Greg Ganger's Publications

Recent Publications

IRONModel: Robust Performance Models in the Wild. Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. SIGMETRICS’08, June 2–6, 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
Abstract / PDF [813K]

File System Virtual Appliances: Third-party File System Implementations without the Pain. Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-106, May 2008.
Abstract / PDF [508K]

Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home. Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-105, May 2008.
Abstract / PDF [1.65M]

The DiskSim Simulation Environment Version 4.0 Reference Manual.John S. Bucy, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger, and Contributors. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-101, May 2008.
Abstract / PDF [704K] / Code Release

Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems. John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08). Feb. 26-29, 2008. San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-106, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [310K]

Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems. Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08). Feb. 26-29, 2008. San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-105, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [374K]

On Application-level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems. E. Krevat, V. Vasudevan, A. Phanishayee, D. Andersen, G. Ganger, G. Gibson, S. Seshan. Proceedings of the 2nd international Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW '07) held in conjunction with Supercomputing '07. November 11, 2007, Reno, NV.
Abstract / PDF [124K]

Low-overhead Byzantine Fault-tolerant Storage. James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007), Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
Abstract / PDF [280K]

Verifying Distributed Erasure-coded Data. James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. To appear in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2007), Portland, August 2007.
Abstract / PDF [193K]

Categorizing and Differencing System Behaviours. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL.
Abstract / PDF [120K]

Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete. Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-101, January 2007.
Abstract / PDF[ 75K]

Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search. Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, Brian D. Noble. USENIX '07 Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, June 17–22, 2007.
Abstract / PDF [225K]

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]

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