Anshul Gandhi

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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.

Publications:

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

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

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

· Anshul Gandhi, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Martin Arlitt and Manish Marwah. "Minimizing Data Center SLA Violations and Power Consumption via Hybrid Resource Provisioning", IGCC 2011. [pdf] (Best Paper Award)

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

· Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter and Michael Kozuch. "Optimality Analysis of Energy-Performance Trade-off for Server Farm Management", PERFORMANCE 2010. [pdf]

o CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-10-108 (extended version)

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

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

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

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

· Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Rajarshi Das and Charles Lefurgy. "Optimal Power Allocation in Server Farms", SIGMETRICS 2009. [pdf]

o CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-09-113 (extended version)

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

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