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2020 – today
- 2021
[c99]Mike Rainey, Ryan R. Newton, Kyle C. Hale, Nikos Hardavellas, Simone Campanoni, Peter A. Dinda, Umut A. Acar:
Task parallel assembly language for uncompromising parallelism. PLDI 2021: 1064-1079- 2020
- [c98]Peter A. Dinda, Alex Bernat
, Conor Hetland:
Spying on the Floating Point Behavior of Existing, Unmodified Scientific Applications. HPDC 2020: 5-16 - [c97]Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, Peter A. Dinda:
CARAT: a case for virtual memory through compiler- and runtime-based address translation. PLDI 2020: 329-345 - [c96]Souradip Ghosh, Michael Cuevas, Simone Campanoni, Peter A. Dinda:
Compiler-based timing for extremely fine-grain preemptive parallelism. SC 2020: 53
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c95]Conor Hetland, Georgios Tziantzioulis, Brian Suchy, Michael Leonard, Jin Han, John Albers, Nikos Hardavellas, Peter A. Dinda:
Paths to Fast Barrier Synchronization on the Node. HPDC 2019: 109-120 - [c94]Conor Hetland, Georgios Tziantzioulis, Brian Suchy, Kyle C. Hale, Nikos Hardavellas, Peter A. Dinda:
Prospects for Functional Address Translation. MASCOTS 2019: 370-383 - [i1]Kyle C. Hale, Conor Hetland, Peter A. Dinda:
Multiverse: Easy Conversion of Runtime Systems into OS Kernels via Automatic Hybridization. CoRR abs/1901.06360 (2019) - 2018
- [c93]Enrico Armenio Deiana, Vincent St-Amour, Peter A. Dinda, Nikos Hardavellas, Simone Campanoni:
Unconventional Parallelization of Nondeterministic Applications. ASPLOS 2018: 432-447 - [c92]Peter A. Dinda, Xiaoyang Wang, Jinghang Wang, Chris Beauchene, Conor Hetland:
Hard real-time scheduling for parallel run-time systems. HPDC 2018: 14-26 - [c91]Peter A. Dinda, Conor Hetland:
Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? IPDPS 2018: 589-598 - [c90]Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
An Evaluation of Asynchronous Software Events on Modern Hardware. MASCOTS 2018: 355-368 - 2017
- [j19]Gang Huang, Huaqian Cai, Maciej Swiech, Ying Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Peter A. Dinda:
DelayDroid: an instrumented approach to reducing tail-time energy of Android apps. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60(1): 12106 (2017) - [c89]Enrico Armenio Deiana, Vincent St-Amour, Peter A. Dinda, Nikos Hardavellas, Simone Campanoni:
POSTER: The Liberation Day of Nondeterministic Programs. PACT 2017: 136-137 - [c88]Peter A. Dinda, Akhil Guliani:
Dark Shadows: User-Level Guest/Host Linux Process Shadowing. IC2E 2017: 29-39 - [c87]Kyle C. Hale, Conor Hetland, Peter A. Dinda:
Multiverse: Easy Conversion of Runtime Systems into OS Kernels via Automatic Hybridization. ICAC 2017: 177-186 - [c86]Begum Egilmez, Emirhan Poyraz, Wenting Zhou, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda, Nabil Alshurafa:
UStress: Understanding college student subjective stress using wrist-based passive sensing. PerCom Workshops 2017: 673-678 - 2016
- [c85]Kyle C. Hale, Conor Hetland, Peter A. Dinda:
Automatic Hybridization of Runtime Systems. HPDC 2016: 137-140 - [c84]Maciej Swiech, Huaqian Cai, Peter A. Dinda, Gang Huang:
Prospects for Shaping User-Centric Mobile Application Workloads to Benefit the Cloud. MASCOTS 2016: 251-260 - [c83]Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
Enabling Hybrid Parallel Runtimes Through Kernel and Virtualization Support. VEE 2016: 161-175 - 2015
- [c82]Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
A Case for Transforming Parallel Runtimes Into Operating System Kernels. HPDC 2015: 27-32 - 2014
- [j18]Lei Xia, Zheng Cui, John R. Lange, Yuan Tang, Peter A. Dinda, Patrick G. Bridges:
Fast VMM-based overlay networking for bridging the cloud and high performance computing. Clust. Comput. 17(1): 39-59 (2014) - [c81]Lei Xia, Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
ConCORD: easily exploiting memory content redundancy through the content-aware service command. HPDC 2014: 25-36 - [c80]Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
Guarded Modules: Adaptively Extending the VMM's Privilege Into the Guest. ICAC 2014: 85-96 - [c79]Maciej Swiech, Kyle C. Hale, Peter A. Dinda:
VMM emulation of Intel hardware transactional memory. ROSS@ICS 2014: 4:1-4:8 - 2013
