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Papers and Tech Reports

2026

  • Kate Keahey, Paul Marshall, Mark Powers, Marc Richardson, Michael Sherman, and Dan Stanzione. 2026. Practical Evaluation Methods for Scientific Instruments. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2026 (PEARC '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3785462.3815804 (pdf)
  • Fraida Fund, E. Zadok, T. Estro, D. Koop, Kate Keahey, and Marc Richardson. 2026. Leveraging Chameleon Cloud for Hands-On Learning in Systems and Data Courses: An Experience Report. In 2nd ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference (SIGCSE-V '26). (pdf)

2025

  • Fraida Fund, Kate Keahey, Cody Hammock, Marc Richardson, Mark Powers, and Michael Sherman. 2025. The Cost of Teaching Operational ML. In Proceedings of the SC '25 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC-W '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731599.3767385 (pdf)
  • Syed M. Qasim, C. Hankendi, Michael Sherman, Kate Keahey, G. Stringhini, and A. K. Coskun. 2025. Lessons Learned from Anomaly Detection in Chameleon Cloud. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) (IC2E '25). IEEE, Rennes, France, 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1109/IC2E65552.2025.00013 (pdf)
  • Stephanie Lieggi, Fraida Fund, Kate Keahey, and Marc Richardson. 2025. Summer of Reproducibility: Building Global Capacity for Practical Reproducibility through Hands-On Mentorship. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 218–223. https://doi.org/10.1145/3736731.3746149 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Michael Sherman, Jason Anderson, and Mark Powers. 2025. CHI@Edge: Supporting Experimentation in the Edge to Cloud Continuum. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736014 (pdf)
  • Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Md Nadim, Guoying Zu, Mukaram Shahid, Xun Li, Tianyi Zhang, Salil Reddy, Wei Xu, Ataberk Atalar, Vincent Lee, Yung-Fu Chen, Evan Gossling, Elisabeth Permatasari, Christ Somiah, Owen Perrin, Zhibo Meng, Reshal Afzal, Sarath Babu, Mohammed Soliman, Ali Hussain, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Ozdal Boyraz, Yong Guan, Anish Arora, Mohamed Y. Selim, Arsalan Ahmad, Myra B. Cohen, Mike Luby, Ranveer Chandra, James Gross, Kate Keahey, and Hongwei Zhang. 2025. Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications. Computer Networks 263 (May 2025), 111188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111188 (pdf)
  • Cédric Prigent, Kate Keahey, Alexandru Costan, Loïc Cudennec, and Gabriel Antoniu. 2025. On the Reproducibility Challenges of Federated Learning: Investigating the Gap between Simulation, Emulation, and Real-World Deployments. In 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid). IEEE, Tromsø, Norway, 185–194. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid64434.2025.00054 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Marc Richardson, R. Tolosana Calasanz, S. Hunold, J. Lofstead, T. Malik, and C. Perez. 2025. Report on Challenges of Practical Reproducibility for Systems and HPC Computer Science. Community Workshop on Practical Reproducibility in HPC, Atlanta, Georgia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15306610 (pdf)

2024

  • W. Fowler, A. Esquivel Morel, and Kate Keahey. 2024. Encoding Consistency: Optimizing Self-Driving Reliability With Real-Time Speed Data. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Flexible Resource and Application Management on the Edge (FRAME '24). ACM, Pisa, Italy, 47–50. https://doi.org/10.1145/3659994.3660308 (pdf)
  • A. Esquivel Morel, Mark Powers, Kate Keahey, Z. Murry, T. Sitzmann, J. Zhou, and P. Calyam. 2024. FLOTO: Beyond Bandwidth – A Framework for Adaptable, Multi-sensor Data Collection in Scientific Research. In High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15058. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 427–438. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73716-9_30 (pdf)

