The ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL)
Publications

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2024

Shadow Filesystems: Recovering from Filesystem Runtime Errors via Robust Alternative Execution
Jing Liu, Xiangpeng Hao, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Tej Chajed
HotStorage '24
Santa Clara, CA, July 2024
Available as: PDF, Slides

Symbiosis: The Art of Application and Kernel Cache Coordination
Yifan Dai, Jing Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '24)
February, 2024
Available as: PDF, Slides, Code

2023

WiscSort: External Sorting For Byte-Addressable Storage
Vinay Banakar, Kan Wu, Yuvraj Patel, Kimberly Keeton, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'23)
August, 2023
Available as: PDF

MadFS: Per-File Virtualization for Userspace Persistent Memory Filesystems
Shawn Zhong, Chenhao Ye, Guanzhou Hu, Suyan Qu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael Swift
The 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '23)
February, 2023
Available as: PDF, Slides, Video, BibTex, Code

2022

Evolving System Stack for Persistent Memory: Device Characterization, Caching, and Sharing Perspectives
Kan Wu
Doctoral Dissertation, Aug 2022
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Using Trātṛ to tame Adversarial Synchronization
Yuvraj Patel, Chenhao Ye, Akshat Sinha, Abigail Matthews, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22)
August, 2022
Available as: PDF

NyxCache: Flexible and Efficient Multi-tenant Persistent Memory Caching
Kan Wu, Kaiwei Tu, Yuvraj Patel, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '22)
February, 2022
Available as: PDF

2021

Fair and Secure Synchronization for Non-Cooperative Concurrent Systems
Yuvraj Patel
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2021
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Exploiting Nil-Externality for Fast Replicated Storage
Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '21)
Virtual Event, Germany, October, 2021.
Available as: PDF

Scale and Performance in a Filesystem Semi-Microkernel
Jing Liu, Anthony Rebello, Yifan Dai, Chenhao Ye, Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '21)
Virtual Event, Germany, October, 2021.
Available as: PDF, Slides(Short, Long), Videos(Short, Long), Source Code

Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures?
Anthony Rebello, Yuvraj Patel, Ramnatthan Alagappan Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 17 Issue 2, June 2021.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

The Storage Hierarchy is Not a Hierarchy: Optimizing Caching on Modern Storage Devices with Orthus
Kan Wu, Zhihan Guo, Guanzhou Hu, Kaiwei Tu, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 12th Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW '21)
March, 2021
Available as: PDF

The Storage Hierarchy is Not a Hierarchy: Optimizing Caching on Modern Storage Devices with Orthus
Kan Wu, Zhihan Guo, Guanzhou Hu, Kaiwei Tu, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '21)
February, 2021
Available as: PDF, Slides, Video

Scalable Persistent Memory File System with Kernel-Userspace Collaboration
Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Bohong Zhu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Jiwu Shu
The 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '21)
February, 2021
Available as: PDF

2020

From WiscKey to Bourbon: A Learned Index for Log-Structured Merge Trees
Yifan Dai, Yien Xu, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Brian Kroth, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '20)
November, 2020.
Available as: PDF, Slides(Short, Long), Videos(Short, Long), SourceCode

Consistency-Aware Durability
Aishwarya Ganesan
Doctoral Dissertation, October 2020
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures?
Anthony Rebello, Yuvraj Patel, Ramnatthan Alagappan Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '20)
July, 2020.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Slides(Short, Long), Videos(Short, Long)

Avoiding Scheduler Subversion using Scheduler-Cooperative Locks
Yuvraj Patel, Leon Yang, Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '20)
Heraklion, Greece, April, 2020.
Available as: PDF, Videos(Short, Long), Slides(Short, Long)

Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability
Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
the 18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '20)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2020.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Talk Slides
Winner: Best Paper Award

Read as Needed: Building WiSER, a Flash-Optimized Search Engine
Jun He, Kan Wu, Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
the 18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '20)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2020.
Available as: PDF, Source Code

2019

The Network-Integrated Storage System
Ibrahim Kettaneh, Ahmed Alquraan, Hatem Takruri, Suli Yang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Samer Al-Kiswany
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), August 2019.
Available as: PDF

