Emmanuel Cecchet

I am currently leading the BenchLab project.

Contact info

University of Massachusetts Department of Computer Science 140 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003 USA Office: 216A CS Building Email: cecchet @ cs.umass.edu Phone: +1 413 575 3787 Fax: +1 413 545 1249

Links

Recent Program committees

• CFSE 2011 - French Conference on Operating Systems
• DAIS 2011 - 11th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
• 1st International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'2010)
• Eurosys 2010
• DAIS 2010
• HotCloud 2009
• 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems track

Recent talks

• Performance Benchmarking in Systems
  Keynote at CFSE 2011 - French Conference on Operating Systems
  Slides in pdf or pptx

Recent publications

• BenchLab: An Open Testbed for Realistic Benchmarking of Web Applications
  Emmanuel Cecchet, Veena Udayabhanu, Timothy Wood and Prashant Shenoy.
  Proceedings of 2nd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps '11), June 15-16, 2011, Portland, OR
  Paper
• BenchLab: Benchmarking with Real Web Applications and Web Browsers
  Emmanuel Cecchet, Veena Udayabhanu, Timothy Wood, Prashant Shenoy, Fabien Mottet, Vivien Quema and Guillaume Pierre.
  Eurosys 2011, Poster and demo session, April 10-13, 2011, Salzburg, Austria
  Paper & poster
• ZZ and the Art of Practical BFT Execution
  Timothy Wood, Rahul Singh, Arun Venkataramani, Prashant Shenoy and Emmanuel Cecchet
  EuroSys 2011, Salzburg, Austria, April 10 - 13, 2011
  Paper
• Dolly: Virtualization-driven Database Provisioning for the Cloud
  Emmanuel Cecchet, Rahul Singh, Upendra Sharma, Prashant Shenoy
  2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2011), Newport Beach, CA, March 9-11, 2011
  Paper | NEDB Summit Slides (pptx, pdf) | Extended tech report UM-CS-2010-006
• Private Memoirs of a Smart Meter
  Andres Molina-Markham, Prashant Shenoy, Kevin Fu, Emmanuel Cecchet, David Irwin
  2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, November 2, 2010
  Paper
• Disaster Recovery as a Cloud Service: Economic Benefits & Deployment Challenges
  Timothy Wood, Emmanuel Cecchet, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy, Jacobus van der Merwe, and Arun Venkataramani.
  Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2010
  Paper
• Autonomic Mix-Aware Provisioning for Non-Stationary Data Center Workloads
  Rahul Singh, Upendra Sharma, Emmanuel Cecchet and Prashant Shenoy
  Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC), Washington, DC, USA, June 7-11, 2010
  Paper
• JReq: Database Queries in Imperative Languages
  Ming-Yee Iu, Emmanuel Cecchet, and Willy Zwaenepoel
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2010), 20-28 March 2010, Paphos, Cyprus
  Paper
• Drivolution: Rethinking the Database Driver Lifecycle
  Emmanuel Cecchet and George Candea
  Middleware 2009 (Industrial track), Urbana Champaign, IL, USA, December 2009
  Paper
• Online Piece-wise Linear Approximation of Numerical Streams with Precision Guarantees
  Hazem Elmeleegy, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Emmanuel Cecchet, Walid Aref and Willy Zwaenepoel
  VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, August 2009
  Paper
• Predicting Replicated Database Scalability from Standalone Database Profiling
  Sameh Elnikety, Steve Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecchet and Willy Zwaenepoel
  EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2009
  Paper
• Memory Buddies: Exploiting Page Sharing for Smart Colocation in Virtualized Data Centers
  Timothy Wood, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Prashant Shenoy, Peter Desnoyers, Emmanuel Cecchet, Mark Corner
  2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2009), Washington, DC, USA, March 11-13, 2009
  Paper
• Performance Debugging in Data Centers: Doing More with Less
  Emmanuel Cecchet, Maitreya Natu, Vaishali Sadaphal, Prashant Shenoy and Harrick Vin
  COMSNET 2009 - 1st International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, Bangalore, India, January, 5-10 2009
  Paper
• Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps between Theory and Practice
  Emmanuel Cecchet, George Candea and Anastasia Ailamaki
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 10-12, 2008
  Paper

About me

I am a Research Scientist, Software Architect and Open Source activist. 

I received a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems from INPG in 2001. During my postdoc at Rice University, I contributed to DynaServer. I studied the design of scalable and highly available e-business servers and I designed the RUBiS benchmark. After leaving Rice, I led a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large scale data servers. I was also Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb consortium and leader of the C-JDBC project. In 2005, I joined Continuent where I served as Chief Architect and Chief Scientific Officer. I lead Continuent.org and the Sequoia project that was the basis for Continuent's High Availability Database product line. I am still providing consulting as an independent activity to companies that need to build Highly Available databases and/or web applications.

At the end of 2006,  I joined EPFL as a research assistant. I worked with both the operating systems and dependable systems laboratories. I joined UMass Amherst as a Senior Research Fellow in July 2008. I also worked for Aster Data Systems from October 2008 to May 2010. I currently work for the Laboratory for Advanced System Software with Prashant Shenoy and for the Commonwealth Center for Forensics & Society with Brian Levine.