DATE: Thursday, March 18, 2004
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hamerschlag Hall D-210
SPEAKER:
NIraj
Tolia
CMU
TITLE:
Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage
ABSTRACT:
This talk describes a technique called lookaside caching that combines
the strengths of distributed file systems and portable storage devices,
while negating their weaknesses. In spite of its simplicity, this
technique proves to be powerful and versatile. By unifying distributed
storage and portable storage into a single abstraction, lookaside caching
allows users to treat devices they carry as merely performance and availability
assists for distant file servers. Careless use of portable storage has
no catastrophic consequences. Experimental results show that significant
performance improvements are possible even in the presence of stale data
on the portable device.
BIO:
Niraj Tolia is a second year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon's Parallel
Data Lab working under Prof. M. Satyanarayanan. His research interests
lie in operating systems and distributed storage systems. In particular,
his current research focuses on making distributed file systems more efficient
over Wide Area Networks.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/