File Systems as Processes
Jing Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Sudarsun Kannan
HotStorage '19
Renton, WA, July 2019.
Available as: PDF

Towards an Unwritten Contract of Intel Optane SSD
Kan Wu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotStorage '19
Renton, WA, July 2019.
Available as: PDF

Exploiting Intel Optane SSD for Microsoft SQL Server
Kan Wu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park
15th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN '19)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2019.
Available as: PDF

Protocol- and Situation-Aware Distributed Storage Systems
Ramnatthan Alagappan
Doctoral Dissertation, July 2019
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Designing a True Direct-Access File System with DevFS
Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Yuangang Wang, Jun Xu, Gopinath Palani
Non-Volatile Memories Workshop
NVMW '19
San Diego, CA, March 2019.
Available as: PDF

Redesigning LSMs for Nonvolatile Memory with NoveLSM
Sudarsun Kannan, Nitish Bhat, Ada Gavrilovska, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Non-Volatile Memories Workshop
NVMW '19
San Diego, CA, March 2019.
Available as: PDF

2018

Beyond Storage Interfaces: Finding and Exploiting Unwritten Contracts In Storage Devices
Jun He
Doctoral Dissertation, Dec 2018
Available as: PDF

Fault-Tolerance, Fast and Slow: Exploiting Failure Asynchrony in Distributed Systems
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan, Jing Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Operating Systems Design and Implementation
OSDI '18
San Diego, CA, 2018
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Talk Slides

Principled Schedulability Analysis for Distributed Storage Systems using Thread Architecture Models
Suli Yang, Jing Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Operating Systems Design and Implementation
OSDI '18
San Diego, CA, 2018
Available as: PDF, Talk Slides

Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Distributed Storage
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan, Eric Lee, Aws Albarghouthi, Vijay Chidambaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 14 Issue 3, October 2018.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

SOCK: Rapid Task Provisioning with Serverless-Optimized Containers
Edward Oakes, Leon Yang, Dennis Zhou, Kevin Houck, Tyler Harter, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
USENIX ATC '18
Boston, MA, 2018.
Available as: PDF

Redesigning LSMs for Nonvolatile Memory with NoveLSM
Sudarsun Kannan, Nitish Bhat, Ada Gavrilovska, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
USENIX ATC '18
Boston, MA, 2018.
Available as: PDF

How to Teach an Old File System Dog New Object Store Tricks
Eunji Lee, Youil Han, Suli Yang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotStorage '18
Boston, MA, July 2018.
Available as: PDF

DenseFS: a Cache-Compact Filesystem
Zev Weiss, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotStorage '18
Boston, MA, July 2018.
Available as: PDF

Revisiting Concurreny in High-Performance NoSQL Databases
Yuvraj Patel, Mohit Verma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotStorage '18
Boston, MA, July 2018.
Available as: PDF

Cloud-Native File Systems
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Venkat Venkataramani
HotCloud '18
Boston, MA, July 2018.
Available as: PDF.

The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives
Jun He, Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 9th Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW '18)
San Diego, CA, March 2018.
Available as: Extended Abstract

Designing a True Direct-Access File System with DevFS
Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Yuangang Wang, Jun Xu, Gopinath Palani
Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
FAST '18
Oakland, CA, 2018.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan, Eric Lee, Aws Albarghouthi, Vijay Chidambaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
FAST '18
Oakland, CA, 2018.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Talk Slides
Winner: Best Paper Award

2017

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to File-System Faults
Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 13 Issue 3, September 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

Application Crash Consistency and Performance with CCFS
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Lanyue Lu, Vijay Chidambaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 13 Issue 3, September 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions
Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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Volume 42, Number 2, 2017
Available as: PDF

NICE: Network-Integrated Cluster-Efficient Storage
Samer Al-Kiswany, Suli Yang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 26th International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '17)
Washington, DC, June 2017.
Available as: PDF

Improving Virtualized Storage Performance with Sky
Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '17)
Xi'an, China, April 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, ACM Digital Library Page, Presentation video on Youtube, Presentation video on cs.wisc.edu, Presentation Slides

The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives
Jun He, Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '17)
Belgrade, Serbia, April 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Software

WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-Conscious Storage
Lanyue Lu, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Hariharan Gopalakrishnan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 13 Issue 1, March 2017.
Available as: PDF

