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Wed, May 28
Congratulations to Deepavali Bhagwat, who has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the ARCS Foundation.
Mon, May 19
The SSRC hosted a file and storage system benchmarking workshop, chaired by Erez Zadok, on May 19th.
Sun, May 18
The 6th annual SSRC retreat will be held May 20-21, 2008.
Fri, May 16
Pergamum project poster wins runner up award in the Best Engineering Presentation category at UCSC Graduate Symposium
Tue, May 13
The SSRC is pleased to welcome Hitachi Data Systems as a sponsor.
Sat, April 26
The Pergamum project has been featured in UCSC Currents and mentioned on Slashdot and Digg.

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Publications

This is a list of SSRC publications. Most papers are available online in PDF format, with the possible exception of pre-publication papers. Each paper's citation is followed by links to one or more projects for which the paper is relevant.

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1996

Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Predicting file-system actions from prior events, Proceedings of the Winter 1996 USENIX Technical Conference, January 1996, pages 319–328. [Prediction and Grouping]

1997

Carlos Maltzahn, Kathy Richardson, Dirk Grunwald, Performance Issues of Enterprise Level Web Proxies, 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 1997. [Storage QoS]
Ethan L. Miller, Randy Katz, RAMA: An Easy-To-Use, High-Performance Parallel File System, Parallel Computing 23(4), July 1997, pages 419-446. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Exploring the bounds of web latency reduction from caching and prefetching, Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '97), December 1997, pages 13–22. [Prediction and Grouping]

1998

Scott A. Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, James Mankovichr, A dynamic quality of service middleware agent for mediating application resource usage, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 1998), December 1998, pages 307–317. [Real-time Systems]

1999

Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, The case for efficient file access pattern modeling, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VII), March 1999, pages 14–19. [Prediction and Grouping]
Carlos Maltzahn, Kathy Richardson, Dirk Grunwald, James Martin, On Bandwidth Smoothing, 4th International Web Caching Workshop (WCW'99), March 1999. [Prediction and Grouping]
Carlos Maltzahn, Kathy Richardson, Dirk Grunwald, Reducing the Disk I/O of Web Proxy Server Caches, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 1999. [Prediction and Grouping]

2000

William E. Freeman, Ethan L. Miller, Design for a decentralized security system for network-attached storage, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 2000, pages 361–373. [Secure File and Storage Systems]

2001

Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Increasing predictive accuracy through limited prefetching, Proceedings of Communications Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation (CNDS 2002), January 2001, pages 131–138. [Prediction and Grouping]
Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Design and implementation of a predictive file prefetching algorithm, Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, January 2001, pages 105–118. [Prediction and Grouping]
Tara Madhyastha, Katherine Pu Yang, Physical modeling of probe-based storage, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2001, pages 207-224. [MEMS-based Storage]
Scott A. Brandt, Performance analysis of dynamic soft real-time systems, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 01), April 2001, pages 379–386. [Real-time Systems]
Lonnie Welch, Scott A. Brandt, Toward a realization of the value of benefit in real-time systems, Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parallel & Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), April 2001. [Real-time Systems]
Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, William E. Freeman, Benjamin C. Reed, Strong security for distributed file systems, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC '01), April 2001, pages 34–40. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
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]
Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, HeRMES: High-Performance Reliable MRAM-Enabled Storage, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), May 2001, pages 83-87. [Storage Class Memories]
Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Conserving Battery Energy through Making Fewer Incorrect File Predictions, IEEE Workshop on Power Management for Real-Time and Embedded Systems at the IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, May 2001. [Prediction and Grouping]
Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Caching Files with a Program-based Last N Successors, Workshop on Caching, Coherency and Consistency (WC3 '01), June 2001. [Prediction and Grouping]
Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Performing file prediction with a program-based successor model, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '01), August 2001, pages 193–202. [Prediction and Grouping]
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]
Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Using program and user information to improve file prediction performance, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS '01), November 2001, pages Proceedings. [Prediction and Grouping]
Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, The BEST desktop soft real-time scheduler, Work in Progress Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS WIP 2001), December 2001, pages 9–12. [Real-time Systems]

