Luiz André Barroso

15.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
60 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Luiz André Barroso is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Luiz André Barroso has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 30 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 27 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Luiz André Barroso's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (30 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (26 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (26 papers). Luiz André Barroso is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (30 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (26 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (26 papers). Luiz André Barroso collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Germany. Luiz André Barroso's co-authors include Urs Hölzle, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Jay B. Dean, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Jimmy Clidaras, Eduardo Pinheiro, Edouard Bugnion, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Thomas F. Wenisch and David Meisner and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Computer and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

In The Last Decade

Luiz André Barroso

57 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing 2003 2026 2010 2018 2007 2007 2009 2013 2003 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing
    2007 1.8k citations Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle profile →
  2. Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer
    2007 1.4k citations Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso et al. profile →
  3. The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
    2009 1.2k citations Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle profile →
  4. The tail at scale
    2013 1.1k citations Luiz André Barroso et al. profile →
  5. Web search for a planet: the google cluster architecture
    2003 654 citations Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle et al. profile →
  6. Failure trends in a large disk drive population
    2007 496 citations Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber et al. File and Storage Technologies profile →
  7. Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer
    2007 458 citations Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso et al. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News profile →
  8. Availability in globally distributed storage systems
    2010 398 citations Daniel Alexander Ford, Florentina I. Popovici et al. Operating Systems Design and Implementation profile →
  9. The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second edition
    2013 336 citations Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle et al. profile →
  10. Power management of online data-intensive services
    2011 327 citations Luiz André Barroso, Wolf-Dietrich Weber et al. profile →
  11. Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
    2010 324 citations Luiz André Barroso et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luiz André Barroso United States 32 9.8k 7.3k 3.9k 2.0k 918 60 11.5k
Urs Hölzle United States 31 7.2k 0.7× 4.8k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.8× 65 9.3k
Parthasarathy Ranganathan United States 58 8.5k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 6.1k 1.6× 2.5k 1.2× 598 0.7× 184 10.7k
Howard Jay Siegel United States 40 6.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.5× 3.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 606 0.7× 353 7.7k
Ricardo Bianchini United States 44 6.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 3.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 607 0.7× 200 7.6k
Srikanth Kandula United States 52 12.2k 1.2× 7.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.3× 3.2k 1.6× 1.6k 1.7× 104 13.8k
Aditya Akella United States 50 10.0k 1.0× 4.3k 0.6× 937 0.2× 2.4k 1.2× 1.5k 1.6× 216 10.9k
Steven Hand United Kingdom 31 9.9k 1.0× 8.7k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 865 0.4× 2.6k 2.8× 85 11.9k
Alan Demers United States 34 8.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.5× 99 10.3k
David A. Maltz United States 41 15.8k 1.6× 7.7k 1.1× 791 0.2× 4.3k 2.1× 1.6k 1.7× 78 18.0k
Min‐You Wu China 32 4.8k 0.5× 2.5k 0.3× 1.4k 0.4× 1.5k 0.8× 404 0.4× 207 6.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barroso, Luiz André, Urs Hölzle, & Parthasarathy Ranganathan. (2025). The Data Center as a Computer.
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Barroso, Luiz André, Urs Hölzle, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, & Margaret Martonosi. (2018). The Datacenter As a Computer: Designing Warehouse-scale Machines. Morgan & Claypool Publishers eBooks. 69 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André. (2011). Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade. 61 indexed citations
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Ford, Daniel Alexander, Florentina I. Popovici, Murray Stokely, et al.. (2010). Availability in globally distributed storage systems. Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 61–74. 398 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barroso, Luiz André, Hugh Rudnick, Frank Sensfuß, & Pedro Linares. (2010). The Green Effect. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. 8(5). 22–35. 52 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André & Urs Hölzle. (2009). The Datacenter as a Computer. 135 indexed citations
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Rudnick, Hugh & Luiz André Barroso. (2008). Water, water everywhere [guest editorial]. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. 6(4). 14–20. 1 indexed citations
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Hölzle, Urs & Luiz André Barroso. (2007). Warehouse-Scale Computers. IEEE Internet Computing. 14(1). 33–35. 6 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Eduardo, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, & Luiz André Barroso. (2007). Failure trends in a large disk drive population. File and Storage Technologies. 2–2. 496 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barroso, Luiz André. (2007). Warehouse-scale Computers.. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 9 indexed citations
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Weber, Wolf-Dietrich, et al.. (2007). Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer. 13–23. 1378 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barroso, Luiz André, et al.. (2007). Latin America--Price Cap Regulation: Stimulating Efficiency in Electricity Distribution in Latin America. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting. 1–3. 2 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André. (2005). The Price of Performance. Queue. 3(7). 48–53. 154 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André, Andreas Nowatzyk, Shaz Qadeer, et al.. (2002). Piranha: a scalable architecture based on single-chip multiprocessing. 282–293. 153 indexed citations
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Lo, J.L., Luiz André Barroso, Susan J. Eggers, et al.. (2002). An analysis of database workload performance on simultaneous multithreaded processors. 39–50. 41 indexed citations
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Gharachorloo, Kourosh, Luiz André Barroso, & Andreas Nowatzyk. (2000). Efficient ECC-Based Directory Implementations for Scalable Multiprocessors. 155–162. 7 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André, Kourosh Gharachorloo, & Edouard Bugnion. (1998). Memory system characterization of commercial workloads. 26(3). 3–14. 296 indexed citations
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Lo, Jack, Luiz André Barroso, Susan J. Eggers, et al.. (1998). An analysis of database workload performance on simultaneous multithreaded processors. 26(3). 39–50. 152 indexed citations
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Lo, Jack, Luiz André Barroso, Susan J. Eggers, et al.. (1998). An analysis of database workload performance on simultaneous multithreaded processors. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 26(3). 39–50. 14 indexed citations
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Barroso, Luiz André & Michel Dubois. (1991). Cache Coherence on a Slotted Ring.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 230–237. 30 indexed citations

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