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (Article)
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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Available: PDF

Application Crash Consistency and Performance with CCFS
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Lanyue Lu, Vijay Chidambaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
FAST '17
Santa Clara, CA, 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Talk Slides
Winner: Best Paper Award

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions
Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
FAST '17
Santa Clara, CA, 2017.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Talk Slides
Available as: Software

2016

Correlated Crash Vulnerabilities
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan, Yuvraj Patel, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI '16)
Savannah, GA, November 2016.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Available as: Software Talk Slides

Emergent Properties in Modular Storage: a Study of Apple Desktop Applications, Facebook Messages, and Docker Containers
Tyler Harter
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2016
Available as: PDF, Slides

Serverless Computation with OpenLambda
Scott Hendrickson, Stephen Sturdevant, Tyler Harter, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotCloud '16
Available as: PDF

Finding Consistency in an Inconsistent World: Towards Deep Semantic Understanding of Scale-out Distributed Databases
Neville Carvalho, Hyojun Kim, Maohua Lu, Prasenjit Sarkar, Rohit Shekhar, Tarun Thakur, Pin Zhou, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotStorage '16
Available as: PDF

Tombolo: Performance Enhancements for Cloud Storage Gateways
Suli Yang, Kiran Srinivasan, Kishore Udayashankar, Swetha Krishnan, Jingxin Feng, Yupu Zhang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '16)
Santa Clara, CA, June 2016.
Available as: PDF

Physical Separation in Modern Storage Systems
Lanyue Lu
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2016
Available as: PDF, Slides

WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage
Lanyue Lu, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '16)
Available as: PDF, BibTex
Talk slides: PDF

Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers
Tyler Harter, Brandon Salmon, Rose Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '16)
Available as: PDF, BibTex

Characterizing and Reducing Cross-Platform Performance Variability Using OS-Level Virtualization
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay F. Lofstead, Adam Moody, Kathryn Mohror, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
IPDPS Workshop '16
Available as: PDF

2015

Split-Level I/O Scheduling
Suli Yang, Tyler Harter, Nishant Agrawal, Salini Selvaraj Kowsalya, Anand Krishnamurthy, Samer Al-Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '15)
Monterey, CA, Oct. 2015.
Available as: PDF, BibTex, Source Code
Talk Slides: PPT

Mjolnir: Collecting Trash in a Demanding New World
Zev Weiss, Sriram Subramanian, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Vinay Sridhar, Nisha Talagala, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads (INFLOW '15)
Monterey, CA, Oct. 2015.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTeX

Crash Consistency
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Communications of the ACM
Vol. 58, No. 10, October 2015.
Available as: PDF, HTML, BibTex

Orderless and Eventually Durable File Systems
Vijay Chidambaram
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2015
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Crash Consistency: Rethinking the Fundamental Abstractions of the File System
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Queue
Volume 13, issue 7, July 7, 2015.
Available as: PDF, HTML, BibTex

Removing the Costs and Retaining the Benefits of Flash-Based SSD Virtualization with FSDV
Yiying Zhang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '15)
Santa Clara, CA, June 2015.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Beyond Storage APIs: Provable Semantics for Storage Stacks
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Vijay Chidambaram, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Aws Albarghouthi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV)
Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland, May. 2015.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex, Isabelle Proofs

ANViL: Advanced Virtualization for Modern Non-Volatile Memory Devices
Zev Weiss, Sriram Subramanian, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Nisha Talagala, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '15)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb. 2015.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTeX

Reducing File System Tail Latencies with Chopper
Jun He, Duy Nguyen, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '15)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb. 2015.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex, Source code

2014

Physical Disentanglement in a Container-Based File System
Lanyue Lu, Yupu Zhang, Thanh Do, Samer Al-Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI '14)
Broomfield, CO, October 2014.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Available as: Source Code

All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI '14)
Broomfield, CO, October 2014.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Available as: Software and Results

Fractured Processes: Adaptive, Fine-Grained Process Abstractions
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems (TRIOS '14)
Broomfield, CO, October 2014.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Cooperative Data Protection
Yupu Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2014
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Snapshots in a Flash with ioSnap
Sriram Subramanian, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Nisha Talagala, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of 2014 EuroSys Conference (EuroSys '14)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2014.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Winner: Best Paper Award

