Dr. Ada Gavrilovska is a research faculty at the College of Computing and the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech. Her interests include conducting experimental systems research, specifically addressing high-performance applications on distributed heterogeneous platforms, and focusing on topics that range from operating and distributed systems, to virtualization, to programmable network devices and communication accelerators, to active and adaptive middleware and I/O. She has published numerous book chapters, journal and conference publications, and edited a book “High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach” (CRC Press, 2009). In addition to research, she also teaches courses on advanced operating systems and high performance communications. She has a BS degree in Computer Engineering from University Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Macedonia ('98), and a MS ('99) and PhD ('04) degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach, editor, Ada Gavrilovska, Sep. 2009

School of Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems - CERCS
Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing - ISTC-CC
Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing - ISTC-EC

Supercomputing'12, Salt Lake City, Nov. 2012 (PC memeber, Systems Software track)
8th Int'l Conf. on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11), London, UK, Mar. 2012 (PC member)
12th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012 (PC member)
6th Open Cirrus Summit, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2011 (PC Chair)
IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Austin, TX, Nov. 2011 (Tutorial Chair)
Hot Interconnects (HotI'11), Santa Clara, CA, Aug. 2011 (PC member, Industrial Co-Chair)
HiPC 2011, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2011 (PC member)
5th Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2011), held in conjunction with EuroPar 2011, August 29, 2011, Bordeaux, France (PC Member)
International Conference on Parallel Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 2011 (PC Member)
3rd Workshop on I/O Virtualization, Portland, OR, June. 2011 (PC Member)
Int'l Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'11), Tuscon, AZ, Jun. 2011 (PC Member)
Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid'11), Newport Beach, CA, May, 2011 (PC Member)
Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems (CASS'11), joint with IPDPS'11, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 2011 (PC Member)
IPDPS 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 2011 (PC Member)
Past Events

ViP: Virtualized multi-core Platforms
High Performance IO
Application-Programmable Routers and Interconnects
Georgia Tech Network Processors Group
Middleware Group
Multicore Curriculum Development

Upcoming:
CS4210 Advanced Operating Systems: Fall 2011
CS8803GOS Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems: Fall 2011 -- NOTE: This course DOES NOT count towards the MS/PhD Systems requirements. Graduate students without adequate systems background should register for this course before taking CS6210. CS8803GOS is cross-listed with CS4210.

Current:
CS6210 Advanced Operating Systems: Spring 2011

Past:
CS8803GOS Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems: Fall 2009
CS6210 Advanced Operating Systems: Fall 2010 (@Korea University), Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CS8803 GOS Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems: Spring 2009, Fall 2008
CS4210 Advanced Operating Systems: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006, Summer 2005, Summer 2004
CS4803/8803HPC High Performance Communication: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2005
CS8803 HPC High Performance Communication -- Korea Embedded Computing MS Program: Summer 2007 (@Korea University)
CS3300 Introduction to Software Engineering: Fall 2005
CS4240 Compilers and Interpreters: Fall 2004

