Publications
I have submitted my dissertation, and have started a postdoc with the PDOS group at MIT. I am no longer in Cambridge, UK and am no longer updating this site.
See my new MIT website for the latest publications.
See my new MIT website for the latest publications.
Conference and workshop papers
2016
- Firmament: fast, centralized cluster scheduling at scale
Ionel Gog, Malte Schwarzkopf, Adam Gleave, Robert N.M. Watson, Steven Hand
In Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2016)
» Paper [usenix]
2015
- Broom: sweeping out Garbage Collection from Big Data systems
Ionel Gog, Jana Giceva, Malte Schwarzkopf, Kapil Viswani, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Ganesan Ramalingan, Manuel Costa, Derek Murray, Steven Hand and Michael Isard
In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX/SIGOPS Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS 2015)
» Paper [usenix] - Queues don't matter when you can JUMP them!
Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Andrew W. Moore, Robert N.M. Watson, Steven Hand and Jon Crowcroft
in Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2015) – Best paper award!
» Paper [usenix] [website] - Musketeer: all for one, one for all in data processing systems
Ionel Gog, Malte Schwarzkopf, Natacha Crooks, Matthew P. Grosvenor, Allen Clement and Steven Hand
in Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2015)
» Paper [ACM DL]
2013
- New wine in old skins: the case for distributed operating systems
in the data center
Malte Schwarzkopf, Matthew P. Grosvenor and Steven Hand
in Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSYS 2013)
» Paper [ACM DL] » Slides: Google Docs - Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters
Malte Schwarzkopf, Andy Konwinski, Michael Abd-El-Malek and John Wilkes
in Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2013) – Best student paper award!
» Paper [ACM DL] » Slides: Google Docs [PDF (no animations)]
2012
- The seven deadly sins of cloud computing research
Malte Schwarzkopf, Derek G. Murray and Steven Hand
in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2012) at USENIX 2012
» Paper [usenix] » Slides - A down-to-earth look at the cloud host OS
Malte Schwarzkopf and Steven Hand
in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Data Processing (HotCDP 2012) at EuroSys 2012
» Paper [ACM DL] » Slides - The Case for Reconfigurable I/O Channels
Steven Smith, Anil Madhavapeddy, Christopher Smowton, Malte Schwarzkopf, Richard Mortier, Robert Watson and Steven Hand
at the 2nd Workshop on Runtime Environments, Systems, Layering and Virtualized Environments (RESoLVE 2012) at ASPLOS 2012
» Paper
2011
- Condensing the cloud: running Ciel on many-core
Malte Schwarzkopf, Derek G. Murray and Steven Hand
at the 1st Workshop on Systems for Future Multi-Core Architectures (SFMA 2011) at EuroSys 2011
» Paper [on the workshop site] » Slides - Ciel: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing
Derek G. Murray, Malte Schwarzkopf, Christopher Smowton, Steven Smith, Anil Madhavapeddy and Steven Hand
in Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI 2011)
» Paper [usenix]
2010
- Unclouded Vision (invited paper)
Jon Crowcroft, Anil Madhavapeddy, Malte Schwarzkopf, Theodore Hong and Richard Mortier
in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) as part of the Proceedings of ICDCN 2011
» Paper at Springerlink - Unclouded Vision
Jon Crowcroft, Anil Madhavapeddy, Malte Schwarzkopf, Theodore Hong and Richard Mortier
in Proceedings of the Digital Futures 2010 Meeting
» Paper - Using Dust Clouds to Enhance Anonymous Communication
Richard Mortier, Anil Madhavapeddy, Theodore Hong, Derek G. Murray and Malte Schwarzkopf
in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Workshop on Security Protocols, Cambridge, UK, March 2010
» Paper » Slides
Journal articles
- Non-volatile storage
Mihir Nanavati, Malte Schwarzkopf, Jake Wires and Andrew Warfield
ACM Queue, vol. 13, no. 9, November-December 2015.
» to appear - Jump the queue to lower latency
Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog and Andrew W. Moore
USENIX ;login: magazine, vol. 40, no. 2, April 2015.
» [usenix] - Raft Refloated: Do We Have Consensus?
Heidi Howard, Malte Schwarzkopf, Anil Madhavapeddy and Jon Crowcroft
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review – Special Issue on Repeatability and Sharing of Experimental Artifacts 49.1 (January 2015).
» Paper [ACM DL] - Please mind the gap between intra- and inter-chassis parallelism!
Malte Schwarzkopf, Derek G. Murray and Steven Hand
in volume 1 of Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS)
» Paper [on the TinyToCS site]
Posters and demos
- CamIO: declaring flexible and performant application I/O
Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Andrew W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson and Steven Hand
Demo at the 4th Asia-Pacific Systems Workshop (APSYS 2013)
» Abstract - R2D2: Bufferless, switchless data center networks using commodity Ethernet hardware
Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf and Andrew W. Moore
Poster at the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference (SIGCOMM 2013)
» Poster » Abstract - Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters
Malte Schwarzkopf, Andy Konwinski, Michael Abd-El-Malek and John Wilkes
Poster at the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2013)
» Poster - Multi-scale computing over heterogeneous resources
Malte Schwarzkopf and Steven Hand
Poster at the 23rd Symposium of Operating System Principles (SOSP 2011).
» Poster (updated version) » Summary (extended abstract) [proceedings] - Nimbus: Intelligent Personal Storage
Malte Schwarzkopf and Steven Hand
Poster as part of the Microsoft Research Summer School 2010, Cambridge, UK.
» Poster - Nimbus: A Personal Cloud Storage Manager
Malte Schwarzkopf and Steven Hand
Poster as part of the Doctoral Workshop at EuroSys 2010, Paris, France.
» Poster - Personal Containers: Towards a scalable, holistic personal cloud
Jon Crowcroft, Malte Schwarzkopf and Anil Madhavapeddy
Poster at a London Technology Network Event: Information Security: Detect, Protect, Deter.
» Poster - Proteus – Semi-Automatic Interactive Structure-from-Motion
Malte Schwarzkopf and Christian Richardt
Poster at Vision, Modelling and Visualisation Workshop 2009, Braunschweig, Germany.
» Project website » Abstract » Poster
Dissertations
- Operating system support for warehouse-scale computing
Malte Schwarzkopf
PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Submitted: October 23, 2015.
Examined: February 12, 2016.
» Dissertation (8 MB, PDF) - Proteus – Interactive Annotation-Based 3D Structure-from-Motion
Malte Schwarzkopf
Part II Dissertation, Cambridge Computer Science Tripos, May 2009.
Nominated for an SET award.
» Project website » Dissertation (13 MB, PDF)