Analysis of HDFS Under HBase: A Facebook Messages Case Study
Tyler Harter, Dhruba Borthakur, Siying Dong, Amitanand Aiyer, Liyin Tang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '14)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2014.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

ViewBox: Integrating Local File Systems with Cloud Storage Services
Yupu Zhang, Chris Dragga, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '14)
Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2014.
Available as: Abstract , PDF, BibTex

A Study of Linux File System Evolution
Lanyue Lu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Shan Lu
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2014)
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Download: Dataset

ffsck: The Fast File System Checker
Ao Ma, Chris Dragga, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Marshall Kirk McKusick
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2014)
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

2013

Towards Efficient, Portable Application-Level Consistency
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai , Vijay Chidambaram, Joo-young Hwang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotDep '13
Farmington, PA, Nov 2013.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

Optimistic Crash Consistency
Vijay Chidambaram, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai , Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '13)
Farmington, PA, Nov 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF
Talk Video: Hosted by ACM   Hosted on Youtube
Source code: OptFS Software

ROOT: Replaying Multithreaded Traces with Resource-Oriented Ordering
Zev Weiss, Tyler Harter, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '13)
Farmington, PA, Nov 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Source code: ARTC & Magritte

De-indirection for Flash-based Solid State Drives
Yiying Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2013
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

A Study of Linux File System Evolution
Lanyue Lu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Shan Lu
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Volume 38, Number 3, 2013
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Download: Dataset

Fault Isolation and Quick Recovery in Isolation File Systems
Lanyue Lu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '13)
San Jose, CA, June 2013.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Talk slides: PDF
Talk Video: Hosted by Usenix

*-Box: Towards Reliability and Consistency in Dropbox-like File Synchronization Services
Yupu Zhang, Chris Dragga, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '13)
San Jose, CA, June 2013.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

Zettabyte Reliability with Flexible End-to-end Data Integrity
Yupu Zhang, Daniel S. Myers, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '13)
Long Beach, CA, May 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: Powerpoint

Warped Mirrors for Flash
Yiying Zhang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '13)
Long Beach, CA, May 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

HARDFS: Hardening HDFS with Selective and Lightweight Versioning
Thanh Do, Tyler Harter, Yingchao Liu, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2013.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Talk slides: PDF

A Study of Linux File System Evolution
Lanyue Lu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Shan Lu
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk slides: PDF
Talk Video: Hosted by Usenix
Download: Dataset
Winner: Best Paper Award

ffsck: The Fast File System Checker
Ao Ma, Chris Dragga, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Getting Real: Lessons in Transitioning Research Simulations into Hardware Systems
Mohit Saxena, Yiying Zhang, Michael M. Swift, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Warming up Storage-Level Caches with Bonfire
Yiying Zhang, Gokul Soundararajan, Mark W. Storer, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Sethuraman Subbiah, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2013.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

2012

A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Transactions on Computing Systems (TOCS)
August, 2012, v. 30:3, pp. 10:1-10:39
Abstract, PDF, Traces

De-indirection for Flash-based SSDs with Nameless Writes
Yiying Zhang, Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2012.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

Consistency Without Ordering
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12)
San Jose, CA, Feb 2012.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF
Talk Video: Hosted by Usenix
Extended version: UW Technical Report CS-TR-2012-1709
Source code: GitHub

2011

A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '11)
Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, PDF (one column), Traces
Winner: Best Paper Award

Towards Transparent CPU Scheduling
Joseph T. Meehean
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2011
Available as: Abstract, PDF

Quarantine: Fault Tolerance for Concurrent Servers with Data-Driven Selective Isolation
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
To appear in the Proceedings of 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism
Berkeley, CA, May 2011.
Available as: Abstract PDF

Coerced Cache Eviction and Discreet-Mode Journaling: Dealing with Misbehaving Disks
Abhishek Rajimwale, Vijay Chidambaram, Deepak Ramamurthi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of 41st Annual International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '11)
Hong Kong, China, June 2011.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David
Nitin Agrawal, Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11)
San Jose, CA, February 2011.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint , Talk Video: Hosted by USENIX | Hosted by Youtube
Winner: Best Paper Award

