WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS (WIPS)

Accepted WiPs

The following WiPs will be presented on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m., in the Ballroom East.

Progress on FileBench  Abstract
Andrew Wilson, Sun Microsystems

When "More and More" Does Not Help: Sensible Partitioning of Cache  Abstract
Hamza Bin Sohail, Purdue University

Solving TCP Incast in Cluster Storage Systems  Abstract
Vijay Vasudevan, Hiral Shah, Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, David Andersen, Greg Ganger, and Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

Improving I/O Performance by Co-scheduling of I/O and Computation on Commodity-Based Clusters  Abstract
Saba Sehrish, Grant Mackey, and Jun Wang, University of Central Florida

Predictable and Guaranteeable Performance with Throughput, Latency, and Firmness Controls in Buffer-Cache   Abstract
Roberto Pineiro and Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz

NFSv4 Proxy in User Space on a Massive Cluster Architecture: Issues and Perspectives   Abstract
Philippe Deniel, Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique, France

Comparing the Performance of Different Parallel Filesystem Placement Strategies   Abstract
Esteban Molina-Estolano, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz; John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Overlapped HPC Checkpointing with Hardware Assist   Abstract
Christopher Mitchell and Jun Wang, University of Central Florida; James Nunez and Andrew Nelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Moderated Collaboration to Modify Shared Files Among Wireless Users   Abstract
Surendar Chandra and Nathan Regola, University of Notre Dame

Probabilistic Reputation for Personal Trust Networks  Abstract
Avani Wildani and Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz

Can Clustered File Systems Support Data Intensive Applications?   Abstract
Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Karan Gupta, Prashant Pandey, Himabindu Pucha, Prasenjit Sarkar, Mansi Shah, and Renu Tewari, IBM Research

Data Destruction: How Can You Destroy Data and Prove It Is Destroyed?   Abstract
Dan Pollack, AOL LLC

SmartStore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm with Semantic-Awareness   Abstract
Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine; Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Lei Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and University of Nebraska—Lincoln

Making the Most of Your SSD: A Case for Differentiated Storage Services   Abstract
Michael Mesnier and Scott Hahn, Intel Corporation; Brian McKean, LSI Corporation

On the Consistability of Storage Systems   Abstract
Amitanand Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Mehul Shah, and Jay J. Wylie, HP Laboratories

Speedy and Scalable File-System Benchmarking with Compressions   Abstract
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Out-of-Place Journaling   Abstract
Ping Ge, Saba Sehrish, and Jun Wang, University of Central Florida