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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
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2:15 p.m.2:30 p.m.
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Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research
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2:30 p.m.3:30 p.m.
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Reliability & Availability
Session Chair: Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research
Awarded Best Paper!
Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction
Peter Corbett, Bob English, Atul Goel, Tomislav Grcanac, Steven Kleiman, James Leong, and Sunitha Sankar, Network Appliance, Inc.
Awarded Best Student Paper!
Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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3:30 p.m.4:00 p.m. Break
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4:00 p.m.5:30 p.m.
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Measurement, Modeling, and Management
Session Chair: Richard Golding, IBM Almaden
Polus: Growing Storage QoS Management Beyond a "4-Year Old Kid"
Sandeep Uttamchandani and Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM Almaden Research Center; Sudarshan Srinivasan, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign; John Palmer and David Pease, IBM Almaden Research Center
Buttress: A Toolkit for Flexible and High Fidelity I/O Benchmarking
Eric Anderson, Mahesh Kallahalla, Mustafa Uysal, and Ram Swaminathan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Designing for Disasters
Kimberley Keeton, Cipriano Santos, and Dirk Beyer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Jeffrey Chase, Duke University; John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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6:00 p.m.7:00 p.m. Reception
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Thursday, April 1, 2004
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9:00 a.m.10:00 a.m.
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Keynote: Scaling File Service Up and Out
Garth Gibson, Panasas and Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Gibson has 15 years of leadership in innovative
storage systems ranging from the defining paper on Redundant Arrays of
Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to the first commercial implementation of a
parallel file system for Object Storage Devices (OSD).
Click here to view the slides from the keynote presentation (PDF)
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10:00 a.m.10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 a.m.12:00 noon
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Grabbag
Session Chair: Jeff Chase, Duke University
Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search
Larry Huston, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Rahul Sukthankar, Carnegie Mellon
University; Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Intel Research Pittsburgh; M. Satyanarayanan and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; Erik Riedel, Seagate Research; Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University
MEMS-based Storage Devices and Standard Disk Interfaces: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?
Steven W. Schlosser and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
A Performance Comparison of NFS and iSCSI for IP-Networked Storage
Peter Radkov, University of Massachusetts; Li Yin, University of California, Berkeley; Pawan Goyal and Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research Center; Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts
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12:00 noon1:30 p.m. Conference Luncheon
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1:30 p.m.3:00 p.m.
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File Systems
Session Chair: Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Charles P. Wright, Andrew Himmer, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
Tracefs: A File System to Trace Them All
Akshat Aranya, Charles P. Wright, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
HyLog: A High Performance Approach to Managing Disk Layout
Wenguang Wang, Yanping Zhao, and Rick Bunt, University of Saskatchewan
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3:00 p.m.3:30 p.m. Break
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3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
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Optimizing Block Access
Session Chair: Guillermo Alvarez, IBM Almaden
Atropos: A Disk Array Volume Manager for Orchestrated Use of Disks
Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
C-Miner: Mining Block Correlations in Storage Systems
Zhenmin Li, Zhifeng Chen, Sudarshan M. Srinivasan, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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4:30 p.m.5:30 pm.
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Work-in-Progress Reports
Session Chairs: Christos Karamanolis, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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6:00 p.m.7:00 p.m. Poster Session and Happy Hour
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Friday, April 2, 2004
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8:30 a.m.10:00 a.m.
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Caching & Scheduling
Session Chair: Randy Wang, Princeton University
CAR: Clock with Adaptive Replacement
Sorav Bansal, Stanford University; Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM
Almaden Research Center
Circus: Opportunistic Block Reordering for Scalable Content Servers
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv G. Wickremesinghe, and Jeffrey S. Chase, Duke University
Awarded Best Student Paper!
A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications
Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
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10:00 a.m.10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 a.m.11:30 a.m.
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Mobile Storage
Session Chair: Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage
Niraj Tolia, Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jan Harkes, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kozuch, Intel Research Pittsburgh; M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research Pittsburgh
Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, and Elisha Ziskind, Princeton University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yale University; Randolph Y. Wang, Princeton University
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11:30 a.m.11:45 a.m.
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Closing Remarks
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