2002

Scott A. Brandt, Gary Nutt, Flexible soft real-time processing in middleware, Real-Time Systems, 22, January 2002, pages 77-118. [Real-time Systems]
Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, The BEST scheduler for integrated processing of best-effort and soft real-time processes, Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN '02), January 2002, pages 46–60. [Real-time Systems]
Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, William E. Freeman, Benjamin C. Reed, Strong Security for Network-Attached Storage, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), January 2002, pages 1-13. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Zachary Peterson, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Data Placement Based on Seek Time Analysis of a MEMS-based Storage Device, Work-In-Progress Session of the Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST 2002), January 2002. [MEMS-based Storage]
Alicja Szczurowska, MRAM–preliminary analysis for file system design, Master's thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2002, March 2002. [Storage Class Memories]
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]
Scott Banachowski, Zachary Peterson, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Intra-file security for a distributed file system, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2002, pages 153-163. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
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]
Miriam Sivan-Zimet, Tara Madhyastha, Workload based modeling of probe-based storage, Proceedings of the 2002 SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 2002, pages 256-257. [MEMS-based Storage]
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]
Scott Banachowski, Using the best-effort scheduling model to support soft real-time processing, Master's Project Report, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 2002. [Real-time Systems]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, An analytical solution to a MEMS seek time model, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-02-31, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2002. [MEMS-based Storage]
Ying Lin, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Power conservation strategies for MEMS-based storage devices, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '02), October 2002. [MEMS-based Storage]
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, Volume 14, December 2002, pages 143-158. [Adaptive Caching]

2003

Ivan Dramaliev, Tara Madhyastha, Optimizing probe-based storage, Proceedings of the Second USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), March 2003, pages 103-114. [MEMS-based Storage]
Caixue Lin, Managing the soft real-time processes in RBED, Master's Project Report, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2003. [Real-time Systems] [Storage QoS]
Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, Better real-time response for time-share scheduling, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Parallel & Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), April 2003. [Real-time Systems]
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]
R. J. Honicky, Ethan L. Miller, A Fast Algorithm for Online Placement and Reorganization of Replicated Data, Proceedings of the 17th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), April 2003. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Lan Xue, Efficient Metadata Management in Large Distributed File Systems, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE / 11th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2003), April 2003, pages 290-298. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, Witold Litwin, Reliability Mechanisms for Very large Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE / 11th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2003, pages 146-156. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Nate Edel, Karl Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Measuring the compressibility of metadata and small files for disk/NVRAM hybrid storage systems, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-03-04, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, July 2003. [Storage Class Memories]
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]
Geoff Kuenning, Ethan L. Miller, Anonymization Techniques for URLs and Filenames, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-03-05, September 2003. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Karen Glocer, Zachary Peterson, Zone-based shortest positioning time first scheduling for MEMS-based storage devices, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '03), December 2003, pages 104-113. [MEMS-based Storage]
Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, Toward a taxonomy of time-constrained applications, Work in Progress Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS WIP 2003), December 2003, pages 3-6. [Real-time Systems]
Scott A. Brandt, Scott Banachowski, Caixue Lin, Timothy Bisson, Dynamic integrated scheduling of hard real-time, soft real-time and non-real-time processes, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003), December 2003, pages 396–407. [Real-time Systems]
Robert Gramacy, Manfred Warmuth, Scott A. Brandt, Ismail Ari, Adaptive caching by refetching, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, December 2003, pages 1465–1472. [Adaptive Caching]
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Managing flash crowds on the Internet, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '03), December 2003, pages 246–249. [Adaptive Caching]

