Vijay S Kumar

Postdoctoral Researcher
Palo Alto

Biography

Vijay is a postdoctoral researcher (NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow) working with the Storage and Information Management Platforms team at HP Labs, Palo Alto. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 2010.

 

Research interests

High-performance computing; Big Data computing & Informatics; Distributed Systems; Performance modeling and evaluation; Workload management; Data-intensive scientific applications.

Awards

2010-2012 NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship This is a Non-HP site Award
2005         Outstanding Paper Award: IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing

Publications

Refereed Conference/Workshop papers 

  • A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell: Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Perfromance Puzzle.  To appear in Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2012), Maui, Hawaii, USA, April 16-20, 2012.
Posters
  • A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell: Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle. Poster presented at the 23d ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP'2011), Cascais, Portugal, Oct. 23-26, 2011.
  • V. S. Kumar, J. Tucek, J. Wylie, E. Krevat, G. Ganger: Tuning a Commodity Network for Efficient All-to-all Data Shuffles. Poster to be presented at the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'12), Boston, MA, Jun 13-15, 2012.
Non-refereed Tech Reports
  • V. S. Kumar, J. Tucek, J. Wylie, E. Krevat, G. Ganger: Application-level Flow Scheduling for Efficient Collective Data Transfers. HP Labs Internal Tech Report: HPL-2012-16.
  • A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell:  Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Perfromance Puzzle. HP Labs External Tech Report: HPL-2012-82.

Professional activities

Member, ACM (2011-current)