Jeffrey S. Chase

Journal article Future Generation Computer Systems · April 1, 2022 In this paper we describe an architecture developed and prototyped in the course of the NSF-funded project called ImPACT—Infrastructure for Privacy-Assured CompuTations. This architecture addresses the common problems that arise from the need to securely s ... Full text Cite

Characterizing output bottlenecks of a production supercomputer: Analysis and implications

Journal article ACM Transactions on Storage · January 16, 2020 This article studies the I/O write behaviors of the Titan supercomputer and its Lustre parallel file stores under production load. The results can inform the design, deployment, and configuration of file systems along with the design of I/O software in the ... Full text Cite

Lightweight Inter-transaction Caching with Precise Clocks and Dynamic Self-invalidation.

Journal article CoRR · 2020 Cite

The future of distributed network research infrastructure

Journal article Computer Communication Review · April 1, 2018 Shared research infrastructure that is globally distributed and widely accessible has been a hallmark of the networking community. We present a vision for a future mid-scale distributed research infrastructure aimed at enabling new types of discoveries. Th ... Full text Cite

Rethinking Security in the Era of Cloud Computing

Journal article IEEE Security and Privacy · May 1, 2017 Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform for the foreseeable future, disrupting the way we build and deploy software. This disruption offers a rare opportunity to integrate new computer security approaches. ... Full text Cite

Enabling lightweight transactions with precision time

Journal article ACM SIGPLAN Notices · April 4, 2017 Distributed transactional storage is an important service in today's data centers. Achieving high performance without high complexity is often a challenge for these systems due to sophisticated consistency protocols and multiple layers of abstraction. In t ... Full text Cite

Rethinking Security in the Era of Cloud Computing

Journal article IEEE Security and Privacy · January 1, 2017 Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform for the foreseeable future, resulting in an ongoing disruption to the way we build and deploy software. This disruption offers a rare opportunity to integrate new approaches to computer security. ... Full text Cite

GENI: A federated testbed for innovative network experiments

Journal article Computer Networks · March 14, 2014 GENI, the Global Environment for Networking Innovation, is a distributed virtual laboratory for transformative, at-scale experiments in network science, services, and security. Designed in response to concerns over Internet ossification, GENI is enabling a ... Full text Cite

GENI: A federated testbed for innovative network experiments

Journal article Computer Networks · 2014 Cite

Thoughts on the state of cloud over the next five years

Journal article IEEE Cloud Computing · January 1, 2014 In this issue of IEEE Cloud Computing, EIC Mazin Yousif talks with experts from US and European universities about the current state of cloud computing as well as where the technology is heading over next 5 to 10 years. They cover critical cloud topics, su ... Full text Cite

ExoGENI: A multi-domain infrastructure-as-a-service testbed

Journal article Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering · December 1, 2012 NSF's GENI program seeks to enable experiments that run within virtual network topologies built-to-order from testbed infrastructure offered by multiple providers (domains). GENI is often viewed as a network testbed integration effort, but behind it is an ... Full text Cite

Dynamic network provisioning for data intensive applications in the cloud

Journal article 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E Science E Science 2012 · December 1, 2012 Advanced networks are an essential element of data-driven science enabled by next generation cyberinfrastructure environments. Computational activities increasingly incorporate widely dispersed resources with linkages among software components spanning mul ... Full text Cite

Characterizing output bottlenecks in a supercomputer

Journal article International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking Storage and Analysis Sc · January 1, 2012 Supercomputer I/O loads are often dominated by writes. HPC (High Performance Computing) file systems are designed to absorb these bursty outputs at high bandwidth through massive parallelism. However, the delivered write bandwidth often falls well below th ... Full text Cite

Virtual smart grid architecture and control framework

Journal article 2011 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2011 · December 1, 2011 In this paper, we present a cloud based virtual Smart Grid (vSG) architecture and its concept design. This novel architecture extends the pervasive virtualization principle to the wide area smart grid sensory, communication, and control systems, and essent ... Full text Cite

Testbeds and research infrastructures: Development of Networks and Communities

Journal article Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Lnicst · December 1, 2011 Cite

Trusted platform-as-a-service: A foundation for trustworthy cloud-hosted applications

