Parallel Data Laboratory

9th Annual Spring Visit Day
May 24, 2007

RESOURCES

PRESENTATIONS

Greg Ganger
Welcome and PDL Overview & Self-* Storage Overview
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Dave Andersen
PDL Data Transfer Research Overview - Building Better DataTransfers
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Garth Gibson
PDL HPC I/O: Petascale Data Storage Institute
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Priya Narasimhan
PDL Fault Tolerance/Diagnosis Research Overview
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POSTERS

Data Center Observatory
Bill Courtright, Greg Ganger
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Data Center Observatory Schematic
Bill Courtright, Greg Ganger
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DCO Leak Detection Schematic
Mike Stroucken, Bill Courtright
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DCO Infrastructure: Wiring
Mike Stroucken, Bill Courtright
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DCO Infrastructure: Cabling Standard
Mike Stroucken, Bill Courtright
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DCO Operations
Mike Stroucken, Bill Courtright
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Self-* Storage Systems
Parallel Data Laboratory
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Guiding Storage Optimization with Utility Functions
John Strunk, Greg Ganger
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Low-overhead Byzantine Fault-tolerant Storage
James Hendricks, Greg Ganger, Mike Reiter
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Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage
Matthew Wachs, Elie Krevat, Deepti Chheda, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, Greg Ganger
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TCP Throughput Collapse in SANs
Elie Krevat, Amar Phanishayee, Vijay Vasudevan
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Insight: View-based Storage Management
Brandon Salmon, Eric Toan, Rob Reeder, Steve Schlosser, Lorrie Cranor, Greg Ganger
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Access Controls For Home Data Management
Eric Toan, Brandon Salmon, Rob Reeder, Greg Ganger, Lorrie Cranor
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Scalable Storage Controller Framework for Distributed Storage over iSCSI
Akshay Shah, Sachin Bhamare, Mike Mesnier, Greg Ganger
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Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage
Mike Mesnier, Raja Sambasivan, Matthew Wachs, Alice Zheng, Christos Faloutsos, Greg Ganger
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Combining Intrusion Detection Devices for Better Intrusion Detection
Adam Pennington, Dawn Song, Greg Ganger
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Categorizing and Differencing System Behaviours Using Spectroscope
Raja Sambasivan, Alice Zheng, Eno Thereska, Greg Ganger
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Eliminating Cross-Server Operations in Scalable Storage Systems
Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, James Hendricks, Raja Sambasivan, Greg Ganger
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To Share or Not To Share?
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Naju Mancheril, Stavros Harizopoulos,
Kivanc Sabirli, Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi
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Thread and Memory Management in Staged Database Systems
Naju Mancheril, Nikos Hardavellas, Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Stavros Harizopoulos,
Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi
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StagedDB/CMP: Designing Database Management Systems For Emerging Computer Architectures
Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas, Ryan Johnson, Naju Mancheril, Stavros Harizopoulos,
Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi
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A New Optimization Framework for Self-Tuning Database Design
Stratos Papadomanolakis, Debabrata Dash, Anastassia Ailamaki
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Automated Database Administration: Scalable Optimization with Quality Guarantees
Stratos Papadomanolakis, Debabrata Dash, Anastassia Ailamaki
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Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities
Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Naju Mancheril, Ryan Johnson, Stavros Harizopoulos,
Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi
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Huge Directories: Billions to Trillions of Files
Swapnil V. Patil, Milo Polte, Shobhit Dayal, Garth A. Gibson
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SET: Similarity Enhanced Transfers
Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen and Michael Kaminsky
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Enabling State-Machine Replication with Nondeterminism
Joseph Slember and Priya Narasimhan
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Improving Mobile Database Access Over Wide-Area Networks Without Degrading Consistency
Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
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Computational Databases
Tiankai Tu, David O'Hallaron
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Filesystems Statistics Survey
Shobhit Dayal, Marc Unangst, Garth Gibson
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PAPERS

Categorizing and Differencing System Behaviours. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL.
Abstract / PDF [120K]
Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete. Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-07-101, January 2007.
Abstract / PDF[ 75K]
Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search. Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, Brian D. Noble. USENIX '07 Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, June 17–22, 2007.
Abstract / PDF [225K]
Improving Mobile Database Access Over Wide-Area Networks Without Degrading Consistency. Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach. MobiSys’07, June 11–13, 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
Abstract / PDF [1.1M]
VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration. H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, Eyal de Lara. VEE’07, June 13–15, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [1.4M]
Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage. Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger. SIGMETRICS’07, June 12–16, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [235K]
Scheduling Threads for Constructive Cache Sharing on CMPs. Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Vasileios Liaskovitis, Anastassia Ailamaki, Guy E. Blelloch, Babak Falsafi, Limor Fix, Nikos Hardavellas, Todd C. Mowry, Chris Wilkerson. SPAA'07, June 9-11, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [293K]
Consistency-preserving Caching of Dynamic Database Content. Niraj Tolia and M. Satyanarayanan. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract / PDF [888K]
Fingerpointing Correlated Failures in Replicated Systems. Soila Pertet, Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan. USENIX Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML), Cambridge, MA (April 2007).
Abstract / PDF [100K]
Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints. Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’07), Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2007.
Abstract / PDF [579K]
MultiMap: Preserving Disk Locality for Multidimensional Datasets. Minglong Shao, Steven W. Schlosser, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-05-102. March 2005.
Abstract / PDF [203K]
//TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events. Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07), February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-108, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF[ 187K]
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07), February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-111, September 2006.
Abstract / PDF[ 272K]
Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers. Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07), February 13–16, 2007, San Jose, CA. Supercedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-106, May 2006.
Abstract / PDF [ 167K]
Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities. Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Ryan Johnson, Naju G. Mancheril, Anastassia Ailamaki and Babak Falsafi. 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 7-10, 2007, Asilomar, California, USA.
Abstract / PDF [111K]
Static Analysis Meets Distributed Fault-Tolerance: Enabling State-Machine Replication with Nondeterminism. Joseph Slember, Priya Narasimhan. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '06), Seattle, WA. Nov. 8, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [98K]
Living with Nondeterminism in Replicated Middleware Applications. Joseph Slember, Priya Narasimhan. Middleware 2006, ACM/IFIP/USENIX, 6th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27 - December 1, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4290 Springer 2006.
Abstract / PDF [387K]
Towards Fingerpointing in the Emulab Dynamic Distributed System. Michael P. Kasick, Priya Narasimhan, Kevin Atkinson, Jay Lepreau. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '06), Seattle, WA. Nov. 5, 2006.
Abstract / PDF [311K]