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Recent Publications

• Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication. Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, Hiral Shah, Elie Krevat, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Brian Mueller. SIGCOMM’09, August 17–21, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
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• In Search of an API for Scalable File Systems: Under the table or above it? Swapnil Patil, Garth A. Gibson, Gregory R. Ganger, Julio Lopez, Milo Polte, Wittawat Tantisiroj, and Lin Xiao. USENIX HotCloud Workshop 2009. June 2009, San Diego CA.
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• Mochi: Visual Log-Analysis Based Tools for Debugging Hadoop. Jiaqi Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '09), San Diego, CA, on June 15, 2009. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-103, May 2009.
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• System-Call Based Problem Diagnosis for PVFS. Michael P. Kasick, Keith A. Bare, Eugene E. Marinelli III, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '09). Lisbon, Portugal. June 2009.
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• Tashi: Location-aware Cluster Management. Michael A. Kozuch, Michael P. Ryan, Richard Gass, Steven W. Schlosser, David O’Hallaron, James Cipar, Elie Krevat, Julio López, Michael Stroucken, Gregory R. Ganger. First Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC'09), Barcelona, Spain, June 2009.
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• Directions for Shingled-Write and Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording System Architectures: Synergies with Solid-State Disks. Garth Gibson, Milo Polte. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-104. May 2009.
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• Mochi: Visual Log-Analysis Based Tools for Debugging Hadoop. Jiaqi Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-103. May 2009.
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• File System Virtual Appliances: Portable File System Implementations. Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Karan Sanghi, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-102. May 2009.
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• FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters. Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David Andersen, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Michael Kaminsky, Iulian Moraru. 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII). May 2009.
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• Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home. Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger. 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09). Feb. 24-27, 2008. San Francisco, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-105, May 2008.
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• Relative Fitness Modeling. Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, and Gregory R. Ganger. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52 No. 4, April 2009.
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• Solving TCP Incast in Cluster Storage Systems. Vijay Vasudevan, Hiral Shah, Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, David Andersen, Greg Ganger, Garth Gibson. FAST 2009 Work in Progress Report. 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. Feb 24-27, 2009, San Francisco, CA.
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• A (In)Cast of Thousands: Scaling Datacenter TCP to Kiloservers and Gigabits. Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, Hiral Shah, Elie Krevat, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-101, Feb. 2009.
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• A Fault Model for Upgrades in Distributed Systems. Tudor Dumitraş, Soila Kavulya, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-115, December 2008.
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• Fast Log-based Concurrent Writing of Checkpoints. Milo Polte, Jiri Simsa, Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Garth Gibson, Shobhit Dayal, Mikhail Chainani, Dilip Kumar Uppugandla. Proceedings of the 3rd Petascale Data Storage Workshop held in conjunction with Supercomputing '08, November 17, 2008, Austin, TX.
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• Comparing Performance of Solid State Devices and Mechanical Disks. Milo Polte, Jiri Simsa, Garth Gibson. Proceedings of the 3rd Petascale Data Storage Workshop held in conjunction with Supercomputing '08, November 17, 2008, Austin, TX.
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• Data-intensive file systems for Internet services: A rose by any other name ... Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-114. October 2008
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• Co-scheduling of Disk Head Time in Cluster-based Storage. Matthew Wachs, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-113. October 2008.
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• Ganesha: Black-Box Fault Diagnosis for MapReduce Systems. Xinghao Pan, Jiaqi Tan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-112. September 2008.
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• SALSA: Analyzing Logs as StAte Machines. Jiaqi Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-111. September 2008.
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• GIGA+ : Scalable Directories for Shared File Systems. Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-110. October 2008.
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• Characterizing HEC Storage Systems at Rest. Shobhit Dayal. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-109, July 2008.
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• IRONModel: Robust Performance Models in the Wild. Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. SIGMETRICS’08, June 2–6, 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
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• FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes. David G. Andersen, Jason Franklin, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Vijay Vasudevan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-108, May 2008.
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• User Level Implementation of Scalable Directories (GIGA+). Sanket Hase, Aditya Jayaraman, Vinay K. Perneti, Sundararaman Sridharan, Swapnil V. Patil, Milo Polte, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-107, May 2008.
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• File System Virtual Appliances: Third-party File System Implementations without the Pain. Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-106, May 2008.
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• Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home. Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-105, May 2008.
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• ASDF: Automated, Online Fingerpointing for Hadoop. Keith Bare, Michael P. Kasick, Soila Kavulya, Eugene Marinelli, Xinghao Pan, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-104. May 2008.
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• The DiskSim Simulation Environment Version 4.0 Reference Manual.John S. Bucy, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger, and Contributors. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-101, May 2008.
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• Using Utility Functions to Control a Distributed Storage System. John D. Strunk. Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. ECE Ph.D Dissertation CMU-PDL-08-102, May 2008.
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• RAMS and BlackSheep: Inferring White-box Application Behavior Using Black-box Techniques. Jiaqi Tan, Priya Narasimhan. School of Computer Science Senior Honors Thesis and Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-103, May, 2008.
  Abstract / PDF [1.7M]
  
  
• File System Virtual Appliances: Third-party File System Implementations without the Pain. Michael Abd-El-Malek, Matthew Wachs, James Cipar, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-106, May 2008.
  Abstract / PDF [508K]
  
  
• IRONModel: Robust Performance Models in the Wild. Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. SIGMETRICS’08, June 2–6, 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
  Abstract / PDF [813K]
  

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