2023

  • A. Esquivel Morel, W. Fowler, Kate Keahey, K. Zheng, Michael Sherman, and R. Anderson. 2023. AutoLearn: Learning in the Edge to Cloud Continuum. In Proceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis (SC-W '23). ACM, Denver, CO, USA, 350–356. https://doi.org/10.1145/3624062.3624101 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Nick Feamster, Guilherme Martins, Mark Powers, Marc Richardson, Alexis Schrubbe, and Michael Sherman. 2023. Discovery Testbed: An Observational Instrument for Broadband Research. In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) (e-Science '23). IEEE, Limassol, Cyprus, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science58273.2023.10254876 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Mark Powers, and Adam Cooper. 2023. Three Pillars of Practical Reproducibility. In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) (e-Science '23). IEEE, Limassol, Cyprus, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science58273.2023.10254846 (pdf)
  • Daniel Rosendo, Kate Keahey, Alexandru Costan, Matthieu Simonin, Patrick Valduriez, and Gabriel Antoniu. 2023. KheOps: Cost-effective Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Replicability of Edge-to-Cloud Experiments. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 62–73. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589806.3600032 (pdf)

2022

  • Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Michael Sherman, Cody Hammock, Zhuo Zhen, Jenett Tillotson, Timothy Bargo, Lance Long, Taimoor Ul Islam, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, and François Halbach. 2022. CHI-in-a-Box: Reducing Operational Costs of Research Testbeds. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530768 (pdf)
  • Jason Anderson and Kate Keahey. 2022. Migrating towards Single Sign-On and Federated Identity. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530770 (pdf)

2021

  • Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Michael Sherman, Zhuo Zhen, Mark Powers, Isabel Brunkan, and Adam Cooper. 2021. Chameleon@Edge Community Workshop Report. Technical Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5777344
  • Paul Ruth, Kate Keahey, M. Cevik, Z. Zhen, C. Wang, and Jason Anderson. 2021. Overcast: Running Controlled Experiments Spanning Research and Commercial Clouds. In IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (CNERT '21). IEEE, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484517 (pdf)

2020

  • Kate Keahey. 2020. The Silver Lining. IEEE Internet Computing 24, 4 (July 2020), 55–59. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2020.3013361
  • Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Z. Zhen, Pierre Riteau, Paul Ruth, Dan Stanzione, M. Cevik, J. Colleran, H. S. Gunawi, C. Hammock, J. Mambretti, A. Barnes, F. Halbach, A. Rocha, and J. Stubbs. 2020. Lessons Learned from the Chameleon Testbed. In Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Conference on Usenix Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '20). USENIX Association, USA, 219–233. https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20/presentation/keahey (pdf)

2019

  • Jason Anderson and Kate Keahey. 2019. A Case for Integrating Experimental Containers with Notebooks. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). IEEE, 151–158. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2019.00032 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, J. Mambretti, Paul Ruth, and Dan Stanzione. 2019. Chameleon: A Large-Scale, Deeply Reconfigurable Testbed for Computer Science Research. In 2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (MERIT '19). IEEE, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888067 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Paul Ruth, J. Colleran, C. Hammock, J. Stubbs, and Z. Zhen. 2019. Operational Lessons from Chameleon. In Proceedings of the Humans in the Loop: Enabling and Facilitating Research on Cloud Computing (HARC '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3355738.3355750 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, Jason Anderson, and Z. Zhen. 2019. Managing Allocatable Resources. In 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) (CLOUD '19). IEEE, Milan, Italy, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2019.00019 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, Dan Stanzione, T. Cockerill, J. Mambretti, P. Rad, and P. Ruth. 2019. Chameleon: a Scalable Production Testbed for Computer Science Research. In Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale, Volume 3, Jeffrey S. Vetter (Ed.). Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 123–148. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351036863-5
  • M. Cevik, P. Ruth, Kate Keahey, and Pierre Riteau. 2019. Wide-area Software Defined Networking Experiments using Chameleon. In IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (INFOCOM WKSHPS '19). IEEE, Paris, France, 811–816. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845093 (pdf)
  • Bogdan Nicolae, Pierre Riteau, Z. Zhen, and Kate Keahey. 2019. Transparent Throughput Elasticity for Modern Cloud Storage: An Adaptive Block-Level Caching Proposal. In Applying Integration Techniques and Methods in Distributed Systems and Technologies. IGI Global, 156–191. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8295-3.ch007

2018

  • F. Liu, Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, and J. Weissman. 2018. Dynamically Negotiating Capacity Between On-demand and Batch Clusters. In SC18: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '18). IEEE, Dallas, TX, 493–503. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2018.00041 (pdf)
  • Q. Fu, N. Timkovich, Pierre Riteau, and Kate Keahey. 2018. A Step Towards Hadoop Dynamic Scaling. In 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS) (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS '18). IEEE, Exeter, UK, 67–74. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCC/SmartCity/DSS.2018.00041 (pdf)