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · November 16, 2011 The applications we use are increasingly packaged as network services running in the cloud under the control of a service provider. Users of these services have no basis to determine if these services are trustworthy, beyond the assurances of the service p ... Full text Cite

Embedding virtual topologies in networked clouds

Journal article Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies Cfi11 · August 16, 2011 Embedding virtual topologies in physical network infrastructure has been an area of active research for the future Internet and network testbeds. Virtual network embedding is also useful for linking virtual compute clusters allocated from cloud providers. ... Full text Cite

Deadline-sensitive workflow orchestration without explicit resource control

Journal article Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · March 1, 2011 Deadline-sensitive workflows require careful coordination of user constraints with resource availability. Current distributed resource access models provide varying degrees of resource control: from limited or none in grid batch systems to explicit in clou ... Full text Cite

Testbeds and research infrastructures: Development of Networks and Communities

Journal article Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST · 2011 Cite

Provisioning and evaluating multi-domain networked clouds for Hadoop-based applications

Journal article Proceedings 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Cloudcom 2011 · January 1, 2011 This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a new system for on-demand provisioning of Hadoop clusters across multiple cloud domains. The Hadoop clusters are created "on-demand" and are composed of virtual machines from multiple cloud ... Full text Cite

Automated control for elastic storage

Journal article Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing Icac 10 and Co Located Workshops · July 23, 2010 Elasticity - where systems acquire and release resources in response to dynamic workloads, while paying only for what they need - is a driving property of cloud computing. At the core of any elastic system is an automated controller. This paper addresses e ... Full text Cite

Networked cloud orchestration: A GENI perspective

Journal article 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops GC 10 · January 1, 2010 This paper describes the experience of developing a system for creation of distributed linked configurations of heterogeneous resources (slices) in GENI. Our work leverages a number of unique architectural solutions (distributed architecture, declarative r ... Full text Cite

Automated control in cloud computing: Challenges and opportunities

Journal article Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds Acdc 09 · November 30, 2009 With advances in virtualization technology, virtual machine services offered by cloud utility providers are becoming increasingly powerful, anchoring the ecosystem of cloud services. Virtual computing services are attractive in part because they enable cus ... Cite

Rethinking FTP: Aggressive block reordering for large file transfers

Journal article ACM Transactions on Storage · January 1, 2009 Whole-file transfer is a basic primitive for Internet content dissemination. Content servers are increasingly limited by disk arm movement, given the rapid growth in disk density, disk transfer rates, server network bandwidth, and content size. Individual ... Full text Cite

Weighted fair sharing for dynamic virtual clusters

Journal article Sigmetrics 08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Sigmetrics International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems · December 12, 2008 In a shared server infrastructure, a scheduler controls how quantities of resources are shared over time in a fair manner across multiple, competing consumers. It should support wide (parallel) requests for variable-sized pool of resources, provide assuran ... Full text Cite

Secure control of portable images in a virtual computing utility

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · December 1, 2008 A virtual computing utility hosts guest virtual machines on server provider sites. Each VM is an instantiation of some image or virtual appliance, which might be supplied by the VM owner or a third-party image provider. This paper addresses the problem of ... Full text Cite

Automated and on-demand provisioning of virtual machines for database applications

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data · October 30, 2007 Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an 'on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resources. There is great interest in running database applications on utility resources ( ... Full text Cite

Strong accountability for network storage

Journal article ACM Transactions on Storage · October 1, 2007 This article presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of CATS, a network storage service with strong accountability properties. CATS offers a simple web services interface that allows clients to read and write opaque objects of variable size. Th ... Full text Cite

Learning application models for utility resource planning

Journal article Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Autonomic Computing Icac 2006 · December 1, 2006 Shared computing utilities allocate compute, network, and storage resources to competing applications on demand. An awareness of the demands and behaviors of the hosted applications can help the system to manage its resources more effectively. This paper p ... Cite

Weatherman: Automated, online, and predictive thermal mapping and management for data centers

Journal article Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Autonomic Computing Icac 2006 · December 1, 2006 Recent advances have demonstrated the potential benefits of coordinated management of thermal load in data centers, including reduced cooling costs and improved resistance to cooling system failures. A key unresolved obstacle to the practical implementatio ... Cite

