Storage Systems Research Center

Storage devices such as disks and flash memory can fail and, in the quantities required by petascale computing, such failures are commonplace. UC Santa Cruz researchers are exploring ways to safeguard both data and metadata against storage device failure, both by keeping extra information to recover from failures, double-checking any changes made to the stored data, and proactively scanning storage devices for early signs of failure. Applying our techniques to non-volatile memory such as flash memory has improved system reliability by several orders of magnitude, guarding against both hardware and software errors and allowing flash memory to be used to safely store directory information for high-performance computing systems.

The Storage Systems Research Center is part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Composed of faculty from the Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering departments, our research focuses on many aspects of file and storage systems. We have active projects in archival storage, scalable distributed indexing, large-scale distributed storage systems, file systems for next-generation storage devices, and data deduplication. We also have particular focus in cross-cutting issues such as security and reliability in file and storage systems. You're encouraged to browse a full list of our projects and explore the research that the SSRC has done since 2001.

If you're interested in joining the SSRC, please see this page or contact any of the faculty or students in the SSRC.

Prospective graduate students

Applications for graduate school at UC Santa Cruz are due at the end of December, 2009. We have lots of information available online for prospective graduate students.

Learn more about the SSRC

There are many ways to learn more about the SSRC and the research we're doing here at UC Santa Cruz.

• Browse the SSRC web site
• Subscribe to one or more RSS feeds (see the links in the upper left corner of the page)
• Contact SSRC faculty, students, or staff
• Attend an SSRC seminar or other event—all are open to the public unless otherwise indicated
• Browse past events—many are available via streaming video
• Visit the SSRC group on LinkedIn

Contact us

You can reach us by contacting individual faculty or students, or you can reach us at:

Storage Systems Research Center
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064  USA
Phone: +1 (831) 459-1898
Fax: +1 (831) 459-1041
Director: Prof. Darrell D. E. Long
Associate Director: Prof. Ethan L. Miller

Engineering 2 Building SSRC Labs:
E2-381: +1 (831) 459-4458
E2-383: +1 (831) 459-1371
E2-380: no phone