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2018

• Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Prasanna Balaprakash, Nageswara S. V. Rao and Ian Foster. Building a Wide-Area File Transfer Performance Predictor: An Empirical Study [Preprint. The International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN’18).

• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Qiang Liu, Satyabrata Sen, Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, and Ian Foster. Measurements and Analytics of Wide-Area File Transfers over Dedicated Connections. The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking(ICDCN’19).

• Nageswara Rao, Satyabrata Sen, Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu and Ian Foster. Learning Concave-Convex Profiles of Data Transport Over Dedicated Connections. The 1st International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN’18).

• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Qiang Liu, Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, and Ian Foster. Throughput Analytics of Data Transfer Infrastructures. The 13th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM’18)

• Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian Foster and Yuanlai Liu. A comprehensive study of wide area data movement at a scientific computing facility. Scalable Network Traffic Analytics workshop in conjunction with the 2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’18).

• Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian Foster and Nageswara S.V. Rao. Cross-geography Scientific Data Transferring Trends and Behavior. The 27th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2018).

2017

• Tekin Bicer, Doga Gursoy, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian T. Foster, Bin Ren, Vincent De Andrede and Francesco De Carlo. Real-Time Data Analysis and Autonomous Steering of Synchrotron Light Source Experiments The 13th IEEE International Conference on eScience.

• Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Sven Leyffer, Prashant Palkar and Ian Foster. A mathematical programming and simulation based framework to evaluate cyberinfrastructure design choices. The 13th IEEE International Conference on eScience.

• Ryan Chard and Kyle Chard and Jason Alt and Dilworth Y. Parkinson and Steve Tuecke and Ian Foster. RIPPLE: Home Automation for Research Data Management. the 1st International Workshop on Serverless Computing.

• N. S. V. Rao, Q. Liu, S. Sen, J. Hanley, I. Foster, R. Kettimuthu, C. Q. Wu, D. Yun, D. Towsley, G. Vardoyan, Experiments and analyses of data transfers over wide-area dedicated connections. ICCCN 2017.

• Zhengchun Liu, Prasanna Balaprakash, Rajkumar Kettimuthu and Ian Foster. Explaining Wide Area Data Transfer Performance. The 26th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2017).

• Nageswara S.V. Rao, Qiang Liu, Satyabrata Sen, Don Towsley, Gayane Varodoyan, Raj Ke imuthu and Ian Foster. TCP Throughput Profiles Using Measurements Over Dedicated Connections. The 26th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2017).

• Lei Cao and Bradley Settlemyer and John Bent. To Share or Not to Share: Comparing burst buffer architectures. Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (SpringSim 2017)

• T. Bicer, D. Gursoy , V. De Andrade, R. Kettimuthu, W. Scullin, F. De Carlo, I. T. Foster, Trace: A High-Throughput Tomographic Reconstruction Engine for Large-Scale Datasets, Special Issue on High-Throughput X-Ray Imaging and Algorithms, Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging, 2017

2016

• Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Christopher Knight, Todd S. Munson, Michael E. Papka. Optimal execution of co-analysis for large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. SC’16: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis: 702-715.

• T. Bicer, D. Gursoy , R. Kettimuthu, F. De Carlo, I. T. Foster, Optimization of tomographic reconstruction workflows on geographically distributed resources, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2016

• N. Rao, Q. Liu, S. Sen, G. Hinkel, N. Imam, I. Foster, R. Kettimuthu, B. Settlemyer, C. Wu and D. Yun, Experimental Analysis of File Transfer Rates Over Wide-Area Dedicated Connections, The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), Dec. 2016 (Best paper).

• Q. Liu, N. Rao, R. Kettimuthu, C. Wu, D. Yun and I. Foster, Measurement-Based Analysis of Performance Profiles and Dynamics of UDP Transport Protocols, 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2016), Nov. 2016.

• P. Balaprakash, V. Morozov, R. Kettimuthu, K. Kumaran, and I. Foster, Improving Data Transfer Throughput with Direct Search Optimization, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Philadelphia, Aug 16-19, 2016.

• R. Kettimuthu, G. Agrawal, P. Sadayappan, and I. Foster, Differentiated Scheduling of Response-Critical and Best-Effort Wide-Area Data Transfers, 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2016), May 2016.

• G. Vardoyan, N. S. V. Rao, D. Towlsey, Models of TCP in high-BDP environments and their experimental validation, International Conference on Network Protocols, November 8-11, 2016, Singapore.

• N. S. V. Rao, Q. Liu, D. Towlsey, G. Vardoyan, R. Kettimuthu, I. Foster, B. Settlemyer, High-Performance data flows using analytical models and measurements, Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications, August 10-12, 2016, Seattle, Washington (Extended Abstract)

• N. S. V. Rao, G. Hinkel, N. Imam, B. Settlemyer, Measurements of file transfer rates over dedicated long-haul connections, 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem: Enhancing Lustre Support for Diverse Workloads, March 8-9, 2016, Baltimore, MD

2015

• K. Maheshwari, Eun-Sung Jung , J. Meng, V. Morozov, V. Vishwanath, R. Kettimuthu, Workflow Performance Improvement using Model-based Scheduling over Multiple Clusters and Clouds, Future Generation Computer Systems.

• T. Bicer, D. Gursoy, R. Kettimuthu, F. De Carlo, G. Agrawal, and I. Foster, Rapid Tomographic Image Reconstruction via Large-Scale Parallelization, 21st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2015), Vienna, Austria, Aug. 2015.

• J. Meng, T. Uram, V. Morozov, V. Vishwanath, and K. Kumaran, Modeling CooperativeThreads to Project GPU Performance for Adaptive Parallelism, Proc. IPDPSW 16th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing – PDSEC15, Hyderabad, India, May 25-29, 2015.

• Zhou Zhou, Xu Yang, Zhiling Lan, P. Rich, Wei Tang, V. Morozov, and N. Desai, Improving Batch Scheduling on Blue Gene/Q by Relaxing 5D Torus Network Allocation Constraints, Proc. 29th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS15, Hyderabad, India, May 25-29, 2015.

• F. Isaila, P. Balaprakash, S. M. Wild, D. Kimpe, R. Latham, R. Ross, and P. D. Hovland. Collective I/O tuning using analytical and machine learning models. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER). IEEE, 2015.

• P. Balaprakash, Y. Alexeev, S. Mickelson, S. Leyffer, R. Jacob, and A. Craig. Machine-learning-based load balancing for community ice code component in CESM. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 8969, pages 79–91, 2015.

• N. Rao, D. Towsley, G. Vardoyan, B. Settlemyer, I. Foster, R. Kettimuthu, Sustained Wide-Area TCP Memory Transfers Over Dedicated Connections, IEEE HPCS 2015.

• Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Todd Munson, Christopher Knight, Mark Hereld, Sven Leyffer, Michael Papka, Optimal Scheduling of In-situ Analysis for Large-Scale Scientific Simulations, ACM/IEEE SC’15, 2015

• Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Gayane Vardoyan, Gagan Agrawal, P. Sadayappan, Ian Foster, An Elegant Sufficiency: Load-Aware Differentiated Scheduling of Data Transfers, ACM/IEEE SC’15, 2015.

• Yi Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Tekin Bicer, Wei Jiang, Smart: A MapReduce-Like Framework for In-Situ Scientific Analytics, ACM/IEEE SC’15, 2015.

• Eunjung Park, Stephan Eidenbenz, Nandakishore Santhi, Guillaume Chapui, Bradley Settlemyer, Parameterized Benchmarking of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Systems: Communication, Computation, and Memory, WSC 15: Winter Simulation Conference 2015.