FATE and DESTINI: A Framework for Cloud Recovery Testing
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Thanh Do, Pallavi Joshi, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Koushik Sen, Dhruba Borthakur
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11)
Boston, MA, March 30-April 1, 2011.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Refuse to Crash with Re-FUSE
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Laxman Visampalli, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys '11)
Salzburg, Austria, April 2011.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subramanian, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11)
San Jose, CA, February 2011.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

2010

Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 6, Issue 3 (Sep 2010)
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

FATE and DESTINI: A Framework for Cloud Recovery Testing
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Thanh Do, Pallavi Joshi, Peter Alvaro, Jungmin Yun, Jin-su Oh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Koushik Sen, Dhruba Borthakur
Berkeley TechReport 2010
Available as: PDF

Towards Automatically Checking Thousand of Failures with Micro-specifications
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Thanh Do, Pallavi Joshi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Koushik Sen
HotDep'10
Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2010.
Available as: Abstract, PDF
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Removing The Costs Of Indirection in Flash-based SSDs with Nameless Writes
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Vijayan Prabhakaran
HotStorage '10
Boston, MA, June 2010.
Available as: Abstract, PDF

Get the Parallelism out of My Cloud
Karu Sankaralingam, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,
HotPar '10
Berkeley, CA, June 2010.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

End-to-end Data Integrity for File Systems: A ZFS Case Study
Yupu Zhang, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10)
San Jose, CA, February 2010.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PDF

Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10)
San Jose, CA, February 2010.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint
Winner: Best Paper Award

Impact of Disk Corruption on Open-Source DBMS
Sriram Subramanian, Yupu Zhang, Rajiv Vaidyanathan, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Jeffrey F. Naughton
Accepted in the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '10)
Long Beach, CA, March 2010
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2009

Towards Reliable Storage Systems
Haryadi S. Gunawi
Doctoral Dissertation, December 2009
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Awarded the 2009 departmental Best Thesis Award
Awarded the 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 5, Issue 4 (Dec 2009)
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Publicity: lwn.net

Why panic()? Improving Reliability with Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
Accepted in the Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '09)
Big Sky, MT, October 2009.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Representative, Reproducible, and Practical Benchmarking of File and Storage Systems
Nitin Agrawal
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2009
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Data-Driven Batch Scheduling
John Bent, Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Miron Livny
Second International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC '09)
June 9-13, Munich, Germany
Available as: PDF (coming soon)

Tolerating File-System Mistakes with EnvyFS
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the Usenix Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09)
San Diego, CA, June 2009.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint
Winner: Best Paper Award

Error Propagation Analysis for File Systems
Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Ben Liblit, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '09)
Dublin, Ireland, June 2009
Available as: PDF, BibTeX

Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)
San Francisco, CA, February 2009.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Winner: Best Paper Award
Publicity: lwn.net

2008

SQCK: A Declarative File System Checker
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08)
San Diego, CA, December 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Florentina Popovici, Aditya Akella, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau Suman Banerjee,
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08)
San Diego, CA, December 2008.
Available as: PDF, BibTex

Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance
Nitin Agrawal, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, John Davis, Mark Manasse, Rina Panigrahy
Proceedings of the Usenix Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '08)
Boston, MA, June 2008.
Available as: Abstract , Postscript, PDF, BibTeX

Towards Realistic File-System Benchmarks with CodeMRI
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Appears in workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (ACM HotMetrics '08)
Annapolis, MD, June 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX

Analyzing the Effects of Disk-Pointer Corruption
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Meenali Rungta, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'08)
Anchorage, AK, June 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX

Parity Lost and Parity Regained
Andrew Krioukov, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Kiran Srinivasan, Randy Thelen, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)
San Jose, CA, February 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)
San Jose, CA, February 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint
Winner: Best Student Paper Award

EIO: Error Handling is Occasionally Correct
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Cindy Rubio-González, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Ben Liblit
Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)
San Jose, CA, February 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint or PDF

VMM-based Hidden Process Detection and Identification using Lycosid
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2008)
Seattle, Washington, March 2008.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2007

