Alma Riska

According to our database, Alma Riska authored at least 60 papers between 2000 and 2016.

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2016

PREFiguRE: An Analytic Framework for HDD Management.

Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

ACM Trans. Model. Perform. Evaluation Comput. Syst., 2016

Adding data analytics capabilities to scaled-out object store.

Cengiz Karakoyunlu, John A. Chandy, Alma Riska

J. Syst. Softw., 2016

Scheduling data analytics work with performance guarantees: queuing and machine learning models in synergy.

Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Clust. Comput., 2016

2015

Proactive Management of Systems via Hybrid Analytic Techniques.

Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing, 2015

2014

Agile middleware for scheduling: meeting competing performance requirements of diverse tasks.

Feng Yan, Shannon Hughes, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, 2014

Storage Workload Isolation via Tier Warming: How Models Can Help.

Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2014

2013

Overcoming Limitations of Off-the-Shelf Priority Schedulers in Dynamic Environments.

Feng Yan, Shannon Hughes, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 21st International Symposium on Modelling, 2013

2012

Busy bee: how to use traffic information for better scheduling of background tasks.

Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Third Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering, 2012

Automated Storage Tiering Using Markov Chain Correlation Based Clustering.

Malak Alshawabkeh, Alma Riska, Adnan Sahin, Motasem Awwad

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2012

Fast Eventual Consistency with Performance Guarantees for Distributed Storage.

Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS 2012 Workshops), 2012

Toward fast eventual consistency with performance guarantees.

Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2012

2011

Copy rate synchronization with performance guarantees for work consolidation in storage clusters.

Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2011

Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives (abstracts only).

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2011

Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives.

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the ICPE'11, 2011

Toward Automating Work Consolidation with Performance Guarantees in Storage Clusters.

Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the MASCOTS 2011, 2011

Saving power without compromising disk drive reliability.

Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 2011 International Green Computing Conference and Workshops, 2011

2010

Autonomic exploration of trade-offs between power and performance in disk drives.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2010

2009

Efficient management of idleness in storage systems.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel

ACM Trans. Storage, 2009

Evaluation of disk-level workloads at different time scales.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2009

Feasibility regions: exploiting tradeoffs between power and performance in disk drives.

Alma Riska, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Giuliano Casale

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2009

Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2009

Autocorrelation-driven load control in distributed systems.

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, 2009

2008

Performance-Guided Load (Un)balancing under Autocorrelated Flows.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 2008

Idle Read After Write - IRAW.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2008

Characterization of the E-commerce Storage Subsystem Workload.

Xi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluaiton of Systems (QEST 2008), 2008

Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs, 2008

Enhancing data availability in disk drives through background activities.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2008

2007

Performance impacts of autocorrelated flows in multi-tiered systems.

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel

Perform. Evaluation, 2007

ETAQA Solutions for Infinite Markov Processes with Repetitive Structure.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

INFORMS J. Comput., 2007

Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path.

Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2007

Efficient management of idleness in systems.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2007

New Results on the Performance Effects of Autocorrelated Flows in Systems.

Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Giuliano Casale

Proceedings of the 21th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), 2007

2006

Storage performance virtualization via throughput and latency control.

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

ACM Trans. Storage, 2006

Guest editor's foreword: bigger and faster and smaller.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2006

Disk Drive Level Workload Characterization.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, May 30, 2006

Long-Range Dependence at the Disk Drive Level.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2006), 2006

Load Balancing for Performance Differentiation in Dual-Priority Clustered Servers.

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2006), 2006

Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), 2006

Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006), 2006

2005

Workload-Aware Load Balancing for Clustered Web Servers.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 2005

Bridging ETAQA and Ramaswami's formula for the solution of M/G/1-type processes.

Andreas Stathopoulos, Alma Riska, Zhili Hua, Evgenia Smirni

Perform. Evaluation, 2005

An interposed 2-Level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization.

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2005

Workload Propagation - Overload in Bursty Servers.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluaiton of Systems (QEST 2005), 2005

2004

Exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type performability models.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo

IEEE Trans. Reliab., 2004

Susceptibility of Commodity Systems and Software to Memory Soft Errors.

Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, DeQing Chen, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic

IEEE Trans. Computers, 2004

An EM-based technique for approximating long-tailed data sets with PH distributions.

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni

Perform. Evaluation, 2004

ETAQA-MG1: an efficient technique for the analysis of a class of M/G/1-type processes by aggregation.

Gianfranco Ciardo, Weizhen Mao, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Perform. Evaluation, 2004

Bottlenecks and Their Performance Implications in E-commerce Systems.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Web Content Caching and Distribution: 9th International Workshop, 2004

Adaptive Disk Scheduling for Overload Management.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Sami Iren

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2004), 2004

2003

An aggregation-based method for the exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type processes.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2003

It's not fair - evaluating efficient disk scheduling.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Modeling, 2003

2002

Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into phase-type distributions.

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni

SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2002

Exact aggregate solutions for M/G/1-type Markov processes.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2002

M/G/1-Type Markov Processes: A Tutorial.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques and Tools, 2002

ADAPTLOAD: Effective Balancing in Custered Web Servers Under Transient Load Conditions.

Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02), 2002

Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into hyperexponential distributions.

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002

MAMSolver: A Matrix Analytic Methods Tool.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Proceedings of the Computer Performance Evaluation, 2002

2001

EQUILOAD: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers.

Gianfranco Ciardo, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni

Perform. Evaluation, 2001

JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors.

DeQing Chen, Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic

Proceedings of the 1st Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, 2001

2000

Analytic modeling of load balancing policies for tasks with heavy-tailed distributions.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software and Performance, 2000