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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2007

• Max Mehech, The Impact of Failures on Large Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-10, August 2007. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
• 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. [Archival Storage] [Reliable 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]
• 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]
• 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, 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. [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-04, May 2007. [Effective Mobility] [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. [Effective Mobility] [Storage Class Memories]
• Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]

2006

• 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. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• 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]

2003

• Geoff Kuenning, Ethan L. Miller, Anonymization Techniques for URLs and Filenames, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-03-05, September 2003. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• 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]

2002

• 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]