2026 Luiz Andre Barroso: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	31	13320	5327	55	19534

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Overview

Luiz Andre Barroso was affiliated with Google in the United States and contributed to research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work encompassed subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications as well as Information Systems. The research topics prominently featured Cloud Computing and Resource Management, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, and Advanced Database Systems and Queries.

Barroso's publication record included notable papers such as:

"A Brief History of Warehouse-Scale Computing" (2021) published in IEEE Micro
"Global perspectives of diversity, equity, and inclusion" (2022) published in Communications of the ACM

Frequent collaborators in their research were T. Choudhury, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Kunle Olukotun, Raluca Ada Popa, and Dongho Song.

The venues where Barroso published regularly included IEEE Micro and Communications of the ACM.

Best Publications

The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing

L.A. Barroso;U. Holzle

3442
Citations
Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer

Xiaobo Fan;Wolf-Dietrich Weber;Luiz Andre Barroso

2571
Citations
The tail at scale

Jeffrey Dean;Luiz André Barroso

2054
Citations
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

Luiz Andre Barroso;Urs Hoelzle

1731
Citations
Web search for a planet: The Google cluster architecture

L.A. Barroso;J. Dean;U. Holzle

1639
Citations
Failure trends in a large disk drive population

Eduardo Pinheiro;Wolf-Dietrich Weber;Luiz André Barroso

1181
Citations
Piranha: a scalable architecture based on single-chip multiprocessing

Luiz André Barroso;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Robert McNamara;Andreas Nowatzyk

777
Citations
Availability in globally distributed storage systems

Daniel Ford;François Labelle;Florentina I. Popovici;Murray Stokely

749
Citations
Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure

Benjamin H. Sigelman;Luiz André Barroso;Mike Burrows;Pat Stephenson

679
Citations
Memory system characterization of commercial workloads

Luiz André Barroso;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Edouard Bugnion

567
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Power management of online data-intensive services

David Meisner;Christopher M. Sadler;Luiz André Barroso;Wolf-Dietrich Weber

549
Citations
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition

Luiz André Barroso;Jimmy Clidaras;Urs Hölzle

385
Citations
Scalable architecture based on single-chip multiprocessing

Luiz Andre Barroso;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Andreas Nowatzyk

349
Citations
Towards energy proportionality for large-scale latency-critical workloads

David Lo;Liqun Cheng;Rama Govindaraju;Luiz André Barroso

340
Citations
The Price of Performance: An Economic Case for Chip Multiprocessing

Luiz André Barroso

339
Citations
An analysis of database workload performance on simultaneous multithreaded processors

Jack L. Lo;Luiz André Barroso;Susan J. Eggers;Kourosh Gharachorloo

316
Citations
Attack of the killer microseconds

Luiz Barroso;Mike Marty;David Patterson;Parthasarathy Ranganathan

265
Citations
Performance of database workloads on shared-memory systems with out-of-order processors

Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Sarita V. Adve;Luiz André Barroso

252
Citations
The Datacenter As a Computer: Designing Warehouse-scale Machines

Luiz Andre Barroso;Urs Holzle;Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Margaret Martonosi

162
Citations
Method and system for exclusive two-level caching in a chip-multiprocessor

Luiz Andre Barroso;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Andreas Nowatzyk

151
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kourosh Gharachorloo Google (United States)

Urs Hölzle Google (United States)

Parthasarathy Ranganathan Google (United States)

Jeffrey Dean Google (United States)

Shaz Qadeer Microsoft (United States)

Henry M. Levy University of Washington

Mateo Valero Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Sarita V. Adve University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christos Kozyrakis Stanford University

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley

External Links

Personal website of Luiz Andre Barroso

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