Bio


Rosenblum’s research interests include system software, distributed systems, and computer architecture. He has published research in the area of disk storage management, computer simulation techniques, scalable operating system structure, virtualization computer security, and mobility. He is also a co-founder VMware Inc. As the Chief Scientist of VMware for the company’s first 10 years he helped design and build virtualization technology for commodity computing platforms.

Academic Appointments


Administrative Appointments


  • Faculty Director, Stanford Computer Forum (2012 - Present)

Honors & Awards


  • National Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1992)
  • Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1994)
  • ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Association for Computing Machinery (1992)
  • ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, Association for Computing Machinery (2002)
  • ACM System Software Award, Association for Computing Machinery (2009)
  • IEEE Computer Entrepreneur Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2011)
  • IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2014)
  • ACM Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award, Association of Computing Machinery (2018)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014 - Present)
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering (2013 - Present)
  • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (2008 - Present)

Professional Education


  • PhD, UC Berkeley (1992)
  • MS, UC Berkeley (1989)
  • BA, University of Virginia (1984)

Patents


  • Mendel Rosenblum, Monica Lam, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Nickolai Zeldovich, James Chow, David Brumley. "United States Patent 7,890,689 Virtual appliance management", The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Feb 15, 2011
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine. "United States Patent 7,665,088 Context-switching to and from a host OS in a virtualized computer system", VMware, Inc., Feb 16, 2010
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Monica Lam, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Nickolai Zeldovich, James Chow, David Brumley. "United States Patent 7,373,451 Cache-based system management architecture with virtual appliances, network repositories, and virtual appliance transceivers", The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, May 13, 2008
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Ole Agesen, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Scott Devine, Edouard Bugnion. "United States Patent 7,149,843 System and method for detecting access to shared structures and for maintaining coherence of derived structures in virtualized multiprocessor systems", VMware, Inc., Dec 12, 2006
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Ole Agesen, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Scott Devine, Edouard Bugnion. "United States Patent 6,961,806 System and method for detecting access to shared structures and for maintaining coherence of derived structures in virtualized multiprocessor systems", VMware, Inc., Nov 1, 2005
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine. "United States Patent 6,944,699 System and method for facilitating context-switching in a multi-context computer system", VMware, Inc., Sep 13, 2005
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine. "United States Patent 6,496,847 System and method for virtualizing computer systems", VMware, Inc., Dec 17, 2002
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine. "United States Patent 6,397,242 Virtualization system including a virtual machine monitor for a computer with a segmented architecture", VMware, Inc., May 28, 2002
  • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine. "United States Patent 6,075,938 Virtual machine monitors for scalable multiprocessors", The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Jun 13, 2000

Current Research and Scholarly Interests


Next generation data centers

2023-24 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • Breaking the Transience-Equilibrium Nexus: A New Approach to Datacenter Packet Transport Liu, S., Ghalayini, A., Alizadeh, M., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., Sivaraman, A., USENIX Assoc USENIX ASSOC. 2021: 47-64
  • lambda-NIC: Interactive Serverless Compute on Programmable SmartNICs Choi, S., Shahbaz, M., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., IEEE Comp Soc IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2020: 67-77
  • Toward Scalable Replication Systems with Predictable Tails Using Programmable Data Planes Choi, S., Park, S., Shahbaz, M., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 78–84
  • lambda-NIC: Interactive Serverless Compute on SmartNICs Choi, S., Shahbaz, M., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 151–52
  • SIMON: A Simple and Scalable Method for Sensing, Inference and Measurement in Data Center Networks Geng, Y., Liu, S., Yin, Z., Naik, A., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., Vahdat, A., USENIX Assoc USENIX ASSOC. 2019: 549–64
  • Towards Practical Default-On Multi-Core Record/Replay Mashtizadeh, A., Garfinkel, T., Terei, D., Mazieres, D., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 693-708
  • Towards Practical Default-On Multi-Core Record/Replay ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Mashtizadeh, A. J., Garfinkel, T., Terei, D., Mazieres, D., Rosenblum, M. 2017; 52 (4): 693-708
  • Self-Programming Networks: Architecture and Algorithms Geng, Y., Liu, S., Wang, F., Yin, Z., Prabhakar, B., Rosenblum, M., IEEE IEEE. 2017: 745–52
  • The RAMCloud Storage System ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Ousterhout, J., Gopalan, A., Gupta, A., Kejriwal, A., Lee, C., Montazeri, B., Ongaro, D., Park, S. J., Qin, H., Rosenblum, M., Rumble, S., Stutsman, R., Yang, S. 2015; 33 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2806887

