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Graduate Student

Computer Science Department

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office: Gates 7010

Ph: +1 412 268 4973

Email: anshulg (at) cs (dot) cmu (dot) edu

 

Advisor: Mor Harchol-Balter

 

Research Interests: Power Management and Performance Modeling in server farms.
Resume: [pdf] (updated: April 2012)


Publications:

·         Saving Cash by Using Less Cache

      Timothy Zhu, Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Michael Kozuch

     HotCloud 2012


·         AutoScale: Dynamic, Robust Capacity Management for Multi-Tier Data Centers

      Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ram Raghunathan and Michael Kozuch

      Technical Report CMU-CS-12-109


·         Are sleep states effective in data centers?
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Michael Kozuch
IGCC 2012 (extended version)


o   The case for sleep states in servers
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Michael Kozuch
HotPower 2011 [pdf]


·         Minimizing Data Center SLA Violations and Power Consumption via Hybrid Resource Provisioning
Anshul Gandhi, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Martin Arlitt and Manish Marwah
IGCC 2011 [pdf]
(Best Paper Award at IGCC 2011)
(Pick of the Month for March 2012 in the IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing)


o   Hybrid Resource Provisioning for Minimizing Data Center SLA Violations and Power Consumption
Anshul Gandhi, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Martin Arlitt and Manish Marwah
Sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems (extended version)


·         Distributed, Robust Auto-Scaling Policies for Power Management in Compute Intensive Server Farms
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ram Raghunathan and Michael Kozuch
Open Cirrus Summit 2011 [pdf]


·         How Data Center Size Impacts the Effectiveness of Dynamic Power Management
Anshul Gandhi and Mor Harchol-Balter
49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
[pdf]


·         Server farms with setup costs
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Ivo Adan
PERFORMANCE 2010 [pdf]


·         Optimality Analysis of Energy-Performance Trade-off for Server Farm Management
Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter and Michael Kozuch
PERFORMANCE 2010
[pdf]
CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-10-108 (extended version)


·         M/G/k with Exponential Setup
Anshul Gandhi and Mor Harchol-Balter
CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-09-166


o   Decomposition Results for an M/M/k with Staggered Setup
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Ivo Adan
MAMA 2010
[pdf]


o   Analysis of an M/M/k system with exponential setup times under staggered boot up
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter and Ivo Adan
MCQT 2010


·         Power Capping Via Forced Idleness
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey Kephart and Charles Lefurgy
WEED 2009 [pdf]


·         Optimal Power Allocation in Server Farms
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Rajarshi Das and Charles Lefurgy
SIGMETRICS 2009 [pdf]
CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-09-113 (extended version)


·         Inducing Optimal Scheduling with Selfish Users
Paul Enders, Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Laurens Debo, Mor Harchol-Balter and Alan Scheller-Wolf
CMU GSIA Working Paper #2008-E23


·         Database Summarization and Publishing in Wireless Environments
Anshul Gandhi and R.K.Ghosh
ICDCN 2006 [pdf]



Patents:

·         Dynamic Capacity Management of Multiple Parallel Connected Computing Resources (filed 3/30/2012)

·         Provisioning Data Center Resources (filed 4/12/2012)

·         Power Budget Allocation in Multi-Processor Systems (filed 4/7/2011)

·         Systems and Methods for Managing Power Consumption and Performance of a Processor (filed 7/20/2010)


Updated: 6th May 2012 <Anshul Gandhi © 2008>