Research

current work

Power management methods in distributed and conventional operating systems.

Refereed publications

Robust and Flexible Power-Proportional Storage, Hrishikesh Amur, James Cipar, Varun Gupta, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael A. Kozuch, Karsten Schwan, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2010), Indianapolis, June 2010. PDF Slides

Coordination of Cooling and IT Power in Data Centers, Emad Samadiani, Hrishikesh Amur, Bhavani Krishnan, Yogendra Joshi, Karsten Schwan, ASME Journal of Electronics Packaging, Volume 132, Issue 3, 2010.

VM Power Metering: Feasibility and Challenges, Bhavani Krishnan, Hrishikesh Amur, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, GreenMetrics 2010, in conjunction with SIGMETRICS'10), New York, June 2010 (Best Student Paper). Reprinted in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 38, Issue 3, 2010.

Achieving Power-Efficiency in Clusters without Distributed File System Complexity, Hrishikesh Amur, Karsten Schwan, Second Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED 2010, in conjunction with ISCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. Reprinted in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 6161, 2010. PDF

IdlePower: Application-Aware Management of Processor Idle States, Hrishikesh Amur, Ripal Nathuji, Mrinmoy Ghosh, Karsten Schwan, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, First Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (MMCS, in conjunction with HPDC), Boston, June 2008. PDF Slides

Other publications

Towards Optimal Power Management: Estimation of Performance Degradation due to DVFS on Modern Processors, Hrishikesh Amur, Karsten Schwan, Milos Prvulovic, Tech. Report GIT-CERCS-10-02. PDF

Plimsoll: A DVS Algorithm Hierarchy, PDF, (Short version of undergraduate thesis), with Gautham Shenoy, Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Dipankar Sarma, Vani M., 2007.