Ali R. ButtProfessor
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Research Interests
Ali received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2006. Ali is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2008), an IBM Faculty Award (2008), a VT College of Engineering (COE) Dean's award for "Outstanding New Assistant Professor" (2009), an IBM Shared University Research Award (2009), and NetApp Faculty Fellowships (2011, 2015). Ali was named a VT COE Faculty Fellow in 2013. He has served as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2013--present) and Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (2010--present). He was selected to participate in National Academy of Engineering's USFOE Symposium in 2009, USJFOE in 2012, and also as an organizer for the USFOE in 2010. Ali's research interests are in operating systems, distributed systems, file and storage systems, cloud computing, grid environments, peer-to-peer systems, and self-organizing systems. At Virginia Tech. he leads the Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory (DSSL).
Distributed Systems and Storage LaboratoryURL: http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/ DSSL is interested in the design, development, and evaluation of next-generation storage and file systems. Specifically, the research focuses on tailoring these systems for growing data demands of modern high-end computing applications running on existing as well as emerging multicore architectures. To this end, we aim for innovation in systems that range from large-scale distributed setups to specialized kernel-level optimizations. |
Please see projects at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/
A Runtime Framework for Functional Partitioning of Multicores
Granting Institution: UT Battelle
Amount: $50,000
A Staged Data Delivery Tool for HPC
Granting Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $64,997
CAREER: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for High Performance Data Storage
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
CSR: Medium: Pythia: An Application Analysis and Online Modeling Baed Prediction Framework for Scalable Resource Management
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $750,000
CSR: Small: Exploiting slowdowns for speedup in HPC systems
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $500,000
CSR: Small: Towards Realizing Cloud HPC: An Adaptive Programming Model for Accelerator Based Clusters
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $409,781
CSR:Small:Collaborative Research:Cloud Monitoring via Sensor Networking
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $258,000
DC: SMALL: Collaborative Research: Exploring Energy-Reliability Trade Offs In Data Storage Systems
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $200,028
Efficient Checkpointing Via Data Offloading to Tiered Storage in HPE Centers
Granting Institution: UT-Battelle, LLC ORNL
Amount: $1,075,965
I/O Load Balancing in Large-Scale Storage System
Granting Institution: ORNL
Amount: $104,999
Improving Scaling and Performance of Big Data Systems using Mini-Apps
Granting Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $52,000
Increasing Student Participation in Cluster Computing Through IEEE Cluster 2010
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $15,000
NSF Student Travel Support for the 2015 IEEE MASCOTS: October 2015: Atlanta GA
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $10,000
REU CAREER: Scalable Hiearchiacal Framework for High Performance Data Storage
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $60,000
REU: CAREER: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for High Performance Data Storage
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000
REU: CSR Small: Towards Realizing Cloud
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000
REU: CSR: Small: Towards Realizing Cloud HPC: An Adaptive Programming Model for Accelerator-Based Clusters
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000
REU: DC:SMALL: Collaborative Research: Exploring Energy-Reliability Trade-Offs in Data Storage Systems
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000
Tolls and Techniques for Incorporating Disruptive Storage Technologies in HPC I/O Stack
Granting Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $85,868
U.S. - Pakistan International Planning Visit: Economial Computing Substrate for Developing Regions
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: