Recent Publications
- Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems. John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08). Feb. 26-29, 2008. San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-106, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [310K]
- Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems.
Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08). Feb. 26-29, 2008. San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-105, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [374K]
- On Application-level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems. E. Krevat, V. Vasudevan, A. Phanishayee, D. Andersen, G. Ganger, G. Gibson, S. Seshan. Proceedings of the 2nd international Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW '07)
held in conjunction with Supercomputing '07. November 11, 2007, Reno, NV.
Abstract / PDF [124K]
- GIGA+: Scalable Directories for Shared File Systems. Swapnil V. Patil, Garth A. Gibson, Sam Lang, Milo Polte. Proceedings of the 2nd international Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW '07)
held in conjunction with Supercomputing '07. November 11, 2007, Reno, NV.
Abstract / PDF [114K]
- Failure Tolerance in Petascale Computers. Garth Gibson, Bianca Schroeder, Joan Digney. CTWatch Quarterly,
vol. 3 no. 4. Volume on Software Enabling Technologies for Petascale Science. November 2007. www.ctwatch.org
PDF [686K]
- Learning to Share: A Study of Sharing Among Home Storage Devices. Brandon Salmon, Frank Hady, Jay Melican. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-107, October, 2007.
Abstract / PDF [726K]
- Low-overhead Byzantine Fault-tolerant Storage. James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007), Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
Abstract / PDF [280K]
- Understanding Failures in Petascale Computers. Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson. SciDAC 2007. Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser. 78.
Abstract / PDF [712K]
- To Share Or Not To Share? Ryan Johnson, Stavros Harizopoulos, Nikos Hardavellas, Kivanc Sabirli, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamaki, Naju G. Mancheril, Babak Falsafi. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [366K]
- Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design. Stratos Papadomanolakis, Debabrata Dash, Anastasia Ailamaki. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
Abstract / PDF [2.4M]
- Enabling What-if Explorations in Systems. Eno Thereska. Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. ECE Ph.D Dissertation CMU-PDL-07-103, August 2007.
Abstract / PDF [2.35M]
- Verifying Distributed Erasure-coded Data. James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. To appear in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2007), Portland, August 2007.
Abstract / PDF [193K]
- An Analysis of Database System Performance on Chip Multiprocessors. Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Ryan Johnson, Naju G. Mancheril, Stavros Harizopoulos, Anastasia Ailamaki and Babak Falsafi. Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS2007), Athens, Greece, July 2007.
Abstract / PDF [308K]
- Lessons Learned From the Deployment of a Smartphone-Based Access-Control System. Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Michael K. Reiter, Kami Vaniea. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2007, July 18-20, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract / PDF [984K]
- Categorizing and Differencing System Behaviours. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL.
Abstract / PDF [120K]
- Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete.
Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007.
Jacksonville, FL. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-101, January 2007.
Abstract / PDF[ 75K]
- Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search. Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, Brian D. Noble. USENIX '07 Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, June 17–22, 2007.
Abstract / PDF [225K]
- Improving Mobile Database Access Over Wide-Area Networks Without Degrading Consistency. Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach. MobiSys’07, June 11–13, 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
Abstract / PDF [1.1M]
- VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration. H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, Eyal de Lara. VEE’07, June 13–15, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [1.4M]
- Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage.
Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger.
SIGMETRICS’07, June 12–16, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [235K]
- Scheduling Threads for Constructive Cache Sharing on CMPs. Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Vasileios Liaskovitis, Anastassia Ailamaki, Guy E. Blelloch, Babak Falsafi, Limor Fix, Nikos Hardavellas, Todd C. Mowry, Chris Wilkerson. SPAA'07, June 9-11, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [293K]
- Consistency-preserving Caching of Dynamic Database Content. Niraj Tolia and M. Satyanarayanan. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract / PDF [888K]
- Fingerpointing Correlated Failures in Replicated Systems. Soila Pertet, Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan. USENIX Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML), Cambridge, MA (April 2007).
Abstract / PDF [100K]
- Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints. Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’07), Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2007.
Abstract / PDF [579K]
- MultiMap: Preserving Disk Locality for Multidimensional Datasets. Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-102. March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [203K]
- The Computer Failure Data Repository. Bianca Schroeder, Garth Gibson. Invited contribution to the Workshop on Reliability Analysis of System Failure Data (RAF'07) MSR Cambridge, UK, March 2007.
