PDL PUBLICATIONS

Past Project Publications

Abacus

• Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search. Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, M. Satyanarayanan, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel, Anastassia Ailamaki. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004.
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• Easing the Management of Data-parallel Systems via Adaptation Petrou, D., Amiri, K., Ganger, G.R. and Gibson, G.A. Appears in the Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Kolding, Denmark, September 17-20, 2000.
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• Dynamic Function Placement for Data-intensive Cluster Computing. Amiri, K., Petrou, D., Ganger, G.R. and Gibson, G.A. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2000.
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• Dynamic Function Placement in Active Storage Clusters. Amiri, K., Petrou, D., Ganger, G.R. and Gibson, G.A. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-140, June 1999.
  Abstract / Postscript [730K] / PDF [220K]

Attribute-Based Learning Environments (ABLE)

• File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems. Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Daniel Ellard, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04). New York, NY. May 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-04-101, January 2004.
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• Attribute-Based Prediction of File Properties. Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer. Harvard Computer Science Group Technical Report TR-14-03, December 2003.
  Abstract / Postscript [850K] / PDF [127K]

Active Disks

• Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search. Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, M. Satyanarayanan, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel, Anastassia Ailamaki. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004.
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• Active Disks for Large-Scale Data Processing. Riedel, E., Faloutsos, C., Gibson, G.A. and Nagle, D.F. IEEE Computer, June 2001.
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• Data Mining on an OLTP System (Nearly) for Free. Riedel, E., Faloutsos, C., Ganger, G.R. and Nagle, D.F. Proc. of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Dallas, Texas, May 14-19, 2000. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-151.
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• Active Disk Architecture for Databases. Riedel, E., Faloutsos, C., Nagle, D.F. Carnegie Mellon Technical Report CMU-CS-00-145, May 2000.
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• Active Disks - Remote Execution for Network-Attached Storage. Erik Riedel. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-99-177, November 1999.
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• Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia. Riedel, E., Gibson, G.A and Faloutsos, C. Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Very large Databases (VLDB '98), New York, New York, August 24-27, 1998.
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• Active Disks: Remote Execution for Network-Attached Storage. Riedel, E. and Gibson, G.A. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-97-198, December 1997.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.1M] / PDF [123K]

DIXtrac

• Analysis of Methods for Scheduling Low Priority Disk Drive Tasks. Jiri Schindler, Eitan Bachmat. Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2002 Conference, June 15-19, 2002, Marina Del Rey, California.
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• Track-aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics. Jiri Schindler, John Linwood Griffin, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), January 28-30, 2002. Monterey, CA. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-01-119.
  Abstract / Postscript [682K] / PDF [159K]
  
  
• Automated Disk Drive Characterization. Schindler, J. and Ganger, G.R. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-176, December 1999.
  Abstract / Postscript [341K] / PDF [282K]

Freeblock Scheduling

• Design and Implementation of a Freeblock Subsystem. Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, Christopher R. Lumb, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-107, December, 2003.
  Abstract / Postscript [6.5M] / PDF [165K]
  
  
• A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications. Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-03-192, October 2003.
  Abstract / Postscript [5.1M] / PDF [148K]
  
  
• Freeblock Scheduling Outside of Disk Firmware. Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ganger. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), January 28-30, 2002. Monterey, CA. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-01-149.
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• Towards Higher Disk Head Utilization: Extracting "Free" Bandwidth From Busy Disk Drives. Lumb, C., Schindler, J., Ganger, G.R., Nagle, D.F. and Riedel, E. Appears in Proc. of the 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2000. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-00-130, May 2000.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.3M] / PDF [422K]

MEMS-Based Storage

• Timing-accurate Storage Emulation: Evaluating hypothetical storage components in real computer systems. John Linwood Griffin. Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D Dissertation. CMU-PDL-04-108, September 2004.
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• Using MEMS-based Storage Devices in Computer Systems. Steven W. Schlosser. Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D Dissertation. CMU-PDL-04-104, May 2004.
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• MEMS-based storage devices and standard disk interfaces: A square peg in a round hole? Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-102, December, 2003.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.8M] / PDF [156K]
  
  
• Exposing and Exploiting Internal Parallelism in MEMS-based Storage. Steven W. Schlosser, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-03-125, March 2003.
  Abstract / Postscript [1.67M] / PDF [136K]
  