Ensemble-level power management for dense blade servers

Journal article Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · December 1, 2006 One of the key challenges for high-density servers (e.g., blades) is the increased costs in addressing the power and heat density associated with compaction. Prior approaches have mainly focused on reducing the heat generated at the level of an individual ... Full text Cite

Toward a doctrine of containment: Grid hosting with adaptive resource control

Journal article Proceedings of the 2006 ACM IEEE Conference on Supercomputing Sc 06 · November 11, 2006 Grid computing environments need secure resource control and predictable service quality in order to be sustainable. We propose a grid hosting model in which independent, self-contained grid deployments run within isolated containers on shared resource pro ... Full text Cite

Virtual machine hosting for networked clusters: Building the foundations for "autonomic" orchestration

Journal article Vtdc 2006 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing Held in Conjunction with Sc06 · January 1, 2006 Virtualization technology offers powerful resource management mechanisms, including performance-isolating resource schedulers, live migration, and suspend/resume. But how should networked virtual computing systems use these mechanisms? A grand challenge is ... Full text Cite

Virtual playgrounds: Managing virtual resources in the Grid

Journal article 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2006 · January 1, 2006 Large Grid deployments increasingly require abstractions and methods decoupling the work of resource providers and resource consumers to implement scalable management methods. We proposed the abstraction of a Virtual Workspace (VW) describing a virtual exe ... Full text Cite

Self-recharging virtual currency

Journal article Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshops Conference on Computer Communications · December 30, 2005 Market-based control is attractive for networked computing utilities in which consumers compete for shared resources (computers, storage, network bandwidth). This paper proposes a new self-recharging virtual currency model as a common medium of exchange in ... Cite

Model-driven placement of compute tasks and data in a networked utility

Journal article Proceedings Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing Icac 2005 · December 1, 2005 An important problem in resource management for networked resource-sharing systems is the simultaneous allocation of multiple resources to an application. Self-optimizing systems must co-allocate resources in a way that reconciles competing demands and max ... Full text Cite

Lerna: An active storage framework for flexible data access and management

Journal article Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing · November 10, 2005 In the present paper, we examine the problem of supporting application-specific computation within a network file server. Our objectives are (i) to introduce an easy to use yet powerful architecture for executing both custom-developed and legacy applicatio ... Full text Cite

Controllable fair queuing for meeting performance goals

Journal article Performance Evaluation · October 1, 2005 Computing and storage utilities must control resource usage to meet contractual performance targets for hosted customers under dynamic conditions, including flash crowds and unexpected resource failures. This paper explores properties of proportional share ... Full text Cite

Self-recharging virtual currency

Journal article Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 3rd Workshop on the Economics of Peer to Peer Systems P2pecon 2005 · August 22, 2005 Market-based control is attractive for networked computing utilities in which consumers compete for shared resources (computers, storage, network bandwidth). This paper proposes a new self-recharging virtual currency model as a common medium of exchange in ... Full text Cite

Scale and performance in semantic storage management of data grids

Journal article International Journal on Digital Libraries · April 1, 2005 Data grids are middleware systems that offer secure shared storage of massive scientific datasets over wide area networks. The main challenge in their design is to provide reliable storage, search, and transfer of numerous or large files over geographicall ... Full text Cite

Balance of power: Dynamic thermal management for internet data centers

Journal article IEEE Internet Computing · January 1, 2005 Internet-based applications and their resulting multitier distributed architectures have changed the focus of design for large-scale Internet computing. Internet server applications execute in a horizontally scalable topology across hundreds or thousands o ... Full text Cite

Trust but verify: Accountability for network services

Journal article Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on ACM Sigops European Workshop Ew 11 · December 1, 2004 This paper promotes accountability as a central design goal for dependable networked systems. We define three properties for accountable systems that extend beyond the basic security properties of authentication, privacy, and integrity. These accountabilit ... Full text Cite

Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability

Journal article Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on ACM Sigops European Workshop Ew 11 · December 1, 2004 Designing and managing dependable systems is a difficult endeavor. In this paper, we describe challenges in this vast problem space, including provisioning and allocating shared resources, adaptively managing system dependability, expressing dependability ... Full text Cite