    View details for Web of Science ID 000361156500001

  • Using Network Knowledge to Improve Workload Performance in Virtualized Data Centers Erickson, D., Heller, B., McKeown, N., Rosenblum, M., IEEE IEEE. 2014: 185–94
  • Copysets: reducing the frequency of data loss in cloud storage Cidon, A., Rumble, Stephen, M., Stutsman, R., Katti, S., Ousterhout, J., Rosenblum, M. 2013
  • Network interface design for low latency request-response protocols Flajslik, M., Rosenblum, M. 2013
  • Using Network Knowledge to Improve Workload Performance in Virtualized Data Centers Stanford University Erickson, D., Heller, B., McKeown, N., Rosenblum, M. 2013
  • Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Bugnion, E., Devine, S., Rosenblum, M., Sugerman, J., Wang, E. Y. 2012; 30 (4)
  • I/O Virtualization COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Waldspurger, C., Rosenblum, M. 2012; 55 (1): 66-72
  • Optimizing a Virtualized Data Center COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Erickson, D., Heller, B., Yang, S., Chu, J., Ellithorpe, J., McKeown, N., Parulkar, G., Rosenblum, M., Whyte, S., Stuart, S. 2011; 41 (4): 478-479
  • The Case for RAMCloud COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Ousterhout, J., Agrawal, P., Erickson, D., Kozyrakis, C., Leverich, J., Mazieres, D., Mitra, S., Narayanan, A., Ongaro, D., Parulkar, G., Rosenblum, M., Rumble, S. M., Stratmann, E., Stutsman, R. 2011; 54 (7): 121-130
  • Fast Crash Recovery in RAMCloud 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011) Ongaro, D., Rumble, S. M., Stutsman, R., Ousterhout, J., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2011: 29–41
  • MARS: adaptive remote execution for multi-threaded mobile devices Cidon, A., London, Tomer, M., Katti, S., Kozyrakis, C., Rosenblum, M. 2011

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2043106.2043107

  • It's time for low latency Rumble, Stephen, M., Ongaro, D., Stutsman, R., Rosenblum, M., Ousterhout, John, K. 2011
  • I/o virtualization ACM Queue Rosenblum, M., Waldspurger, C. 2011
  • The case for RAMClouds: scalable high-performance storage entirely in DRAM ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Ousterhout, J., Agrawal, P., Erickson, D., Kozyrakis, C., Leverich, J., Mazières, D., Rosenblum, M. 2010; 43 (4): 92-105

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1713254.1713276

  • RAMCloud: Scalable high-performance storage entirely in DRAM Stanford University Mazières, D., Narayanan, A., Ongaro, D., Rosenblum, M. 2009
  • Streamware: Programming general-purpose multicore processors using streams 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Gummaraju, J., Coburn, J., Turner, Y., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2008: 297–307
  • A demonstration of virtual machine mobility in an OpenFlow network SIGCOMM’08 Parulkar, G., McKeown, N., Rosenblum, M., Erickson, D., Gibb, G., Heller, B. 2008
  • Project Summary: Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 Computer Systems Laboratory Boneh, D., Goldsmith, A., Johari, R., Kimm, P., Klemmer, S., Kozyrakis, C., Rosenblum, M. 2008
  • Architectural support for the stream execution model on general-purpose processors Gummaraju, J., Erez, M., Coburn, J., Rosenblum, M., Dally, William, J. 2007

    View details for DOI 10.1109/PACT.2007.15

  • Executing irregular scientific applications on stream architectures Erez, M., Ahn, J. H., Gummaraju, J., Rosenblum, M., Dally, William, J. 2007

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1274971.1274987

  • Impact of virtualization on computer architecture and operating systems ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Rosenblum, M. 2006; 41 (11): 1-1
  • The vMatrix: Equi-ping game server placement for pre-arranged first-person-shooter multiplayer matches 4th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06) Awadallah, A., Rosenblum, M. IEEE. 2006: 633–640
  • Virtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks. NSDI Pfaff, B., Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M. 2006
  • Virtualization aware file systems: Getting beyond the limitations of virtual disks 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Pfaff, B., Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M. USENIX ASSOC. 2006: 353–366
  • Virtual machine monitors: Current technology and future trends COMPUTER Rosenblum, M., Garfinkel, T. 2005; 38 (5): 39-?
  • Shredding your garbage: Reducing data lifetime through secure deallocation 14th USENIX Security Symposium Chow, J., Pfaff, B., Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M. USENIX ASSOC. 2005: 331–346
  • When Virtual Is Harder than Real: Security Challenges in Virtual Machine Based Computing Environments. Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M. 2005
  • Stream programming on general-purpose processors 38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture Gummaraju, J., Rosenblum, M. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2005: 343–354
  • Understanding data lifetime via whole system simulation 13th USENIX Security Symposium Chow, J., Pfaff, B., Garfinkel, T., Christopher, K., Rosenblum, M. USENIX ASSOC. 2004: 321–336
  • Stream processing in general-purpose processors Gummaraju, J., Rosenblum, M. 2004
  • Data lifetime is a systems problem Garfinkel, T., Pfaff, B., Chow, J., Rosenblum, M. 2004