  
• Timing-accurate Storage Emulation. John Linwood Griffin, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, John S. Bucy, Gregory R. Ganger. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), January 28-30, 2002. Monterey, CA. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-01-146.
  Abstract / Postscript [464K] / PDF [102K]
  
  
• MEMS-Based Integrated-Circuit Mass-Storage Systems. L. Richard Carley, Gregory R. Ganger and David F. Nagle. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM November 2000, Vol.43, No.11.
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• Operating System Management of MEMS-based Storage Devices. Griffin, J.L., Schlosser, S.W., Ganger, G.R. and Nagle, D.F. Proceedings 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design & Implementation (OSDI 2000), San Diego, CA, October 23-25, 2000. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-00-136, May 2000.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.2M] / PDF [336K]
  
  
• Designing Computer Systems with MEMS-based Storage. Schlosser, S.W., Griffin, J.L., Nagle, D.F. and Ganger, G.R. Proceedings 9th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-IX), Cambridge, MA, November 13-15, 2000. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-00-137, May 2000.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.7M] / PDF [485K]
  
  
• Modeling and Performance of MEMS-Based Storage Devices. Griffin, J.L., Schlosser, S.W., Ganger, G.R. and Nagle, D.F. Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2000, Santa Clara, California, June 17-21, 2000. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-00-100.
  Abstract / Postscript [3.4M] / PDF [311K]
  
  
• Filling the Memory Access Gap: A Case for On-Chip Magnetic Storage. Schlosser, S.W., Griffin, J.L., Nagle, D.F. and Ganger, G.R. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-174, December 1999.
  Abstract / Postscript [3.1M] / PDF [398K]

Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD)

• PASTENSE: a Fast Start-up Algorithm for Scalable Video Libraries. Stavros Harizopoulos and Garth A. Gibson. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-01-105, March 2001.
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• Scalable and Manageable Storage Systems. Khalil S. Amiri. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation, CMU-CS-00-178, December, 2000.
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• Network Attached Storage Architecture. Garth A. Gibson and Rodney Van Meter. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM November 2000, Vol.43, No.11
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• Information Technology - SCSI Object Based Storage Device Commands (OSD). Gene Milligan, T10 Technical Editor. T10 - Working draft NCITS TBD-200X Project 1355D, Revision 3. October 1, 2000.
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• Security for a High Performance Commodity Storage Subsystem. Howard Gobioff. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation, CMU-CS-99-160, July 1999.
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• Highly Concurrent Shared Storage. Amiri, K., Gibson, G.A. and Golding, R. Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, April 2000.
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• Network Support for Network-Attached Storage. Nagle, D.F., Ganger, G.R., Butler, J., Goodson, G. and Sabol, C. Hot Interconnects 1999, August 18 - 20, 1999, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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• NASD Scalable Storage Systems. Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F., Courtright II, W., Lanza, N., Mazaitis, P., Unangst, M. and Zelenka, J. USENIX99, Extreme Linux Workshop, Monterey, CA, June 1999.
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• Embedded Security for Network-Attached Storage. Gobioff, H., Nagle, D.F. and Gibson, G.A. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-154, June 1999.
  Abstract / Postscript [5.1M] / PDF [761K]
  
  
• Integrity and Performance in Network Attached Storage. Gobioff, H., Nagle, D.F. and Gibson, G.A. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-98-182, December 1998.
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• Scalable Concurrency Control and Recovery for Shared Storage Arrays. Amiri, K., Gibson, G.A. and Golding, R. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-99-111, February 1999.
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• A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture. Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F., Amiri, K., Butler, J., Chang, F.W., Gobioff, H., Hardin, C., Riedel, E., Rochberg, D. and Zelenka, J. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.
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• Filesystems for Network-Attached Secure Disks. Gibson, G., Nagle, D.F., Amiri, K., Chang, F.W., Gobioff, H., Riedel, E., Rochberg, D. and Zelenka, J. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-97-118, 1997.
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• Security for Network Attached Storage Devices. Gobioff, H., Gibson, G.A. and Tygar, D. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-97-185, 1997.
  Abstract / Postscript [143K] / PDF [135K]
  
  
• File Server Scaling with Network-Attached Secure Disks. Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F., Amiri, K., Chang, F.W., Feinberg, E.M., Gobioff, H., Lee, C., Ozceri, B., Riedel, E., Rochberg, D. and Zelenka, J. Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics '97), Seattle, Washington, June 15-18, 1997.
  Abstract / Postscript [573K] / PDF [258K]
  