The Effects of Metadata Corruption on NFS
Swetha Krishnan, Giridhar Ravipati, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Barton P. Miller
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007)
Alexandria, Virginia, October 2007.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Improving File System Reliability with I/O Shepherding
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Swetha Krishnan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '07)
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Washington, October 2007.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
Nitin Agrawal, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Volume 3, Issue 3 (Oct 2007)
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Data-Driven Models in Storage System Design
Florentina I. Popovici
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2007
Available as: Abstract, PDF, PS, BibTex

An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Shankar Pasupathy, Jiri Schindler
Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'07)
San Diego, California, June 2007.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Implicit Operating System Awareness in a Virtual Machine Monitor
Stephen T. Jones
Doctoral Dissertation, April 2007
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
Nitin Agrawal, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)
San Jose, California, February 2007.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2006

Limiting Trust in the Storage Stack
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Meenali Rungta, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
2nd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006)
Alexandria, Virginia, October 2006
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTeX

Geiger: Monitoring the Buffer Cache in a Virtual Machine Environment
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS XI)
San Jose, California. October, 2006.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Information and Control in File System Buffer Management
Nathan C. Burnett
Doctoral Dissertation, July 2006
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Information and Collaboration in the Storage Stack
Timothy E. Denehy
Doctoral Dissertation, June 2006
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

IRON File Systems
Vijayan Prabhakaran
Doctoral Dissertation, June 2006
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Design Choices For Utilizing The Disk Idleness In A Virtual Machine Environment
Pradheep Elango, Saisuresh Krishnakumaran, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA '06)
Boston, Massachusetts, June 2006.
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Semantically-Smart Disk Systems: Past, Present, and Future
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Timothy E. Denehy, Florentina I. Popovici, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Muthian Sivathanu
Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review (PER)
March, 2006. Volume 33, Number 4.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Antfarm: Tracking Processes in a Virtual Machine Environment
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '06)
Boston, Massachusetts. June, 2006.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Dependability Analysis of Virtual Memory Systems
Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. June, 2006.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2005

A Logic of File Systems
Muthian Sivathanu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Somesh Jha
Fourth USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05)
San Francisco, California, December 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Database-Aware Semantically-Smart Storage
Muthian Sivathanu, Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Fourth USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05)
San Francisco, California, December 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Journal-guided Resynchronization for Software RAID
Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Fourth USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05)
San Francisco, California, December 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

IRON File Systems
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Nitin Agrawal, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '05)
Brighton, United Kingdom, October, 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2005)
Yokohama, Japan, June, 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Deconstructing Commodity Storage Clusters
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Jiri Schindler
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '05)
Madison, Wisconsin, June 2005
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides:PowerPoint

Semantically-smart Disk Systems
Muthian Sivathanu
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Awarded the 2005 departmental Best Thesis Award

Data-Driven Batch Scheduling
John Bent
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
May 2005, vol. 1, no. 2
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Analysis and Evolution of Journaling File Systems
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '05)
Anaheim, California, April, 2005.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2004

Deploying Safe User-Level Network Services with icTCP
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04)
San Francisco, California, December 2004.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Life or Death at Block-Level
Muthian Sivathanu, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04)
San Francisco, California, December 2004.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

Deconstructing Storage Arrays
Timothy E. Denehy, John Bent, Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS XI)
Boston, Massachusetts, October 2004.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

X-RAY: A Non-Invasive Exclusive Caching Mechanism for RAIDs
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Muthian Sivathanu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '04)
Munich, Germany, June 2004.
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Explicit Control in a Batch-Aware Distributed File System
John Bent, Douglas Thain, Andrea C.Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Miron Livny
Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '04)
San Francisco, California, March 2004
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C.Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04)
Winner: Best Student Paper Award
San Francisco, California, March 2004
Available as: Abstract, Postscript, PDF, BibTex

2003

Transforming Policies into Mechanisms with Infokernel
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Nathan C. Burnett, Timothy E. Denehy, Thomas J. Engle, Haryadi S. Gunawi, James A. Nugent, Florentina I. Popovici
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '03)
Bolton Landing (Lake George), New York, October, 2003.
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF   BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Pipeline and Batch Sharing in Grid Workloads
Douglas Thain, John Bent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Miron Livny
Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12)
Seattle, Washington, June 2003.
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF   BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Controlling your PLACE in the File System with Gray-box Techniques
James Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
San Antonio, Texas, June 2003.
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Robust, Portable I/O Scheduling with the Disk Mimic
Florentina Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
San Antonio, Texas, June 2003.
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF   BibTeX