Abstract / PDF [42K]
- //TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events. Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-108, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF[ 187K]
- Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-111, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF[ 272K]
- Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers. Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07),
February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-106, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 167K]
- Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities. Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Ryan Johnson, Naju G. Mancheril, Anastassia Ailamaki and Babak Falsafi. 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 7-10, 2007, Asilomar, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [111K]
- Static Analysis Meets Distributed Fault-Tolerance: Enabling State-Machine Replication with Nondeterminism. Joseph Slember, Priya Narasimhan. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '06), Seattle, WA. Nov. 8, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [98K]
- Living with Nondeterminism in Replicated Middleware Applications. Joseph Slember, Priya Narasimhan. Middleware 2006, ACM/IFIP/USENIX, 6th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27 - December 1, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4290 Springer 2006.
Abstract / PDF [387K]
- Towards Fingerpointing in the Emulab Dynamic Distributed System. Michael P. Kasick, Priya Narasimhan, Kevin Atkinson, Jay Lepreau. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '06), Seattle, WA. Nov. 5, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [311K]
- Early Experiences on the Journey Towards Self-* Storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad,
Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF [113K] / Postscript [745K]
- Putting Home Storage Management into Perspective. Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lily B. Mummert, Gregory R. Ganger.
Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-110, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF [382K]
- Brief Announcement: Parallel Depth First vs. Work Stealing Schedulers on CMP Architectures. Vasileios Liaskovitis, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Anastassia Ailamaki, Guy E. Blelloch, Babak Falsafi, Limor Fix, Nikos Hardavellas, Michael Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry, Chris Wilkerson. SPAA’06, July 30-August 2, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract / PDF [52K]
- Routing, Disjoint Paths, and Classification. Shuheng Zhou. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-PDL-06-109, August 2006.
Abstract / PDF [971K] / Postscript [1.1M]
- Using Context to Assist in Personal File Retrieval. Craig A. N. Soules. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-06-147, August 25, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 681K]
- InteMon: Continuous Mining of Sensor Data in Large-scale Self-* Infrastructures. Evan Hoke, Jimeng Sun, John D. Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger, and Christos Faloutsos. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Vol 40 Issue 3. July, 2006. ACM Press.
Abstract / PDF [573K]
- Group Communication: Helping or Obscuring Failure Diagnosis? Soila Pertet, Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-107, June, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 591K]
- Stardust: Tracking Activity in a Distributed Storage System.
Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John Strunk, Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek,
Julio Lopez, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the Joint International
Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, (SIGMETRICS'06).
June 26th-30th 2006, Saint-Malo, France.
Abstract / PDF [578K]
- A Large-scale Study of Failures in High-performance-computing Systems.
Bianca Schroeder, Garth Gibson. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN2006), Philadelphia, PA, USA,
June 25-28, 2006. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data
Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-112, December, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [570K]
- Eliminating Cross-server Operations in Scalable File Systems. James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-105, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 254K]
- Improving Small File Performance in Object-based Storage. James Hendricks, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-104, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 1.45M]
- Towards Efficient Semantic Object Storage for the Home. Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-103, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 297K]
- Informed Data Distribution Selection in a Self-predicting Storage
System. Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, Dushyanth
Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-06), Dublin, Ireland. June 12th-16th 2006.
Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report
CMU-PDL-06-101, January 2006.
Abstract / PDF [196K]
- Design Tradeoffs in Applying Content Addressable Storage to Enterprise-scale
Systems Based on Virtual Machines. Partho Nath, Michael Kozuch,
David O'Hallaron, Jan Harkes, M. Satyanarayanan, Niraj Tolia, and Matt
Toups. Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX
'06), Boston, Massachusetts, May-June 2006.
Abstract / PDF [912K]
- An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer. Niraj Tolia, Michael
Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Swapnil Patil. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium
on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'06), San Jose,
California, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [211K]
- Eliminating Cross-server Operations in Scalable File Systems. James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-105, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 254K]
- Dimorphic Computing. H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, Rajesh Balan, Eyal de Lara, M. Satyanarananan, David O'Hallaron. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-06-123, April 2006.
Abstract / PDF [1.7M]
- Quantifying Interactive User Experience on Thin Clients. Niraj
Tolia, David G. Andersen, and M. Satyanarayanan. IEEE Computer. March,
2006.
Abstract / PDF [690K]
- Challenges and Opportunities in Internet Data Mining.
David G. Andersen, Nick Feamster. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-102, Jan 2006.
