PARALLEL DATA LAB 

9th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 5 - 7, 2001

PRESENTATIONS


WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Greg Ganger
Parallel Data Lab Research and Retreat 2001
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Ken Gabriel
Silicon that Hears and Makes Sound
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SESSION I: Maximizing Disk Performance

Jiri Schindler
Matching File System Policies to Disk Characteristics
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Chris Lumb
Freeblock Scheduling Outside of Disk Firmware
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SESSION II: Survivable Storage Systems

Jay Wylie
Analyzing Survivable Storage Systems
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Vijay Pandurangan
Performance Tuning in Survivable Storage Systems

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SESSION III: Decentralized FS Design

Garth Goodson
A Survivable NFS File System
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John Griffin
Timing-accurate Storage Emulation
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SESSION IV: Storage Networking

Aditya Akella
Congestion Management and Service Differentiation
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Andy Klosterman
Distributed File System Measurements and Load Balancing
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Ted Wong
Decentralized Reconfiguration of Threshold Schemes
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SESSION IV: Database Systems

Shimin Chen
Improving Database Index Performance through Prefetching
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Stavros Harizopoulos
Affinity Scheduling in Staged Database Systems
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SESSION VI: Maximizing Disk Performance II

Angela Demke Brown
Taming the Memory Hogs
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SESSION VII: System Robustness

Mike Bigrigg
Program Analysis for Robust Information System
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Bianca Schroeder
Improving Performance of Web Servers Under Overload
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SESSION VIII: Storage-Embedded Security

John Strunk
Detection, Diagnosis, and Recovery with Self-Securing Storage
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Craig Soules
A Fine-grained Versioning System For Self-Securing Storage
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