George Porter

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2016

• Is memory disaggregation feasible? A case study with Spark SQL- Pramod Subba Rao and George Porter, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016.

2015

• Scheduling Techniques for Hybrid Circuit/Packet Networks- He Liu, Matthew K. Mukerjee, Conglong Li, Nicolas Feltman, George Papen, Stefan Savage, Srinivasan Seshan, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, George Porter, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Heidelberg, Germany, December 2015.
• Sorting 100TB on Google Compute Engine- Michael Conley, Amin Vahdat, and George Porter, UC San Diego technical report CS2015-2013, September 2015.
• Integrated Space-division Multiplexer for Data Center Networks- Andrew Grieco, George Porter, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics PP(99):1-1, October 2015.
• Integrated space-division multiplexer for application to data center networks,"IEEE J. Special Topics in Quantum Electronics- A. Grieco, G. Porter, and Y. Fainman, accepted Oct 2015
• Achieving Cost-efficient, Data-intensive Computing in the Cloud,- Michael Conley, Amin Vahdat, and George Porter,Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Kohala Coast, Hawaii, August 2015.
• Nanophotonics: Technology and Application,- Andrew Grieco, George Porter, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Proceedings of the IEEE Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, August 2015.
• Scheduling for Data Center Networks with Reconfiguration Delay,- Chang-Heng Wang, Tara Javidi, and George Porter,Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom Conference, Hong Kong, China, April 2015, pages 1-9.
• Inside the Social Network's (Datacenter) Network- Arjun Roy, Hongyi Zeng, Jasmeet Bagga, George Porter, and Alex C. Snoeren,Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, London, England, August 2015.

2014

• SENIC: A Scalable NIC for End-Host Rate Limiting,- Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Yilong Geng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Abdul Kabbani, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Seattle, WA, April 2014.
• Circuit Switching Under the Radar with REACToR,- He Liu, Feng Lu, Alex Forencich, Rishi Kapoor, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, George Papen, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Seattle, WA, April 2014, pages 1-15.

2013

• A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking Photonics Technology.- Farrington, N.; Forencich, A.; Porter, G.; Sun, P.-C.; Ford, J.E.; Fainman, Y.; Papen, G.C.; Vahdat, A. Letters, IEEE; Issue Date: Aug.15, 2013.
• A 10 us Hybrid Optical-Circuit/Electrical-Packet Network for Datacenters.- Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, Amin Vahdat, George Porter, and George C. Papen. Optical Fiber Communication Conference Anaheim, California United States, March 17-21, 2013.
• Directing Data Center Traffic.- Yeshaiahu Fainman and George Porter. Science 342(6155):202-203, 2013.
• FasTrak: Enabling Express Lanes in Multi-Tenant Data Centers.- Radhika Niranjan Mysore, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2013.
• Dahu: Commodity Switches for Direct Connect Data Center Networks.- Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Malveeka Tewari, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), San Jose, California, October 2013.
• Optical/Electrical Hybrid Switching for Datacenter Communications.- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Amin Vahdat, and George Papen. Proceedings of the 18th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2013) / Photonics in Switching 2013 (PS2013), Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.
• NicPic: Scalable and Accurate End-Host Rate Limiting.- Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Abdul Kabbani, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud-V), San Jose, CA, June 2013.
• See Straight Through Data Center Bandwidth Limitations with X-Rays.- George Porter. Proceedings of TinyTOCS, April 2013. Body: Reconfigurable wireless X-Ray links in data centers could deliver 40 Pb/sec, but would have to be turned off while operators are present.
• TritonSort: A balanced and energy-efficient large-scale sorting system.- Alexander Rasmussen, George Porter, Michael Conley, Harsha Madhyastha, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Alexander Pucher, and Amin Vahdat. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 31(1), February 2013.
• Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center. - G. Porter, R. Strong, N. Farrington, A. Forencich, P. Sun, T. Rosing, Y. Fainman, G. Papen, A. Vahdat. SIGCOMM, 2013.
• Bullet Trains: A Study of NIC Burst Behavior at Microsecond Timescales.- Rishi Kapoor, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and George Porter. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT). December 2013.

2012

• scc: Informed Provisioning of Storage for Cluster Applications.- Harsha V. Madhyastha, John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, USENIX ;login: 37(3), June 2012.
• scc: Cluster Storage Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics and SLAs.- Harsha V. Madhyastha, John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2012.
• Chronos: Predictable Low Latency for Data Center Applications.- Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), San Jose, CA, October 2012.
• Themis: An I/O-Efficient MapReduce.- Alexander Rasmussen, Michael Conley, Rishi Kapoor, Vinh The Lam, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), San Jose, CA, October 2012.
• xOMB: Extensible Open Middleboxes with Commodity Servers.- James William Anderson, Ryan Braud, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Austin, Texas, October 2012.
• NetBump: User-extensible Active Queue Management with Bumps on the Wire.- Mohammad Al-Fares, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, Sambit Das, Hakim Weatherspoon, Balaji Prabhakar, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Austin, Texas, October 2012.
• Practical TDMA for Datacenter Ethernet.- Bhanu C. Vattikonda, George Porter, Amin Vahdat, and Alex C. Snoeren. Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.
• A demonstration of ultra-low-latency data center optical circuit switching- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat . ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special October issue SIGCOMM '12, Volume 42 Issue 4, Pages 95-96 (August 2012, Helsinki, Finland).
• Hunting mice with microsecond circuit switches- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, pp. 115-120. ACM, 2012.

2011

• Switching the Optical Divide: Fundamental Challenges for Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Networks.- Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz, Malveeka Tewari, Guohui Wang, George Porter, T. S. Eugene Ng, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael A. Kozuch, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
• TritonSort: A Balanced Large-Scale Sorting System. - Alexander Rasmussen, George Porter, Michael Conley, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Alexander Pucher, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, March 2011.

2010

• Experiences with Tracing Causality in Networked Services. - Rodrigo Fonseca, Michael J. Freedman, George Porter. Internet Network Management Workshop / Workshop on Research on Enterprise Networking (INM/WREN’10), San Jose, CA., April 2010.
• Helios: a hybrid electrical/optical switch architecture for modular data centers- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzazz, Vikram Subramanya, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010, conference on SIGCOMM.

2009

• Towards Decoupling Storage and Computation in Hadoop with SuperDataNodes.- George Porter. Third ACM SIGOPS International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2009), Big Sky, MT., October 2009.
• TuneStore: A Tunable Storage System. - Harsha Madhyastha, George Porter, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, and Amin Vahdat. Sixth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2009) Poster Session, Boston, MA., April 2009.

2007

• X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Facility.- Rodrigo Fonseca, George Porter, Randy H. Katz, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. Fourth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2007), Cambridge, MA., April 2007.

2006

• Self Managed Systems and Services: Effective Web Service Load Balancing Through Statistical Monitoring.- George Porter and Randy H. Katz. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 3, March 2006.

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