  
• Understanding Customer Dissatisfaction with Underutilized Distributed File Servers. Riedel, E. and Gibson, G.A. Proc. of the 5th NASA Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, MD. September 1996. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-96-158.
  Abstract / Postscript [898K] / PDF [258K]
  
  
• A Case for Network-Attached Secure Disks. Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F., Amiri, K., Chang, F.W., Feinberg, E.M., Gobioff, H., Lee, C., Ozceri, B., Riedel, E. and Rochberg, D. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-96-142, September 1996.
  Abstract / Postcript [380K] / PDF [151K]
  

Parity Declustering: On-line Failure Recovery for RAID

• Architectures and Algorithms for On-Line Failure Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays. Holland, M., Gibson, G.A. and Siewiorek, D.P. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 295-335, July 1994.
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• On-Line Data Reconstruction in Redundant Disk Arrays. Mark Holland. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-94-164, 1994, 232 pages.
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• Fast, On-Line Failure Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays. Holland, M., Gibson, G.A. and Siewiorek, D.P. Proc. of the 23rd Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, pp. 421-433, 1993.
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• Parity Declustering for Continuous Operation in Redundant Disk Arrays. Holland, M. and Gibson, G.A. Proc. of the 5th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS V), 1992.
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• This directory contains the block design reffered to in Parity Declustering for Continuous Operation in Redundant Disk Arrays, Proceedings, ASPLOS V, 1992.
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Parity Logging: Overcoming the Small-Write Bottleneck

• Parity-Logging Disk Arrays. Stodolsky, D., Holland, M., Courtright II, W.V. and Gibson, G.A. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 12(3):206-235, August 1994. Supercedes A Redundant Disk Array Architecture for Efficient Small Writes. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-94-170, 1994.
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• Parity Logging: Overcoming the Small Write Problem in Redundant Disk Arrays. Stodolsky, D., Holland, M. and Gibson, G.A. Proc. of the 21th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architectures, 1993, pp. 64-75.
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• A Redundant Disk Array Architecture for Efficient Small Writes. Stodolsky, D., Holland, M., Courtright II, W.V. and Gibson, G.A. CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-93-200, 1993.
  Abstract / Postscript [356K] / PDF [196K]

RAID: Implementing and Prototyping Redundant Disk

• A Transactional Approach to Redundant Disk Array Implementation. William Courtright, II. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-97-141, April 1997.
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• RAIDframe: A Rapid Prototyping Tool for RAID Systems. William V. Courtright II, Garth Gibson, Mark Holland, LeAnn Neal Reilly, Jim Zelenka. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-97-142. June 4, 1997.
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• A Structured Approach to Redundant Disk Array Implementation. Courtright II, W.V., Gibson, G.A., Holland, M. and Zelenka, J. Proc. of the International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS), Sept. 4-6, 1996. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-96-137.
  Abstract / Postscript [212K] / PDF [85K]
  
  
• RAIDframe: Rapid Prototyping for Disk Arrays. Courtright II, W.V., Gibson, G.A., Holland, M. and Zelenka, J. Proc. of the 1996 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), May 1996, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 268-269. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-95-200.
  Abstract / Postscript [74K] / PDF [25K]
  
  
• Backward Error Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays. Courtright II, W.V. and Gibson, G.A. Proc. of the 1994 Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Conference, Dec. 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 63-74. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-94-193.
  Abstract / HTML / Postscript [134K] / PDF [69K]

RAID for Mobile Computers

• RAID for Mobile Computers. Rachad Youssef. Carnegie Mellon M.S. Thesis INI-TR 1995-3, 1995, 35 pages.
  Abstract / Postscript [245K] / PDF [106K]

Scotch Parallel Storage Systems

• The Scotch Parallel Storage Systems. Gibson, G.A., Stodolsky, D., Chang, F.W., Courtright II, W.V., Demetriou, C.G., Ginting, E., Holland, M., Ma, Q., Neal, L., Patterson, R.H., Su, J., Youssef, R. and Zelenka, J. Proc. of the IEEE CompCon Conference, March 5-8, 1995. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-95-107.
  Abstract / Postscript [112K] / PDF [64K]