2004

Scott Banachowski, Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, Missed deadline notification in best-effort schedulers, Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2004 (MMCN 04), January 2004, pages 123–135. [Real-time Systems]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Adaptive Disk Spin-down Algorithms in Practice, Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the Usenix Conference of File and Storage Technology (FAST 2004), March 2004. [Storage Class Memories] [Real-time Systems]
Lawrence You, Christos Karamanolis, Evaluation of efficient archival storage techniques, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE / 12th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2004. [Archival Storage]
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]
R. J. Honicky, Ethan L. Miller, Replication Under Scalable Hashing: A Family of Algorithms for Scalable Decentralized Data Distribution, Proceedings of the 18th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), April 2004. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Feng Wang, Qin Xin, Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Tyce T. Mclarty, File System Workload Analysis For Large Scientific Computing Applications, NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2004), April 2004, pages 139–152. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Andy Hospodor, Ethan L. Miller, Interconnection Architectures for Petabyte-Scale High-Performance Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE / 12th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2004, pages 273-281. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Feng Wang, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, OBFS: A File System for Object-Based Storage Devices, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE / 12th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2004, pages 283-300. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Caixue Lin, Pau Martí, Scott A. Brandt, Scott Banachowski, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Improving control performance using adaptive quality of service in a real-time system, Work in Progress Session of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 2004. [Real-time Systems]
Ismail Ari, Melanie Gottwals, Dick Henze, SANBoost: Automated SAN-level caching in storage area networks, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '04), May 2004. [Adaptive Caching]
Sage Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Kristal Pollack, Intelligent Metadata Management for a Petabyte-Scale File System, 2nd Intelligent Storage Workshop, May 2004. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, Storage Access Support for Soft Real-Time Applications, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2004), May 2004. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Real-time Systems] [Storage QoS]
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Evaluation of Distributed Recovery in Large-Scale Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2004), June 2004, pages 172-181. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Nate Edel, Karl Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Measuring the compressibility of metadata and small files for disk/nvram hybrid storage systems., Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS '04), July 2004. [Storage Class Memories]
Ismail Ari, Ethan L. Miller, Caching Support for Push-Pull Data Dissemination Using Data Snooping Routers, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS '04), August 2004. [Adaptive Caching]
Bo Hong, Thomas Schwarz, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Reliability of mems-based storage enclosures, roceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '04), October 2004, pages 571-579. [MEMS-based Storage]
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]
Nate Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, MRAMFS: a compressing file system for non-volatile RAM, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '04), October 2004, pages 596-603. [Storage Class Memories]
Thomas Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Andy Hospodor, Spencer Ng, Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '04), October 2004, pages 409-418. Won Best Paper award. [Archival Storage] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Sage Weil, Kristal Pollack, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Dynamic Metadata Management for Petabyte-Scale File Systems, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (SC '04), November 2004. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Pau Martí, Caixue Lin, Scott A. Brandt, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Optimal state feedback based resource allocation for resource-constrained control tasks, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), December 2004, pages 161-172. [Real-time Systems]
Caixue Lin, Scott A. Brandt, Efficient soft real-time processing in an integrated system, Work in Progress Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS WIP 2004), December 2004. [Real-time Systems]
Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, Timothy Bisson, Integrating best-effort scheduling into a real-time system, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), December 2004. [Real-time Systems]
Qin Xin, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Availability in Global Peer-To-Peer Storage Systems, Distributed Data and Structures 6, Proceedings in Informatics, December 2004. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]

2005

Joel Wu, Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, Automated QoS Support for Multimedia Disk Access, Proceedings of the SPIE, Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2005), January 2005, pages 103-107. [Real-time Systems]
Joerg Meyer, Large-Scale Multi-Type Inverted List Indexing, Masters thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2005. [Archival Storage]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Energy Consumption with a Non-Volatile Storage Cache, International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS) held in conjunction with the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Systems and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2005), March 2005. [Storage Class Memories] [Real-time Systems]
Kristal Pollack, Scott A. Brandt, Efficient Access Control for Distributed Hierarchical File Systems, IEEE / NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2005), April 2005. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Scott A. Brandt, Adam Hiatt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Alisa Neeman, Deepa Tuteja, Richer file system metadata using links and attributes, Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2005. [Storage Class Memories]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Feng Wang, Using MEMS-based Storage to Boost Disk Performance, IEEE / NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2005), April 2005, pages 202–209. [MEMS-based Storage]
Lawrence You, Kristal Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Deep Store: An Archival Storage System Architecture, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), April 2005. [Archival Storage]
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Impact of Failure on Interconnection Networks in Large Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2005. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, Hierarchical Disk Sharing for Multimedia Systems and Servers, Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2005), June 2005, pages 189-194. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Real-time Systems]
Scott A. Brandt, Scott Banachowski, Caixue Lin, Joel Wu, Developing a Complete Integrated Real-Time System, Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT 2005) at the Euromicro International Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2005), July 2005. [Real-time Systems]
Qin Xin, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Disk Infant Mortality in Large Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '05), September 2005. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Avik Chaudhuri, Martín Abadi, Formal Security Analysis of Basic Network-Attached Storage, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering (FMSE'05), November 2005, pages 43-52. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Christopher Olson, Ethan L. Miller, Secure Capabilities for a Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Distributed File System, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2005), November 2005. Won Best Full Paper award. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Carlos Maltzahn, POTSHARDS: Storing Data for the Long-Term Without Encryption, Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE Security in Storage Workshop, December 2005. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Caixue Lin, Scott A. Brandt, Improving Soft Real-Time Performance Through Better Slack Management, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2005), December 2005, pages 3–14. [Real-time Systems]