2017

  • Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, and Nicholas P. Timkovich. 2017. LambdaLink: an Operation Management Platform for Multi-Cloud Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 39–46. https://doi.org/10.1145/3147213.3147224 (pdf)

2015

  • Bogdan Nicolae, Pierre Riteau, and Kate Keahey. 2015. Towards Transparent Throughput Elasticity for IaaS Cloud Storage: Exploring the Benefits of Adaptive Block-Level Caching. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) 6, 4 (October 2015), 21–44. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDST.2015100102 (pdf)
  • Umesh Deshpande and Kate Keahey. 2015. Traffic-Sensitive Live Migration of Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid '15). IEEE Press, Shenzhen, China, 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid.2015.163 (pdf)

2014

  • Bogdan Nicolae, Pierre Riteau, and Kate Keahey. 2014. Transparent Throughput Elasticity for IaaS Cloud Storage Using Guest-Side Block-Level Caching. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '14). IEEE Computer Society, London, United Kingdom, 186–195. https://doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2014.27 (pdf)
  • Pierre Riteau, M. Hwang, A. Padmanabhan, Y. Gao, Y. Liu, Kate Keahey, and S. Wang. 2014. A Cloud Computing Approach to On-Demand and Scalable CyberGIS Analytics. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/2608029.2608032 (pdf)
  • Radu Tudoran, Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, Sergey Panitkin, and Gabriel Antoniu. 2014. Evaluating Streaming Strategies for Event Processing across Infrastructure Clouds. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid '14). IEEE Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 151–159. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid.2014.89 (pdf)
  • Bogdan Nicolae, Pierre Riteau, and Kate Keahey. 2014. Bursting the Cloud Data Bubble: Towards Transparent Storage Elasticity in IaaS Clouds. In 2014 IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) (IPDPS '14). IEEE, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 135–144. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2014.25 (pdf)

2013

  • Dmitry Duplyakin, Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Henry Tufo, and Ali Alzabarah. 2013. Rebalancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1145/2465848.2465854 (pdf)

2012

  • Kate Keahey, Patrick Armstrong, John Bresnahan, David LaBissoniere, and Pierre Riteau. 2012. Infrastructure Outsourcing in Multi-Cloud Environment. In Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Cloud Services, Federation, and the 8th Open Cirrus Summit (FederatedClouds '12). ACM, San Jose, CA, USA, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/2378975.2378984 (pdf)
  • J. Balewski, J. Lauret, D. Olson, I. Sakrejda, D. Arkhipkin, John Bresnahan, Kate Keahey, J. Porter, J. Stevens, and M. Walker. 2012. Offloading peak processing to virtual farm by STAR experiment at RHIC. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 368, 1 (2012), 012011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/368/1/012011
  • Paul Marshall, Henry Tufo, Kate Keahey, David LaBissoniere, and Matthew Woitaszek. 2012. Architecting a Large-Scale Elastic Environment: Recontextualization and Adaptive Cloud Services for Scientific Computing. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends (ICSOFT 2012). SciTePress, Rome, Italy, 409–418. https://doi.org/10.5220/0004081704090418 (pdf)
  • Paul Marshall, Henry Tufo, and Kate Keahey. 2012. Provisioning Policies for Elastic Computing Environments. In 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW). IEEE, Shanghai, China, 1085–1094. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.132

2011

  • John Bresnahan, Tim Freeman, David LaBissoniere, and Kate Keahey. 2011. Managing Appliance Launches in Infrastructure Clouds. In Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery (TG '11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 12:1–12:7. https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016755 (pdf)
  • John Bresnahan, Kate Keahey, David LaBissoniere, and Tim Freeman. 2011. Cumulus: An Open Source Storage Cloud for Science. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud '11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 25–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/1996109.1996115 (pdf)
  • Bogdan Nicolae, John Bresnahan, Kate Keahey, and Gabriel Antoniu. 2011. Going Back and Forth: Efficient Multideployment and Multisnapshotting on Clouds. In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC '11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1145/1996130.1996152 (pdf)
  • Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, and Tim Freeman. 2011. Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Clouds. In 2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid '11). IEEE, Newport Beach, CA, USA, 205–214. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid.2011.56 (pdf)

