Submissions from 2010
Robust and Flexible Power-Proportional Storage (CMU-PDL-10-106), Hrishikesh Amur, James Cipar, Varun Gupta, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael A. Kozuch, and Karsten Schwan
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
No Downtime for Data Conversions: Rethinking Hot Upgrades (CMU-PDL-09-106), Tudor Dumitraş and Priya Narasimhan
DiskReduce: RAID for Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (CMU-PDL-09-112), Bin Fan, Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Lin Xiao, and Garth Gibson
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
An Analysis of Traces from a Production MapReduce Cluster (CMU-PDL-09-107), Soila Kavulya, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan
Delayed Instantiation Bulk Operations for Management of Distributed, Object-based Storage Systems (CMU–PDL–09–108), Andrew J. Klosterman
Access Control for Home Data Sharing: Attitudes, Needs and Practices (CMU-CyLab-09-013, CMU-PDL-09-110), Michelle L. Mazurek, J. P. Arsenault, Joanna Bresee, Nitin Gupta, Iulia Ion, Christina Johns, Daniel Lee, Yuan Liang, Jenny Olsen, Brandon Salmon, Richard Shay, Kami Vaniea, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter
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
...And Eat It Too: High Read Performance in Write-Optimized HPC I/O Middleware File Formats (CMU-PDL-09-111), Milo Polte, Jay Lofstead, John Bent, Garth Gibson, Scott A. Klasky, Qing Liu, Manish Parashar, Norbert Podhorszki, Karsten Schwan, Meghan Wingate, and Matthew Wolf
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
Submissions from 2004
Efficient, Scalable Consistency for Highly Fault-tolerant Storage (CMU-PDL-04-111), Garth Goodson
The Safety and Liveness Properties of a Protocol Family for Versatile Survivable Storage Infrastructures (CMU-PDL-03-105), Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter
Timing-accurate Storage Emulation: Evaluating Hypothetical Storage Components in Real Computer Systems (CMU-PDL-04-108), John Linwood Griffin
On Hierarchical Routing in Doubling Metrics (CMU-PDL-04-106), Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, and Shuheng Zhou
File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems (CMU-PDL-04-101), Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Daniel Ellard, Gregory R. Ganger, and Margo Seltzer
Cluster Scheduling for Explicitly-speculative Tasks (CMU-PDL-04-112), David Patrou
Challenges in Building a Two-Tiered Learning Architecture for Disk Layout (CMU-PDL-04-109), Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Craig A.N. Soules, John D. Strunk, and Gregory R. Ganger
Matching Application Access Patterns to Storage Device Characteristics (CMU-PDL-03-109), Jiri Schindler
Using MEMS-based Storage Devices in Computer Systems (CMU-PDL-04-104), Steven W. Schlosser
Clotho: Decoupling Page Layout from Storage Organization (CMU-PDL-04-102), Minglong Shou, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregoru R. Ganger
Toward Automatic Context-based Attribute Assignment for Semantic File Systems (CMU-PDL-04-105), Craig A.N. Soules and Gregory R. Ganger
Storage Device Performance Prediction with CART Models (CMU-PDL-04-103), Mengzhi Wang, Kinman Au, Anastassia Ailamaki, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger
Decentralized Recovery for Survivable Storage Systems (CMU-CS-04-119), Ming-Tao Wong
Submissions from 2003
Attribute-Based Prediction of File Properties (HCS-TR-14-03), Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, and Margot Seltzer
Finding and Containing Enemies Within the Walls with Self-securing Network Interfaces (CMU-CS-03-109), Gregory R. Ganger, Gregg Economou, and Stanley M. Bielski
Self-* Storage: Brick-based Storage with Automated Administration (CMU-CS-03-178), Gregory R. Ganger, John D. Strunk, and Andrew J. Klosterman
A Protocol Family for Versatile Survivable Storage Infrastructures (CMU-PDL-03-103), Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter
Byzantine-tolerant Erasure-coded Storage (CMU-CS-03-187), Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter
Efficient Consistency for Erasure-coded Data via Versioning Servers (CMU-CS-03-127), Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter
Efficient Byzantine-tolerant Erasure-coded Storage (CMU-PDL-03-104), Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, and Michael K. Reiter
On the Feasibility of Intrusion Detection Inside Workstation Disks (CMU-PDL-03-106), John Linwood Griffin, Adam Pennington, John S. Bucy, Deepa Choundappan, Nithya Muralidharan, and Gregory R. Ganger
A Prototype User Interface for Coarse-Grained Desktop Access Control (CMU-CS-03-200), A. Chris Long, Courtney Moskowitz, and Greg Ganger
D-SPTF: Decentralized Request Distribution in Brick-based Storage (CMU-CS-03-202), Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger, and Richard Golding
Adaptive, Hands-Off Stream Mining (CMU-CS-02-205), Spiros Papadimitriou, Anthony Brockwell, and Christos Faloutsos
Scheduling Explicitly-speculative Tasks (CMU-CS-03-204), David Petrou, Gregory R. Ganger, and Garth A. Gibson
A Two-Tiered Software Architecture for Automated Tuning of Disk Layouts (CMU-CS-03-130), Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Craig A.N. Soules, and Gregory R. Ganger
Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics (CMU-CS-03-124), Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregory R. Ganger
Atropos: A Disk Array Volume Manager for Orchestrated Use of Disks (CMU-PDL-03-101), Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregory R. Ganger
MEMS-Based Storage Devices and Standard Disk Interfaces: A Square Peg in a Round Hole? (CMU-PDL-03-102), Steven W. Schlosser and Gregory R. Ganger
Exposing and Exploiting Internal Parallelism in MEMS-based Storage (CMU-CS-03-125), Steven W. Schlosser, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregory R. Ganger
Why Can’t I Find My Files? New Methods for Automating Attribute Assignment (CMU-CS-03-116), Craig A.N. Soules and Greg Ganger
A Human Organization Analogy for Self-* Systems (CMU-CS-03-129), John D. Strunk and Gregory R. Ganger
A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications (CMU-CS-03-192), Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger
Design and Implementation of a Freeblock Subsystem (CMU-PDL-03-107), Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, Christopher R. Lumb, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, and Gregory R. Ganger
Dynamic Quarantine of Internet Worms (CMU-PDL-03-108), Cynthia Wong, Chenxi Wang, Dawn Song, Stan Bielski, and Gregory R. Ganger
Balancing Locality and Randomness in DHTs (CMU-CS-03-203), Shuheng Zhou, Gregory R. Ganger, and Peter Steenkiste