- [j17]Lei Yang, Robert P. Dick, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda:
HAPPE: Human and Application-Driven Frequency Scaling for Processor Power Efficiency. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 12(8): 1546-1557 (2013) - [c78]Lide Zhang, David R. Bild, Robert P. Dick, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Peter A. Dinda:
Panappticon: Event-based tracing to measure mobile application and platform performance. CODES+ISSS 2013: 33:1-33:10 - [c77]Zheng Cui, Patrick G. Bridges, John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
Virtual TCP offload: optimizing ethernet overlay performance on advanced interconnects. HPDC 2013: 49-60 - [c76]Maciej Swiech, Peter A. Dinda:
Making JavaScript Better by Making It Even Slower. MASCOTS 2013: 70-79 - [c75]Kevin Tew, James Swaine, Matthew Flatt, Robert Bruce Findler, Peter A. Dinda:
Distributed Places. Trends in Functional Programming 2013: 34-57 - 2012
- [j16]Patrick G. Bridges, Dorian C. Arnold, Kevin T. Pedretti, Madhav Suresh, Feng Lu, Peter A. Dinda, Russ Joseph, Jack Lange:
Virtual-machine-based emulation of future generation high-performance computing systems. Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl. 26(2): 125-135 (2012) - [c74]Lide Zhang, Mark S. Gordon, Robert P. Dick, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Peter A. Dinda, Lei Yang:
ADEL: an automatic detector of energy leaks for smartphone applications. CODES+ISSS 2012: 363-372 - [c73]Lei Xia, Peter A. Dinda:
A case for tracking and exploiting inter-node and intra-node memory content sharing in virtualized large-scale parallel systems. VTDC@HPDC 2012: 11-18 - [c72]Chang Bae, Lei Xia, Peter A. Dinda, John R. Lange:
Dynamic adaptive virtual core mapping to improve power, energy, and performance in multi-socket multicores. HPDC 2012: 247-258 - [c71]Lei Xia, Zheng Cui, John R. Lange, Yuan Tang, Peter A. Dinda, Patrick G. Bridges:
VNET/P: bridging the cloud and high performance computing through fast overlay networking. HPDC 2012: 259-270 - [c70]Kyle C. Hale, Lei Xia, Peter A. Dinda:
Shifting GEARS to enable guest-context virtual services. ICAC 2012: 23-32 - [c69]Matthew Schuchhardt, Benjamin Scholbrock, Utku Pamuksuz, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick:
Understanding the impact of laptop power saving options on user satisfaction using physiological sensors. ISLPED 2012: 291-296 - [c68]Zheng Cui, Lei Xia, Patrick G. Bridges, Peter A. Dinda, John R. Lange:
Optimizing overlay-based virtual networking through optimistic interrupts and cut-through forwarding. SC 2012: 99 - 2011
- [c67]Lan S. Bai, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda, Pai H. Chou:
Simplified programming of faulty sensor networks via code transformation and run-time interval computation. DATE 2011: 88-93 - [c66]Lan S. Bai, Robert P. Dick, Pai H. Chou, Peter A. Dinda:
Automated construction of fast and accurate system-level models for wireless sensor networks. DATE 2011: 1083-1088 - [c65]Kevin Tew, James Swaine, Matthew Flatt, Robert Bruce Findler, Peter A. Dinda:
Places: adding message-passing parallelism to racket. DLS 2011: 85-96 - [c64]Chang Bae, John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
Enhancing virtualized application performance through dynamic adaptive paging mode selection. ICAC 2011: 255-264 - [c63]Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick, Gokhan Memik:
Indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum. MobiSys 2011: 155-168 - [c62]Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick, Gokhan Memik:
Demo: indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum. MobiSys 2011: 385-386 - [c61]J. Scott Miller, Amit Mondal, Rahul Potharaju, Peter A. Dinda, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic:
Understanding end-user perception of network problems. W-MUST@SIGCOMM 2011: 43-48 - [c60]John R. Lange, Kevin T. Pedretti, Peter A. Dinda, Patrick G. Bridges, Chang Bae, Philip Soltero, Alexander Merritt:
Minimal-overhead virtualization of a large scale supercomputer. VEE 2011: 169-180 - [c59]John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
SymCall: symbiotic virtualization through VMM-to-guest upcalls. VEE 2011: 193-204 - 2010