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1133572.1133599

  • Parallel decompositions of a packet-processing workload Workshop (ANCHOR) held in conjunction with Seamans, E., Rosenblum, M. 2004
  • Ostia: A Delegating Architecture for Secure System Call Interposition. NDSS Garfinkel, T., Pfaff, B., Rosenblum, M. 2004
  • The reincarnation of virtual machines Queue - Virtual Machines Rosenblum, M. 2004; 2 (5): 34

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1016998.1017000

  • The vMatrix: Server switching 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2004) Awadallah, A., Rosenblum, M. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2004: 110–118
  • Virtual appliances for deploying and maintaining software 17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference Sapuntzakis, C., Brumley, D., Chandra, R., Zeldovich, N., Chow, J., Lam, M. S., Rosenblum, M. USENIX ASSOC. 2003: 181–194
  • A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection. NDSS Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M. 2003
  • Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software. LISA Sapuntzakis, C., Brumley, D., Chandra, R., Zeldovich, N., Chow, J., Lam, Monica, S., Rosenblum, M. 2003
  • Flexible OS Support and Applications for Trusted Computing. HotOS Garfinkel, T., Rosenblum, M., Boneh, D. 2003
  • Terra: A virtual machine-based platform for trusted computing ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - SOSP '03 Garfinkel, T., Pfaff, B., Chow, J., Rosenblum, M., Boneh, D. 2003; 37 (5): 193-206

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1165389.945464

  • Optimizing the migration of virtual computers 5th Symposium on Operation Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 02) Sapuntzakis, C. P., Chandra, R., Pfaff, B., Chow, J., Lam, M. S., Rosenblum, M. USENIX ASSOC. 2002: 377–390
  • The vMatrix: A network of virtual machine monitors for dynamic content distribution Awadallah, A., Rosenblum, M. 2002
  • Cellular disco: resource management using virtual clusters on shared-memory multiprocessors ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Govil, K., Teodosiu, D., Huang, Y. Q., Rosenblum, M. 2000; 18 (3): 229-262
  • Rivet: A flexible environment for computer systems visualization COMPUTER GRAPHICS-US Bosch, R., Stolte, C., Tang, D., Gerth, J., Rosenblum, M., Hanrahan, P. 2000; 34 (1): 68-73
  • Performance analysis and visualization of parallel systems using SimOS and Rivet: a case study Bosche, R., Stolte, C., Stoll, G., Rosenblum, M., Hanrahan, P. 2000

    View details for DOI 10.1109/HPCA.2000.824365

  • Rivet: A Flexible Environment for Computer Systems Visualization ACM SIGGRAPH Bosch, R., Stolte, C., Tang, D., Gerth, J., Rosenblum, M., Hanrahan, P. 2000
  • Cellular Disco: resource management using virtual clusters on shared-memory multiprocessors 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99) Govil, K., Teodosiu, D., Huang, Y. Q., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1999: 154–169
  • VMware's virtual platform™ Rosenblum, M. 1999
  • Visualizing application behavior on superscalar processors Stolte, C., Bosche, R., Hanrahan, P., Rosenblum, M. 1999
  • Performance isolation: Sharing and isolation in shared-memory multiprocessors ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Verghese, B., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M. 1998; 33 (11): 181-192
  • The stanford flash multiprocessor Kuskin, J., Ofelt, D., Heinrich, M., Heinlein, J., Simoni, R., Gharachorloo, K., Rosenblum, M. 1998

    View details for DOI 10.1145/285930.286007

  • Disco: Running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Bugnion, E., Devine, S., Govil, K., Rosenblum, M. 1997; 15 (4): 412-447
  • Coherent block data transfer in the FLASH multiprocessor 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS 97) Heinlein, J., Bosch, R. P., Gharachorloo, K., Rosenblum, M., Gupta, A. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1997: 18–27
  • Using the SimOS machine simulator to study complex computer systems ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) Rosenblum, M., Bugnion, E., Devine, S., Herrod, Stephen, A. 1997; 7 (1): 78-103

