Writings

Refereed (Peer Reviewed) Publications

List of publications as seen by DBLP, and CiteseerX (quite accurate)

• Ardalan Kangarlou, Ulas C. Kozat, Pradeep Padala, Bob Lantz, Ken Igarashi, Dongyan Xu. In-Network Live Snapshot Service for Recovering Virtual Infrastructures. IEEE Network Magazine. Special Issue on Cloud Computing. Jul 2011. [HTML Abstract and Link to PDF]
• Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal and Kang G. Shin. Maestro: Quality-of-Service in Large Disk Arrays. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '11), Jun 2011. [PDF]. Best paper award!
• Tathagata Das, Pradeep Padala, Venkat Padmanabhan, Ram Ramjee, and Kang G. Shin. LiteGreen: Saving Energy in Networked Desktops Using Virtualization. In the proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '10), Jun 2010. [PDF] [Slides]. Best paper award!
• Pradeep Padala, Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal and Kang G. Shin. Performance Differentiation for Multi-port Arrays: A Control-Theoretic Approach. In the proceedings of the fourth International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FEBID'09), Apr 2009. [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal et al. Automated Control of Multiple Virtualized Resources. In the proceedings of the EuroSys 2009 [PDF]
• Jin Heo, Xiaoyun Zhu, Pradeep Padala, Zhikui Wang. Memory Overbooking and Dynamic Control of Xen Virtual Machines in Consolidated Environments. IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'09) mini-conference, Jun 2009. [PDF].
• Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Pradeep Padala, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kang Shin. What Does Control Theory Bring to Systems Research? To appear in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Jan 2009. [PDF].
• Xue Liu, Arif Merchant, Sharad Singhal, Pradeep Padala, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhu. Adaptive Control Technique forWorkload Management on a Shared Hosting Platform. Hewlett-Packard Technical Conference (HP TechCon), 2008. [PDF]. Available within HP only.
• Xue Liu, Xiaoyun Zhu, Padala Pradeep, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal. Optimal Multivariate Control for Differentiated Services on a Shared Hosting Platform. In the proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'07), Dec 2007. [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal et al. Adaptive Control of Virtualized Resources in Utility Computing Environments. In the proceedings of the EuroSys 2007 [PDF] [Slides]
• Zhikui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhu, Pradeep Padala and Sharad Singhal. Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers. In the proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2007), May 2007. [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala and Kang Shin. Gvu: A View-Oriented Framework for Data Management in Grid Environments. In the proceedings of the International Conference On High Performance Computing (HiPC'06), Dec 2006. [PS] [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala and Joseph N Wilson. GridOS: Operating System Services for Grid Architectures. In Proceedings of International Conference On High Performance Computing (HiPC'03), Dec 2003. [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala, Cyrus Harrison, Nicholas Pelfort, Erwin Jansen, Michael P Frank and Chaitanya Chokkareddy. OCEAN: The Open Computation Exchange and Arbitration Network, A Market Approach to Meta computing. In proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'03), Oct 2003. [PDF]

Technical Reports (non-overlapping with above)

• Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Kang G. Shin. Performance Evaluation of Virtualization Technologies for Server Consolidation. HP labs technical report HPL-2007-59, Apr 2007. [PDF]

Posters / Short papers / Work-in-progress reports

• Ardalan Kangarlou, Sahan Gamage, Dongyan Xu, Pradeep Padala, Bob Lantz, Ulas C. Kozat, Ken Igarashi. In-Network Suspend and Resume for GENI Experiments. 9th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC9), Nov 2010.
• Ardalan Kangarlou, Sahan Gamage, Dongyan Xu, Pradeep Padala, Ulas C. Kozat, Ken Igarashi, Bob Lantz. Distributed Suspend and Resume for GENI Experiments. 8th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC8), Jul 2010.
• Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter Varman. Efficient and Adaptive Proportional Share I/O Scheduling. Poster in SIGMETRICS'09, Jun 2009
• Jang-uk In, Laukik Chitnis, Richard Cavanaugh, Pradeep Padala, Sanjay Ranka, Mandar Kulkarni, Paul Avery. A Distributed Service Architecture for end-to-end Data Intensive Analysis. Accepted at International Conference On High Performance Computing (HiPC'04), Dec 2004
• A. Diot, D.R. Karrels, A.R. Katebi, P. Padala, J.N. Wilson. UFLFS: A Log-Structured File System Supporting Snapshots, Accepted at the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'04). [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala and Michael P. Frank. Design of a Self-evolving Scalable Matching Network for OCEAN. Accepted at International Conference On High Performance Computing (HiPC'03), Dec 2003 [PDF]
• Pradeep Padala and Joseph N Wilson. Operating System Support for Grid Architectures. Accepted at IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12), Jun 2003 [PDF]

Linux Journal Publications

• Pradeep Padala and Ravi Parimi. Network Programming in the Kernel. Linux Journal, 138:22--32, October 2005
• Pradeep Padala. Playing with ptrace, Part II. Linux Journal, 104:86--91, December 2002
• Pradeep Padala. Playing with ptrace, Part I. Linux Journal, 103:78--85, November 2002

Online Articles

• Exploring Perl Modules - Part 2: Creating Charts with GD::Graph, Issue 83 (October 2002), Linux Gazette [HTML]
• Exploring Perl Modules - Part 1: On-the-Fly Graphics with Perl GD Module, Issue 81 (August 2002), Linux Gazette [HTML]
• Mouse Programming with libgpm, January 21, 2002, Geek Culture, Linux Journal [HTML]
• Content Management With Procmail, Issue 73 (December 2001), Linux Gazette [HTML]
• So You Like Color !!! (The Mysterious ^]] characters), Issue 65 (April 2001), Linux Gazette [HTML]
• Linux in NT boot Menu, Issue 61 (January 2001), Linux Gazette [HTML]

Howtos

• NCURSES Programming HOWTO [HTML] [PDF]
  A 90 page guide to programming with ncurses and it's sister libraries. The libraries are explained in detail with simple examples. There are more than 35 read-to-use examples. It also has a Just For Fun section. Check it out

Global GridForum Drafts

• Pradeep Padala (ed.). A Survey of Grid File Systems. GGF Informational Document, Grid File System Working Group, GGF (Global Grid Forum). [PPT] [PDF]
• V. Snader, W. Allcock, P. CongDuc, I. Monga, P. Padala, M. Tana and F. Travostino. Networking Issues of Grid Infrastructures. Working Draft, Grid High Performance Networking Research Group, GGF (Global Grid Forum). [PDF]