Samer Al-Kiswany

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of British Columbia
2332 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC

Canada

 

 

 

  

Publications

Journal/Conference Publications

[15] A Workflow-Aware Storage System: An Opportunity Study, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Samer Al-Kiswany, Lauro Costa, Zhao Zhang, Daniel Katz, Michael Wilde, Matei Ripeanu, International Symposium on Clusters, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid ‘12), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012
[14] Assessing Data Deduplication Trade-offs from an Energy Perspective, Lauro Beltrão Costa, Samer Al-Kiswany, Raquel Vigolvino Lopes, Matei Ripeanu, Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS), Orlando, Florida, July 2011.[pdf]
[13] VMFlock: VM Co-Migration for the Cloud, Samer Al-Kiswany, Dinesh Subhraveti, Prasenjit Sarkar, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2011), San Jose, CA, June 2011. (13 % acceptance rate)[pdf][slides]
[12] ThriftStore: Finessing Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol 22(6), pp.910-923, June 2011.[pdf]
[11] A GPU Accelerated Storage System, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, IL, June 2010. [pdf]
[10] GPU Support for Batch Oriented Workloads, Lauro B. Costa, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, December 2009.[pdf]
[9] The Case for a Versatile Storage System, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’09), October 2009, Big Sky Resort Big Sky, MT. [pdf][slides]
[8] On GPU's Viability as a Middleware Accelerator, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu, Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, 2009. [pdf]
[7] Beyond Music Sharing: An Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Data Dissemination Techniques in Large Scientific Collaborations, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi and Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 91, 2009. [pdf]
[6] Configurable Security for Scavenged Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), Alexandria, Virginia, October 2008.[pdf]
[5] StoreGPU: Exploiting Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate Distributed Storage Systems, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, George Yuan, Matei Ripeanu, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, MA, June 23-27, 2008. (acceptance rate = 17%) [pdf][slides]
[4] stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Abdullah Gharaibeh, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ‘08), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008. (16% acceptance rate).[pdf][slides]
[3] Are P2P Data-Dissemination Techniques Viable in Today's Data-Intensive Scientific Collaborations?, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Sudharshan Vazhkudai, The 13th International Euro-Par Conference, European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, August 28-31, 2007, Rennes, France.(27% acceptance rate)[pdf][slides]
[2] A Simulation Study of Data Distribution Strategies for Large-scale Scientific Data Collaborations, Samer Al-Kiswany and Matei Ripeanu, 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, April 2007.[pdf]
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A New Algorithm for Arabic Optical Character Recognition, Omar Al-Jarrah, Samer Al-Kiswany, Bashar Al-Gharaibeh, Mohamed Fraiwan, and Hani Khasawneh, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 4, Volume 3, April 2006.  ISSN : 1790-0832 , pages 832-845 (this is a result of our undergraduate graduation project)

Short Papers / Poster

[3] Beyond Search and Navigability: Custom Metadata Can Enable Cross-Layer Optimizations in Storage Systems, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Samer Al-Kiswany, Nazareno Andrade, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Matei Ripeanu, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) - Hot Topics Track, Boston, MA, June 23-27, 2008.[pdf]
[2] A High-Performance GridFTP Server at Desktop Cost, Samer Al-Kiswany, Armin Bahramshahry, Hesam Ghasemi, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Poster, (SC07): International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, Nevada, November 2007 (acceptance rate = 25%)[pdf][poster]
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Beyond MP3 Sharing BitTorrent in Data Intensive Scientific Applications, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Poster, 7th Annual BCNet Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April 2007.

Technical Reports

[5] CrystalGPU: Transparent and Efficient Utilization of GPU Power, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Technical Report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2010-01.[pdf]
[4] StoreGPU: Exploiting Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate Distributed Storage Systems, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, George Yuan, Matei Ripeanu, Technical report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2008-01  [pdf]
[3] A Checkpoint Storage System for HPC Applications, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Matei Ripeanu, Samer Al-Kiswany, Xiaosong Ma and Greg Bronevetsky, Technical report , Oak Ridge National Laboratory Technical Report 007031, June 2007.[pdf]
[2] stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Technical report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2007-04 (also appears as ORNL Technical Report 007029). May, 2007[pdf]
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Are P2P Data-Dissemination Techniques Viable in Today's Data Intensive Scientific Collaborations?, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi and Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Technical report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2007-01, April, 2007. [pdf]

 

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