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