Storage Systems Research Center

Finding files becomes increasingly challenging as storage capacities grow. Browsing through folders or using keyword search tools become much less effective when such techniques must handle ever-increasing numbers of files, perhaps up to a trillion within one file system. To address this problem, UC Santa Cruz researchers are exploring new approaches to search and indexing within file systems. Our location-based search technique considers spaces defined within adjustable link-distances from an origin, similar to searching for people within social networks, thus narrowing down a gigantic space to a more manageable one.

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, large-scale distributed storage systems, file systems for next-generation storage devices, and scalable distributed indexing. 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, 2008 (the deadline for admission in Fall 2008 has passed). 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

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

Engineering 2 Building SSRC Labs:
E2-375: +1 (831) 459-2545
E2-381: +1 (831) 459-4458
E2-383: +1 (831) 459-1371
E2-380: no phone