WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS (WIPS)

Accepted WiPs

The following WiPs will be presented on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m., in the Imperial Ballroom.

MTTDL's Are Meaningless: Searching for a Better Metric for Storage Reliability
James S. Plank and William E. Pierce, University of Tennessee

Upgrades-as-a-Service in Distributed Systems
Tudor Dumitras and Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University

Down with the VFS and His Insidious Caches!
Richard P. Spillane and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

DiskReduce: RAIDing the Cloud
Bin Fan, Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Lin Xiao, and Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

Enabling Scientific Application I/O on Cloud FileSystems
Milo Polte, Carnegie Mellon University; Esteban Molina-Estolano, University of California, Santa Cruz; John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz; Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University; Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz; Meghan Wingate, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Non-Volatile Transactional Memory
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfied, Laura M. Grupp, Ameen Akel, Rajesh K. Gupta, and Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego

Verifying Massively Data Parallel Multi-Stage Computations
Osama Khan and Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University

Hifire: A High Fidelity Trace Replayer for Large-Scale Storage Systems
Lei Xu and Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska; Lei Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Energy Efficient Striping in the Energy Aware Virtual File System
Adam Manzanares and Xiao Qin, Auburn University

The Hot Pages Associative Translation Layer for Solid State Drives
Luke McNeese, Guanying Wu, and Xubin He, Tennessee Technological University

Security Aware Partitioning for Efficient File Systems Search
Aleatha Parker-Wood, Christina Strong, Ethan L. Miller, and Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

InfoGarden: A Casual-Game Approach to Digital Archive Management
Carlos Maltzahn, Michael Mateas, and Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz

Fuse for Windows
Mark Cariddi, Tony Mason, Scott Noone, and Peter Viscarola, OSR—Open Systems Resources

Revisiting I/O Middleware for the Cloud
Karthik Kambatla, Naresh Rapolu, Jalaja Padma, Patrick Eugster, and Ananth Grama, Purdue University

Determining SLO Violations at Compile Time
Kristal Curtis, Peter Bodik, Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Michael Franklin, Michael Jordan, and David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley

LazyBase: Freshness, Performance, and Scale
Craig A.N. Soules, Kimberly Keeton, and Charles B. Morrey III, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Gridmix3: Emulating Production IO Workload for Apache Hadoop
Chris Douglas and Hong Tang, Yahoo! Inc.

The Case for a New Sequential Prefetching Technique
Mingju Li, Swapnil Bhatia, and Elizabeth Varki, University of New Hampshire