David Oppenheimer's Publications

Journal articles

• Robert Ricci, David Oppenheimer, Jay Lepreau, and Amin Vahdat. Lessons from resource allocators for large-scale multiuser testbeds. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 40, no. 1, January 2006, pp. 25-32.

• David Oppenheimer, Aaron Brown, James Beck, Dan Hettena, Jon Kuroda, Noah Treuhaft, David A. Patterson, and Kathy Yelick. ROC-1: Hardware Support for Recovery-Oriented Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 51, no. 2, February 2002.

• Matt Welsh, David Oppenheimer, and David Culler. U-Net/SLE: A Java-based User-Customizable Virtual Network Interface. Scientific Programming 7(1999), 147-156. (Originally appeared in First UK Workshop Java for High Performance Network Computing, EuroPar 1998, Southampton, England, 1998.) (Extended version available as User Customization of Virtual Network Interfaces with U-Net/SLE. Technical Report UCB CSD-98-995, February 1998.)
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Magazine articles

• David Oppenheimer and David A. Patterson. Architecture, operation, and dependability of large-scale Internet services: three case studies. IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Global Deployment of Data Centers, September/October 2002.

Refereed conference and workshop papers

• David Oppenheimer, Brent Chun, David A. Patterson, Alex Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Service Placement in a Shared Wide-Area Platform. Usenix Annual Technical Conference, June 2006.

• David Oppenheimer, Jeannie Albrecht, David A. Patterson, and Amin Vahdat. Design and Implementation Tradeoffs for Wide-Area Resource Discovery. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), July 2005. [talk slides]

• David Oppenheimer, Jeannie Albrecht, David A. Patterson, and Amin Vahdat. Distributed resource discovery on PlanetLab with SWORD. First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '04), December 2004. [talk slides]

• David Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, and David A. Patterson. Towards a framework for automated robustness evaluation of distributed services. 2nd Bertinoro Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo II): Survivability: Obstacles and Solutions, June 2004.

• David Oppenheimer. The importance of understanding distributed system configuration. System Administrators are Users, Too: Designing Workspaces for Managing Internet-Scale Systems CHI 2003 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) workshop, April 2003.

• David Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, and David A. Patterson. Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it? 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '03), March 2003. [talk slides]

• David Oppenheimer, Aaron B. Brown, Jonathan Traupman, Pete Broadwell, and David A. Patterson. Practical issues in dependability benchmarking. Second Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System Dependability (EASY), October 2002.

• David Oppenheimer and David A. Patterson. Studying and using failure data from large-scale Internet services. 10th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Saint-Emilion, France, September 2002.

• Aaron Brown, David Oppenheimer, Kimberly Keeton, Randi Thomas, John Kubiatowicz, and David A. Patterson. ISTORE: Introspective Storage for Data-Intensive Network Services. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VII), Rio Rico, Arizona, March 1999.

• Liviu Iftode, Matthias Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, David L. Oppenheimer, Jaswinder Pal Singh, and Kai Li. Shared Virtual Memory with Automatic Update Support. 1999 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Rhodes, Greece, 1999. (Also Princeton University Computer Science Department Technical Report TR-575-98, February 1998.)

• David L. Oppenheimer and Margaret R. Martonosi. Performance Signatures: A Mechanism for Intrusion Detection. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Information Survivability Workshop, 1997.

• David L. Oppenheimer and Edward W. Felten. Protocol Failure Analysis in the Applied Cryptography Curriculum. First ACM Workshop on Education in Computer Security, Monterey, California, 1997.
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Refereed posters

• David Oppenheimer, Brent Chun, David Patterson, Alex Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Service Placement in Shared Wide-Area Platforms. SOSP-20, October 2005.

Technical reports

• David Oppenheimer, Jeannie Albrecht, David Patterson, and Amin Vahdat. Scalable Wide-Area Resource Discovery. UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-04-1334, July 2004.

• David Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, Hakim Weatherspoon, Jason Lee, David A. Patterson, and John Kubiatowicz. Monitoring, Analyzing, and Controlling Internet-scale Systems with ACME. UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1276, October 2003.

• David Oppenheimer, David A. Patterson, and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Decentralized systems need decentralized benchmarks. UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1234, April 2003.

• David Oppenheimer, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch, and David A. Patterson. Benchmarking DHTs with Queries. UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1222, January 2003.

• Aaron Brown and David Oppenheimer. Analyzing Application Performance Using a System Monitoring Database. UC Berkeley Computer Science Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1224, January 2003. (Reports on work done in 1999.)

• David Oppenheimer. Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it? UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB-CSD-02-1185, May, 2002.

• David Patterson, Aaron Brown, Pete Broadwell, George Candea, Mike Chen, James Cutler, Patricia Enriquez, Armando Fox, Emre Kiciman, Matthew Merzbacher, David Oppenheimer, Naveen Sastry, William Tetzlaff, Jonathan Traupman, and Noah Treuhaft. Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies. UCB Computer Science Technical Report UCB//CSD-02-1175, March 2002.

Books

• David L. Oppenheimer, David A. Wagner, and Michele D. Crabb. System Security: A Management Perspective. Berkeley, CA: Usenix Association, 1997.

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