UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

George Kola

PhD
Picture of George Kola
Research Interests:
Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Networking, Performance Analysis and Performance Modeling

Publications

  • George Kola and Mary K. Vernon, "Target Bandwidth Sharing Using Endhost Measures", to appear in Proceeding of Performance 2007, October 2007.
  • George Kola and Mary K. Vernon, " QuickProbe: Available Bandwidth Estimation in Two Roundtrips", In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2006/Performance 2006 Joint Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, St. Malo, June 2006, pp. 359-360.
  • Tevfik Kosar, Se-chang Son, George Kola, and Miron Livny, "Data Placement in Widely Distributed Environments", A book chapter in Grid Computing: The New Frontier of High Performance Computing, Editor: L.Grandinetti, Elsevier Press, November 2005
  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Faults in Large Distributed Systems and What We Can Do About Them", In Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2005), Lisbon, Portugal (August 2005) [PostScript] [PDF]
  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Jaime Frey, Miron Livny, Robert J. Brunner and Michael Remijan, "DISC: A System for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Computing", In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS'04), San Francisco, CA (December 2004), in conjunction with OSDI'04
  • George Kola and Miron Livny, "DiskRouter: A Flexible Infrastructure for High Performance Large Scale Data Transfers" Technical Report CS-TR-2004-1518, University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences, [PDF]
  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Phoenix: Making Data-intensive Grid Applications Fault-tolerant", In Grid 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004 [PostScript] [PDF]
  • Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, Robert J. Brunner, Miron Livny, and Michael Remijan, "Reliable, Automatic Transfer and Processing of Large Scale Astronomy Datasets", In Proceedings of the 14th Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems Conference (ADASS 2004), Pasadena, CA (October 2004)
  • Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, "Data Pipelines: Enabling Large Scale Multi-Protocol Data Transfers", In the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing, Toronto, Ontario - Canada, October 2004 [PDF]
  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Client-centric Grid Knowledgebase", In Cluster 2004, San Diego, CA, September 2004 [PostScript] [PDF]

  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Profiling Grid Data Transfer Protocols and Servers", In Euro-Par 2004 , Pisa, Italy, August 2004 [PostScript] [PDF]

  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "A Fully Automated Fault-tolerant System for Distributed Video Processing and Off-site Replication", In the 14th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2004), June 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]

  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data-placement Jobs", To appear in Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]

  • Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, "A Framework for Self-optimizing, Fault-tolerant, High Performance Bulk Data Transfers in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment", Proceedings of 2nd Int. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC2003), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]

  • George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, "Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data-placement Jobs", Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware (AGridM2003), New Orleans, LA, September 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]

  • Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, "Building Data Pipelines for High Performance Bulk Data Transfers in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment", Technical Report CS-TR-2003-1487, University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences, August 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]

Talks

  • "Profiling Grid Data Transfer Protocols and Servers", EuroPar 2004, Pisa, Italy, Sep 2004. [PowerPoint] [PDF]

  • "A Fully Automated Fault-tolerant System for Distributed Video Processing and Off-site Replication", NOSSDAV 2004, Kinsale, Ireland, June 2004. [PowerPoint] [PDF]

  • "Data Pipelines: Real Life Fully Automated Fault-tolerant Data Movement and Processing", Condor Week 2004, Madison, WI, April 2004. [PowerPoint] [PDF]

  • "Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data-placement Jobs", Int. Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware (AGridM2003), New Orleans, LA, September 2003. [PowerPoint] [PDF]

  • "DiskRouter: A Mechanism for High Performance Large Scale Data Transfers", Condor Week, Madison, WI, May 2003 [PowerPoint] [PDF]

 
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