Abhishek Verma

Journal Publications

  1. Zhuoyao Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma and Boon Loo,
    Performance Modeling and Optimization of Deadline-Driven Pig Programs.
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 2013.
    [ACM][paper]
  2. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    Orchestrating an Ensemble of MapReduce Jobs for Minimizing Their Makespan.
    Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2013
    [IEEE][paper]
  3. Abhishek Verma, Brian Cho, Nicolas Zea, Indranil Gupta and Roy H. Campbell,
    Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier.
    Springer Journal of Cluster Computing, Special issue, 2011.
    [Springer] [ paper]

Book Chapters

  1. Abhishek Verma, Shivaram Venkataraman, Matthew Caesar, and Roy H. Campell,
    Scalable Storage for Data-intensive Computing.
    Handbook of Data-intensive Computing, Springer Science, 2011.
    [Springer] [ paper]
  2. Xavier Llorà, Abhishek Verma, Roy H. Campbell, and David E. Goldberg,
    When Huge is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing.
    Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence, Natural Series of Computational Intelligence (SCI) 269, pp. 11-41, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2010.
    [Springer] [ paper] [ BibTeX]

Conference Publications

  1. Abhishek Verma, Luis Pedrosa, Madhukar R. Korupolu, David Oppenheimer, Eric Tune and John Wilkes,
    Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg.
    ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) 2015.
    [Google][Usenix][paper][slides]
  2. Abhishek Verma, Madhukar Korupolu and John Wilkes,
    Evaluating job packing in warehouse-scale computing.
    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER) 2014.
    [IEEE][paper][slides]
  3. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    Profiling and evaluating hardware choices for MapReduce environments: An application-aware approach.
    IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE), Turin, Italy, 2014.
    [IFIP][paper][slides]
  4. Zhuoyao Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma and Boon Loo,
    Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs for Meeting Service Level Objectives .
    Best Student Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), San Jose, CA, September 2012.
    [ACM] [ paper] [ slides]
  5. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    Two Sides of a Coin: Optimizing the Schedule of MapReduce Jobs to Minimize Makespan and Improve Cluster Performance .
    IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Arlington, VA, August 2012.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides]
  6. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell,
    Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Performance Puzzle.
    IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Maui, Hawaii, April 2012.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides]
  7. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals".
    ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Dec 2011.
    [LNCS] [ paper] [ slides]
  8. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    Play it again, SimMR!
    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Austin, Texas, Sept 2011.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides]
  9. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments.
    International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2011.
    [ACM] [ paper] [ slides] [ BibTeX]
  10. Abhishek Verma, Nicolas Zea, Brian Cho, Indranil Gupta and Roy H. Campbell,
    Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier.
    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Heraklion, Greece, Sept, 2010.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides] [ BibTeX]
  11. Abhishek Verma, Xavier Llorà Shivaram Venkataram, David E. Goldberg and Roy H. Campbell,.
    Scaling eCGA Model Building via Data-Intensive Computing.
    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides] [ BibTeX]
  12. Abhishek Verma, Xavier Llorà David E. Goldberg and Roy H. Campbell,
    Scaling Genetic Algorithms using MapReduce.
    Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), pp.13-18, Pisa, Italy, Nov, 2009.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides] [ BibTeX]
  13. Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan and Roy H. Campbell.
    MITHRA: Multiple data Independent Tasks on a Heterogeneous Resource Architecture.
    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and Workshops (CLUSTER), pp.1-10, New Orleans, LA, Sept, 2009.
    [IEEE] [ paper] [ slides] [ BibTeX]

Workshop/Work-in-progress Publications

  1. Zhuoyao Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma and Boon Loo,
    Optimizing Completion Time and Resource Provisioning of Pig Programs.
    Cloud Computing Optimization (CCOPT) in conjunction with CCGrid, Ottawa, Canada, May 2012.
    [IEEE] [paper] [slides]
  2. Zhuoyao Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma and Boon Loo,
    Meeting Service Level Objectives of Pig Programs.
    International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP) in conjunction with Eurosys, Bern, Switzerland, May 2012.
    [ACM] [paper] [slides]
  3. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell,
    Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle.
    Work-in-progress Report, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
    [ACM] [ paper] [ slides]
  4. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    SLO-Driven Right-Sizing and Resource Provisioning of MapReduce Jobs.
    Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS) in conjunction with VLDB, Seattle, Washington, Sept 2011.
    [ACM] [ paper] [ slides]

Patents

  1. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma,
    Estimating performance parameter of a job having map and reduce tasks after a failure, Filed June 2011.
  2. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma,
    Varying a characteristic of job profile relating to map and reduce tasks according to data size, Filed May 2011.
  3. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova,
    Scheduling map and reduce tasks for jobs for execution according to performance goals, Filed April 2011.
  4. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma,
    Determining an allocation of resources for a job, Filed Feb 2011.
  5. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova,
    Estimating a performance characteristic of a job using a performance model, Filed Feb 2011.

Posters

  1. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell,
    Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle.
    ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. [ poster]
  2. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell,
    ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments.
    Annual Hadoop Summit, Santa Clara, CA, June 2011. [ poster]

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