Ahmed Amer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Darrell Long. His research includes work on the predictive grouping of data, energy management, and storage systems reliability.

Publications

2011

• Ahmed Amer, JoAnne Holliday, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Data Management and Layout for Shingled Magnetic Recording, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 47(10), October 2011. [Shingled Disk]
• Yulai Xie, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Dan Feng, Zhipeng Tan, Compressing Provenance Graphs, 3rd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, June 2011. [Archival Storage] [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]

2010

• Ignacio Corderi, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW10), held in conjunction with SC2010, November 2010. [Petabyte-Scale Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
• Sara Chaarawi, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW10), held in conjunction with SC2010, November 2010. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
• Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Improving Disk Array Reliability Though Expedited Scrubbing, 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, July 2010. [Reliable Storage]
• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System, 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies: Research Track (MSST 2010), May 2010. [Shingled Disk]

2009

• David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Avoiding State-Space Explosion of Predictive Metadata with SESH, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Using Shared Parity Disks to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009. [Reliable Storage]
• Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Evaluating the Impact of Irrecoverable Read Errors on Disk Array Reliability, Proceedings of the IEEE 15th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC09), November 2009. [Reliable Storage]
• David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Space-Efficient Predictive Block Management, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS'09), Grenoble, France, October 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Using Storage Class Memories to Increase the Reliability of Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), September 2009. [Reliable Storage]
• Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Using storage class memories to increase the reliability of two-dimensional RAID arrays, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-04, April 2009. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]

2008

• Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, When MTTDLs Are Not Good Enough: Providing Better Estimates of Disk Array Reliability, Proceedings of the 7th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS ‘08), December 2008. [Reliable Storage]
• Ahmed Amer, Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Progressive Parity-Based Hardening of Data Stores, Proceedings of the 27th International Performance of Computers and Communication Conference (IPCCC '08), December 2008, pages 34-42. [Reliable Storage]
• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Increased Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), September 2008, pages 189-198. [Reliable Storage]

2007

• Ahmed Amer, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Vincent Ciotola, James Larkby-Lahet, Outshining Mirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'07), San Diego, CA, September 2007. [Reliable Storage]

2006

• Jeff Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Adapting Predictions and Workloads for Power Management, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2006), September 2006. [Prediction and Grouping]

2005

• Jeff Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Expecting the unexpected: adaptation for predictive energy conservation, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Storage security and survivability (StorageSS 2005), Fairfax, VA, November 2005. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos Chrysanthis, Towards Universal Mobile Caching, Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2005) (held in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD 2005), June 2005. [Adaptive Caching]

2004

• Karl Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Predicting When Not To Predict, Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '04), October 2004. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Purvi Shah, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Identifying Stable File Access Patterns, Proceedings of the Twelfth NASA Goddard/Twenty First IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '04), April 2004. [Prediction and Grouping]

2003

• Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, A Stochastic Approach to File Access Prediction, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI '03), September 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Ahmed Amer, Alison Luo, Newton Der, Darrell D. E. Long, Alexander Pang, Visualizing Cache Effects on I/O Workload Predictability, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '03), April 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Gary Whittle, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Randal Burns, Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictors, Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE/Eleventh NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '03), April 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]

2002

• Ismail Ari, Ahmed Amer, Robert Gramacy, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, ACME: Adaptive Caching Using Multiple Experts, Proceedings in Informatics 14(), December 2002, pages 143-158. [Adaptive Caching]
• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Randal Burns, Group-based management of distributed file caches, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '02), July 2002. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Randal Burns, File access prediction with adjustable accuracy, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '02), April 2002. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Ismail Ari, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Who is more adaptive? ACME: adaptive caching using multiple experts, Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2002), March 2002. [Adaptive Caching]

2001

• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Aggregating caches: A mechanism for implicit file prefetching, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '01), August 2001, pages 293–301. [Prediction and Grouping]
• Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Noah: Low-cost file access prediction through pairs, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC '01), April 2001, pages 27–33. [Prediction and Grouping]