Semantically-Smart Disk Systems
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Florentina I. Popovici, Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The Second USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03)
San Francisco, California, March 2003.
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF   BibTeX

Run-Time Adaptation in River
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Transactions on Computing Systems (TOCS)
February, 2003, v. 21:1, pp. 36-86
Available as: Abstract   PDF   BibTeX

2002

Evolving RPC for Active Storage
Muthian Sivathanu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X)
San Jose, California, Oct 2002
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF   BibTeX
Talk Slides: PowerPoint   PDF

Datamation 2001: A Sorting Odyssey
Florentina I. Popovici, John Bent, Brian C. Forney, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
UW Technical Report CS-TR-2002-1444
August 2002
Available as: Abstract   Postscript   PDF

Flexibility, Manageability, and Performance in a Grid Storage Appliance
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani,Nick LeRoy, Alain Roy, Joseph Stanley, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Miron Livny
Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2002.
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Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Bridging the Information Gap in Storage Protocol Stacks
Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau,Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Monterey, California, June 2002
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Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Exploiting Gray-Box Knowledge of Buffer-Cache Management
Nathan C. Burnett, John Bent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
The 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Monterey, California, USA, June 2002
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Storage-Aware Caching: Revisiting Caching for Heterogeneous Storage
The First USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '02)
Monterey, California, USA, January 2002
Brian C. Forney, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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[Differences between updated version and original FAST '02 version]

2001

Gathering at the Well: Creating Communities for Grid I/O
Douglas Thain, John Bent, Miron Livny, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of Supercomputing 2001
Denver, Colorado, November 2001
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Information and Control in Gray-box Systems
The Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '01)
Lake Victoria, Banff, Canada, October 2001
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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Fail-Stutter Fault Tolerance
Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS 8)
Schloss Elmau, Germany, May 2001
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
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2000

Manageable Storage Via Adaptation in WiND
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau,Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, John Bent, Brian Forney, Florentina Popovici, Samvabi Muthukrishnan, and Omer Zaki
2001 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'01), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.
Available as: Postscript

An Information-based Approach to Distributed Systems Design
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Unpublished Manuscript.
Available as: Postscript

1999

Cluster I/O with River: Making the Fast Case Common
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Eric Anderson, Noah Treuhaft,
David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson, Katherine Yelick.
IOPADS '99.
Available as: Abstract   PostScript

1998

Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau,David E. Culler, Alan Mainwaring.
In Sigmetrics'98 Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems,
Available as: Abstract,Compressed Postscript, Postscript and Slides

Searching for the Sorting Record: Experience with NOW-Sort
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
In 2nd SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools, August 1998.
Available as: Abstract and Postscript

The Architectural Costs of Streaming I/O: A Comparison of Workstations, Clusters, and SMPs.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
HPCA 4, Las Vegas, February, 1998.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

1997

High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations.
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau,Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson.
In ACM SIGMOD Conference on the Management of Data, Tucson, Arizona, May, 1997.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

Extending Proportional-Share Scheduling to a Network of Workstations
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler.
In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97) , Las Vegas, Nevada, June 1997.
Available as: Abstract and PostScript

1996

1995

Empirical Evaluation of the CRAY-T3D: A Compiler Perspective
Remzi H. Arpaci, David E. Culler, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Steve G. Steinberg, Katherine A. Yelick
ISCA 1995, June '95.
Available: PDF

The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a Network of Workstations
Remzi H. Arpaci, Andrea C. Dusseau, Amin Vahdat, Lok T. Liu, Thomas E. Anderson, David A. Patterson
SIGMETRICS 1995, May '95.
Available: PDF

A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)
Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler, David A. Patterson, Remzi Arpaci, Satoshi Asami, Tony Chan, Mike Dahlin, Andrea Dusseau, Doug Ghormley, Seth Goldstein, Kim Keeton, Lok Liu, Steve Lumetta, Ken Lutz, Cedric Krumbein, Alan Mainwaring, Rich Martin, Jeanna Neefe, Steve Rodrigues, Drew Roselli, Amin Vahdat, Keith Vetter, Randy Wang, Kristin Wright.
IEEE Micro, February '95
Available as: PDF

