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My current research:
          1. Power management in server systems - I am currently working on provisioning power infrastructure in large scale data centers. I am also working on reducing the energy consumption of servers employed in data centers.
          2. Management and Scheduling of Resources in a Virtualized Server Environment.

Publications:
        "Leveraging Stored Energy for Handling Power Emergencies in Aggressively Provisioned Datacenters", Sriram Govindan, Di Wang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar. To appear in the Proceedings of Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2012).          

        "Towards Realizing a Low Cost and Highly Available Datacenter Power Infrastructure"", Sriram Govindan, Di Wang, Lydia Chen, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar. In the Proceedings of the workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower 2011).          

        "Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines"", Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, Anand Sivasubramaniam. In the Proceedings of Symposium of Cloud Computing (SOCC 2011).          

        "Benefits and Limitations of Tapping into Stored Energy For Datacenters"", Sriram Govindan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar. In the Proceedings of International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011).          

        "vPath: Precise Inference of Transaction Execution Paths from Easily Observable Thread and Network Activities", Byung Chul Tak, Chunqiang Tang, Chun Zhang, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Rong N. Chang. In the Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2009).          

        "Statistical Profiling-based Techniques for Effective Provisioning of Power Infrastructure in Consolidated Data Centers", Sriram Govindan, Jeonghwan Choi, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Andrea Baldini. In the Proceedings of EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS (Eurosys 2009).          

        "Profiling, Prediction and Capping of Power-consumption for Consolidated Data-center Environment ", Jeonghwan Choi, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Anand Sivasubramaniam, In the proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008) -- "Best Student Paper"          

          "Xen and Co: Communication-aware CPU Scheduling for Consolidated Xen-based Hosting Platforms", Sriram Govindan, Arjun Nath, Amitayu Das, Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Anand Sivasubramaniam, In the proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2007).

Journal publications:
        "Communication Aware CPU Management for Consolidated Virtualization Based Hosting Platforms", S. Govindan, J. Choi, A. Nath, A. Das, Urgaonkar, A. Sivasubramanian, IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC 2009).
        " Power Consumption Prediction and Power-Aware Packing in Consolidated Environments." , J. Choi, S. Govindan, Jinkyu Jeong, B. Urgaonkar, A. Sivasubramanian, IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC 2010).