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Publications by Sudharshan Vazhkudai

(As recorded by DBLP: here)

o    2009

  • X. Ma, S.S. Vazhkudai, Z. Zhang, “Improving Data Availability for Better Access Performance: A Study on Caching Scientific Data on Distributed Desktop Workstations”, Journal of Grid Computing - Special Issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids, July 2009, 10.1007/s10723-009-9122-7. pdf
  • S.D. Miller, K.W. Herwig, S. Ren, S.S. Vazhkudai, P. Jemian, S. Luitz, A.A. Salnikov, I. Gappnenko, T. Proffen, P. Lewis, M.L. Green, “Data Management and Science at DOE BES User Facilities – Past, Present, and Future”, Proceedings of the Scidac 2009, June 2009. Also in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 180, 2009. poster pdf
  • C. Wang, Z. Zhang, X. Ma, S.S. Vazhkudai, F. Mueller, “Improving the Availability of Supercomputer Job Input Data Using Temporal Replication”, Proceedings of the Int’l Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 2009. also in the Computer Science – Research & Development, Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 149-157, 2009. pdf extended version
  • H. Monti, A.R. Butt, S.S. Vazhkudai, “/Scratch as a Cache: Rethinking HPC Center Scratch Storage”, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Int’l Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’09), Yorktown Heights, New York, June 2009. pdf
  • S.A. Kiswany, M. Ripeanu, A. Iamnitchi, S. Vazhkudai, “Beyond Music Sharing: An Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Data Dissemination Techniques in Large Scientific Collaborations”, Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 91-114, March 2009. pdf

o    2008

  • S.A. Kiswany, M. Ripeanu, S. S. Vazhkudai, “Aggregate Memory as an Intermediate Checkpoint Storage Device”, ORNL Technical Report 013521, November 2008. pdf
  • H. Monti, A.R. Butt, S.S. Vazhkudai, “Just-in-time Staging of Large Input Data for Supercomputing Jobs”, Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, Texas, November 2008. pdf extended-version-pdf
  • C. Wang, Z. Zhang, S. S. Vazhkudai, X, Ma, F. Mueller, “On-the-fly Recovery of Job Input Data in Supercomputers”, Proceedings of 37th Int’l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-08), Portland, Oregon, September 2008. pdf
  • H. Monti, A.R. Butt, S.S. Vazhkudai, “Timely Offloading of Result-Data in HPC Centers”, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Int’l Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’08), Kos, Greece, June 2008. pdf
  • S.A. Kiswany, M. Ripeanu, S. S. Vazhkudai, A. Gharaibeh, “stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing”, Proceedings of the 28th Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 2008. pdf
  • M. Ripeanu, M. P. Singh, and S. S. Vazhkudai, “Virtual Organizations”, Guest Editors' Introduction to IEEE Internet Computing: Special Issue on Virtual Organizations, March/April 2008. magazine issue pdf

o    2007

  • H. Monti, A.R. Butt, S.S. Vazhkudai, “A Result-Data offloading Service for HPC Centers”, Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop, Supercomputing 2007, Reno, Nevada, November 2007. pdf
  • Z. Zhang, C. Wang, S. S. Vazhkudai, X, Ma, G. Pike, J.W. Cobb, F. Mueller, “Optimizing Center Performance through Coordinated Data Staging, Scheduling and Recovery”, Proceedings of Supercomputing 2007 (SC07): Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, Nevada, November 2007. pdf
  • S.A. Kiswany, A. Bahramshahry, H. Ghasemi, M. Ripeanu, S.S. Vazhkudai, “A High-Performance GridFTP Server at Desktop Cost”, Poster in Supercomputing 2007 (SC07): Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, Nevada, November 2007. pdf
  • S. S. Vazhkudai, J.A. Kohl and J. Schwidder, “A Java-based Science Portal for Neutron Scattering Experiments”, Proceedings of Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2007. pdf
  • S.A. Kiswany, M. Ripeanu, A. Iamnitchi, S. Vazhkudai, “Are Peer-to-Peer Data Dissemination Techniques Viable in Today’s Data Intensive Scientific Collaborations?”, Proceedings of the 13th International Euro-Par Conference: European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, August 2007. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, M. Ripeanu, S.A. Kiswany, X. Ma and G. Bronevetsky, “A Checkpoint Storage System for HPC Applications”, ORNL Technical Report 007031, June 2007. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, X. Ma, "Recovering Transient Data: Automated On-demand Data Reconstruction and Offloading on Supercomputers", ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review: Special Issue on File and Storage Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 14-18, January 2007.pdf
  • J.W. Cobb, A. Geist, J.A. Kohl, S.D. Miller, P.F. Peterson, G.G. Pike, M.A. Reuter, T.Swain, S.S. Vazhkudai, N.N. Vijayakumar, “The Neutron Science TeraGrid Gateway, a TeraGrid Science Gateway to Support the Spallation Neutron Source”, in the Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19, pp. 809-826, 2007. pdf

