--- title: "Shivaram Venkataraman — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Shivaram Venkataraman, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shivaram Venkataraman # Shivaram Venkataraman Shivaram Venkataraman has 2 papers in our library, in 2019, most of them on [GPU & parallel computing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/gpu-parallel-computing/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Amar Phanishayee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amar-phanishayee/), [Aditya Akella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-akella/), [Fan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-yang/). 2 papers in our library · 2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082710354) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9575-7935) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130963836) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082710354) · [154 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082710354) · [7,271 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082710354&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 261 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/cited-by/) · [18 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5832](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5832) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Shivaram+Venkataraman) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shivaram+Venkataraman) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shivaram+Venkataraman) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shivaram+Venkataraman) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Madison** Madison · United States 2019–2026 · 67 papersEmployment · Associate Professor, Computer Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) · [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2012–2019 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2010–2011 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin System** Madison · United States 2018–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-system/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2018–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Networks and Communications · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-networks-and-communications/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[GPU & parallel computing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/gpu-parallel-computing/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Analysis of Large-Scale Multi-Tenant GPU Clusters for DNN Training Workloads](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jeon-2019-analysis-large-scale-multi-tenant/)** *(2019 · 179 citations)* The paper examines how deep learning training behaves on a shared, production GPU cluster at Microsoft. Such clusters differ from classic big-data clusters in two ways: a GPU cannot easily be split among users, and multi-GPU jobs must have all their GPUs allocated at once (gang scheduling). The authors describe… 2. **[Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahajan-2019-themis-fair-efficient-gpu-cluster/)** *(2019 · 87 citations)* Organizations increasingly pool GPUs into shared clusters for ML training, but fair-sharing schedulers built for big-data analytics, such as DRF, handle these workloads poorly. ## All works 20 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Apache Spark ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2934664) Communications of the ACM · no summary yet**Matei Zaharia et al.*2016 · 2,436 citations* 2. **[Occupy the cloud ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3127479.3128601) Symposium on Cloud Computing · no summary yet**Eric Jonas et al.*2017 · 412 citations* 3. **[Ernest: efficient performance prediction for large-scale advanced analytics ↗](https://openalex.org/W2309679942) Networked Systems Design and Implementation · no summary yet**Shivaram Venkataraman et al.*2016 · 338 citations* 4. **[Probabilistically bounded staleness for practical partial quorums ↗](https://doi.org/10.14778/2212351.2212359) Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · no summary yet**Peter D. Bailis et al.*2012 · 185 citations* 5. [**Analysis of Large-Scale Multi-Tenant GPU Clusters for DNN Training Workloads arXiv:1901.05758**Myeongjae Jeon, Shivaram Venkataraman, Amar Phanishayee, et al.*2019 · 179 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jeon-2019-analysis-large-scale-multi-tenant/) 6. **[Drizzle ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3132747.3132750) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles · no summary yet**Shivaram Venkataraman et al.*2017 · 145 citations* 7. **[Shuffling, Fast and Slow: Scalable Analytics on Serverless Infrastructure ↗](https://openalex.org/W2918996793) Networked Systems Design and Implementation · no summary yet**Qifan Pu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Ion Gabriel Stoica*2019 · 117 citations* 8. **[Cake ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2391229.2391243) ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) · no summary yet**Andrew Wang et al.*2012 · 101 citations* 9. **[The power of choice in data-aware cluster scheduling ↗](https://doi.org/10.5555/2685048.2685072) Operating Systems Design and Implementation · no summary yet**Shivaram Venkataraman et al.*2014 · 91 citations* 10. [**Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling arXiv:1907.01484**Kshiteej Mahajan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Arjun Singhvi, et al.*2019 · 87 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahajan-2019-themis-fair-efficient-gpu-cluster/) 11. **[The case for tiny tasks in compute clusters ↗](https://openalex.org/W1534130940) no summary yet**Kay Ousterhout et al.*2013 · 76 citations* 12. **[numpywren: serverless linear algebra ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09679) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Vaishaal Shankar et al.*2018 · 69 citations* 13. **[Blink: Fast and Generic Collectives for Distributed ML ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04940) arXiv:1910.04940 · no summary yet**Guanhua Wang et al.*2019 · 58 citations* 14. **[Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04024) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Eric Jonas et al.*2017 · 55 citations* 15. **[Quantifying eventual consistency with PBS ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-013-0330-1) The VLDB Journal · no summary yet**Peter D. Bailis et al.*2013 · 46 citations* 16. **[Bridging the GAP ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3210259.3210269) no summary yet**Anand Padmanabha Iyer et al.*2018 · 17 citations* 17. **[Cake: Enabling High-level SLOs on Shared Storage Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.21236/ada569773) no summary yet**Andrew Wang et al.*2012 · 11 citations* 18. **[PBS at work ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2463676.2465260) Proceedings - ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data · no summary yet**Peter D. Bailis et al.*2013 · 9 citations* 19. **[Sweet storage SLOs with Frosting ↗](https://openalex.org/W1491540504) no summary yet**Andrew Wang et al.*2012 · 9 citations* 20. **[Record Placement Based on Data Skew Using Solid State Drives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13021-7_14) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Jun Suzuki et al.*2014 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amar Phanishayee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amar-phanishayee/) ×2 - [Aditya Akella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-akella/) - [Fan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-yang/) - [Wencong Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wencong-xiao/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Networked Systems Design and Implementation ×2 - ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) - Communications of the ACM - Lecture notes in computer science - Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Proceedings - ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment - Symposium on Cloud Computing - Symposium on Operating Systems Principles - The VLDB Journal ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 261 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivaram-venkataraman/cited-by/). 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