Submissions from 2009
File System Virtual Appliances: Portable File System Implementations (CMU-PDL-09-102), Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Karan Sanghi, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, and Michael K. Reiter
Tashi: Location-Aware Cluster Management, James Cipar, Elie Krevat, Julio Lopez, Michael Stroucken, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael A. Kozuch, Michael P. Ryan, Richard Glass, Steven W. Schlosser, and David O’Hallaron
Directions for Shingled-Write and Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording System Architectures: Synergies with Solid-State Disks (CMU-PDL-09-104), Garth Gibson and Milo Polte
System-Call Based Problem Diagnosis for PVFS, Michael P. Kasick, Keith A. Bare, Eugene E. Marinelli, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Ghandi, and Priya Narasimhan
Relative Fitness Modeling, Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, and Gregory R. Ganger
In Search of an API for Scalable File Systems: Under the Table or Above it?, Swapnil Patil, Garth A. Gibson, Gregory R. Ganger, Julio Lopez, Milo Polte, Wittawat Tantisiroj, and Lin Xiao
Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home, Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Gregory R. Ganger
Mochi: Visual Log-Analysis Based Tools for Debugging Hadoop (CMU-PDL-09-103), Jiaqui Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
Mochi: Visual Log-Analysis Based Tools for Debugging Hadoop, Jiaqui Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Ghandi, and Priya Narasimhan
FAWNdamentally Power-Efficient Clusters, Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David Andersen, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Michael Kaminsky, and Iulian Moraru
A (In)Cast of Thousands: Scaling Datacenter TCP to Kiloservers and Gigabits (CMU-PDL-09-101), Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, Hiral Shah, Elie Krevat, David G. Anderson, Gregory R. Ganger, and Garth A. Gibson
Submissions from 2008
File System Virtual Appliances: Third-party File System Implementations without the Pain (CMU-PDL-08-106), Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, and Michael K. Reiter
FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (CMU-PDL-08-108), David G. Andersen, Jason Franklin, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, and Vijay Vasudevan
ASDF: Automated, Online Fingerpointing for Hadoop (CMU-PDL-08-104), Keith Bare, Michael P. Kasick, Soila Kavulya, Eugene Marinelli, Xinghao Pan, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
The DiskSim Simulation Environment Version 4.0 Reference Manual (CMU-PDL-08-101), John S. Bucy, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, and Gregory R. Ganger
Characterizing HEC Storage Systems at Rest (CMU-PDL-08-109), Shobhit Dayal
A Fault Model for Upgrades in Distributed Systems (CMU-PDL-08-115), Tudor Dumitraş, Soila Kavulya, and Priya Narasimhan
User Level Implementation of Scalable Directories (GIGA+) (CMU-PDL-08-107), Sanket Hase, Aditya Jayaraman, Vinay K. Perneti, Sundararaman Sridharan, Swapnil V. Patil, Milo Polte, and Garth A. Gibson
Ganesha: Black-Box Fault Diagnosis for MapReduce Systems (CMU-PDL-08-112), Xinghao Pan, Jiaqi Tan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
GIGA+ : Scalable Directories for Shared File Systems (CMU-PDL-08-110), Swapnil Patil and Garth Gibson
Perspective: Semantic data management for the home (CMU-PDL-08-105), Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Gregory R. Ganger
Using Utility Functions to Control a Distributed Storage System (CMU-PDL-08-102), John D. Strunk
RAMS and BlackSheep: Inferring White-box Application Behavior Using Black-box Techniques (CMU-PDL-08-103), Jiaqi Tan and Priya Narasimhan
SALSA: Analyzing Logs as StAte Machines (CMU-PDL-08-111), Jiaqi Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
Data-intensive File Systems for Internet Services: A Rose by Any Other Name... (CMU-PDL-08-114), Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Swapnil Patil, and Garth Gibson
Co-Scheduling of Disk Head Time in Cluster-Based Storage (CMU-PDL-08-113), Matthew Wachs and Gregory R. Ganger
Submissions from 2007
On Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage (CMU-PDL-07-108), Michael P. Mesnier
Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems (CMU-PDL-07-105), Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, and Srinivasan Seshan
Learning to Share: A Study of Sharing Among Home Storage Devices (CMU-PDL-07-107), Brandon Salmon, Frank Hady, and Jay Melican
Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems (CMU-PDL-07-106), John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger
Enabling What-if Explorations in Systems (CMU-PDL-07-103), Eno Thereska
Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete (CMU-PDL-07-101), Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregory R. Ganger
Submissions from 2006
Challenges and Opportunities in Internet Data Mining (CMU-PDL-06-102), David G. Andersen and Nick Feamster
Improving Small File Performance in Object-based Storage (CMU-PDL-06-104), James Hendricks, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, and Gregory R. Ganger
Eliminating Cross-server Operations in Scalable File Systems (CMU-PDL-06-105), James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, and Gregory R. Ganger
Dimorphic Computing (CMU-CS-06-123), H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, Rajesh Balan, Eyal de Lara, M. Satyanarananan, and David O'Hallaron
//TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events (CMU-PDL-06-108), Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, and Gregory R. Ganger
Group Communication: Helping or Obscuring Failure Diagnosis? (CMU-PDL-06-107), Soila Pertet, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
Towards Efficient Semantic Object Storage for the Home (CMU-PDL-06-103), Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, and Gregory R. Ganger
Putting Home Storage Management into Perspective (CMU-PDL-06-110), Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lily B. Mummert, and Gregory R. Ganger
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? (CMU-PDL-06-111), Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson
Using Context to Assist in Personal File Retrieval (CMU-CS-06-147), Craig A.N. Soules
Informed Data Distribution Selection in a Self-predicting Storage System (CMU-PDL-06-101), Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Gregory R. Ganger
Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers (CMU-PDL-06-106 ), Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, and Gregory R. Ganger
Routing, Disjoint Paths, and Classification (CMU-PDL-06-109), Shuheng Zhou
Submissions from 2005
Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage (CMU-PDL-05-104), 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, and Jay J. Wylie
Correctness of the Read/Conditional-Write and Query/Update Protocols (CMU-PDL-05-107), Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K. Reiter, and Jay J. Wylie
Explicit Compiler-based Memory Management for Out-of-core Applications (CMU-CS-05-140), Angela Demke Brown
D-SPTF: Decentralized Request Distribution in Brick-based Storage Systems (CMU-PDL-05-111), Christopher R. Lumb
Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage Devices (CMU-PDL-05-106), Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, and Gregory Ganger
Causes of Failure in Web Applications (CMU-PDL-05-109), Soila Pertet and Priya Narasimhan
A Large-scale Study of Failures in High-performance-computing Systems (CMU-PDL-05-112), Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson
MultiMap: Preserving Disk Locality for Multidimensional Datasets (CMU-PDL-05-102), Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger
Connections: Using Context to Enhance File Search (CMU-PDL-05-105), Craig A.N. Soules and Gregory R. Ganger
Towards Self-Predicting Systems: What if You Could Ask “What-if”? (CMU-PDL-05-101), Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Gregory R. Ganger
The Seductive Appeal of Thin Clients (CMU-CS-05-151), Niraj Tolia, David G. Andersen, and M. Satyanarayanan
Empirical Analysis of Rate Limiting Mechanisms (CMU-PDL-05-103), Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Ahren Studer, and Chenxi Wang
A Read/Write Protocol Family for Versatile Storage Infrastructures (CMU-PDL-05-108), Jay J. Wylie