Abstract / PDF [104K]
- Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage. Michael
Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger,
James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad,
Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk,
Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. Proceedings of the 4th USENIX
Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST '05). San Francisco,
CA. December 13-16, 2005. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-104, April, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [490K]
- Design and Implementation of Self-Securing Network Interface Applications. Stanley M. Bielski. M.S. Thesis. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. December 2005.
Abstract / PDF [211K]
- Causes of Failure in Web Applications. Soila Pertet and Priya
Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report
CMU-PDL-05-109. December 2005.
Abstract / PDF [367K]
- D-SPTF: Decentralized Request Distribution in Brick-based Storage
Systems. Christopher R. Lumb. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Lab Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-PDL-05-111, December, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [1.2M]
- On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks. Steven
W. Schlosser, Jiri Schindler, Stratos Papadomanolakis , Minglong Shao
Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings
of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST '05).
San Francisco, CA. December 13-16, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [220K]
- Scheduling Speculative Tasks in a Compute Farm. David Petrou,
Garth A. Gibson, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing
2005 Conference, Seattle, Washington, November, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [569K]
- A read/write protocol family for versatile storage infrastructures.
Jay J. Wylie. Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D Dissertation. CMU-PDL-05-108,
October 2005.
Abstract / Postscript [1.95M]
/ PDF [1.5M]
- Fault-Scalable Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services. Michael Abd-El-Malek,
Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K. Reiter, Jay J. Wylie.
SOSP’05, October 23-26, 2005, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Abstract / PDF [299K]
- Lazy Verification in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Storage Systems.
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K.
Reiter, Jay J. Wylie. 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
(SRDS 2005), October 26-28, 2005, Orlando, Florida.
Abstract / PDF [ 228K]
- Connections: Using Context to Enhance File Search. Craig A.
N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger. SOSP'05, October 2326, 2005, Brighton,
United Kingdom. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data
Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-105, April 2005.
Abstract / PDF [300K]
- Correctness of the Read/Conditional-Write and Query/Update Protocols.
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K.
Reiter, Jay J. Wylie. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical
Report CMU-PDL-05-107, September, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [392K]
- Replication Policies for Layered Clustering of NFS Servers. Raja R. Sambasivan, Andrew J. Klosterman, Gregory R. Ganger. 13th Annual
Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and
Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). September
26 - 29, Atlanta, GA, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [199K]
- Continuous Resource Monitoring for Self-predicting DBMS. Dushyanth
Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Anastassia Ailamaki. Proceedings of the 13th
Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2005),
Atlanta, GA, September 25-27, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [333K]
- Graphs over Time: Densification Laws, Shrinking Diameters and Possible
Explanations. Jurij Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg*, Christos Faloutsos.
KDD’05, August 21–24, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Abstract / PDF [ 318K]
- Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage Devices. Michael Mesnier,
Matthew Wachs, Gregory Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data
Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-106, August, 2005.
Abstract / PDF [190K]
- Explicit Compiler-based Memory Management for Out-of-core Applications.
Angela Demke Brown. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-05-140, May 2005.
Abstract / PDF [1.3M]
- The Seductive Appeal of Thin Clients. Niraj Tolia, David G.
Andersen, M. Satyanarayanan. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer
Science Technical Report CMU-CS-05-151. February 2005.
Abstract / Postscript [250K] / PDF [300K]
- Towards self-predicting systems: What if you could ask “what-if”? Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. 3rd International
Workshop on Self-adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems. Copenhagen,
Denmark, August 2005. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-10, February 2005.
Abstract / PDF [110K]
- QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine.
Stavros Harizopoulos, Vladislav Shkapenyuk, Anastassia Ailamaki. SIGMOD
2005, June 14-16, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abstract / PDF [288K]
- Empirical Analysis of Rate Limiting Mechanisms. Cynthia Wong,
Stan Bielski, Ahren Studer, Chenxi Wang. 8th International Symposium
on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005), September 7-9,
2005, Seattle, Washington. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel
Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-103, March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [207K]
- MultiMap: Preserving disk locality for multidimensional datasets.
Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri Schindler,
Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie
Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-102.
March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [318K]
- Comparison-based File Server Verification. Yuen-Lin Tan, Terrence
Wong, John D. Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger. USENIX '05 Annual Technical
Conference, April 10-15, 2005. Anaheim, CA.
Abstract / Postscript [900K] / PDF [130K]
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