Technical Reports

This is a list of SSRC technical reports. All tech reports are available online in PDF format. Each report's citation is followed by links to one or more projects for which the paper is relevant.

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2002

• 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]

2003

• 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]

2006

• 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]
• Lawrence You, Efficient Archival Data Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-04, June 2006. Ph.D. thesis. [Archival Storage] [Deduplication]
• 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]

2007

• Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]
• 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]
• 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]

2008

• 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]
• Casey Marshall, Efficient and safe data backup with Arrow, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-02, June 2008. Masters project report. [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]

2009

• 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]
• 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, 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]
• 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]