- [j15]Giang Hoang, Chang Bae, Jack Lange, Lide Zhang, Peter A. Dinda, Russ Joseph:
A Case for Alternative Nested Paging Models for Virtualized Systems. IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett. 9(1): 17-20 (2010) - [c58]Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick, Gokhan Memik:
Display power management policies in practice. ICAC 2010: 51-60 - [c57]John R. Lange, J. Scott Miller, Peter A. Dinda:
EmNet: Satisfying The Individual User Through Empathic Home Networks. INFOCOM 2010: 1873-1881 - [c56]John R. Lange, Kevin T. Pedretti, Trammell Hudson, Peter A. Dinda, Zheng Cui, Lei Xia, Patrick G. Bridges, Andy Gocke, Steven Jaconette, Michael Levenhagen, Ron Brightwell:
Palacios and Kitten: New high performance operating systems for scalable virtualized and native supercomputing. IPDPS 2010: 1-12 - [c55]James Swaine, Kevin Tew, Peter A. Dinda, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt:
Back to the futures: incremental parallelization of existing sequential runtime systems. OOPSLA 2010: 583-597 - [c54]Alex Shye, Benjamin Scholbrock, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda:
Characterizing and modeling user activity on smartphones: summary. SIGMETRICS 2010: 375-376
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j14]John R. Lange, J. Scott Miller, Peter A. Dinda:
EmNet: satisfying the individual user through empathic home networks: summary. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 37(2): 65-66 (2009) - [j13]Lei Xia, Jack Lange, Peter A. Dinda, Chang Bae:
Investigating virtual passthrough I/O on commodity devices. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 43(3): 83-94 (2009) - [c53]Stephen P. Tarzia, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik:
Sonar-based measurement of user presence and attention. UbiComp 2009: 89-92 - [c52]Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda:
Experiences with scheduling and mapping games for adaptive distributed systems: summary. ICAC 2009: 73-74 - [c51]Lan S. Bai, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda:
Archetype-based design: Sensor network programming for application experts, not just programming experts. IPSN 2009: 85-96 - [c50]Bin Lin, Arindam Mallik, Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick:
User- and process-driven dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. ISPASS 2009: 11-22 - [c49]J. Scott Miller, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick:
Evaluating a BASIC approach to sensor network node programming. SenSys 2009: 155-168 - 2008
- [j12]Bin Lin, Ananth I. Sundararaj, Peter A. Dinda:
Time-sharing parallel applications through performance-targeted feedback-controlled real-time scheduling. Clust. Comput. 11(3): 273-285 (2008) - [j11]Yi Qiao, Fabián E. Bustamante, Peter A. Dinda, Stefan Birrer, Dong Lu:
Improving peer-to-peer performance through server-side scheduling. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 26(4): 10:1-10:30 (2008) - [c48]Arindam Mallik, Jack Cosgrove, Robert P. Dick, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda:
PICSEL: measuring user-perceived performance to control dynamic frequency scaling. ASPLOS 2008: 70-79 - [c47]Alex Shye, Berkin Özisikyilmaz, Arindam Mallik, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick, Alok N. Choudhary:
Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architecture-Level Measurements and Individual User Satisfaction. ISCA 2008: 427-438 - [c46]Alex Shye, Yan Pan, Benjamin Scholbrock, J. Scott Miller, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick:
Power to the people: Leveraging human physiological traits to control microprocessor frequency. MICRO 2008: 188-199 - [c45]Lei Xia, Jack Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices. Workshop on I/O Virtualization 2008 - [c44]John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda, Samuel Rossoff:
Experiences with Client-based Speculative Remote Display. USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008: 419-432 - 2007
- [j10]Robert T. Schweller, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Yan Gao, Ashish Gupta, Yin Zhang, Peter A. Dinda, Ming-Yang Kao, Gokhan Memik:
Reversible sketches: enabling monitoring and analysis over high-speed data streams. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 15(5): 1059-1072 (2007) - [c43]Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin Lin, Arindam Mallik, Ashish Gupta, Samuel Rossoff:
The user in experimental computer systems research. Experimental Computer Science 2007: 10 - [c42]John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
Transparent network services via a virtual traffic layer for virtual machines. HPDC 2007: 23-32 - [c41]Bin Lin, Ananth I. Sundararaj, Peter A. Dinda:
Time-Sharing Parallel Applications with Performance Isolation and Control. ICAC 2007: 28 - [c40]Sasha Jevtic, Mathew Kotowsky, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda, Charles Dowding:
Lucid dreaming: reliable analog event detection for energy-constrained applications. IPSN 2007: 350-359 - [c39]John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda, Fabián E. Bustamante:
Vortex: Enabling Cooperative Selective Wormholing for Network Security Systems. RAID 2007: 317-336 - [c38]Bin Lin, Arindam Mallik, Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick:
Power reduction through measurement and modeling of users and CPUs: summary. SIGMETRICS 2007: 363-364 - 2006
- [j9]Arindam Mallik, Bin Lin, Gokhan Memik, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick:
User-Driven Frequency Scaling. IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett. 5(2) (2006) - [j8]Peter A. Dinda:
Design, Implementation, and Performance of an Extensible Toolkit for Resource Prediction in Distributed Systems. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 17(2): 160-173 (2006) - [c37]Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments. ICAC 2006: 291-292 - [c36]Robert T. Schweller, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Yan Gao, Ashish Gupta, Yin Zhang, Peter A. Dinda, Ming-Yang Kao, Gokhan Memik:
Reverse Hashing for High-Speed Network Monitoring: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications. INFOCOM 2006 - [c35]Ashish Gupta, Marcia Zangrilli, Ananth I. Sundararaj, A. I. Huang, Peter A. Dinda, Bruce Lowekamp:
Free network measurement for adaptive virtualized distributed computing. IPDPS 2006 - [c34]Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda:
Towards Scheduling Virtual Machines Based On Direct User Input. VTDC@SC 2006: 6 - 2005
- [j7]Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Peter A. Dinda, José A. B. Fortes:
Guest Editors' Introduction: Resource Virtualization Renaissance. Computer 38(5): 28-31 (2005) - [j6]Peter A. Dinda, Dong Lu:
Fast Compositional Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service. J. Grid Comput. 3(1-2): 131-150 (2005) - [j5]Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda:
An optimization problem in adaptive virtual environments. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 33(2): 6-8 (2005) - [c33]Ananth I. Sundararaj, Ashish Gupta, Peter A. Dinda:
Increasing application performance in virtual environments through run-time inference and adaptation. HPDC 2005: 47-58 - [c32]John R. Lange, Ananth I. Sundararaj, Peter A. Dinda:
Automatic dynamic run-time optical network reservations. HPDC 2005: 255-264 - [c31]Dong Lu, Yi Qiao, Peter A. Dinda, Fabián E. Bustamante:
Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network. ICDCS 2005: 414-424 - [c30]Dong Lu, Yi Qiao, Peter A. Dinda, Fabián E. Bustamante:
Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network. IPDPS 2005 - [c29]Dong Lu, Peter A. Dinda, Yi Qiao, Huanyuan Sheng:
Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation onWeb Server Scheduling Policies. MASCOTS 2005: 258-270 - [c28]Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda:
VSched: Mixing Batch And Interactive Virtual Machines Using Periodic Real-time Scheduling. SC 2005: 8 - 2004
- [c27]Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda, Dong Lu:
User-Driven Scheduling of Interactive Virtual Machines. GRID 2004: 380-387 - [c26]Yi Qiao, Jason A. Skicewicz, Peter A. Dinda:
An Empirical Study of the Multiscale Predictability of Network Traffic. HPDC 2004: 66-76 - [c25]Ashish Gupta, Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda:
