Green Storage and Systems

In this project we are investigating the relationship between energy consumption, performance, and other factors, on computer systems, and especially on the storage stack.

Conference and Workshop Papers:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Evaluating Performance and Energy in File System Server Workloads BibTeX Eighth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2010) Feb 2010 to appear
2 Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Server Systems PS PDF BibTeX The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference (ACM SYSTOR 2009) May 2009  
3 GreenFS: Making Enterprise Computers Greener by Protecting Them Better PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008 (EuroSys 2008) Apr 2008 Won Best Paper Award

Technical Reports:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Computer Systems PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-09-02 Apr 2009 M.S. Thesis

Current Students:

# Name (click for home page) Program Member Since
1 Vasily Tarasov PhD Jan 2008
2 Saumitra Bhanage MS Sep 2009
3 Priya Sehgal MS Jan 2009

Past Students:

# Name (click for home page) Program Period Current Location
1 Nikolai Joukov PhD Jan 2004 - Dec 2006 Research Staff Member, Storage and Data Services Research group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
2 Rachita Kothiyal MS Sep 2007 - May 2009 Member of Technical Staff, Network Appliance, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)

Sponsors:

# Sponsor Amount Period Type Title (click for award abstract)
1 NSF HECURA $720,463 2009-2012 PI Performance- and Energy-Aware HEC Storage Stacks
2 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $30,000 2009 Sole PI NetApp Research Award
3 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $91,083 2008 Sole PI NetApp Equipment Award
4 IBM Faculty Award $20,000 2008-2009 Sole PI The Impact of of Storage Software and Aging on Power Consumption


(Last updated: Tue Nov 17 00:51:01 EST 2009)