2010

  • A. Harutyunyan, P. Buncic, Tim Freeman, and Kate Keahey. 2010. Dynamic virtual AliEn Grid sites on Nimbus with CernVM. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 219, 7 (2010), 072036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/219/7/072036 (pdf)
  • Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, and Tim Freeman. 2010. Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources. In 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid '10). IEEE, Melbourne, Australia, 43–52. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2010.80 (pdf)

2009

2008

  • C. Hoffa, G. Mehta, Tim Freeman, E. Deelman, Kate Keahey, B. Berriman, and J. Good. 2008. On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows. In 2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience (eScience '08). IEEE, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 640–645. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2008.167 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey and Tim Freeman. 2008. Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters. In 2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience (eScience '08). IEEE, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 301–308. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2008.82 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey and Tim Freeman. 2008. Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications. In Cloud Computing and Its Applications 2008 (CCA-08), Chicago, IL, USA. (pdf)
  • Tim Freeman and Kate Keahey. 2008. Flying Low: Simple Leases with Workspace Pilot. In Euro-Par 2008 – Parallel Processing (Euro-Par '08). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 499–509. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85451-7_54 (pdf)
  • Borja Sotomayor, Kate Keahey, and Ian Foster. 2008. Combining Batch Execution and Leasing Using Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.1145/1383422.1383434 (pdf)

2007

  • R. Bradshaw, N. Desai, Tim Freeman, and Kate Keahey. 2007. A Scalable Approach To Deploying And Managing Appliances. In TeraGrid 2007 Conference, Madison, WI, USA. (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, Jerome Lauret, and Doug Olson. 2007. Virtual Workspaces for Scientific Applications. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78, 1 (July 2007), 012038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012038 (pdf)
  • Borja Sotomayor, Kate Keahey, Ian Foster, and Tim Freeman. 2007. Enabling Cost-Effective Resource Leases with Virtual Machines. In 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2007), Hot Topics session, Monterey Bay, CA, USA. (pdf)

2006

  • Tim Freeman, Kate Keahey, Ian Foster, A. Rana, Borja Sotomayor, and F. Wuerthwein. 2006. Division of Labor: Tools for Growing and Scaling Grids. In Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4294). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 40–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/11948148_4 (pdf)
  • Borja Sotomayor, Kate Keahey, and Ian Foster. 2006. Overhead Matters: A Model for Virtual Resource Management. In First International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2006). IEEE, Tampa, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTDC.2006.9 (pdf)
  • Ian Foster, Tim Freeman, Kate Keahey, D. Scheftner, Borja Sotomayor, and X. Zhang. 2006. Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities. In Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID '06). IEEE, Singapore, 513–520. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2006.108 (pdf)
  • A. Rana, F. Wuerthwein, Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al. 2006. An Edge Services Framework (ESF) for EGEE, LCG, and OSG. In Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2006), Mumbai, India. (pdf)

2005

  • Kate Keahey, Ian Foster, Tim Freeman, and X. Zhang. 2005. Virtual Workspaces: Achieving Quality of Service and Quality of Life in the Grid. Scientific Programming 13, 4 (2005), 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1155/2005/351408 (pdf)
  • Kate Keahey, Ian Foster, Tim Freeman, X. Zhang, and D. Galron. 2005. Virtual Workspaces in the Grid. In Euro-Par 2005 Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 421–431. https://doi.org/10.1007/11549468_49 (pdf)
  • X. Zhang, Kate Keahey, Ian Foster, and Tim Freeman. 2005. Virtual Cluster Workspaces for Grid Applications. Technical Report ANL/MCS-P1246-0405. Argonne National Laboratory. (pdf)

2004

  • Kate Keahey, K. Doering, and Ian Foster. 2004. From Sandbox to Playground: Dynamic Virtual Environments in the Grid. In Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID '04). IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1109/GRID.2004.32 (pdf)

2003

  • Kate Keahey, M. Ripeanu, and K. Doering. 2003. Dynamic Creation and Management of Runtime Environments in the Grid. In Workshop on Designing and Building Web Services (GGF 9), Chicago, IL. (pdf)

Talks and Posters

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2015

  • Traffic-Sensitive Live Migration of Virtual Machines, Deshpande, U., Keahey, K. 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015). Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. May 2015 (pdf)

