awarded a VT College of Engineering Dean's award for "Outstanding New Assistant Professor" in 2009. 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).
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A Simulation Approach to Evaluating Design Decisions in MapReduce Setups
(Extended paper@MASCOTS'09) Won Best Paper Award
MRPerf is available for download
here.
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Mitigating Disk Energy Management Delays by Exploiting Peer Memory
(Poster paper@MASCOTS'09)
/Scratch as a Cache: Rethinking HPC Center Scratch Storage
(ICS'09)
CellMR: A Framework for Supporting MapReduce on Asymmetric Cell-Based Clusters
(IPDPS'09, extended version SIGOPS OSR'09)
On the Impact of Disk Scrubbing on Energy Savings
(HotPower'08)
Timely Offloading of Result-Data in HPC Centers
(ICS 2008)
DMA-based Prefetching for I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture
(CF 2008)
On Utilization of Contributory Storage in Desktop Grids
(IPDPS 2008)