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Abhishek Chandra


Research

My main areas of interest are Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networks. Within these disciplines, I work mainly in the areas of resource management, scheduling, and performance analysis. I am interested in performance issues in a variety of distributed systems: volunteer Grids, data centers, clouds, and hosting platforms. The key focus of my work has been
(i) to provide system support for data- and compute-intensive applications, and
(ii) making these systems self-managing and reliable.

My research involves developing resource management techniques geared towards achieving the following goals in these platforms:

  • Reliability and fault tolerance in the face of frequent and diverse failures.
  • Adaptability to changing workloads and resource availability.
  • Scalability over large scales and heterogeneous components.
  • QoS guarantees and service differentiation for hosted applications and services.

Publications

A complete list of my publications is available here.

Projects

Some of the projects that I am currently working on:
  • RIDGE: Reliable Service Infrastructure in Donation-based Grid Environments
  • RADAR: Resource Aggregation for the Discovery and Allocation of Wide-Area Resources
  • Virtual Putty: Reshaping Virtual Machine Footprints
  • FAILSafe: Failure Analysis and Inference in Large-Scale Systems
Some earlier projects that I worked on:
  • SHoP: Self-managing Hosting Platforms
  • COSMOS: Cluster-of-Servers based Multimedia Operating System
  • QLinux: QoS-enhanced Linux Kernel for supporting multimedia applications

Software Releases

Source code for some of the open-source software releases that I have contributed to:
  • GMS: Generalized Multiprocessor Sharing
  • QLinux: QoS-enhanced Linux Kernel for supporting multimedia applications

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