2014

  • Transparent Throughput Elasticity for IaaS Cloud Storage Using Guest-Side Block-Level Caching, Nicolae, B., Riteau, P., Keahey, K. 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014). London, United Kingdom. December 2014 (pdf)
  • A Cloud Computing Approach to On-Demand and Scalable CyberGIS Analytics, Riteau P., Hwang M., Padmanabhan A., Gao Y., Liu Y., Keahey K., Wang S. 5th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud 2014). Vancouver, Canada. June 2014 (pdf)

2013

  • Evaluating Streaming Strategies for Event Processing across Infrastructure Clouds (joint work), Radu Tudoran, Gabriel Antoniu, Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, Sergey Panitkin. The Tenth Workshop of the INRIA-Illinois-ANL Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing. NCSA, University of Illinois, USA. November 2013 (pdf)
  • From Clouds to Observatories: How Cloud Computing Changes the Way We Do Science, Kate Keahey. IIHR seminar. Iowa City, Iowa. September 2013. (pdf)
  • Clouds and Observatories: How Infrastructure Clouds Can Change the Way We Do Science, Kate Keahey. The 1st International Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing. Miami, Florida. August 2013. (pdf)
  • Science Clouds, with David Lifka, Manish Parashar, Warren Smith, Carol Song, and Shaowen Wang. Birds-of-a-Feather Session at XSEDE 2013, San Diego, CA. July 2013 (pdf)
  • From Clouds to Observatories, Kate Keahey. CloudCamp Chicago – Industry Cloud. Chicago, Illinois. June 2013. (pdf)
  • Research Topics and Collaboration Opportunities in the Nimbus Team, Kate Keahey. The Ninth Workshop of the INRIA-Illinois Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing. Lyon, France. June 2013.
  • Beyond the Clouds: Trends in Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. Fachtagung “Future Business Clouds”. Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie (Ministry of Science and Technology), Berlin, Germany. June 2013. (pdf)
  • Nimbus Platform: How Does Your Cluster Grow?, Kate Keahey. Seminar at Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, Illinois. April 2013. (pdf)
  • Nimbus Platform: How Does Your Cluster Grow?, Kate Keahey. XSEDE Science Gateway Community Meeting. February 2013. (pdf)

2012

  • HPC Clouds: Can Infrastructure Clouds Provide a Viable HPC Platform?, with Nick Wright (LBNL), Patrick Bridges (University of New Mexico), DK Panda (University of Ohio), Jamie Kinney (AWS), and Pete Beckman (ANL). Birds-of-a-Feather Session at SC12, Salt Lake City, UT. November 2012.
  • Infrastructure Outsourcing in Multi-Cloud Environment, Invited talk at the 8th Workshop of the INRIA-Illinois Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing. Argonne, IL. November 2012 (pdf)
  • SC12 Cloud Computing for Science Tutorial, John Breshnahan, Patrick Armstrong, Kate Keahey, Pierre Riteau, SC12. Salt Lake City, UT. November 2012 (html)
  • Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, seminar at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. October 2012 (pdf)
  • Computing Power on Tap: Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, invited talk at the CLASS 2012 Conference. Bled, Slovenia, October 2012.

2011

  • Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey. CloudViews 2011. Porto, Portugal. November 2011. (pptx)
  • Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey. Open Cirrus Summit 2011. Atlanta, Georgia. October 2011. (pdf)
  • Cloud versus Cloud: Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey. Computing in Atmospheric Sciences Workshop 2011. Annecy, France. September 2011. (pptx)
  • Managing Appliance Launches in Infrastructure Clouds, Kate Keahey. Teragrid 2011. Salt Lake City, Utah. July 2011. (pptx)
  • Infrastructure Clouds: Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey. CONTRAIL Summer school 2011. France. June 2011. (pptx)
  • Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Cloud, Paul Marshall. CCGrid 2011. Newport Beach, CA. May 2011. (pdf)
  • Nimbus: Cloud Computing for Science, Keahey, K. HPAGC 2011. Chicago, IL. April 2011. (pptx)
  • Large Scale Sky Computing Applications with Nimbus, Riteau, P. HPAGC 2011. Chicago, IL. April 2011. (pdf)
  • Pierre Riteau, Kate Keahey, and Christine Morin. 2011. Bringing Elastic MapReduce to Scientific Clouds. Poster presented at 3rd Annual Workshop on Cloud Computing and Its Applications (CCA '11), Chicago, IL. (pdf)
  • Cloud Innovation for Science: How is Cloud Computing like a Horseless Carriage?, Kate Keahey, NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III. Gaithersburg, MD, April 2011. (pdf)

