Storage Systems Research Center

Digital archives are growing rapidly, necessitating stronger reliability measures than RAID to avoid data loss from device failure. Mirroring, a popular solution, is too expensive over time for the amounts of data produced by systems such as the Large Hadron Collider, where it is hard to know what dataset may be a future treasure.

We are working on a compromise solution that uses multi-level redundancy coding to reduce the probability of data loss from multiple simultaneous device failures. This approach handles small-scale failures of one or two devices efficiently while still allowing the system to survive rare-event, larger-scale failures of four or more devices.

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 and non-hierarchical file systems, 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 each calendar year. 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 from 2009, 2010, and 2011—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) 459-2817
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