Sriram Govindan, CSE Ph.D. Student, Receives IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award

Sriram Govindan, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Penn State, has received the IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award.  The title of the patent is "System and Method for Measurement-Based Power and Energy Accounting for Virtual Machines."  The description of the patent is dynamic accounting of server-level power measurement among the virtual machines that are time/space multiplexing on the underlying hardware resources.  The other authors who worked on this patent were Karthick Rajamani and Freeman Rawson, both from the IBM Austin Research Lab.

Sriram's current research interests are server virtualization and power/energy management in data centers.  He is currently working on provisioning power infrastructure for large scale data centers and he is also working on reducing the energy consumption of data centers.  His previous work includes management and scheduling of resources in a virtualized server environment.

Sriram is part of the Computer Systems Lab at CSE.  He is co-advised by Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Anand Sivasubramaniam.

Congratulations!