Globus and PlanetLab resource management solutions compared

Journal article IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Proceedings · October 18, 2004 PlanetLab and Globus Toolkit are gaining widespread adoption in their respective communities. Although designed to solve different problems-PlanetLab is deploying a worldwide infrastructure testbed for experimenting with network services, while Globus is o ... Cite

Balancing risk and reward in a market-based task service

Journal article IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Proceedings · October 18, 2004 This paper investigates the question of scheduling tasks according to a user-centric value metric - called yield or utility. User value is an attractive basis for allocating shared computing resources, and is fundamental to economic approaches to resource ... Full text Cite

Preface

Journal article IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Interposed proportional sharing for a storage service utility

Journal article Performance Evaluation Review · January 1, 2004 This paper develops and evaluates new share-based scheduling algorithms for differentiated service quality in network services, such as network storage servers. This form of resource control makes it possible to share a server among multiple request flows ... Full text Cite

Efficient flow computation on massive grid terrain datasets

Journal article Geoinformatica · December 1, 2003 As detailed terrain data becomes available. GIS terrain applications target larger geographic areas at finer resolutions. Processing the massive datasets involved in such applications presents significant challenges to GIS systems and demands algorithms th ... Full text Cite

SHARP: An architecture for secure resource peering

Journal article Operating Systems Review ACM · January 1, 2003 This paper presents SHARP, a framework for secure distributed resource management in an Internet-scale computing infrastructure. The cornerstone of SHARP is a construct to represent cryptographically protected resource claimspromises or rights to control r ... Full text Cite

On the Elusive Benefits of Protocol Offload

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshops · January 1, 2003 Periodic order-of-magnitude jumps in Ethernet bandwidth regularly reawaken interest in TCP/IP transport protocol offload. This time the jump to 10-Gigabit Ethernet coincides with the emergence of new network storage protocols (iSCSI and DAFS), and vendors ... Full text Cite

Back to the future: Dependable computing = dependable services

Journal article Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on ACM Sigops European Workshop Ew 10 · December 1, 2002 Clients are coming to rely more and more on external services to meet the needs of their users, and the clients are increasingly simple caches of soft state - "truth" is maintained elsewhere. As a result, the user experience of dependability is better serv ... Full text Cite

Anypoint: Extensible transport switching on the edge

Journal article Computer Communication Review · July 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Scalability and accuracy in a large-scale network emulator

Journal article Computer Communication Review · July 1, 2002 Full text Cite

The trickle-down effect: Web caching and server request distribution

Journal article Computer Communications · March 1, 2002 Web proxies and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are widely used to accelerate Web content delivery and to conserve Internet bandwidth. These caching agents are highly effective for static content, which is an important component of all Web-based services. ... Full text Cite

Interposed Request Routing for Scalable Network Storage

Journal article ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · February 1, 2002 This paper explores interposed request routing in Slice, a new storage system architecture for high-speed networks incorporating network-attached block storage. Slice interposes a request switching filter - called a μproxy - along each client's network pat ... Full text Cite

Efficient sorting using register and caches

Journal article ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics · January 1, 2002 Modern computer systems have increasingly complex memory systems. Common machine models for algorithm analysis do not reflect many of the features of these systems, e.g., large register sets, lockup-free caches, cache hierarchies, associativity, cache line ... Full text Cite

Managing energy and server resources in hosting centers

Journal article Operating Systems Review ACM · December 1, 2001 Internet hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management in a hosting center operating system, with an emphasis on energy as a driving re ... Full text Cite

Anypoint communication protocol

Journal article Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems HOTOS · December 1, 2001 A new transport protocol called the Anypoint Communication Protocol (ACP) is presented. ACP clients establish connections to abstract services, represented at the network edge by Anypoint intermediaries. Potential applications of the protocol include scala ... Cite

Energy management for server clusters

Journal article Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems HOTOS · December 1, 2001 Energy should be viewed as an important element of resource management for Web sites, hosting centers, and other Internet server clusters. Energy-conscious service positioning is proposed. In this scheme, the system continuously monitors load and adaptivel ... Cite

