Events for 2008

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This is a list of SSRC events for 2008. For more details on a particular event, including streaming video of the event (if available), please click on the event's link.

January

• SSRC talk: Scalable Deduplication in Archival Systems (Deepavali Bhagwat)
  Wed, Jan. 9 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)
• Seminar: FRASH: Hierarchical File system for Byte Addressable NVRAM and Large Scale Flash Storage (Prof. Youjip Won, Hanyang University, Korea)
  Mon, Jan. 14 at 3:30 PM (E2-506)
• SSRC talk: Fast Methods for Determining Disk Geometry (Youjip Won & Jongmin Gim, Hanyang Univ., Korea)
  Wed, Jan. 16 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)
• SSRC talk: Information-theoretic Secure Verifiable Secret Redistribution Protocol (Prof. K. Gopinath)
  Wed, Jan. 23 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)
• Talk:Energy-Security/Reliability Trade-offs in Sensor Networks (Neerja Bhatnagar)
  Wed, Jan. 30 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)

February

• Talk: Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building by Michael Isard (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley)
  Mon, Feb. 4 at 1:00 PM (E2-215)
• Talk: Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage (Mark Storer)
  Wed, Feb. 6 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)
• Talk: Automated formal analysis of a protocol for secure file sharing on untrusted storage (Avik Chaudhari)
  Mon, Feb. 11 at 4:00 PM (E2-392)
• Talk: Kevin Greenan will talk about his work on reliable storage systems.
  Wed, Feb. 13 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)
• Talk: Sasha Ames will present his work on file systems interfaces and query languages
  Wed, Feb. 20 at 12:00 PM (E2 399)

March

• Jeff Hammerbacher: Viewpoints from the Facebook Data Team
  Mon, March 3 at 10:30 AM (E2.375)
• Seminar: PARAID: A Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID (Andy Wang, Florida State Univ.)
  Mon, March 10 at 3:30 PM (E2-399)
• Seminar: Maintaining Data Integrity in the Face of Failures (Garth Goodson, NetApp)
  Wed, March 12 at 12:00 PM (E2-399)

April

• Seminar: High Performance Large Scale Data Deduplication (Deepavali Bhagwat)
  Wed, April 2 at 12:00 PM (E2-280)
• Seminar: Personalized Interactive Faceted Search (Jonathan Koren)
  Wed, April 9 at 12:00 PM (E2-215)
• Seminar: Spyglass: Scalable, Distributed Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems (Andrew Leung)
  Wed, April 16 at 12:30 PM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Energy-Efficient MEMS-Based Storage Devices (Mohammed G. Khatib, University of Twente and SSRC)
  Wed, April 23 at 12:00 PM (E2-599)
• Seminar: ASIndex: A Structure For String Search Using ngrams and Algebraic Signatures (Witold Litwin, University of Paris)
  Wed, April 23 at 12:45 PM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Common file system corruption modes (Valerie Henson)
  Wed, April 30 at 12:00 PM (E2.599)

May

• Seminar: Signaling Enabled Distributed and Managed Object Software (Rao Mikkilineni, Apara)
  Wed, May 7 at 12:00 PM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Self-Managing Storage Arrays (Rosie Wacha)
  Wed, May 14 at 12:00 PM (E2-599)
• SSRC will host a workshop on best practices in file and storage system benchmarking.
  Mon, May 19 at 8:00 AM (E2 Simularium)

June

• Seminar: Proposal practice talk (Kevin Greenan)
  Wed, June 4 at 12:00 PM (E2-599)
• Qualifying exam: Kevin Greenan
  Thu, June 12 at 10:00 AM (E2-280)

September

• Seminar: Intra-Disk Parallelism: A Green Storage Solution for Data Centers (Prof. Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia)
  Thu, Sept. 25 at 4:00 PM (E2-215)
• Seminar: Accelerating iSCSI Proxy I/O in Block Storage Clusters (Dr. Andy Spry, LSI)
  Fri, Sept. 26 at 11:00 AM (E2-399)

October

• Seminar: Storing Your Life, Consumer Digital Storage-Personal, Shared, Hierarchical and Virtual (Dr. Tom Coughlin)
  Wed, Oct. 1 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Coordinating Processes at Yahoo! with Zookeeper (Dr. Ben Reed, Yahoo!)
  Mon, Oct. 6 at 11:00 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Tradeoffs Between Performance and Capacity Savings in Data De-duplication (Stephanie Jones)
  Wed, Oct. 15 at 12:00 PM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Secure Data Deduplication (Mark Storer)
  Wed, Oct. 22 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Automated Document and Media Exploitation (Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School)
  Wed, Oct. 29 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)

November

• Seminar: StorageTank (David Pease, IBM Research / UCSC)
  Wed, Nov. 5 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in a Deduplication Filesystem (Chris Lumb, Data Domain)
  Wed, Nov. 12 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: A Spin-Up Saved is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage (Kevin Greenan)
  Wed, Nov. 19 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Seminar: Scalable Search in Large-Scale Storage Systems (Andrew Leung)
  Wed, Nov. 26 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)

December

• Seminar: Storage Class Memory: Technology and Use (Rich Freitas, IBM Research)
  Wed, Dec. 3 at 11:30 AM (E2-599)
• Qualifying exam: Andrew Leung
  Wed, Dec. 10 at 3:30 PM (E2-599)