Recent Papers

Active Disks:

• Evaluation of Active Disks for Decision Support Databases Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. HPCA'00. Best Student Paper award.
• Active Disks: Programming Model, Algorithms and Evaluation. Anurag Acharya, Mustafa Uysal, Joel Saltz. ASPLOS-VIII.

I/O-intensive applications:

• Dodo: A User-level System for Exploiting Idle Memory in Workstation Clusters. Samir Koussih, Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia. HPDC'99
• Availability and Utility of Idle Memory on Workstation Clusters. Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia. SIGMETRICS'99
• T2: A Customizable Parallel Database For Multi-dimensional Data. Chialin Chang, Anurag Acharya, Alan Sussman, Joel Saltz. SIGMOD Record, March 1998.
• The Utility of Exploiting Idle Memory for Data-Intensive Computations. Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia. A short version appeared in SIGMETRICS'98 poster session. Complete version is available as TRCS98-02, University of California, Santa Barbara. Jan 1998
• Requirements of I/O Systems for Parallel Machines: An Application-driven Study. Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. Technical Report, CS-TR-3802, University of Maryland, College Park, May 1997.
• Titan: A High-Performance Remote-sensing Database Chialin Chang, Bongki Moon, Anurag Acharya, Carter Shock, Alan Sussman, Joel Saltz. ICDE'97.
• The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Earth Science Database, Carter Shock, Chialin Chang, Bongki Moon, Anurag Acharya, Larry Davis, Joel Saltz, Alan Sussman. special issue of Parallel Computing on Parallel Data Servers and Appplications.
• Tuning the Performance of I/O-Intensive Parallel Applications Anurag Acharya, Mustafa Uysal, Robert Bennett, Assaf Mendelson, Michael Beynon, Jeff Hollingsworth, Joel Saltz, Alan Sussman, IOPADS'96
• Study of Scalable Declustering Algorithms for Parallel Grid Files Bongki Moon, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz IPPS'96

Network Services and Networking:

• Service Sockets: Design, Implementation and Interfaces, Michael Schmitt, Anurag Acharya, Max Ibel. UCSB Technical Report TRCS99-39, Dec 1999.
• Early Regulation of Unresponsive Best-effort Traffic, Anurag Acharya, Anand Rangarajan. Submitted for publication. This is an expanded version of the ICNP'99 paper listed below.
• Wrens: A Framework for Rapidly Evolvable Network Services Anurag Acharya, Max Ibel, Michael Schmitt, Mathias Koelsch, Davor Magdic, Ben Smith, Murat Tuncer. TRCS99-31, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 1999.
• ERUF: Early Regulation of Unresponsive Best-Effort Traffic. Anand Rangarajan, Anurag Acharya. ICNP'99
• Exploiting Result Equivalence in Caching Dynamic Web Content. Ben Smith, Anurag Acharya, Tao Yang, Huican Zhu. 1999 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
• A Study of Internet Round-Trip Delay Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. CS-TR-3736, University of Maryland, Jan 1996

Access-control:

• MAPbox: Using Parameterized Behavior Classes to Confine Applications. Anurag Acharya, Mandar Raje. TRCS99-25, University of California, Santa Barbara, May, 1999
• History-based Access Control for Mobile Code. Guy Edjlali, Anurag Acharya, Vipin Chaudhary. ACM CCCS-98.

Memory hierarchy:

• Adaptive Algorithms for Cache-efficient Trie Search. Anurag Acharya, Huican Zhu, Kai Shen. ALENEX'99.

Compilers and language implementations:

• Deferred Data-flow Analysis. Shamik Sharma, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. Technical Report, TRCS98-03, University of California, Santa Barbara. Jan 1998.
• Sumatra: A Language for Resource-aware Mobile Programs Anurag Acharya, M. Ranganathan, Joel Saltz. Mobile Object Systems, J. Vitek and C. Tschudin (eds), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Dynamic Linking for Mobile Programs Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. Mobile Object Systems, J. Vitek and C. Tschudin (eds), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• An Interprocedural Framework for Placement of Asynchronous I/O Operations, Gagan Agarwal, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. ICS'96
• Eliminating Redundant Barrier Synchronizations in Rule-based Programs Anurag Acharya. ICS'96

Mobile Programs:

• Mobile Streams. M. Ranganathan, Laurent Andrey, Anurag Acharya, Virginie Schaal. Technical Report TRCS98-11, University of California, Santa Barbara. April 1998.
• History-based Access Control for Mobile Code. Guy Edjlali, Anurag Acharya, Vipin Chaudhary. ACM CCCS-98.
• Adapting to Bandwidth Variations in Wide-Area Data Combination. M. Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. ICDCS'98.
• Sumatra: A Language for Resource-aware Mobile Programs Anurag Acharya, M. Ranganathan, Joel Saltz. Mobile Object Systems, J. Vitek and C. Tschudin (eds), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Dynamic Linking for Mobile Programs Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. Mobile Object Systems, J. Vitek and C. Tschudin (eds), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Network-aware Mobile Programs, M. Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Shamik Sharma, Joel Saltz. USENIX'97.
• Distributed Resource Monitors for Mobile Objects M. Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz. IWOOOS'96.

Parallel systems:

• Shared Memory vs Message Passing on SCI: A Case Study Using Split-C Max Ibel, Michael Schmitt, Klaus Schauser, Anurag Acharya. LNCS book on SCI-based clusters
• Adaptive Receiver Notification for Non-Dedicated Workstation Cluster Michael Schmitt, Max Ibel, Anurag Acharya, Klaus Schauser. PACT'98
• The Utility of Exploiting Idle Workstations for Parallel Computation Anurag Acharya, Guy Edjlali, Joel Saltz. SIGMETRICS'97.
• A Customizable Simulator for Workstation Networks Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Robert Bennett, Joel Saltz. IPPS'97.
• Eliminating Redundant Barrier Synchronizations in Rule-based Programs Anurag Acharya. ICS'96
• Runtime Coupling of Data-Parallel Programs , M. Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Guy Edjlali, Alan Sussman, Joel Saltz. ICS'96
• Scalability in Production System Programs Anurag Acharya Phd Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, November 1994. Also available as CMU-CS-94-211.