Stephen M. Rumble

I'm a PhD student in the Secure Computer Systems group. I work on various systems projects with my labmates, rockstar advisor, and others.

Prior to Stanford I was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, where I worked with Michael Brudno and his students on a DNA sequence alignment toolkit, and was also involved with the SnowFlock project. At some point I spent a year in southern Germany at Universität Ulm, in hopes of avoiding computers and learning German, but miserably failed in both respects.

• Cinder
• RAMCloud
• SHRiMP

• Refereed Conferences and Journals
• Rumble SM, Lacroute P, Dalca AV, Fiume M, Sidow A, Brudno M.
  "SHRiMP: Accurate Mapping of Short Color-space Reads".
  PLoS Computational Biology 5(5): e1000386. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000386


• Lagar-Cavilla HA, Whitney JA, Scannell A, Patchin P, Rumble SM, De Lara E, Brudno M, Satyanarayanan M.
  "SnowFlock: Rapid Virtual Machine Cloning for Cloud Computing".
  Best paper, In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2009)


• Refereed Workshops
• Rumble SM, Stutsman R, Levis P, Mazières D, Zeldovich N.
  "Apprehending Joule Thieves with Cinder".
  In Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHeld 2009)


• Yanovsky V, Rumble SM, Brudno M.
  "Read Mapping Algorithms for Single Molecule Sequencing Data".
  Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) 2008


• Unrefereed Publications and Technical Reports
• Rumble SM, Stutsman R, Levis P, Mazières D, Zeldovich N.
  "Apprehending Joule Thieves with Cinder".
  In SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., 40(1):106-111, 2010.


• Ousterhout JK, Agrawal P, Erickson D, Kozyrakis C, Leverich J, Mazières D, Mitra S, Narayanan A, Parulkar GM, Rosenblum M, Rumble SM, Stratmann E, Stutsman R.
  "The Case for RAMClouds: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM".
  In Operating Systems Review, 43(4):92-105, 2009.


• Lagar-Cavilla HA, Whitney J, Scannell A, Rumble SM, De Lara E, Brudno M, Satyanarayanan M.
  "Impromptu Clusters for Near-Interactive Cloud-based Services".
  CSRG Technical Report 578, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, June 2008.

Here are a few little utilities that Stanfordites/SCPDers may find useful:

• scpd_scrape.py - Log into SCPD's myvideosu and dump all of the video urls. Useful for dumping streams for later viewing, especially in light of the fact that urls are taken down so quickly after each quarter. Last used during Spring Quarter, 2009. May need tweaks in the future.
• scpd_scrape.awk - Turn scpd_scrape.py output into a list of mplayer commands to grab SCPD video streams.