Parallel Data Laboratory

6th Annual Spring Visit Day
May 7, 2004

RESOURCES

PRESENTATIONS

Greg Ganger
Welcome and PDL Overview
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Greg Ganger
Self-Securing Devices, Self-* Storage
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Anastassia Ailamaki
Database Research Overview
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POSTERS - New & Revised

Gregg Economou, Stan Bielski, John Bucy, Adam Pennington, Greg Ganger
Coordinated Defense with Self-Securing Devices
PDF (part 1) PDF (part 2)

Stavros Harizopoulos, Anastassia Ailamaki
STEPS Towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing
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A. Chris Long, Courtney Moskowitz, Greg Ganger
Chameleon: Towards Improved Desktop Security
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A. Chris Long, Adam Pennington, Ernest Chan, Greg Ganger
Castellan: Administering Self-Securing Devices
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Mike Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Dan Ellard, Greg Ganger, Margo Seltzer
File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems
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Parallel Data Laboratory
Self-* Storage Systems
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Parallel Data Laboratory
Self-*: Anatomy of a Constellation
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Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Craig Soules, Greg Ganger
Constraint Combination in Continuous Reorganization
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Jiri Schindler, Minlong Shao, Steve Schlosser, Anastassia Ailamaki, Greg Ganger
Fates Database Storage: Efficient Execution of Different DB Workloads at all Levels of
Memory Hierarchy
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Craig Soules, Greg Ganger
Automatic Attribute Generation from Context
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Brian Railing, John Linwood Griffin, Greg Ganger
Data Classification and Relaxing Requirements for Storage
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Yuen-Lin Tan, John Strunk, Greg Ganger
Comparison-based Filesystem Verification
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Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Brandon Salmon, Greg Ganger
Stardust: Activity Tracking in a Self-Managing System
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Shobha Venkataraman, Dawn Song, Phillip Gibbons, Avrim Blum
Internet Tsunami Warning System
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Cynthia Wong, Chenxi Wang, Dawn Song, Stan Bielski, Gregory R. Ganger
Dynamic Quarantine of Internet Worms
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Terrence Wong, Mike Mesnier, Andrew Klosterman, John Strunk, Greg Ganger
Using S4 for the Ursa Minor Worker
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REVISED

Garth Goodson, Jay Wylie, Greg Ganger, Mike Reiter
A Consistency Protocol Family for Survivable Storage
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Garth Goodson, Jay Wylie, Greg Ganger, Mike Reiter
Consistency Protocol Family Evaluation
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John Linwood Griffin, Adam Pennington, John Bucy, Deepa Choundappan, Nithya Muralidharan, Greg Ganger
Intrusion Detection Inside Workstation Disks
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Andrew Klosterman, John Strunk, Greg Ganger
Self-* Metadata
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Stratos Papadomanolakis, Anastassia Ailamaki
Autopart: Automating Schema Design forScientific Databases through Data Partitioning
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Parallel Data Laboratory
Self-* Components & Services
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Adam Pennington, John Strunk, Greg Ganger
Storage Based Intrusion Detection
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David Petrou, Greg Ganger, Garth Gibson
Cluster Scheduling for Explicitly-Speculative Tasks
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Raja Sambasivan
Cuckoo: Layered Clustering for NFS
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Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steve Schlosser, Natassa Ailamaki, Greg Ganger
Clotho: Decoupling Data Storage from In-memory Page Layout in Database Systems
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Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, Michael Kozuch
Log Optimizations for Perishable Replicas
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Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Greg Ganger
Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications
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Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Chris Lumb, Greg Ganger
A Framework for Implementing Background Storage Applications
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Mengzhi Wang, Kinman Au, Anastassia Ailamaki, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos, Greg Ganger
Predicting Storage Performance with Black-box Models
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PAPERS

Efficient Byzantine-tolerant Erasure-coded Storage. Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004). Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy. June 28th - July 1, 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-104, December 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [435K] / PDF [253K]
Dynamic Quarantine of Internet Worms. Cynthia Wong, Chenxi Wang, Dawn Song, Stan Bielski, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004). Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy. June 28th - July 1, 2004. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-108, December 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [1.4M] / PDF [224K]
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.
Abstract / Postscript [400K] / PDF [64K]
Improving Hash Join Performance through Prefetching. Shimin Chen, Anastassia Ailamaki, Philip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004). Boston, MA. March 30 to April 2, 2004.
Abstract / Postscript [ 2.2M] / PDF [330K]
Atropos: A Disk Array Volume Manager for Orchestrated Use of Disks. Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, 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-03-101, December, 2003.
Abstract / PDF [281K]
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]
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]
Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage. Niraj Tolia, Jan Harkes, Michael Kozuch, and M. Satyanarayanan. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004.
Abstract / Postscript [881K] / PDF [211K]
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.
Abstract / Postscript [2.2M] / PDF [266K]
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.
Abstract / Postscript [1.6M] / PDF [80K]
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]
On the Feasibility of Intrusion Detection Inside Workstation Disks. John Linwood Griffin, Adam Pennington, John S. Bucy, Deepa Choundappan, Nithya Muralidharan, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-106. December, 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [1.12M] / PDF [215K]
A Protocol Family for Versatile Survivable Storage Infrastructures. Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-103, December 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [925K] / PDF [321K]
D-SPTF: Decentralized Request Distribution in Brick-based Storage. Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger, Richard Golding. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Tecnical Report CMU-CS-03-202, November, 2003.
Abstract / PDF [475K]
Balancing Locality and Randomness in DHTs. Shuheng Zhou, Gregory R. Ganger, Peter Steenkiste. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-03-203, November 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [489K] / PDF [511K]
A Prototype User Interface for Coarse-Grained Desktop Access Control. A. Chris Long, Courtney Moskowitz, and Greg Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-03-200, November 2003.
Abstract / Postscript [900K] / PDF [535K]
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]