PARALLEL DATA LAB 

12th Annual Workshop & Retreat
September 27 - 29, 2004

PRESENTATIONS



WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Greg Ganger
Parallel Data Lab Research and Retreat Overview 2004
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Dave O'Hallaron
Computational Database Systems
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SESSION I: Data and Metadata in Self-* Storage

Jay Wylie
Versatile Survivable Storage Systems: The PASIS Protocol Family Approach
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Andy Klosterman
The Client/Metadata Interface of Ursa Major
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SESSION II: Self-* Storage Optimization

John Strunk
Tuning Tradeoffs in Self-* Storage
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Mengzhi Wang
Inducing Broad Training Coverage for Black-Box Storage Device Models
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Brandon Salmon
Challenges in Building a Two-tiered Architecture for Disk Layout
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SESSION III: Short Talks on Works-in-Progress

Mike Mesnier - Modeling the Relative Performance of Self-* Storage Bricks
Eno Thereska - Towards Self-Monitoring Systems
Michael Abd-El-Malek - Garbage Collection for the PASIS Read/Write Protocol
Jim Newsome - Automatic Detection and Signature Generation of Software Exploits
James Hendricks - Access Control in Self-* Storage
Raja Sambasivan - Cuckoo: Replication Policies & Load Shedding Algorithms

SESSION IV: Database Storage Management

Stavros Harizopoulos
STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing
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Shimin Chen
Improving Hash Join Performance Through Prefetching
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Minglong Shao
Fates Database Storage Architecture
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SESSION V: Watching While Storing

Terrence Wong
Comparison-based Filesystem Verification (The NFS Tee)
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Adam Pennington
Intrusion Detection on Disk
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SESSION VI: Three Talks in the Afternoon

Craig Soules
Improving File Search Using Context Information
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Julio López
Etree - A Database Structure for Manipulating Massive Octree Datasets
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Michael Abd-El-Malek
A Protocol For a Decentralized, Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Metadata Service
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SESSION VII: On Applying Control

Bianca Schroeder
QoS for Databases
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Cindy Wong
The Coral Project - Defending Against Viruses and Worms on the Internet
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SESSION VIII: On Routing Requests

Niraj Tolia
Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage
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Chris Lumb
D-SPTF: Decentralized Request Distribution
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