• Using Active NVRAM for I/O Staging, Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Dejan Milojicic, Vanish Talwar, PDAC'11, in conjunction with SC'11, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2011 [PDF]
• ResourceExchange: Latency-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Environments with High Performance Fabrics, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, IEEE Cluster'11, Austin, TX, Sep. 2011 [PDF]
• CACM: Current-aware Capacity Management in Consolidated Server Enclosures, Hui Chen, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Mukil Kesavan, Second International Green Computing Conference, Work-in-Progress, Orlando, FL, Jul. 2011. [PDF]
• Distributed Cloud Storage Services with FleCS Containers, Hobin Yoon, Madhumitha Ravichandran, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 5th OpenCirrus Summit, Moscow, Russia, June 2011. [PDF]
• Shadowfax: Dynamically Composed GPGPU Assemblies, Alexander Merritt, Vishakha Gupta, Abhishek Verma, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 5th Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC), in conjunction with HPDC 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011. [PDF]
• Spatially-aware Optimization of Energy Consumption in Consolidated Datacenter Systems, Hui Chen, Pramod Kumar, Mukil Kesavan, Karsten Schwan, Ada Gavrilovska, Yogendra Joshi, InterPACK2011, Portland, OR, Jul. 2011. [PDF]
• Cloud4Home -- Enhancing Data Services with @Home Clouds, Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, MN, Jun. 2011. [PDF]
• VStore++: Virtual Storage Services for Mobile Devices, Sudarsun Kannan, Karishma Babu, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, MobiCloud'10, Oct. 2010.
• A Split-Driver Approach to SoC Virtualization -- Challenges and Opportunities, Venkatraghavan Srinivasan, Narendra Parihar, Vivek Khurana and Ada Gavrilovska, 5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-Chip, San Diego, CA, Sep. 2010.
• A Case for Coordinated Resource Management on Heterogeneous Multicore Platforms, Priyanka Tembey, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 6th Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA'10), in conjunction with ISCA'10, Saint Malo, France, June, 2010
• VM Power Metering: Feasibility and Challenges, Bhavani Krishnan, Hrishikesh Amur, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, GreenMetrics, in conjunction with SIGMETRICS'10, New York, June, 2010 (best student paper award). In ACM SIGMETRICS Perforamce Evaluation Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, Dec. 2010.
• Differential Virtual Time (DVT): Rethinking I/O Service Differentiation for Virtual Machines, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010 (SOCC '10), Indianapolis, USA, June 2010.
• FaReS: Fair Resource Scheduling for VMM-Bypass InfiniBand Devices, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Int'l Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID'10), Melbourne, Australia, May 2010.
• On Disk I/O Scheduling in Virtual Machines, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '10) colocated with ASPLOS 2010 and VEE 2010, Pittsburgh, USA, Mar. 2010.
• IBMon: Monitoring VMM-Bypass Capable InfiniBand Devices using Memory Introspection, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, HPCVirt'09, in conjunction with EuroSys'09, Germany, Mar. 2009.
• GViM:GPU-accelerated Virtual Machines, Vishakha Gupta, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Harshvardhan Kharche, Niraj Tolia, Vanish Talwar and Partha Ranganathan, HPCVirt'09, in conjunction with EuroSys'09, Germany, Mar. 2009.
• Active CoordinaTion (ACT) - Towards Effectively Managing Virtualized Multicore Clouds, Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Cluster 2008, Japan, Sep. 2008.
• Flexible Classification on Heterogeneous Multicore Appliance Platforms, Priyanka Tembey, Anish Bhatt, Dulloor Rao, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, ICCCN'08, St. Thomas, VI, Aug. 2008.
• Performance Implications of Virtualizing Multicore Cluster Machines, Adit Ranadive, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Workshop on HPC System Virtualization, in conjunction with Eurosys'08, Glasgow, UK, Mar. 2008.
• Enabling Semantic Communications for Virtual Machines via iConnect, Himanshu Raj, Sanjay Kumar, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC2007), in conjunction with Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV, Nov. 2007.
• Towards IQ-Appliances: Quality-awareness in Information Virtualization, Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Priyanka Tembey, 6th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA07), Cambridge, MA, Jul. 2007.
• High Performance Hypervisor Architectures: Virtualization in HPC Systems, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Vishakha Gupta, Ripal Nathuji, Radhika Niranjan, Adit Ranadive, Purav Saraiya, 1st Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt), in conjunction with EuroSys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, Mar. 2007.
• Virtualizing Heterogeneous Many-core Platforms, Greg Diamos, Ada Gavrilovska, Vishakha Gupta, Sanjay Kumar, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, EuroSys 2007 Poster, Lisbon, Portugal, Mar. 2007.
• Utilizing Network Processors in Distributed Enterprise Environments, Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 5th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06), Cambridge, MA, Jul. 2006.
• AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems., Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, CRC Press, 2006.
• Tuning File System Block Addressing for Performance, Harrison Caudill, Ada Gavrilovska, ACM Southeaster Conf., Melbourne, FL, Mar. 2006.
• Advanced Networking Services for Distributed Multimedia Streaming Applications, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, Karsten Schwan, Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 34, No. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Aug. 2007.
• Addressing Data Compatibility on Programmable Networking Platforms, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS'05), Oct. 2005.
• C-Core: Using Communication Cores for High Performance Network Services, Sanjay Kumar, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, and Srikanth Sundaragopalan, 4th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA05), Cambridge, MA, July 2005.
• Platform Overlays: Enabling In-Network Stream Processing in Large-scale Distributed Applications, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, and Karsten Schwan, 15th Int'l Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'05), Skamania, WA, June 2005, .
• An Approach Towards Enabling Intelligent Networking Services for Distributed Multimedia Applications, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, and Karsten Schwan, 4th Int'l Conf. on Inteligent Mulimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'05), Salt Lake City, UT, July 2005.
• The Execution of Event-Action Rules on Programmable Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, and Karsten Schwan, 1st Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the On-Demand IT Infrastructure (OASIS 2004), held in conjunction with ASPLOS-XI, Boston, MA, Oct. 2004.
  PDF [51K]
• SPLITS Stream Handlers: Deploying Application-level Services to Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
  PDF [713K]
• Cooperative Application-level Processing on Hosts and their Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Austen McDonald, Hailemelekot Seifu, and Ola Nordstrom, Poster Session, 11th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Atlanta, Georgia, November 4-7, 2003.
  PDF [11K] | PPT [143K]
• Network Processors as Building Blocks in Overlay Networks, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Hailemelekot Seifu, and Ola Nordstrom, 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOT-I 2003), Palo Alto, California, August 22-24, 2003.
  PostScript [122K] | PDF
• Service Morphing: Integrated System- and Application-level Service Adaptation in Autonomic Systems, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Sandip Agarwala, Ada Gavrilovska, Greg Eisenhauer, Santosh Pande, Calton Pu, and Matthew Wolf, 5th Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2003), Seattle, Washington, June, 2003.
  PDF
• Stream Handlers: Application-specific Message Services on Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Kenneth Mackenzie, Karsten Schwan, and Austen McDonald, 10th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOT-I 2002), Palo Alto, California, August 21-23, 2002.
  PostScript [140K]
• A Practical Approach for `Zero' Downtime in an Operational Information System, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, and Van Oleson, 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2002), Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2002.
  PostScript [167K] | PDF
  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-02-14
• Adaptable Mirroring in Cluster Servers, Ada Gavrilovska, Van Oleson, and Karsten Schwan, 10th International Conference on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), San Francisco, California, August 7-9, 2001.
  PostScript [184K]
  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-01-01
• Time-Critical Visual Exploration of Scalably Large Data, William Ribarsky, Davis King, Ada Gavrilovska, and Rogier van de Pol, Dagstuhl Workshop on Scientific Visualization, Springer Verlag, 1998.
  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-98-10