Robert Ross

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
206 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Robert Ross is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Ross has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 87 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 43 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Robert Ross's work include Advanced Data Storage Technologies (139 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (102 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (83 papers). Robert Ross is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Data Storage Technologies (139 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (102 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (83 papers). Robert Ross collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Robert Ross's co-authors include Philip Carns, Rajeev Thakur, Robert Latham, W.B. Ligon, Samuel Lang, V. S. Subrahmanian, Christopher D. Carothers, Misbah Mubarak, Dries Kimpe and Wei‐keng Liao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Robert Ross

193 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

PVFS : a parallel file system for linux clusters 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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. PVFS : a parallel file system for linux clusters
    2000 556 citations Philip Carns, W.B. Ligon et al. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) profile →
  2. On the role of burst buffers in leadership-class storage systems
    2012 243 citations Philip Carns, Christopher D. Carothers 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
Robert Ross United States 36 4.1k 1.9k 1.2k 594 534 206 4.9k
Henri E. Bal Netherlands 33 3.6k 0.9× 2.3k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 789 1.3× 269 0.5× 246 4.4k
Manish Parashar United States 39 4.9k 1.2× 1000 0.5× 2.7k 2.3× 917 1.5× 1.2k 2.3× 391 6.2k
Franck Cappello United States 38 4.2k 1.0× 2.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 2.1× 324 0.6× 238 5.5k
Rajeev Thakur United States 34 4.1k 1.0× 2.9k 1.6× 794 0.7× 457 0.8× 245 0.5× 167 5.0k
Karsten Schwan United States 46 6.9k 1.7× 3.2k 1.7× 3.5k 3.0× 1.0k 1.7× 858 1.6× 409 8.1k
Gagan Agrawal United States 38 2.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 930 1.6× 272 0.5× 309 4.6k
Vaidy Sunderam United States 24 2.2k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 636 0.6× 747 1.3× 207 0.4× 155 3.7k
Daniel A. Reed United States 35 2.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 869 0.8× 304 0.5× 352 0.7× 161 3.6k
Anthony Skjellum United States 25 2.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 997 0.9× 650 1.1× 143 0.3× 165 3.9k
Arie Shoshani United States 32 2.6k 0.6× 550 0.3× 711 0.6× 1.0k 1.7× 411 0.8× 130 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Ross

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Ross

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Ross

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Ross. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Ross based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Robert Ross. Robert Ross is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Y., Robert Latham, Robert Ross, et al.. (2025). Parallel Data Object Creation: Scalable Metadata Management in Parallel I/O Library. 1385–1395.
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Hou, Kaiyuan, et al.. (2023). I/O in WRF: A Case Study in Modern Parallel I/O Techniques. 1–13.
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Lee, Sunwoo, Kaiyuan Hou, Saba Sehrish, et al.. (2021). A case study on parallel HDF5 dataset concatenation for high energy physics data analysis. Parallel Computing. 110. 102877–102877. 6 indexed citations
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Patel, Tirthak, Suren Byna, Glenn K. Lockwood, et al.. (2020). Uncovering Access, Reuse, and Sharing Characteristics of I/O-Intensive Files on Large-Scale Production {HPC} Systems. File and Storage Technologies. 91–101. 9 indexed citations
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Madireddy, Sandeep, et al.. (2020). Toward Generalizable Models of I/O Throughput. 41–49. 4 indexed citations
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Carothers, Christopher D., et al.. (2018). Leveraging shared memory in the ross time warp simulator for complex network simulations. Winter Simulation Conference. 3837–3848. 1 indexed citations
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Dorier, Matthieu, Galen Shipman, Jérôme Soumagne, et al.. (2018). Methodology for the Rapid Development of Scalable HPC Data Services. 76–87. 10 indexed citations
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Carns, Philip, John Jenkins, Charles D. Cranor, et al.. (2016). Enabling NVM for Data-Intensive Scientific Services.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 11 indexed citations
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Xu, Yang, John Jenkins, Misbah Mubarak, Robert Ross, & Zhiling Lan. (2016). Watch out for the bully!: job interference study on dragonfly network. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 64. 35 indexed citations
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Mubarak, Misbah, Christopher D. Carothers, Robert Ross, & Philip Carns. (2014). Using massively parallel simulation for MPI collective communication modeling in extreme-scale networks. Winter Simulation Conference. 3107–3118. 8 indexed citations
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Tang, Wei, Jonathan Jenkins, Folker Meyer, et al.. (2014). Data-Aware Resource Scheduling for Multicloud Workflows: A Fine-Grained Simulation Approach. 887–892. 11 indexed citations
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Jenkins, John, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, S. Ethier, et al.. (2012). Byte-precision level of detail processing for variable precision analytics. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 1–11. 12 indexed citations
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Peterka, Tom, Robert Ross, Attila Gyulassy, et al.. (2011). Scalable parallel building blocks for custom data analysis. 105–112. 47 indexed citations
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Lee, Jonghyun, Robert Ross, Scott Atchley, Micah Beck, & Rajeev Thakur. (2006). MPI-IO/L: efficient remote I/O for MPI-IO via logistical networking. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 68–68. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Hang, R.K. Sahoo, George Almási, et al.. (2006). High Performance File I/O for The Blue Gene/L Supercomputer. 190–199. 46 indexed citations
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Ross, Robert, et al.. (2001). The Parallel Virtual File System for Commodity Clusters. 456. 1 indexed citations
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Carns, Philip, W.B. Ligon, Robert Ross, & Rajeev Thakur. (2000). PVFS : a parallel file system for linux clusters. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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