Transparent Informed Prefetching (TIP) and Caching

• 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.
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• Using Speculative Execution to Automatically Hide I/O Latency. Fay W. Chang. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D Dissertation CMU-CS-01-172, December 2001.
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• Compiler-Based I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications. Angela Demke Brown, Todd C. Mowry and Orran Krieger. In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems,19(2):111-170, May 2001.
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• Taming the Memory Hogs: Using Compiler Inserted Releases to Manage Physical Memory Intelligently. Angela Demke Brown and Todd C. Mowry. Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000), pp. 31-44, Oct 2000.
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• Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications. Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke and Orran Krieger. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '96), pages 3-17, October 1996.
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• Automatic I/O Hint Generation through Speculative Execution. Chang, F.W. and Gibson, G.A. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, February 1999.
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• Informed Prefetching and Caching. Hugo Patterson. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-97-204: December 1997.
  Abstract / Postscript [4.8M] / PDF [2.3M]
  
  
• Practical and Theoretical Issues in Prefetching and Caching. Andrew Tomkins. Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-97-181: October 1997.
  Abstract / GZ Postscript [827K] / PDF [918K]
  
  
• Prefetching Over a Network: Early Experience with CTIP. Rochberg, D. and Gibson, G.A. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, volume 25, number 3, (pp. 29-36), December, 1997.
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• Informed Multi-Process Prefetching and Caching. Tomkins, A., Patterson, R.H. and Gibson, G.A Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, (Sigmetrics '97), Seattle, Washington, June 15-18, 1997.
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• A Trace-Driven Comparison of Algorithms for Parallel Prefetching and Caching. Kimbrel, T., Tomkins, A., Patterson, R.H., Bershad, B., Cao, P., Felten, E.W., Gibson, G.A., Karlin, A.R. and Li, K. Proc. of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Seattle, WA, October 28-31, 1996, pp. 19-34. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-96-174.
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• Informed Prefetching and Caching. Patterson, R.H. Gibson, G.A., Ginting, E., Stodolsky, D. and Zelenka, J. Proc. of the 15th Symposium of Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain Resort, CO, December 3-6, 1995, pp. 79-95.
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• Exposing I/O Concurrency with Informed Prefetching. Patterson, R.H. and Gibson, G.A Proc. of Third Int'l. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, TX, September 28-30, 1994, pp.7-16.
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• A Status Report on Research in Transparent Informed Prefetching. Patterson, R.H., Gibson, G.A and Satyanarayanan, M. ACM Operating Systems Review, 1993. Supercedes CMU SCS Technical Report CMU-CS-93-113.
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• Using Transparent Informed Prefetching to Reduce File Read Latency. Patterson, R.H., Gibson, G.A and Satyanarayanan, M. Annotated slides for the conference talk appearing in the proceedings of the Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 1992.
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• Disk Reads with DRAM Latency. Gibson, G.A, Patterson, R.H. and Satyanarayanan, M. Third Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, April, 1992, pp. 126-131.
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Workload Characterization

• //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.
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• SIMFLEX: A Fast, Accurate, Flexible Full-System Simulation Framework for Performance Evaluation of Server Architecture. Nikolaos Hardavellas, Stephen Somogyi, Thomas F. Wenisch, Roland E. Wunderlich, Shelley Chen, Jangwoo Kim, Babak Falsafi, James C. Hoe, and Andreas G. Nowatzyk. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER) Special Issue on Tools for Computer Architecture Research, Volume 31, Number 4, pages 31-35, March 2004.
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• Storage Device Performance Prediction with CART Models. Mengzhi Wang, Kinman Au, Anastassia Ailamaki, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger. Proc. 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). Volendam, The Netherlands. October 5-7, 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-04-103, March 2004.
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• Storage Device Performance Prediction with CART Models [Extended Abstract]. Mengzhi Wang, Kinman Au, Anastassia Ailamaki, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings: Poster Session. Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2004. June 12th-16th 2004, Columbia University, New York.
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• Capturing the Spatio-Temporal Behavior of Real Traffic Data. Mengzhi Wang, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos. Performance 2002 (IFIP Int. Symp. on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation), Rome, Italy, Sept. 2002.
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• Data Mining Meets Performance Evaluation: Fast Algorithms for Modeling Bursty Traffic. M. Wang, T. Madhyastha, N.H. Chan, S. Papadimitriou, C. Faloutsos. 18th International Conference on Data Engineering, February 26-March 1, 2002 San Jose, California. Supercedes a technical report CMU-CS-01-101.
  Abstract / Postscript [2.25M] / PDF [358K]

 

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