Publications & presentations

Publications

Caregorizing and differencing system behaviours. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Appears in the proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Autonomic Computing (HotAC II). June 15th, 2007. Jacksonville, FA, USA. [abstract] [pdf]

Modeling the relative fitness of storage. Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger. Appears in the proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'07). June 12th-16th, 2007. San Diego, CA, USA. Awared Best Paper. [abstract] [pdf]

//TRACE: parallel trace replay with approximate causal events. Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Appears in the proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'07). February 13th-16th, 2007. San Jose, CA, USA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-108. [abstract] [pdf]

Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage.
Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. Appears in the Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering. September 2006. [abstract] [pdf]

Ursa Minor: versatile cluster-based storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. Appears in the proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'05). December 13th to 16th, 2005. San Francisco, CA, USA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-104. Awarded USENIX Association Best Paper Award. [abstract] [pdf]

Replication policies for layered clustering of NFS servers. Raja R. Sambasivan, Andrew J. Klosterman, Gregory R. Ganger. Appears in the proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'05). September 27th to 29th, 2005. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [acceptance notification] [abstract] [pdf]

Technical reports

//TRACE: parallel trace replay with approximate causal events. Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-108. September 2006.

Eliminating cross-server operations in scalable file systems. James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-105. May 2006.

Improving small file performance in object-based storage. James Hendricks, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-104. May 2006. [abstract] [pdf]

Selected project reports, Spring 2005: Advanced OS & Distributed Systems (15-712). Garth A. Gibson, Hyang-Ah Kim Editors. Jangwoo Kim, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Eric Chung; Alex Nizhner, Andrew Biggadike, Jad Chamcham; Srinath Sridhar, Jeffrey Stylos, Noam Zeilberger; Gregg Economou, Raja R. Sambasivan, Terrence Wong; Elaine Shi, Yong Lu, Matt Reid; Amber Palekar, Rahul Iyer. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-05-138. May 2005. [abstract] [pdf]

Ursa Minor: versatile cluster-based storage. Gregory R. Ganger, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Chuck Cranor, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Jay J. Wylie. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-104. April 2005. [abstract] [pdf]

Selected talks

Spectroscope: a tool for categorizing and differencing system behaviours. Presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotACII). June 2007. [ppt]

Clustering activity trace data for performance debugging. Presented at the 14th annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop & Retreat. September 2006.

Preserving filesystem namespace locality in object-based storage. Presented at the 13th annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop & Retreat. October 2005. Also presented at the 2nd Annual Advanced Storage System Workshop (ADSS'05). December 2005. [ppt]

Replication policies for layered clustering of NFS servers. Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'05). September 2005. [ppt]

Cuckoo: replication policies & load shedding algorithms. Presented at the 12th annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop & Retreat. September 2004. [ppt]