2006

Nikhil Bobb, Damian Eads, Mark W. Storer, Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Graffiti: A framework for testing collaborative distributed metadata, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2006), January 2006. [Storage Class Memories]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Feng Wang, Using MEMS-Based Storage in Computer Systems—MEMS Storage Architectures, ACM Transactions on Storage, February 2006, pages 1-21. [MEMS-based Storage]
Sage Weil, Feng Wang, Qin Xin, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Carlos Maltzahn, Ceph: A Scalable Object-Based Storage System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-01, March 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Richard Golding, Caixue Lin, Theodore Wong, Zygaria: storage performance as a managed resource, RTAS 2006, April 2006. [Storage QoS]
Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Kevin Greenan, Owen Hofmann, Mark W. Storer, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, LiFS: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, May 2006. [Storage Class Memories]
Ismail Ari, Melanie Gottwals, Dick Henze, Performance Boosting and Workload Isolation in Storage Area Networks with SANCache, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE /14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST) 2006, May 2006, pages 263-273. [Adaptive Caching]
Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, The Design and Implementation of AQuA: an Adaptive Quality of Service Aware Object-Based Storage Device, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, May 2006, pages 209-218. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Real-time Systems] [Storage QoS]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Ying Lin, Using MEMS-Based Storage in Computer Systems—Device Modeling and Management, ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 2, No. 2, May 2006, pages 139-160. [MEMS-based Storage]
Avik Chaudhuri, Martín Abadi, Secrecy by Typing and File-Access Control, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW '06), July 2006, pages 112-123. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Store, forget, and check: Using algebraic signatures to check remotely administered storage, Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '06), July 2006. [slides] [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Deepavali Bhagwat, Kristal Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, Providing High Reliability in a Minimum Redundancy Archival Storage System, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '06), September 2006, pages 413-421. [Archival Storage]
Avik Chaudhuri, Martín Abadi, Formal Analysis of Dynamic, Distributed File-System Access Controls, Proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE '06), September 2006, pages 99-114. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, NVCache: Increasing the effectiveness of disk spin-down algorithms with caching, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2006), September 2006. [Real-time Systems]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Archival Storage Without Encryption, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-03, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2006. Later version published in USENIX 2007. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Reliability Mechanisms for File Systems Using Non-Volatile Memory as a Metadata Store, Proceedings of the 6th ACM & IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT '06), October 2006, pages 178-187. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long, Using Device Diversity to Protect Data against Batch-Correlated Disk Failures, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), October 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Andrew Leung, Ethan L. Miller, Scalable Security for Large, High Performance Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), October 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Long-Term Threats to Secure Archives, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), October 2006. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Sage Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Carlos Maltzahn, Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06), November 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Sage Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Carlos Maltzahn, CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data, Proceedings of SC '06, November 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Feng Wang, Storage Management in Large Distributed Object-Based Storage Systems, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, December 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]

