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News

October 27
NetApp founder Dave Hitz to speak at Baskin Engineering on November 4th.
October 12
The first Industrial Advisory Board meeting for the Center for Intelligent Storage Research (CRIS) will be held Jan. 21–22.
September 17
Weekly SSRC meetings for Fall 2009 will be on Wednesdays at noon in E2-599 starting on September 30th.
September 16
Profs. Miller and Long have been awarded an NSF grant for $553,000 to explore Scalable Data Management Using Metadata and Provenance.

Events

Seminar: Locality-aware VM deduplication (Keren Jin)
Wed, Nov. 25 at 12:00 PM
E2-599
Seminar: Object based flash storage (Yangwook Kang)
Wed, Dec. 2 at 12:00 PM
E2-599
CRIS Industrial Advisory Board meeting
Thu, Jan. 21 at 8:00 AM
Silicon Valley Center

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

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 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

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]

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]
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, 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]
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]
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, 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]
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]

2002

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 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]
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]
Alicja Szczurowska, MRAM–preliminary analysis for file system design, Master's thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2002, March 2002. [Storage Class Memories]
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]
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, An analytical solution to a MEMS seek time model, Technical Report UCSC-CSL-02-31, 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 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]
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 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 Storage] [Reliable 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 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]
Geoff Kuenning, Ethan L. Miller, Anonymization Techniques for URLs and Filenames, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-03-05, September 2003. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
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]
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]
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]
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]

2004

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] [Deduplication]
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 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 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 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 Storage]
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 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 Storage] [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 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]
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]
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]
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 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 Storage]
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 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. [Storage QoS]
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]
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 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] [Deduplication]
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 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 Storage] [Storage QoS]
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 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 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]

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 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 Storage] [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]
Lawrence You, Efficient Archival Data Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-04, June 2006. Ph.D. thesis. [Archival Storage] [Deduplication]
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. [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] [Deduplication]
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. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
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]
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]
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 Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
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 Storage] [Reliable Storage]
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 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 Storage]
Feng Wang, Storage Management in Large Distributed Object-Based Storage Systems, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, December 2006. [Petabyte-Scale Storage]

2007

Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Scalable 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. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]
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]
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 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 Storage]
Qin Xin, Understanding and Coping with Failures in Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-06, May 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Andrew Leung, Scalable Security for High Performance, Petascale Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-07, June 2007. [Petabyte-Scale 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, pages 143-156. [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]
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] [Scalable Metadata Management] [Deduplication]
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 Storage]
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 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 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), 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 Storage] [Reliable 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. [Scalable Metadata Management]
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 Storage]
Andrew Leung, Ethan L. Miller, Stephanie Jones, Scalable Security for Petascale Parallel File Systems, Proceedings of SC '07, November 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]

2008

Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Ensuring Data Survival on Solid-State Storage Devices, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability, February 2008. [Storage Class Memories]
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. [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. [Scalable 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. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale 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. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale 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. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale 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]
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]
Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, QUASAR: Interaction with File Systems Using a Query and Naming Language, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-03, September 2008. [Scalable Metadata Management]
Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Quasar: A Scalable Naming Language for Very Large File Collections, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-04, October 2008. [Scalable Metadata Management]
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, pages 245-254. [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] [Deduplication] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Kaladhar Voruganti, Logan: Automatic Management for Evolvable, Large-Scale, Archival Storage, Proceedings of the 2008 Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 08), November 2008. [Archival Storage]
Andrew Leung, Ethan L. Miller, Scalable Full-Text Search for Petascale File Systems, Proceedings of the 2008 Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 08), November 2008. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Kevin Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Jay Wylie, A Spin-Up Saved is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '08), December 2008. [Archival Storage] [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]

2009

Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), February 2009. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Mark Lillibridge, Kave Eshghi, Deepavali Bhagwat, Vinay Deolalikar, Greg Trezise, Peter Camble, Sparse Indexing: Large Scale, Inline Deduplication Using Sampling and Locality, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), February 2009. [Deduplication]
Mark W. Storer, Secure, Energy-Efficient, Evolvable, Long-Term Archival Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-01, March 2009. [Archival Storage]
Rosie Wacha, Data Reliability Techniques for Specialized Storage Environments, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-02, March 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Avani Wildani, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-03, April 2009. Preliminary version of a paper that appeared in MASCOTS 2009. [Archival Storage] [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]
Keren Jin, Ethan L. Miller, The Effectiveness of Deduplication on Virtual Machine Disk Images, Proceedings of SYSTOR 2009: The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference, May 2009. [Deduplication]
Kanchi Gopinath, Jon Elerath, Darrell D. E. Long, Reliability Modelling of Disk Subsystems with Probabilistic Model Checking, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-05, May 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, Spyglass: Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems, ;login: — The USENIX Magazine 34(3), June 2009. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Ian Adams, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Shankar Pasupathy, Mark W. Storer, Maximizing Efficiency By Trading Storage for Computation, Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’09), June 2009. [Archival Storage] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS—A Secure, Long-Term Storage System, ACM Transactions on Storage 5(2), June 2009. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Kevin Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Avani Wildani, Building Flexible, Fault-Tolerant Flash-based Storage Systems, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep 2009), June 2009. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
Deepavali Bhagwat, Kave Eshghi, Darrell D. E. Long, Mark Lillibridge, Extreme Binning: Scalable, Parallel Deduplication for Chunk-based File Backup , Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), September 2009. [Deduplication]
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]
Avani Wildani, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), September 2009. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Andrew Leung, Aleatha Parker-Wood, Ethan L. Miller, Copernicus: A Scalable, High-Performance Semantic File System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-06, October 2009. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
Yangwook Kang, Ethan L. Miller, Adding Aggressive Error Correction to a High-Performance Flash File System, Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT '09), October 2009. [Reliable Storage] [Storage Class Memories]
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]
Andrew Leung, Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, Magellan: A Searchable Metadata Architecture for Large-Scale File Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-07, November 2009. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale 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, 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]

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