2010

  • Tim Freeman, David LaBissoniere, Paul Marshall, John Bresnahan, and Kate Keahey. 2010. Nimbus Elastic Scaling in the Clouds. Poster presented at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010), Indianapolis, IN. (pdf)
  • Nimbus Tutorial, Kate Keahey, David LaBissoniere, John Bresnahan, Tim Freeman, Paul Marshall. CloudCom 2010. Indianapolis, IN. December 2010. (pptx) (pptx)
  • Cloud versus Cloud: the Blessings and Challenges of Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. INRIA Seminar. Rennes, France. November 2010. (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. SC10 Booth Presentation, New Orleans, LA. November 2010. (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. Nanoinformatics 2010. Arlington, VA. November 2010. (pdf)
  • John Bresnahan, Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, and David LaBissoniere. 2010. Cumulus: Open Source Storage Cloud for Science. Poster presented at International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '10), New Orleans, LA. (pdf)
  • Cloud versus Cloud: the Blessings and Challenges of Cloud Computing, Kate Keahey. CloudComp 2010, Barcelona, Spain, October 2010. (pdf)
  • Cloud versus Cloud: the Blessings and Challenges of Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. CHEP 2010, October 2010 (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. Department of Computer and Information Science Colloquium, University of Oregon, October 2010 (pdf)
  • Sky Computing on FutureGrid and Grid’5000, Pierre Riteau, Mauricio Tsugawa, Andrea Matsunaga, José Fortes, Tim Freeman, David LaBissoniere, Kate Keahey. TeraGrid 2010, Pittsburgh, PA. August 2010. (ppt)
  • Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources, Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman. CCGrid 2010. Melbourne, Australia. May 2010. (pdf)
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. Salishan Conference. April 2010. (ppt)
  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey. Condor Week, Madison WI, April 2010. (pdf)
  • Nimbus: Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. GlobusWorld, Argonne National Laboratory. March 2010. (pdf)
  • Nimbus Update, Kate Keahey. OSG All Hands Meeting, March 2010. (pdf)

2009

  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey, AIST Booth Talk, SC09, November 2009.
  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey. Cloud Computing for Systems and Computational Biology Workshop, November 2009. (pdf)
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service – Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. OGF27, Banff, Canada. October 2009 (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey. CCA, Chicago, IL. October, 2009. (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey, keynote, XtreemOS Summer School, Oxford, UK. September 2009 (pdf)
  • Matthew Arrott, Alex Clemesha, Claudiu Farcas, Emilia Farcas, Michael Meisinger, Dorian Raymer, David LaBissoniere, and Kate Keahey. 2009. Cloud Provisioning Environment: Prototype Architecture and Technologies. Poster presented at Ocean Observatories Initiative Kick Off Meeting, Tabernash, CO. (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. CoreGRID 2009 Workshop, Delft, Netherlands. August 2009 (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing for Science, Kate Keahey. SSDBM09, New Orleans, LA. June 2009 (pdf)
  • Nimbus: Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing Software, Kate Keahey, Workshop on adapting applications and computing services to multi-core and virtualization, CERN, Switzerland. June 2009 (pdf)
  • Cloud Computing With Nimbus, Kate Keahey. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. April 2009 (ppt)
  • Cloud Computing with Nimbus, Kate Keahey, OSG All Hands Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA. March 2009 (pdf)
  • Turn your cluster into a Cloud with Nimbus, Kate Keahey. Meetup, Menlo Park, CA. February 2009 (ppt)
  • Cloud Computing With Nimbus, Kate Keahey. Computing Techniques Seminar, Fermilab, IL. January 2009 (ppt)

2008

  • Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters, Kate Keahey. eScience 2008, Indianapolis, IN. December 2008 (pdf)
  • Nimbus or an Open Source Cloud Platform or the Best Open Source EC2 No Money Can Buy, Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman. Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX. November 2008 (ppt) (pdf)
  • Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications, Kate Keahey, Renato Figueiredo, Jose Fortes, Tim Freeman, Mauricio Tsugawa. Cloud Computing and its Applications, Chicago, IL. October 2008 (ppt) (pdf)
  • Flying Low: Simple Leases with the Workspace Pilot, Tim Freeman. Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. August 2008 (pdf)
  • Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and TeraGrid, Kate Keahey, Marlon Pierce. TeraGrid ’08, Las Vegas, NV. June 2008 (ppt)
  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization with Globus (Tutorial), Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman. Open Source Grid Cluster, Oakland, CA, May 2008 (ppt)
  • First Steps in the Clouds, Kate Keahey. OGF22, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2008 (ppt)

