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Willy Zwaenepoel

Willy Zwaenepoel

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Computer Science
Australia
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
25300
World Ranking
1654
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2000 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed and parallel processing, in particular to the design, implementation, and evaluation of software distributed shared memory.
  • 1998 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design and implementation of distributed shared memory systems.

Overview

Willy Zwaenepoel is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research focuses on several areas within computer science, including distributed systems and fault tolerance, cloud computing and resource management, and age of information optimization.

Their recent publication includes the paper titled "Optimistic Causal Consistency for Geo-Replicated Key-Value Stores", which was published in 2020 in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. This work addresses challenges in distributed key-value stores related to consistency mechanisms under geo-replication.

  • Kristina Spirovska
  • Diego Didona

Zwaenepoel frequently collaborates with co-authors Kristina Spirovska and Diego Didona. The primary publication venue for their work is the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Their main field of study is computer science, with a total of three publications contributing to this area. Specific subfields of expertise include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

Within these fields, the main topics covered in Zwaenepoel's work are:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Age of Information Optimization

Throughout their career, Zwaenepoel has received notable recognitions. These include becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2008.

  • ACM Fellow (2000) for contributions to distributed and parallel processing, particularly in the design, implementation, and evaluation of software distributed shared memory
  • IEEE Fellow (1998) for contributions to the design and implementation of distributed shared memory systems

Best Publications

  • TreadMarks: shared memory computing on networks of workstations

    C. Amza;A.L. Cox;S. Dwarkadas;P. Keleher

  • Implementation and performance of Munin

    John B. Carter;John K. Bennett;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • TreadMarks: distributed shared memory on standard workstations and operating systems

    Pete Keleher;Alan L. Cox;Sandhya Dwarkadas;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Lazy release consistency for software distributed shared memory

    Pete Keleher;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • eNVy: a non-volatile, main memory storage system

    Michael Wu;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers

    Vivek S. Pai;Mohit Aron;Gaurov Banga;Michael Svendsen

  • X-Stream: edge-centric graph processing using streaming partitions

    Amitabha Roy;Ivo Mihailovic;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment

    Aravind Menon;Jose Renato Santos;Yoshio Turner;G. (John) Janakiraman

  • Munin: distributed shared memory based on type-specific memory coherence

    J. K. Bennett;J. B. Carter;W. Zwaenepoel

  • IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system

    Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Measured Performance of Consistent Checkpointing

    E.N. Elnozahy;D.B. Johnson;W Zwaenepoel

  • Flash: an efficient and portable web server

    Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • The performance of consistent checkpointing

    E.N. Elnozahy;D.B. Johnson;W. Zwaenepoel

  • Distributed process groups in the V Kernel

    David R. Cheriton;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Optimizing network virtualization in Xen

    Aravind Menon;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Manetho: transparent roll back-recovery with low overhead, limited rollback, and fast output commit

    E.N. Elnozahy;W. Zwaenepoel

  • Sender-Based Message Logging

    Willy Zwaenepoel;D.B. Johnson

  • Scalable content-aware request distribution in cluster-based networks servers

    Mohit Aron;Darren Sanders;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Performance and scalability of EJB applications

    Emmanuel Cecchet;Julie Marguerite;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Recovery in distributed systems using optimistic message logging and check-pointing

    David B. Johnson;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Recovery in Distributed Systems Using Optimistic Message Logging and Checkpointing

    David B. Johnson;Willy Zwaenepoel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan L. Cox
Alan L. Cox Rice University
Dan S. Wallach
Dan S. Wallach Rice University
Sandhya Dwarkadas
Sandhya Dwarkadas University of Rochester
David B. Johnson
David B. Johnson Rice University
Sameh Elnikety
Sameh Elnikety Microsoft (United States)
Eyal de Lara
Eyal de Lara University of Toronto
Rachid Guerraoui
Rachid Guerraoui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peter Druschel
Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
John B. Carter
John B. Carter IBM (United States)
Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy
Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy The University of Texas at Austin

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