Alan L. Cox

According to our database, Alan L. Cox authored at least 94 papers between 1989 and 2023.

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2023

An FPGA Accelerator for Genome Variant Calling.

Tiancheng Xu, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst., December, 2023

The Impact of Page Size and Microarchitecture on Instruction Address Translation Overhead.

Yufeng Zhou, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Xiaowan Dong

ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim., September, 2023

GMEM: Generalized Memory Management for Peripheral Devices.

Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

CoRR, 2023

An Empirical Evaluation of PTE Coalescing.

Eliot H. Solomon, Yufeng Zhou, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems, 2023

2022

UVM Discard: Eliminating Redundant Memory Transfers for Accelerators.

Weixi Zhu, Guilherme Cox, Ján Veselý, Mark Hairgrove, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2022

2020

Understanding Transparent Superpage Management.

Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

login Usenix Mag., 2020

A Comprehensive Analysis of Superpage Management Mechanisms and Policies.

Weixi Zhu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2020

Virtflex: Automatic Adaptation to NUMA Topology Change for OpenMP Applications.

Runhua Zhang, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the OpenMP: Portable Multi-Level Parallelism on Modern Systems, 2020

2019

On the Impact of Instruction Address Translation Overhead.

Yufeng Zhou, Xiaowan Dong, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2019

2018

Shielding Software From Privileged Side-Channel Attacks.

Xiaowan Dong, Zhuojia Shen, John Criswell, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas

Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium, 2018

Spectres, virtual ghosts, and hardware support.

Xiaowan Dong, Zhuojia Shen, John Criswell, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, 2018

2016

Scalable Multi-Failure Fast Failover via Forwarding Table Compression.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, 2016

Deadlock-free local fast failover for arbitrary data center networks.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2016

Shared address translation revisited.

Xiaowan Dong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Computer Systems, 2016

TPC: Target-Driven Parallelism Combining Prediction and Correction to Reduce Tail Latency in Interactive Services.

Myeongjae Jeon, Yuxiong He, Hwanju Kim, Sameh Elnikety, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2016

2015

Characterization of Shared Library Access Patterns of Android Applications.

Xiaowan Dong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2015

GD-Wheel: a cost-aware replacement policy for key-value stores.

Conglong Li, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems, 2015

2014

Predictive parallelization: taming tail latencies in web search.

Myeongjae Jeon, Saehoon Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Practical DCB for improved data center networks.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Ankit Singla, John B. Carter, Colin Dixon, Wes Felter

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2014

2013

Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture.

Kaushik Kumar Ram, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

login Usenix Mag., 2013

Reducing DRAM row activations with eager read/write clustering.

Myeongjae Jeon, Conglong Li, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim., 2013

Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture.

Kaushik Kumar Ram, Alan L. Cox, Mehul Chadha, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2013

Plinko: building provably resilient forwarding tables.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2013

Adaptive parallelism for web search.

Myeongjae Jeon, Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the Eighth Eurosys Conference 2013, 2013

2012

PAST: scalable ethernet for data centers.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Wes Felter, Colin Dixon, John B. Carter

Proceedings of the Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, 2012

2011

SpecTLB: a mechanism for speculative address translation.

Thomas W. Barr, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011), 2011

A Scalability Study of Enterprise Network Architectures.

Brent E. Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, T. S. Eugene Ng

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2011

2010

The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance.

Jeffrey Shafer, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2010

Translation caching: skip, don't walk (the page table).

Thomas W. Barr, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2010), 2010

CONTRACT: Incorporating Coordination into the IP Network Control Plane.

Zheng Cai, Florin Dinu, Jie Zheng, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2010

Axon: a flexible substrate for source-routed ethernet.

Jeffrey Shafer, Brent E. Stephens, Michael Foss, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems, 2010

sNICh: efficient last hop networking in the data center.

Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jayaram Mudigonda, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jose Renato Santos

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems, 2010

2009

Understanding and mitigating the effects of count to infinity in Ethernet networks.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng

IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2009

Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization.

Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, 2009

EtherProxy: Scaling Ethernet By Suppressing Broadcast Traffic.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2009. 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2009

2008

Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors.

Diego Ongaro, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, 2008

Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices.

Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2008

Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance.

Kaushik Kumar Ram, Ian C. Fedeli, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2008

Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors.

Collin McCurdy, Alan L. Cox, Jeffrey S. Vetter

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2008

2007

Etherfuse: an ethernet watchdog.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2007 Conference on Applications, 2007

Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors.

Jeffrey Shafer, David Carr, Aravind Menon, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel, Paul Willmann

Proceedings of the 13st International Conference on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-13 2007), 2007

Whodunit: transactional profiling for multi-tier applications.

Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 2007 EuroSys Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 21-23, 2007, 2007

2006

Kernel-level single system image for petascale computing.

Hong Ong, Jeffrey S. Vetter, R. Scott Studham, Collin McCurdy, Bruce Walker, Alan L. Cox

ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2006

An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems.

Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2006

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper).

Aravind Menon, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2006

Caching Dynamic Web Content: Designing and Analysing an Aspect-Oriented Solution.