2007

  • The Virtual Workspace Ecosystem, Kate Keahey. Seminar at the University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. November 2007 (pdf)
  • Going Places with Distributed Computing, Kate Keahey, European Space Agency Grid Workshop, Madrid, Spain. November 2007 (pdf)
  • Globus Virtual Workspaces – An Update, Kate Keahey. Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV. November 2007 (ppt)
  • Globus Virtual Workspaces, Kate Keahey. HEPiX Fall 2007, St. Louis, MO. November 2007 (ppt)
  • Enabling Cost-Effective Resource Leases with Virtual Machines, Kate Keahey. HPDC 2007 Hot Topics session, Monterey Bay, CA. June 2007 (ppt)
  • Kate Keahey. 2007. Virtual Workspaces for Scientific Applications. Poster presented at SciDAC 2007 Conference, Boston, MA. (pdf)
  • A Scalable Approach To Deploying And Managing Appliances, Kate Keahey. TeraGrid 2007, Madison, WI. June 2007 (ppt)
  • Virtual Workspaces: State of the Art and Current Directions, Borja Sotomayor. DSL Workshop, Chicago, IL. May, 2007 (ppt)
  • Virtual Machines for Grid Computing, Borja Sotomayor. Midwest Grid Workshop 2007, Chicago, IL. May, 2007 (pdf)
  • Virtual Appliances for Scientific Applications, Kate Keahey. Virtual Appliances Leadership Summit 2007 (VALS), Dallas, TX. April, 2007 (ppt)

2006

  • Division of Labor: Tools for Growing and Scaling Grids, Kate Keahey. ICSOC 06, Chicago, IL. December 2006 (ppt)
  • On-Demand Virtual Workspaces: Quality of Life in the Grid, Kate Keahey. 5th Meeting of Spanish Initiative in Grid Middleware, Granada, Spain. November 2006 (ppt)
  • Virtual Workspace Appliances, Tim Freeman and Kate Keahey. SC06 Booth Presentation, Tampa, FL. November 2006 (pdf)
  • Resource Management for Virtual Clusters, Borja Sotomayor. DSL Workshop, Chicago, IL. June 2006 (pdf)
  • Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities, Tim Freeman. CCGrid 06, Singapore. May 2006 (pdf)

2005

  • Living on the Edge: OSG Edge Services Framework, Kate Keahey and Abhishek Rana. SCO5 Booth Presentation, Seattle, WA. November 2005 (ppt)
  • Wei Lu. 2005. Making your workspace secure: establishing trust with VMs in the Grid. Poster presented at SC05, Seattle, WA. November 2005. (ppt)
  • Virtualization: Towards More Flexible and Efficient Grids, Kate Keahey. PPAM 2005, Poznan, Poland. September 2005 (ppt)
  • Virtual Workspaces in the Grid, Kate Keahey. EuroPar 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. September 2005 (ppt)
  • Workspaces for CE Management, Kate Keahey. EGEE All Hands Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic. June 2005 (ppt)
  • Working Spaces: Virtual Machines in the Grid, Kate Keahey and Tim Freeman. GlobusWorld 2005, Boston, MA February 2005 (ppt)

2004

  • From Sandbox to Playground: Dynamic Virtual Environments in the Grid, Kate Keahey. Grid 2004, Pittsburgh, PA. November 2004 (ppt)
  • Kate Keahey. 2004. Quality of Life in the Grids: VMs meet Bioinformatics Applications. Poster presented at SC04, Pittsburgh, PA. November 2004. (ppt)
  • From Sandbox to Playground: Virtual Environments and Quality of Service in the Grids, Kate Keahey. IEEE Fox Valley Subsection, Chicago, IL. September 2004 (ppt)
  • Virtual Playground: From Quality of Service to Quality of Life in the Grids, Kate Keahey. PSNC Seminar, Poznan, Poland. April 2004 (ppt)