1994

1993

1992

Model-driven pose correction
Yuval Roth, Annie S. Win, Remzi H. Arpaci, Terry E. Weymouth, Ramesh Jain
ICRA 1992. Available as: PDF

Theses

Evolving System Stack for Persistent Memory: Device Characterization, Caching, and Sharing Perspectives
Kan Wu
Doctoral Dissertation, Aug 2022
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Fair and Secure Synchronization for Non-Cooperative Concurrent Systems
Yuvraj Patel
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2021
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Consistency-Aware Durability
Aishwarya Ganesan
Doctoral Dissertation, October 2020
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Protocol- and Situation-Aware Distributed Storage Systems
Ramnatthan Alagappan
Doctoral Dissertation, July 2019
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Beyond Storage Interfaces: Finding and Exploiting Unwritten Contracts In Storage Devices
Jun He
Doctoral Dissertation, Dec 2018
Available as: PDF

Hardware Driven Evolution in Storage Software
Zev Weiss
Doctoral Dissertation, Dec 2018
Available as: PDF

Non-Invasive I/O Classification Techniques and Applications
Leo Prasath Arulraj
Doctoral Dissertation, Dec 2017
Available as: PDF

Schedulability in Local and Distributed Storage Systems
Suli Yang
Doctoral Dissertation, Sep 2017
Available as: PDF

Application Crash Consistency
Thanumalayan Pillai
Doctoral Dissertation, Dec 2016
Available as: PDF

Emergent Properties in Modular Storage: a Study of Apple Desktop Applications, Facebook Messages, and Docker Containers
Tyler Harter
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2016
Available as: PDF, Slides

Physical Separation in Modern Storage Systems
Lanyue Lu
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2016
Available as: PDF, Slides

Orderless and Eventually Durable File Systems
Vijay Chidambaram
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2015
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex

Cooperative Data Protection
Yupu Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2014
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De-indirection for Flash-based Solid State Drives
Yiying Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2013
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Beyond the Block-Based Interface of Flash-Based Storage
Sriram Subramanian
Doctoral Dissertation, April 2013
Available as: PDF

Towards Transparent CPU Scheduling
Joseph T. Meehean
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2011
Available as: Abstract, PDF

Recovery Techniques to Improve File System Reliability
Swami Sundararaman
Doctoral Dissertation, July 2011
Available as: PDF

Towards Reliable Storage Systems
Haryadi S. Gunawi
Doctoral Dissertation, December 2009
Available as: Abstract, PDF, BibTex
Awarded the 2009 departmental Best Thesis Award
Awarded the 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Representative, Reproducible, and Practical Benchmarking of File and Storage Systems
Nitin Agrawal
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2009
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Characteristics, Impact, and Tolerance of Partial Disk Failures
Lakshmi Bairavasundaram
Doctoral Dissertation, 2008
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Implicit Operating System Awareness in a Virtual Machine Monitor
Stephen T. Jones
Doctoral Dissertation, April 2007
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Data-Driven Models in Storage System Design
Florentina I. Popovici
Doctoral Dissertation, August 2007
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Information and Control in File System Buffer Management
Nathan C. Burnett
Doctoral Dissertation, July 2006
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Information and Collaboration in the Storage Stack
Timothy E. Denehy
Doctoral Dissertation, June 2006
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IRON File Systems
Vijayan Prabhakaran
Doctoral Dissertation, June 2006
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Semantically-smart Disk Systems
Muthian Sivathanu
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2005.
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Awarded the 2005 departmental Best Thesis Award

Data-Driven Batch Scheduling
John Bent
Doctoral Dissertation, May 2005.
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Talk Slides: PowerPoint

Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 1998.
Also available as a U.C. Berkeley Technical Report (UCB//CSD-99-1052)
Abstract,Compressed Postscript, and Postscript

Performance Availability for Networks of Workstations.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 1999.
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Available as: Abstract, Compressed Postscript, Talk Slides