Recent Publications
Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage
Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger.
SIGMETRICS’07, June 12–16, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [235K]
MultiMap: Preserving Disk Locality for Multidimensional Datasets
Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-102. March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [203K]
//TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events
Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-108, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF[ 187K]
Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers
Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-106, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 167K]
Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete
Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-101, January 2007.
Abstract / Postscript [610K ] / PDF[ 135K]
Log-Based Architectures for General-Purpose Monitoring of Deployed Code
Shimin Chen, Babak Falsafi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry, Radu Teodorescu, Anastassia Ailamaki, Limor Fix, Gregory R. Ganger, Bin Lin, Steven W. Schlosser. ASID’06 October 21, 2006, San Jose, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [73K]
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. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF [113K] / Postscript [745K]
InteMon: Continuous Mining of Sensor Data in Large-scale Self-* Infrastructures
Evan Hoke, Jimeng Sun, John D. Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger, and Christos Faloutsos. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Vol 40 Issue 3. July, 2006. ACM Press.
Abstract / PDF [573K]
Stardust: Tracking Activity in a Distributed Storage System
Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John Strunk, Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek,
Julio Lopez, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the Joint International
Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, (SIGMETRICS'06).
June 26th-30th 2006, Saint-Malo, France.
Abstract / PDF [578K]
Towards Efficient Semantic Object Storage for the Home
Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-103, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [297K]
Informed Data Distribution Selection in a Self-predicting Storage
System
Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, Dushyanth
Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-06), Dublin, Ireland. June 12th-16th 2006.
Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report
CMU-PDL-06-101, January 2006.
Abstract / PDF [196K]
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. Proceedings of
the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST '05).
San Francisco, CA. December 13-16, 2005. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon
University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-104, April,
2005.
Abstract / PDF [490K]
On Multidimensional
Data and Modern Disks
Steven W. Schlosser, Jiri Schindler, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Minglong
Shao Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings
of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST '05).
San Francisco, CA. December 13-16, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [220K]
Scheduling Speculative
Tasks in a Compute Farm
David Petrou, Garth A. Gibson, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the
ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2005 Conference, Seattle, Washington, November,
2005.
Abstract / PDF [ 569K]
Fault-Scalable
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K.
Reiter, Jay J. Wylie. SOSP’05, October 23-26, 2005, Brighton,
United Kingdom.
Abstract / PDF [299K]
Lazy Verification
in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Storage Systems
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K.
Reiter, Jay J. Wylie. 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
(SRDS 2005), October 26-28, 2005, Orlando, Florida.
Abstract / PDF [ 228K]
Correctness
of the Read/Conditional-Write and Query/Update Protocols
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K.
Reiter, Jay J. Wylie. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical
Report CMU-PDL-05-107, September, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [392K]
Replication
Policies for Layered Clustering of NFS Servers
Raja R. Sambasivan, Andrew J. Klosterman, Gregory R. Ganger. 13th
Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS).
September 26 - 29, Atlanta, GA.
Abstract / PDF [199K]
Modeling the
Relative Fitness of Storage Devices
Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Gregory Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University
Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-106, August, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [190K]
Connections:
Using Context to Enhance File Search
Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger. SOSP'05, October 23–26,
2005, Brighton, United Kingdom. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University
Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-105, April 2005.
Abstract / PDF [300K]
Towards self-predicting
systems: What if you could ask “what-if”?
Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. 3rd International
Workshop on Self-adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems. Copenhagen,
Denmark, August 2005. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-10, February 2005.
Abstract / PDF [110K]
MultiMap: Preserving
disk locality for multidimensional datasets
Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri
Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger.
Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-102.
March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [318K]
Comparison-based
File Server Verification
Yuen-Lin Tan, Terrence Wong, John D. Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger. USENIX
'05 Annual Technical Conference, April 10-15, 2005. Anaheim, CA.
Abstract / Postscript [900K] / PDF [130K]