o    2006

  • S. Vazhkudai, D. Thain, X. Ma, V. Freeh, "Positioning Dynamic Storage Caches for Transient Data ", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on High Performance I/O Techniques and Deployment of Very Large Scale I/O Systems (HiperIO'06 at IEEE Cluster Computing), Barcelona, Spain, September 2006.pdf
  • X. Ma, S. Vazhkudai, V. Freeh, T.A. Simon, T. Yang, S.L. Scott, "Coupling Prefix Caching and Collective Downloads for Remote Data Access", in the Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS06), pp. 229-238, Cairns, Australia, June 2006.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, X. Ma, V. Freeh, J. Strickland, N. Tammineedi, T.A. Simon, S.L. Scott, "Constructing Collaborative Desktop Storage Caches for Large Scientific Datasets", in the ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS),Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 221-254, August 2006. pdf
  • V.W. Freeh, X. Ma, S. Vazhkudai, J. Strickland, "Controlling Impact While Aggressively Scavenging Idle Resources", in the Journal of Cluster Computing, Oct 2006. pdf

o    2005

  • S. Vazhkudai, X. Ma, V. Freeh, J. Strickland, N. Tammineedi, S.L. Scott, "FreeLoader: Scavenging Desktop Storage Resources for Scientific Data", Proceedings of Supercomputing 2005 (SC'05): Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage, Seattle, Washington, November 2005. pdf
  • V. Freeh, X. Ma, J. Strickland, S. Vazhkudai, "Synergetic Resource Stealing: We Promise It Will Not Hurt Much", ORNL Technical Report P05-123434, May 2005. pdf
  • J. Strickland, V. Freeh, X. Ma and S. Vazhkudai, "Governor: Autonomic Throttling for Aggressive Idle Resource Scavenging", 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), Seattle, Washington, 2005. pdf

o    2004 and earlier…

  • S. Vazhkudai, "On-demand Grid Storage using Scavenging", New Trends in Distributed Data Access, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2004 ps
  • S. Vazhkudai, "Orchestrating Bulk Data Movement in Grid Environments", ORNL Technical Report R04-121317, September 2004. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, "Distributed Downloads of Bulk, Replicated Grid Data", Journal of Grid Computing, No. 2, pp. 31-42, 2004. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, "Enabling the Co-Allocation of Grid Data Transfers", 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID 2003), Phoenix, Arizona, November 2003.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, "Bulk Data Transfer Forecasts and Implications to Grid Scheduling", Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Mississippi, May 2003.zip
  • S. Vazhkudai, J. Schopf, "Using Regression Techniques to Predict Large Data Transfers", Journal of High Performance Computing Applications - Special Issue on Grid Computing: Infrastructure and Applications, Vol 17. No. 3, pp. 249-268, 2003.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, J. Schopf, "Using Disk Throughput data in Predictions of End-to-End Grid Transfers", 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID 2002), Baltimore, Maryland, November 2002.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, J. Schopf, "Predicting Sporadic Grid Data Transfers ", 11th IEEE Int'l Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), Edinburgh, Scotland,, July 2002.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, J. Schopf, I. Foster, "Predicting the Performance of Wide-Area Data Transfers ", 16th Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 2002.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, J.M. Syed, P.T. Maginnis, "PODOS - The Design and Implementation of a Performance Oriented Linux Cluster", Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems - Special Issue on Cluster Computing, 2002. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, S. Tuecke, I. Foster, "Replica Selection in the Globus Data Grid", IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.pdf
  • R. Buyya, S. Vazhkudai, "Compute Power Market: Towards a Market-Oriented Grid", IEEE Session on Global Computing on Personal Devices (In conjunction with CCGRID 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, G.V. Laszewski, "A Greedy Grid - The Grid Economic Engine Directive", IEEE Conference on Internet Computing and E-Commerce, (ICEC 01 In conjunction with IPDPS 2000), San Francisco, CA, April 2001.ps
  • S. Vazhkudai, S. Tuecke "A Storage Broker for the Globus Environment - A ClassAd Based Implementation", Poster in Supercomputing 2000, Dallas, Texas, Nov 2000.
  • S. Vazhkudai, P.T. Maginnis, "The PODOS File System - Exploiting the High-Speed Communication Subsystem", IEEE Int'l Workshop on Cluster Computing -- Technologies, Environments, & Applications, (CC-TEA'2000, In conjunction with PDPTA2000) , Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, H.C. Cunningham, "A Reusable Software Framework for Distributed Decision-Making Protocols", Workshop on Distributed Objects in Computational Science (DOCS'2000, In conjunction with PDPTA2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000.pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, P.T. Maginnis, "A High Performance Communication Subsystem for PODOS", First International IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing, Melbourne, Australia, December 1999. pdf
  • S. Vazhkudai, P.T. Maginnis, "Distributed Linux: Evolutionary Steps" Technical Report CISE TR 1998-22, University of Mississippi, MS, December 1998.