Alma Riska

Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Fast Eventual Consistency with Performance Guarantees for Distributed Storage. ICDCS Workshops 2012: 23-28

Malak Alshawabkeh, Alma Riska, Adnan Sahin, Motasem Awwad: Automated Storage Tiering Using Markov Chain Correlation Based Clustering. ICMLA (1) 2012: 392-397

Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Busy bee: how to use traffic information for better scheduling of background tasks. ICPE 2012: 145-156

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives (abstracts only). SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 39(3): 13 (2011)

Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Copy rate synchronization with performance guarantees for work consolidation in storage clusters. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 39(3): 82-86 (2011)

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Saving power without compromising disk drive reliability. IGCC 2011: 1-6

Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Toward Automating Work Consolidation with Performance Guarantees in Storage Clusters. MASCOTS 2011: 326-335

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives. ICPE 2011: 109-120

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Autonomic exploration of trade-offs between power and performance in disk drives. ICAC 2010: 131-140

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Evaluation of disk-level workloads at different time scales. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 37(2): 67-68 (2009)

Alma Riska, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Giuliano Casale: Feasibility regions: exploiting tradeoffs between power and performance in disk drives. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 37(3): 43-48 (2009)

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel: Efficient management of idleness in storage systems. TOS 5(2) (2009)

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Evaluation of disk-level workloads at different time-scales. IISWC 2009: 158-167

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Autocorrelation-driven load control in distributed systems. MASCOTS 2009: 1-10

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel: Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks. SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009: 205-216

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Performance-Guided Load (Un)balancing under Autocorrelated Flows. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 19(5): 652-665 (2008)

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel: Enhancing data availability in disk drives through background activities. DSN 2008: 492-501

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test. WASL 2008

Xi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Characterization of the E-commerce Storage Subsystem Workload. QEST 2008: 297-306

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Idle Read After Write - IRAW. USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008: 43-56

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: ETAQA Solutions for Infinite Markov Processes with Repetitive Structure. INFORMS Journal on Computing 19(2): 215-228 (2007)

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel: Performance impacts of autocorrelated flows in multi-tiered systems. Perform. Eval. 64(9-12): 1082-1101 (2007)

Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Giuliano Casale: New Results on the Performance Effects of Autocorrelated Flows in Systems. IPDPS 2007: 1-6

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel: Efficient management of idleness in systems. SIGMETRICS 2007: 371-372

Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel: Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path. USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2007: 247-260

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Guest editor's foreword: bigger and faster and smaller. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 33(4): 2-3 (2006)

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Storage performance virtualization via throughput and latency control. TOS 2(3): 283-308 (2006)

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs. DSN 2006: 495-504

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic. ICDCS 2006: 20

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Long-Range Dependence at the Disk Drive Level. QEST 2006: 41-50

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Load Balancing for Performance Differentiation in Dual-Priority Clustered Servers. QEST 2006: 385-394

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Disk Drive Level Workload Characterization. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2006: 97-102

Andreas Stathopoulos, Alma Riska, Zhili Hua, Evgenia Smirni: Bridging ETAQA and Ramaswami's formula for the solution of M/G/1-type processes. Perform. Eval. 62(1-4): 331-348 (2005)

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo: Workload-Aware Load Balancing for Clustered Web Servers. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 16(3): 219-233 (2005)

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Storage Performance Virtualization via Throughput and Latency Control. MASCOTS 2005: 135-142

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: Workload Propagation - Overload in Bursty Servers. QEST 2005: 179-188

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel: An interposed 2-Level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization. SIGMETRICS 2005: 406-407

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni: An EM-based technique for approximating long-tailed data sets with PH distributions. Perform. Eval. 55(1-2): 147-164 (2004)

Gianfranco Ciardo, Weizhen Mao, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: ETAQA-MG1: an efficient technique for the analysis of a class of M/G/1-type processes by aggregation. Perform. Eval. 57(3): 235-260 (2004)

Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, DeQing Chen, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic: Susceptibility of Commodity Systems and Software to Memory Soft Errors. IEEE Trans. Computers 53(12): 1557-1568 (2004)

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo: Exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type performability models. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 53(2): 238-249 (2004)

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Sami Iren: Adaptive Disk Scheduling for Overload Management. QEST 2004: 176-185

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Evgenia Smirni: Bottlenecks and Their Performance Implications in E-commerce Systems. WCW 2004: 273-282

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo: An aggregation-based method for the exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type processes. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 31(2): 28-30 (2003)

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel: It's not fair - evaluating efficient disk scheduling. MASCOTS 2003: 288-295

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni: Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into phase-type distributions. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 30(3): 6-8 (2002)

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: MAMSolver: A Matrix Analytic Methods Tool. Computer Performance Evaluation / TOOLS 2002: 205-211

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni: Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into hyperexponential distributions. GLOBECOM 2002: 2513-2517

Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo: ADAPTLOAD: Effective Balancing in Custered Web Servers Under Transient Load Conditions. ICDCS 2002: 104-111

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: M/G/1-Type Markov Processes: A Tutorial. Performance 2002: 36-63

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: Exact aggregate solutions for M/G/1-type Markov processes. SIGMETRICS 2002: 86-96

Gianfranco Ciardo, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni: EQUILOAD: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers. Perform. Eval. 46(2-3): 101-124 (2001)

DeQing Chen, Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic: JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors. Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium 2001: 67-78

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo: Analytic modeling of load balancing policies for tasks with heavy-tailed distributions. Workshop on Software and Performance 2000: 147-157