Sara Bouchenak, Alan L. Cox, Steven G. Dropsho, Sumit Mittal, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Middleware 2006, 2006

On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops Ethernet Networks.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng

Proceedings of the INFOCOM 2006. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2006

Dependable != unaffordable.

Alan L. Cox, Kartik Mohanram, Scott Rixner

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability, 2006

2005

A Portable Kernel Abstraction for Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2005

Causeway: Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Multi-tier Applications.

Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Middleware 2005, ACM/IFIP/USENIX, 6th International Middleware Conference, Grenoble, France, November 28, 2005

A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering, 2005

Causeway: Operating System Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Distributed Programs.

Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of HotOS'05: 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2005

2004

Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers.

Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the General Track: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 27, 2004

2003

Run-time support for distributed sharing in safe languages.

Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel

ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., 2003

A Flexible and Efficient Application Programming Interface (API) for a Customizable Proxy Cache.

Vivek S. Pai, Alan L. Cox, Vijay S. Pai, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 2003

Conflict-Aware Scheduling for Dynamic Content Applications.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 2003

Distributed Versioning: Consistent Replication for Scaling Back-End Databases of Dynamic Content Web Sites.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Middleware 2003, 2003

Using Performance Reflection in Systems Software.

Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox, Sameh Elnikety, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of HotOS'03: 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2003

2002

Practical, Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages.

Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002), 2002

2001

Contention elimination by replication of sequential sections in distributed shared memory programs.

Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP'01), 2001

2000

OpenMP for Networks of SMPs.

Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2000

Improving Fine-Grained Irregular Shared-Memory Benchmarks by Data Reordering.

Y. Charlie Hu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Proceedings Supercomputing 2000, 2000

The Efeect of Contention on the Scalability of Page-Based Software Shared Memory Systems.

Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Languages, 2000

Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Typed Languages.

Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Languages, 2000

Data Replication Strategies for Fault Tolerance and Availability on Commodity Clusters.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2000) (formerly FTCS-30 and DCCA-8), 2000

1999

Combining compile-time and run-time support for efficient software distributed shared memory.

Sandhya Dwarkadas, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Ram Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proc. IEEE, 1999

Adaptive protocols for software distributed shared memory.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Li-Jie Jin, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proc. IEEE, 1999

Extending the Applicability of Association Rules.

Karthick Rajamani, Sam Yuan Sung, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1999

Efficient Mining for Association Rules with Relational Database Systems.

Karthick Rajamani, Alan L. Cox, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Atul Chadha

Proceedings of the 1999 International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 1999

A Performance Comparison of Homeless and Home-Based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols in Software Shared Memory.

Alan L. Cox, Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 1999

1997

Quantifying the Performance Differences between PVM and TreadMarks.

Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 1997

Java/DSM: A Platform for Heterogeneous Computing.

Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox

Concurr. Pract. Exp., 1997

Performance Debugging Shared Memory Parallel Programs Using Run-Time Dependence Analysis.

Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1997

Compiler and Software Distributed Shared Memory Support for Irregular Applications.

Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP), 1997

Trade-offs Between False Sharing and Aggregation in Software Distributed Shared Memory.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP), 1997

Evaluating the Performance of Software Distributed Shared Memory as a Target for Parallelizing Compilers.

Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Honghui Lu, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '97), 1997

Software DSM Protocols that Adapt between Single Writer and Multiple Writer.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '97), 1997

Optimally Synchronizing DOACROSS Loops on Shared Memory Multiprocessors.

Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '97), 1997

1996

ThreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations.

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Weimin Yu, Willy Zwaenepoel

Computer, 1996

A Performance Debugger for Eliminating Excess Synchronization in Shared-Memory Parallel Programs.

Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the MASCOTS '96, 1996

Conservative Garbage Collection on DSM Systems.

Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1996

A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations.

Sarita V. Adve, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 1996

An Integrated Compile-Time/Run-Time Software Distributed Shared Memory System.

Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the ASPLOS-VII Proceedings, 1996

1995

An Evaluation of Software-Based Release Consistent Protocols.

Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel

J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 1995

Message Passing Versus Distributed Shared Memory on Networks of Workstations.

Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the Proceedings Supercomputing '95, San Diego, CA, USA, December 4-8, 1995, 1995

1994

TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems.

Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference, 1994

Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study.

Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Chicago, 1994

1993

Evaluation of Release Consistent Software Distributed Shared Memory on Emerging Network Technology.

Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1993

Adaptive Cache Coherency for Detecting Migratory Shared Data.

Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler

Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1993

1992

Distributed shared memory: experience with Munin.

John K. Bennett, John B. Carter, Alan L. Cox, E. N. Elnozahy, David B. Johnson, Peter J. Keleher, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop: Models and Paradigms for Distributed Systems Structuring, 1992

Lazy Release Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory.

Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Gold Coast, 1992

1991

NUMA Policies and Their Relation to Memory Architecture.

William J. Bolosky, Michael L. Scott, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox

Proceedings of the ASPLOS-IV Proceedings, 1991

1989

A single-chip public key encryption subsystem.

Peter A. Ivey, Alan L. Cox, John R. Harbridge, John K. Oldfield

IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, August, 1989

The Implementation of a Coherent Memory Abstraction on a NUMA Multiprocessor: Experiences with PLATINUM.

Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, 1989