Measuring and Understanding User Comfort With Resource Borrowing. HPDC 2004: 214-224 - [c24]Ashish Gupta, Peter A. Dinda:
Inferring the Topology and Traffic Load of Parallel Programs Running in a Virtual Machine Environment. JSSPP 2004: 125-143 - [c23]Ananth I. Sundararaj, Peter A. Dinda:
Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing. Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium 2004: 177-190 - [c22]Dong Lu, Huanyuan Sheng, Peter A. Dinda:
Size-Based Scheduling Policies with Inaccurate Scheduling Information. MASCOTS 2004: 31-38 - [c21]Brian Cornell, Peter A. Dinda, Fabián E. Bustamante:
Wayback: A User-level Versioning File System for Linux (Awarded Best Paper!). USENIX Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track 2004: 19-28 - [c20]Stefan Birrer, Dong Lu, Fabián E. Bustamante, Yi Qiao, Peter A. Dinda:
FatNemo: Building a Resilient Multi-source Multicast Fat-Tree. WCW 2004: 182-196 - 2003
- [j4]Dong Lu, Peter A. Dinda:
GridG: generating realistic computational grids. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 30(4): 33-40 (2003) - [c19]Dong Lu, Peter A. Dinda, Jason A. Skicewicz:
Scoped and Approximate Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service. GRID 2003: 192-201 - [c18]Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Peter A. Dinda, José A. B. Fortes:
A Case For Grid Computing On Virtual Machine. ICDCS 2003: 550-559 - [c17]Peter A. Dinda, Dong Lu:
Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service. SC 2003: 12 - [c16]Dong Lu, Peter A. Dinda:
Synthesizing Realistic Computational Grids. SC 2003: 16 - 2002
- [j3]Peter A. Dinda:
Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks. Clust. Comput. 5(3): 225-236 (2002) - [c15]Peter A. Dinda:
A Prediction-Based Real-Time Scheduling Advisor. IPDPS 2002 - 2001
- [c14]Peter A. Dinda, Thomas R. Gross, Roger Karrer, Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Peter Steenkiste, Dean Sutherland:
The Architecture of the Remos System. HPDC 2001: 252-265 - [c13]Peter A. Dinda:
Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks. HPDC 2001: 383-382 - [c12]Jason A. Skicewicz, Peter A. Dinda, Jennifer M. Schopf:
Multi-Resolution Resource Behaviour Queries Using Wavelets. HPDC 2001: 395-394 - [c11]Peter A. Dinda, Brad M. Garcia, Kwok-Shing Leung:
The Measured Network Traffic of Compiler-Parallelized Programs. ICPP 2001: 175-184 - [c10]Peter A. Dinda:
Online prediction of the running time of tasks. SIGMETRICS/Performance 2001: 336-337 - 2000
- [j2]Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron:
Host load prediction using linear models. Clust. Comput. 3(4): 265-280 (2000) - [c9]Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron:
Realistic CPU Workloads through Host Load Trace Playback. LCR 2000: 246-259
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j1]Peter A. Dinda:
The statistical properties of host load. Sci. Program. 7(3-4): 211-229 (1999) - [c8]Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron:
An Evaluation of Linear Models for Host Load Prediction. HPDC 1999: 87-96 - [c7]Andy Myers, Peter A. Dinda, Hui Zhang:
Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet. INFOCOM 1999: 304-312 - [c6]Peter A. Dinda, Loukas F. Kallivokas, Bruce Lowekamp, David R. O'Hallaron:
The Case for Prediction-Based Best-Effort Real-Time Systems. IPPS/SPDP Workshops 1999: 309-318 - [c5]Martin Aeschlimann, Peter A. Dinda, Loukas F. Kallivokas, Julio C. López, Bruce Lowekamp, David R. O'Hallaron:
Preliminary Report on the Design of a Framework for Distributed Visualization. PDPTA 1999: 1833-1839 - 1998
- [c4]Peter A. Dinda:
The Statistical Properties of Hoast Load. LCR 1998: 319-334 - 1996
- [c3]Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron:
Fast Message Assembly Using Compact Address Relations. SIGMETRICS 1996: 47-56 - 1995
- [c2]Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron, Jaspal Subhlok, Jon A. Webb, Bwolen Yang:
Language and Run-Time Support for Network Parallel Computing. LCPC 1995: 534-550 - 1994
- [c1]Jaspal Subhlok, David R. O'Hallaron, Thomas R. Gross, Peter A. Dinda, Jon A. Webb:
Communication and memory requirements as the basis for mapping task and data parallel programs. SC 1994: 330-339
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