Alan L. Cox

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1989-2023
Publications (10 Years): 16

Top Topics

Eliminating Redundant

Memory Management

Empirical Evaluation

Hyperspectral Image Compression

Top Venues

ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst.

Publications

Eliot H. Solomon, Yufeng Zhou, Alan L. Cox
An Empirical Evaluation of PTE Coalescing. MEMSYS (2023)
Yufeng Zhou, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Xiaowan Dong
The Impact of Page Size and Microarchitecture on Instruction Address Translation Overhead. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. 20 (3) (2023)
Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
GMEM: Generalized Memory Management for Peripheral Devices. CoRR (2023)
Tiancheng Xu, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
An FPGA Accelerator for Genome Variant Calling. ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst. 16 (4) (2023)
Tiancheng Xu, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
An FPGA Accelerator for Genome Variant Calling. FCCM (2022)
Weixi Zhu, Guilherme Cox, Ján Veselý, Mark Hairgrove, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
UVM Discard: Eliminating Redundant Memory Transfers for Accelerators. IISWC (2022)
Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
A Comprehensive Analysis of Superpage Management Mechanisms and Policies. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2020)
Runhua Zhang, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Virtflex: Automatic Adaptation to NUMA Topology Change for OpenMP Applications. IWOMP (2020)
Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Understanding Transparent Superpage Management. login Usenix Mag. 45 (3) (2020)
Yufeng Zhou, Xiaowan Dong, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas
On the Impact of Instruction Address Translation Overhead. ISPASS (2019)
Xiaowan Dong, Zhuojia Shen, John Criswell, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas
Spectres, virtual ghosts, and hardware support. HASP@ISCA (2018)
Xiaowan Dong, Zhuojia Shen, John Criswell, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas
Shielding Software From Privileged Side-Channel Attacks. USENIX Security Symposium (2018)
Myeongjae Jeon, Yuxiong He, Hwanju Kim, Sameh Elnikety, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
TPC: Target-Driven Parallelism Combining Prediction and Correction to Reduce Tail Latency in Interactive Services. ASPLOS (2016)
Xiaowan Dong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox
Shared address translation revisited. EuroSys (2016)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox
Deadlock-free local fast failover for arbitrary data center networks. INFOCOM (2016)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Scalable Multi-Failure Fast Failover via Forwarding Table Compression. SOSR (2016)
Conglong Li, Alan L. Cox
GD-Wheel: a cost-aware replacement policy for key-value stores. EuroSys (2015)
Xiaowan Dong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox
Characterization of Shared Library Access Patterns of Android Applications. IISWC (2015)
Myeongjae Jeon, Saehoon Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Predictive parallelization: taming tail latencies in web search. SIGIR (2014)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Ankit Singla, John B. Carter, Colin Dixon, Wes Felter
Practical DCB for improved data center networks. INFOCOM (2014)
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Alan L. Cox, Mehul Chadha, Scott Rixner
Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2013)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Plinko: building provably resilient forwarding tables. HotNets (2013)
Myeongjae Jeon, Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Adaptive parallelism for web search. EuroSys (2013)
Myeongjae Jeon, Conglong Li, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Reducing DRAM row activations with eager read/write clustering. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. 10 (4) (2013)
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture. login Usenix Mag. 38 (5) (2013)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Wes Felter, Colin Dixon, John B. Carter
PAST: scalable ethernet for data centers. CoNEXT (2012)
Thomas W. Barr, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
SpecTLB: a mechanism for speculative address translation. ISCA (2011)
Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, T. S. Eugene Ng
A Scalability Study of Enterprise Network Architectures. ANCS (2011)
Jeffrey Shafer, Brent E. Stephens, Michael Foss, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
Axon: a flexible substrate for source-routed ethernet. ANCS (2010)
Jeffrey Shafer, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance. ISPASS (2010)
Zheng Cai, Florin Dinu, Jie Zheng, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng
CONTRACT: Incorporating Coordination into the IP Network Control Plane. ICDCS (2010)
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jayaram Mudigonda, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jose Renato Santos
sNICh: efficient last hop networking in the data center. ANCS (2010)
Thomas W. Barr, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Translation caching: skip, don't walk (the page table). ISCA (2010)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng
Understanding and mitigating the effects of count to infinity in Ethernet networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 17 (1) (2009)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox
EtherProxy: Scaling Ethernet By Suppressing Broadcast Traffic. INFOCOM (2009)
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization. VEE (2009)
Diego Ongaro, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors. VEE (2008)
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Ian C. Fedeli, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance. ISPASS (2008)
Collin McCurdy, Alan L. Cox, Jeffrey S. Vetter
Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors. ISPASS (2008)
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2008)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng
Etherfuse: an ethernet watchdog. SIGCOMM (2007)
Jeffrey Shafer, David Carr, Aravind Menon, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel, Paul Willmann
Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors. HPCA (2007)
Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Whodunit: transactional profiling for multi-tier applications. EuroSys (2007)
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track (2006)
Alan L. Cox, Kartik Mohanram, Scott Rixner
Dependable != unaffordable. ASID (2006)
Sara Bouchenak, Alan L. Cox, Steven G. Dropsho, Sumit Mittal, Willy Zwaenepoel
Caching Dynamic Web Content: Designing and Analysing an Aspect-Oriented Solution. Middleware (2006)
Aravind Menon, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper). USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track (2006)
Hong Ong, Jeffrey S. Vetter, R. Scott Studham, Collin McCurdy, Bruce Walker, Alan L. Cox
Kernel-level single system image for petascale computing. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 40 (2) (2006)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng
On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops Ethernet Networks. INFOCOM (2006)
Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Causeway: Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Multi-tier Applications. Middleware (2005)
Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Causeway: Operating System Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Distributed Programs. HotOS (2005)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers. ICDE (2005)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
A Portable Kernel Abstraction for Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track (2005)
Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track (2004)
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel
Run-time support for distributed sharing in safe languages. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 21 (1) (2003)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Conflict-Aware Scheduling for Dynamic Content Applications. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (2003)
Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox, Sameh Elnikety, Willy Zwaenepoel
Using Performance Reflection in Systems Software. HotOS (2003)
Vivek S. Pai, Alan L. Cox, Vijay S. Pai, Willy Zwaenepoel
A Flexible and Efficient Application Programming Interface (API) for a Customizable Proxy Cache. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (2003)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Distributed Versioning: Consistent Replication for Scaling Back-End Databases of Dynamic Content Web Sites. Middleware (2003)
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L. Cox
Practical, Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages. OSDI (2002)
Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Contention elimination by replication of sequential sections in distributed shared memory programs. PPOPP (2001)
Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. J. Parallel Distributed Comput. 60 (12) (2000)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Data Replication Strategies for Fault Tolerance and Availability on Commodity Clusters. DSN (2000)
Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
The Efeect of Contention on the Scalability of Page-Based Software Shared Memory Systems. LCR (2000)
Y. Charlie Hu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Improving Fine-Grained Irregular Shared-Memory Benchmarks by Data Reordering. SC (2000)
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel
Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Typed Languages. LCR (2000)
Karthick Rajamani, Alan L. Cox, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Atul Chadha
Efficient Mining for Association Rules with Relational Database Systems. IDEAS (1999)
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Ram Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel
Combining compile-time and run-time support for efficient software distributed shared memory. Proc. IEEE 87 (3) (1999)
Alan L. Cox, Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Willy Zwaenepoel
A Performance Comparison of Homeless and Home-Based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols in Software Shared Memory. HPCA (1999)
Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. IPPS/SPDP (1999)
Karthick Rajamani, Sam Yuan Sung, Alan L. Cox
Extending the Applicability of Association Rules. PAKDD (1999)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Li-Jie Jin, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel
Adaptive protocols for software distributed shared memory. Proc. IEEE 87 (3) (1999)
Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox
Optimally Synchronizing DOACROSS Loops on Shared Memory Multiprocessors. IEEE PACT (1997)
Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel
Compiler and Software Distributed Shared Memory Support for Irregular Applications. PPOPP (1997)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel
Software DSM Protocols that Adapt between Single Writer and Multiple Writer. HPCA (1997)
Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Quantifying the Performance Differences between PVM and TreadMarks. J. Parallel Distributed Comput. 43 (2) (1997)
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Honghui Lu, Willy Zwaenepoel
Evaluating the Performance of Software Distributed Shared Memory as a Target for Parallelizing Compilers. IPPS (1997)
Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox
Performance Debugging Shared Memory Parallel Programs Using Run-Time Dependence Analysis. SIGMETRICS (1997)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel
Trade-offs Between False Sharing and Aggregation in Software Distributed Shared Memory. PPOPP (1997)
Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox
Java/DSM: A Platform for Heterogeneous Computing. Concurr. Pract. Exp. 9 (11) (1997)
Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox
A Performance Debugger for Eliminating Excess Synchronization in Shared-Memory Parallel Programs. MASCOTS (1996)
Sarita V. Adve, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel
A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations. HPCA (1996)
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
An Integrated Compile-Time/Run-Time Software Distributed Shared Memory System. ASPLOS (1996)
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Weimin Yu, Willy Zwaenepoel
ThreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations. Computer 29 (2) (1996)
Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox
Conservative Garbage Collection on DSM Systems. ICDCS (1996)
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel
An Evaluation of Software-Based Release Consistent Protocols. J. Parallel Distributed Comput. 29 (2) (1995)
Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Message Passing Versus Distributed Shared Memory on Networks of Workstations. SC (1995)
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems. USENIX Winter (1994)
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel
Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study. ISCA (1994)
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Evaluation of Release Consistent Software Distributed Shared Memory on Emerging Network Technology. ISCA (1993)
Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler
Adaptive Cache Coherency for Detecting Migratory Shared Data. ISCA (1993)
John K. Bennett, John B. Carter, Alan L. Cox, E. N. Elnozahy, David B. Johnson, Peter J. Keleher, Willy Zwaenepoel
Distributed shared memory: experience with Munin. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (1992)
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
Lazy Release Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory. ISCA (1992)
William J. Bolosky, Michael L. Scott, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox
NUMA Policies and Their Relation to Memory Architecture. ASPLOS (1991)
Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler
The Implementation of a Coherent Memory Abstraction on a NUMA Multiprocessor: Experiences with PLATINUM. SOSP (1989)