2007

Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]
Carlos Maltzahn, Nikhil Bobb, Mark W. Storer, Damian Eads, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata, Proceedings in Informatics 21, March 2007, pages 97–111. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]
Joel Wu, Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Ensuring Performance in Activity-Based File Relocation, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '07), April 2007, pages 75-84. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Self-Adaptive Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '07), April 2007. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, A Hybrid Disk-Aware Spin-Down Algorithm with I/O Subsystem Support, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '07), April 2007. Won Best Paper Award. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Hybrid Disk Write Latency with Flash-Backed I/O Requests, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-03, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-04, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
Andrew Leung, Eric Lalonde, Jacob Telleen, James Davis, Carlos Maltzahn, Using Comprehensive Analysis for Performance Debugging in Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-05, May 2007. Later version published in MSST 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Qin Xin, Understanding and Coping with Failures in Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-06, May 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Andrew Leung, Scalable Security for High Performance, Petascale Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-07, June 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Storage Without Encryption, Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX Technical Conference, June 2007. [slides] [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, PRIMS : Making NVRAM Suitable for Extremely Reliable Storage, short paper in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '07), June 2007. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
Yi Zhang, Jonathan Koren, Efficient Bayesian Hierarchical User Modeling for Recommendation Systems, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '07), July 2007, pages 47-54. [Distributed Metadata Management]
Deepavali Bhagwat, Kave Eshghi, Pankaj Mehra, Content-based Document Routing and Index Partitioning for Scalable Similarity-based Searches in a Large Corpus, Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '07), August 2007, pages 105-112. [Archival Storage] [Distributed Metadata Management]
Sasha Ames, LiFSBrowse: A Visual, User Environment for the Linking File System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-08, August 2007. [Storage Class Memories]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Analysis and Construction of Galois Fields for Efficient Storage Reliability, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-09, August 2007. Revised version published in MASCOTS 2008. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Max Mehech, The Impact of Failures on Large Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-10, August 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, Providing Quality of Service Support in Object-Based File System, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2007), September 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Storage QoS]
Andrew Leung, Eric Lalonde, Jacob Telleen, James Davis, Carlos Maltzahn, Using Comprehensive Analysis for Performance Debugging in Distributed Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2007), September 2007, pages 281-286. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Kristal Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Richard Golding, Ralph Becker-Szendy, Benjamin C. Reed, Quota Enforcement for High-Performance Distributed Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2007), September 2007, pages 72-84. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Neerja Bhatnagar, Ethan L. Miller, A Secure and Reliable File System for Sensor Nodes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), October 2007. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Disaster Recovery Codes: Increasing Reliability with Large-Stripe Error Correction Codes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), October 2007. [Archival Storage] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Sage Weil, Andrew Leung, Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, RADOS: A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Storage Service for Petabyte-scale Storage Clusters, Proceedings of the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2007 (PDSW 07), November 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Sasha Ames, Andrew Leung, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Searching and Navigating Petabyte Scale File Systems Based on Facets, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 07), November 2007. [Distributed Metadata Management]
David Bigelow, Suresh Iyer, Tim Kaldewey, Roberto Pineiro, Anna Povzner, Scott A. Brandt, Richard Golding, Theodore Wong, Carlos Maltzahn, End-to-end Performance Management for Scalable Distributed Storage, Proceedings of the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2007 (PDSW 2007), November 2007. [Storage QoS]
Andrew Leung, Ethan L. Miller, Stephanie Jones, Scalable Security for Petascale Parallel File Systems, Proceedings of SC '07, November 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]

2008

Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage, Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), February 2008, pages 1-16. [slides] [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Xue Liu, Personalized Interactive Faceted Search, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2008), April 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management]
Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-01, May 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, Pergamum: Energy-efficient Archival Storage with Disk Instead of Tape, ;login: — The USENIX Magazine 33(3), June 2008. [Archival Storage]
Neerja Bhatnagar, Kevin Greenan, Rosie Wacha, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Energy-Reliability Trade-offs in Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008), June 2008. [Reliable Storage]
Casey Marshall, Efﬁcient and safe data backup with Arrow, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-02, June 2008. Masters project report. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Andrew Leung, Shankar Pasupathy, Garth Goodson, Ethan L. Miller, Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads, Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Technical Conference, June 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Jay Wylie, Reliability of XOR-based erasure codes on heterogeneous devices, Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), June 2008, pages 147-156. [Reliable Storage]
Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, High-Performance Metadata Indexing and Search in Petascale Data Storage Systems, Proceedings of the SciDAC 2008 Conference, July 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Increased Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts, Proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), September 2008. [Reliable Storage]
Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures, Proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), September 2008. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Mohammed G. Khatib, Ethan L. Miller, Pieter H. Hartel, Workload-Based Configuration of MEMS-Based Storage Devices for Mobile Systems, Proceedings of the 8th ACM & IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT '08), October 2008. [MEMS-based Storage]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Secure Data Deduplication, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008), October 2008. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]

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