    View details for DOI 10.1145/244804.244807

  • Hardware fault containment in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors 24th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture Teodosiu, D., Baxter, J., Govil, K., Chapin, J., Rosenblum, M., Horowitz, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1997: 73–84
  • Implementing efficient fault containment for multiprocessors COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Rosenblum, M., Chapin, J., Teodosiu, D., Devine, S., Lahiri, T., Gupta, A. 1996; 39 (9): 52-61
  • Compiler-directed page coloring for multiprocessors 7th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII) Bugnion, E., Anderson, J. M., Mowry, T. C., Rosenblum, M., Lam, M. S. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1996: 244–55
  • On CC-NUMA compute servers 7th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII) Verghese, B., Devine, S., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1996: 279–89
  • Increasing cache port efficiency for dynamic superscalar microprocessors 23rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture Wilson, K. M., Olukotun, K., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1996: 147–157
  • Operating system support for improving data locality on CC-NUMA compute servers Verghese, B., Devine, S., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M. 1996

    View details for DOI 10.1145/237090.237205

  • Embra: Fast and flexible machine simulation ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Witchel, E., Rosenblum, M. 1996; 24 (1): 68-79

    View details for DOI 10.1145/233008.233025

  • COMPLETE COMPUTER-SYSTEM SIMULATION - THE SIMOS APPROACH IEEE PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED TECHNOLOGY Rosenblum, M., HERROD, S. A., Witchel, E., Gupta, A. 1995; 3 (4): 34-43
  • Hive: Fault containment for shared-memory multiprocessors Chapin, J., Rosenblum, M., Devine, S., Lahiri, T., Teodosiu, D., Gupta, A. 1995

    View details for DOI 10.1145/224056.224059

  • The impact of architectural trends on operating system performance Rosenblum, M., Bugnion, E., Herrod, S. A., Witchel, E., Gupta, A. 1995

    View details for DOI 10.1145/224056.224078

  • Sprite LFS cleaning policies The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured file Rosenblum, M. 1995
  • Memory system performance of UNIX on CC-NUMA multiprocessors ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Chapin, J., Herrod, A., Rosenblum, M., Gupta, A. 1995; 23 (1): 1-13

    View details for DOI 10.1145/223586.223588

  • Experience with Sprite LFS The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured file Rosenblum, M. 1995
  • Disk Storage Manager Design The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured file Rosenblum, M. 1995
  • SCHEDULING AND PAGE MIGRATION FOR MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTE SERVERS 6th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Chandra, R., Devine, S., Verghese, B., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1994: 12–24
  • THE PERFORMANCE IMPACT OF FLEXIBILITY IN THE STANFORD FLASH MULTIPROCESSOR 6th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Heinrich, M., KUSKIN, J., Ofelt, D., Heinlein, J., Baxter, J., Singh, J. P., Simoni, R., Gharachorloo, K., NAKAHIRA, D., Horowitz, M., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M., Hennessy, J. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1994: 274–85
  • THE STANFORD FLASH MULTIPROCESSOR 21st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture KUSKIN, J., Ofelt, D., Heinrich, M., Heinlein, J., Simoni, R., Gharachorloo, K., Chapin, J., NAKAHIRA, D., Baxter, J., Horowitz, M., Gupta, A., Rosenblum, M., Hennessy, J. I E E E, COMPUTER SOC PRESS. 1994: 302–313
  • THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A LOG-STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEM ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Rosenblum, M., Ousterhout, J. K. 1992; 10 (1): 26-52
  • The design and implementation of a log-structured file system ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Rosenblum, M., Ousterhout, J. K. 1991; 25 (5): 1-15

    View details for DOI 10.1145/121133.121137

  • The LFS Storage Manager. USENIX Summer Rosenblum, M., Ousterhout, J. K. 1990
  • Sprite position statement: use distributed state for failure recovery Welch, B., Baker, M., Douglis, F., Hartman, J., Rosenblum, M., Ousterhout, J. 1989

    View details for DOI 10.1109/WWOS.1989.109282

  • GAFFES: The Design of a Globally Distributed File System Keshav, S., Madisetti, V., Munson, E., Rosenblum, M., Gozani, S., Gray, M. University of California Berkeley. 1987
  • MinCopysets: Derandomizing Replication In Cloud Storage Stanford University Cidon, A., Stutsman, R., Rumble, S., Katti, S., Ousterhout, J., Rosenblum, M.
  • Complete Computer System Simulation Rosenblum, M., Herrod, S. A., Witchel, E., Gupta, A.
  • Freeing your Computer from the Hardware Computer Science Department Sapuntzakis, Constantine, P., Chandra, R., Norris, James, C., Lam, Monica, S., Rosenblum, M.