Ahmed Amer received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Darrell Long. His doctoral research included work on the automated grouping of data for placement and mobile applications. Dr. Amer remains a research associate with the SSRC, and serves on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University.

Publications

2009

• 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]
• 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, 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

• 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]

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]
• 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]
• 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]

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]