FASTSLIM: Prefetch-Safe Trace Reduction for I/O Cache Simulation

Journal article ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation · April 1, 2001 Trace-driven simulation is a valuable tool for evaluating I/O systems. This article presents a new algorithm, called FASTSLIM, that reduces the size of I/O traces and improves simulation performance without compromising simulation accuracy. FASTSLIM is mor ... Full text Cite

End system optimizations for high-speed TCP

Journal article IEEE Communications Magazine · April 1, 2001 Delivered TCP performance on high-speed networks is often limited by the sending and receiving hosts, rather than by the network hardware or the TCP protocol implementation itself. In this case, systems can achieve higher bandwidth by reducing host overhea ... Full text Cite

Web caching and content distribution: A view from the interior

Journal article Computer Communications · February 1, 2001 Research in Web caching has yielded analytical tools to model the behavior of large-scale Web caches. Recently, Wolman et al. (Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1999) have proposed an analytical model and used ... Full text Cite

Efficient sorting using registers and caches

Journal article Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics · January 1, 2001 Modern computer systems have increasingly complex memory systems. Common machine models for algorithm analysis do not reflect many of the features of these systems, e.g., large register sets, lockup-free caches, cache hierarchies, associativity, cache line ... Full text Cite

Flow computation on massive grids

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems · January 1, 2001 As detailed terrain data becomes available, GIS applications target larger geographic areas at finer resolutions. Processing the massive data presents significant challenges to GIS systems and demands algorithms that are optimized for both data movement an ... Full text Cite

Failure-atomic file access in an interposed network storage system

Journal article Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing · January 1, 2000 Presents a recovery protocol for block I/O operations in Slice, a storage system architecture for high-speed LANs incorporating network-attached block storage. The goal of the Slice architecture is to provide a network file service with scalable bandwidth ... Full text Cite

Potentials and limitations of fault-based Markov prefetching for virtual memory pages

Journal article Performance Evaluation Review · January 1, 1999 Fault-based Markov prefetching for virtual memory pages (VMP) is examined. Markov prediction based only on the sequence of program-issued faults are shown to achieve reasonably high levels of accuracy for some scientific applications. Using the fault seque ... Full text Cite

Case for buffer servers

Journal article Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems HOTOS · January 1, 1999 Faster networks and cheaper storage have brought us to a point where I/0 caching servers have an important role in the design of scalable, high-performance file systems. These intermediary I/O servers - or buffer servers - can be deployed at strategic poin ... Cite

Implementing cooperative prefetching and caching in a globally-managed memory system

Journal article Performance Evaluation Review · January 1, 1998 This paper presents cooperative prefetching and caching - the use of network-wide global resources (memories, CPUs, and disks) to support prefetching and caching in the presence of hints of future demands. Cooperative prefetching and caching effectively un ... Full text Cite

Reduce, reuse, recycle: An approach to building large Internet caches

Journal article Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems HOTOS · January 1, 1997 New demands brought by the continuing growth of the Internet will be met in part by more effective use of caching in the Web and other services. We have developed CRISP, a distributed Internet object cache targeted to the needs of the organizations that ag ... Cite

Sharing and Protection in a Single-Address-Space Operating System

Journal article ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Tocs · January 11, 1994 This article explores memory sharing and protection support in Opal, a single-address-space operating system designed for wide-address 1994 architectures. Opal threads execute within protection domains in a single shared virtual address space. Sharing is s ... Full text Cite

Lightweight Shared Objects in a 64-bit Operating System

Journal article ACM SIGPLAN Notices · October 31, 1992 Object-oriented models are a popular basis for supporting uniform sharing of data and services in operating systems, distributed programming systems, and database systems. We term systems that use objects for these purposes object sharing systems. Operatin ... Full text Cite

Architecture Support for Single Address Space Operating Systems

Journal article ACM SIGPLAN Notices · January 9, 1992 Full text Cite

Dynamic Node Reconfiguration in a Parallel-Distributed Environment

Journal article ACM SIGPLAN Notices · January 4, 1991 Full text Cite

Amber system. Parallel programming on a network of multiprocessors

Journal article Operating Systems Review ACM · December 1, 1989 This paper describes a programming system called Amber that permits a single application program to use a homogeneous network of computers in a uniform way, making the network appear to the application as an integrated multiprocessor. Amber is specifically ... Full text Cite