William J. Bolosky

7.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
49 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

William J. Bolosky is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Bolosky has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 25 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 11 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in William J. Bolosky's work include Advanced Data Storage Technologies (30 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (23 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (21 papers). William J. Bolosky is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Data Storage Technologies (30 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (23 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (21 papers). William J. Bolosky collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William J. Bolosky's co-authors include John R. Douceur, Marvin Theimer, Dutch T. Meyer, Atul Adya, Jacob R. Lorch, David Golub, Avadis Tevanian, Michael W. Young, R. Baron and Richard F. Rashid and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Blood and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

William J. Bolosky

47 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development.

1986 648 citations R. Baron, William J. Bolosky et al. profile →
Farsite

2002 516 citations Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky et al. profile →
Laboratory validation of a clinical metagenomic sequencing assay for pathogen detection in cerebrospinal fluid

2019 368 citations Steve Miller, Samia N. Naccache et al. Genome Research profile →
A study of practical deduplication

2012 336 citations Dutch T. Meyer, William J. Bolosky profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Bolosky United States	25	3.5k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	236	49	4.7k
Mary Hall United States	30	1.8k 0.5×	518 0.3×	2.5k 1.9×	686 0.6×	78 0.3×	152	3.3k
Edouard Bugnion Switzerland	21	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	380 0.3×	47 0.2×	55	2.5k
Steven Hofmeyr United States	22	2.5k 0.7×	761 0.4×	377 0.3×	1.5k 1.3×	228 1.0×	52	3.8k
Jun Yang United States	35	3.0k 0.8×	551 0.3×	3.0k 2.4×	399 0.3×	116 0.5×	156	4.7k
Beichuan Zhang United States	35	6.1k 1.7×	269 0.2×	498 0.4×	706 0.6×	129 0.5×	127	6.5k
Lori A. Clarke United States	32	878 0.2×	1.7k 1.0×	520 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	16 0.1×	171	3.9k
Philip K. McKinley United States	27	2.8k 0.8×	602 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	903 0.8×	16 0.1×	192	3.8k
Dan C. Marinescu United States	22	1.0k 0.3×	584 0.3×	309 0.2×	293 0.3×	39 0.2×	167	1.8k
Nobuko Yoshida United Kingdom	31	975 0.3×	356 0.2×	407 0.3×	1.9k 1.6×	1.2k 5.1×	200	4.3k
Xizhou Feng United States	18	1.0k 0.3×	760 0.4×	930 0.7×	106 0.1×	124 0.5×	37	1.8k

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Agarwal, Anupriya, William J. Bolosky, David B. Wilson, et al.. (2019). Differentiation of leukemic blasts is not completely blocked in acute myeloid leukemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24593–24599. 17 indexed citations

Miller, Steve, Samia N. Naccache, Erik Samayoa, et al.. (2019). Laboratory validation of a clinical metagenomic sequencing assay for pathogen detection in cerebrospinal fluid. Genome Research. 29(5). 831–842. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

Meyer, Dutch T. & William J. Bolosky. (2011). A study of practical deduplication. File and Storage Technologies. 1–1. 143 indexed citations

Bolosky, William J., et al.. (2011). Paxos replicated state machines as the basis of a high-performance data store. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 141–154. 82 indexed citations

Mickens, James, John R. Douceur, William J. Bolosky, & Brian Noble. (2009). StrobeLight: lightweight availability mapping and anomaly detection. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 5–5. 8 indexed citations

Agrawal, Nitin, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, & Jacob R. Lorch. (2007). A five-year study of file-system metadata. File and Storage Technologies. 3–3. 13 indexed citations

Adya, Atul, Jon Howell, Marvin Theimer, William J. Bolosky, & John R. Douceur. (2002). Cooperative Task Management Without Manual Stack Management. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 289–302. 153 indexed citations

Adya, Atul, Roger Wattenhofer, William J. Bolosky, et al.. (2002). Farsite. 1–1. 206 indexed citations

Bolosky, William J., Richard Draves, Robert Fitzgerald, et al.. (2002). Operating system directions for the next Millennium. 106–110. 3 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., et al.. (2000). Single Instance Storage in Windows. 2–2. 108 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., John R. Douceur, David P. Ely, & Marvin Theimer. (2000). Feasibility of a serverless distributed file system deployed on an existing set of desktop PCs. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 28(1). 34–43. 45 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., John R. Douceur, David P. Ely, & Marvin Theimer. (2000). Feasibility of a serverless distributed file system deployed on an existing set of desktop PCs. 34–43. 332 indexed citations

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Douceur, John R. & William J. Bolosky. (1998). <title>Improving responsiveness of a stripe-scheduled media server</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3654. 192–203. 1 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., Robert Fitzgerald, & John R. Douceur. (1997). Distributed schedule management in the Tiger video fileserver. 212–223. 53 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., Michael L. Scott, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert J. Fowler, & Alan L. Cox. (1991). NUMA policies and their relation to memory architecture. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 26(4). 212–221. 3 indexed citations

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Bolosky, William J., Michael L. Scott, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert J. Fowler, & Anna L. Cox. (1991). NUMA policies and their relation to memory architecture. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 19(2). 212–221. 5 indexed citations

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Tevanian, Avadis, Richard F. Rashid, Michael W. Young, et al.. (1987). A UNIX Interface for Shared Memory and Memory Mapped Files Under Mach.. 53–68. 18 indexed citations

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Rashid, Richard F., Avadis Tevanian, Michael W. Young, et al.. (1987). Machine-independent virtual memory management for paged uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 22(10). 31–39. 5 indexed citations

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Rashid, Richard F., Avadis Tevanian, Michael W. Young, et al.. (1987). Machine-independent virtual memory management for paged uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 15(5). 31–39. 21 indexed citations

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Baron, R., William J. Bolosky, David Golub, et al.. (1986). Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development.. 2. 93–113. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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