Publications:

Refereed Publications:

Topology-Aware Resource Allocation for Data-Intensive Workloads
 Gunho Lee, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Randy H. Katz
To appear in the Proceedings of the 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (ApSys2010), New Delhi, India, August, 2010
[BibTeX]

Opportunities and Challenges to Unify Workload, Power, and Cooling Management in Data Centers
Zhikui Wang, Niraj Tolia, and Cullen Bash
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2010), Paris, France, April 2010
Also selected for inclusion in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR), July 2010
[BibTeX]

A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach to Energy Management in Data Centers
Luca Parolini, Niraj Tolia, Bruno Sinopoli, and Bruce H. Krogh
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2010), Stockholm, Sweden, April 2010
[BibTeX]

Unified Thermal and Power Management in Server Enclosures
Niraj Tolia, Zhikui Wang, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Cullen Bash, Manish Marwah, and Xiaoyun Zhu
Proceedings of the ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK '09), San Francisco, CA, July 2009
[BibTeX, Slides]

Optimal Fan Speed Control for Thermal Management of Servers
Zhikui Wang, Cullen Bash, Niraj Tolia, Manish Marwah, Xiaoyun Zhu, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Proceedings of the ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK '09), San Francisco, CA, July 2009
[BibTeX]

GViM: GPU-accelerated Virtual Machines
Vishakha Gupta, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Harshvardhan Kharche, Niraj Tolia, Vanish Talwar, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2009), Nuremberg, Germany, March 2009
[BibTeX]

Delivering Energy Proportionality with Non Energy-Proportional Systems -- Optimizing the Ensemble
Niraj Tolia, Zhikui Wang, Manish Marwah, Cullen Bash, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Xiaoyun Zhu
Proceedings of the Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '08), San Diego, CA, December 2008
[BibTeX, Slides]

Interactive Resource-Intensive Applications Made Easy
H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, Eyal de Lara, M. Satyanarayanan, and David O'Hallaron
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach, CA, November 2007
[BibTeX]

Improving Mobile Database Access Over Wide-Area Networks Without Degrading Consistency
Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, and Adam Wolbach
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007
[BibTeX, Slides]

VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration
H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, and Eyal de Lara
Proceedings of the 3rd International ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '07), San Diego, CA, June 2007
[BibTeX]

Consistency-preserving Caching of Dynamic Database Content
Niraj Tolia and M. Satyanarayanan
Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 2007
[BibTeX, Slides]

Design Tradeoffs in Applying Content Addressable Storage to Enterprise-scale Systems Based on Virtual Machines
Partho Nath, Michael Kozuch, David O'Hallaron, Jan Harkes, M. Satyanarayanan, Niraj Tolia, and Matt Toups
Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '06), Boston, Massachusetts, May-June 2006
[BibTeX]

An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer
Niraj Tolia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, and Swapnil Patil
Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '06), San Jose, California, May 2006
[BibTeX, Slides]

Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage
Niraj Tolia, Jan Harkes, Michael Kozuch, and M. Satyanarayanan
Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04), San Francisco, California, March 2004
Earlier version available as Technical Report IRP-TR-03-10, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, October, 2003
[BibTeX, Slides]

Opportunistic Use of Content Addressable Storage for Distributed File Systems
Niraj Tolia, Michael Kozuch, M. Satyanarayanan, Brad Karp, Thomas Bressoud, and Adrian Perrig
Proceedings of the 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '03), San Antonio, Texas, June 2003
[BibTeX, Slides]

Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates
Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, and M. Satyanarayanan
Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), San Francisco, California, March 2003
[BibTeX]

Dissertation:

Using Content Addressable Techniques to Optimize Client-Server Systems
Niraj Tolia
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2007

Other Refereed and Invited Publications:

Benchmarks for Mobile Database Access
Niraj Tolia and M. Satyanarayanan
Invited talk at the 1st International Workshop on System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms (MobiEval 2007), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007
[BibTeX, Slides]

Pervasive Personal Computing in an Internet Suspend/Resume System
M. Satyanarayanan, Benjamin Gilbert, Matt Toups, Niraj Tolia, Ajay Surie, David R. O'Hallaron, Adam Wolbach, Jan Harkes, Adrian Perrig, David J. Farber, Michael A. Kozuch, Casey J. Helfrich, Partho Nath, and H. Andres-Lagar Cavilla
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 2, March, 2007
[BibTeX]

Quantifying Interactive User Experience on Thin Clients
Niraj Tolia, David G. Andersen, and M. Satyanarayanan
IEEE Computer, Vol. 39, No. 3, March, 2006
[BibTeX]