DATE: Thursday, October 9, 2003
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Wean Hall 8220

SPEAKER:
Brandon Salmon
CMU

TITLE:
A Two-tiered Learning Architecture for Automated Tuning of Disk Layouts

ABSTRACT:
The way data is laid out on disk has a huge impact on the performance seen in accessing that data. Many heuristics have been developed for adapting on-disk data layouts to expected and observed workload
characteristics. In this talk I will describe a two-tiered software architecture for cleanly and extensibly combining such heuristics. In this architecture, each heuristic is implemented independently and an adaptive combiner merges their suggestions based on how well they work in the given environment. The result is a simpler and more robust system for automated tuning of disk layouts, and a useful blueprint for other complex tuning problems such as cache management, scheduling, data migration, and so forth. I will also present some evaluations of a prototype system.

The utilization of freebandwidth provides an efficient way to perform this layout reorganization on line without impacting foreground traffic. This allows reorganization to be performed frequently and without interruption of service. I will present a prototype system for doing reorganization using freebandwidth, and evaluations of its performance.

BIO:
Brandon Salmon is a second year graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002. His research focuses on building systems that can adapt to their surroundings, allowing them to self tune and self heal. His current projects include Continuous Reorganization and Self-* systems.

SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/