CRSS: Ahmed Amer

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Ahmed Amer

Ahmed Amer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Darrell Long on predicting actions in data storage systems based on history. His research includes work on the predictive grouping of data, energy management, and storage systems reliability.

Publications

Date		Publication
Sep 21, 2016		Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Kroeger, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, RESAR: Reliable Storage at Exabyte Scale, PrProceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2016), September 2016. [Reliable Storage]
Sep 21, 2016		Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Kroeger, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, RESAR: Reliable Storage at Exabyte Scale, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2016), September 2016. [Reliable Storage] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Feb 1, 2016		Stephanie Jones, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Rekha Pitchumani, Christina Strong, Classifying Data to Reduce Long-Term Data Movement in Shingled Write Disks, ACM Transactions on Storage 12(1), February 2016. [Shingled Disk]
Jun 4, 2015		Stephanie Jones, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Rekha Pitchumani, Christina Strong, Classifying Data to Reduce Long Term Data Movement in Shingled Write Disks, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2015), June 2015. [Shingled Disk]
May 4, 2015		Stephanie Jones, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Rekha Pitchumani, Christina Strong, Classifying Data to Reduce Long Term Data Movement, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2015), May 2015. Status: Accepted Publication Date: Jun 4, 2015 [Shingled Disk]
Jan 21, 2015		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Self-Repairing Disk Arrays, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Adaptive Self-tuning Computing Systems (ADAPT), January 2015. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Nov 1, 2014		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Protecting RAID Arrays Against Unexpectedly High Disk Failure Rates, IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'14), November 2014. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Jan 7, 2014		Christina Strong, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Building JACK: Developing Metrics for Use in Multi-Objective Optimal Data Allocation Strategies, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-14-01, January 2014. [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems]
Feb 3, 2013		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Reliability Challenges for Storing Exabytes, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, February 2013. [Reliable Storage]
Dec 1, 2012		Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Highly Reliable Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays for Archival Storage, 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, December 2012. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Aug 7, 2012		Rekha Pitchumani, Andy Hospodor, Ahmed Amer, Yangwook Kang, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Emulating a Shingled Write Disk, Proceedings of the Twentieth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), August 2012. [Shingled Disk]
Aug 6, 2012		Rekha Pitchumani, Andy Hospodor, Ahmed Amer, Yangwook Kang, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Emulating a Shingled Write Disk, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2012), August 2012. [Shingled Disk]
Feb 1, 2012		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Schwarz, Low-Redundancy Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, February 2012. [Reliable Storage]
Oct 15, 2011		Ahmed Amer, JoAnne Holliday, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Data Management and Layout for Shingled Magnetic Recording, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 47(10), October 2011. [Shingled Disk]
Jun 20, 2011		Yulai Xie, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Dan Feng, Zhipeng Tan, Compressing Provenance Graphs, 3rd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, June 2011. [Archival Storage] [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Mar 1, 2011		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Accelerated Chaining: A Better Way to Harness Peer Power in Video-on-Demand Applications, Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2011. [Individualized Peer-to-peer Reputation]
Nov 15, 2010		Sara Chaarawi, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW10), held in conjunction with SC2010, November 2010. [Storage Class Memories] [Reliable Storage]
Nov 15, 2010		Ignacio Corderi, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW10), held in conjunction with SC2010, November 2010. [Storage Class Memories] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Nov 15, 2010		Sara Chaarawi, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the Fifth Petascale Data Storage Workshop, November 2010. [Reliable Storage]
Jul 17, 2010		Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Improving Disk Array Reliability Though Expedited Scrubbing, 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, July 2010. [Reliable Storage]
May 6, 2010		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System, 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies: Research Track (MSST 2010), May 2010. [Shingled Disk]
Dec 14, 2009		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Using Shared Parity Disks to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Dec 14, 2009		David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Avoiding State-Space Explosion of Predictive Metadata with SESH, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]
Nov 16, 2009		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Evaluating the Impact of Irrecoverable Read Errors on Disk Array Reliability, Proceedings of the IEEE 15th Paciﬁc Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC09), November 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Oct 15, 2009		David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Space-Efficient Predictive Block Management, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS'09), Grenoble, France, October 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]
Sep 21, 2009		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Using Storage Class Memories to Increase the Reliability of Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), September 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Apr 17, 2009		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Using storage class memories to increase the reliability of two-dimensional RAID arrays, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-04, April 2009. [Storage Class Memories] [Reliable Storage]
Dec 15, 2008		Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, When MTTDLs Are Not Good Enough: Providing Better Estimates of Disk Array Reliability, Proceedings of the 7th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS ‘08), December 2008. [Reliable Storage]
Dec 14, 2008		Ahmed Amer, Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Schwarz, Progressive Parity-Based Hardening of Data Stores, Proceedings of the 27th International Performance of Computers and Communication Conference (IPCCC '08), December 2008, pages 34-42. [Reliable Storage]
Sep 8, 2008		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Increased Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), September 2008, pages 189-198. [Reliable Storage]
Sep 24, 2007		Ahmed Amer, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Vincent Ciotola, James Larkby-Lahet, Outshining Mirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'07), San Diego, CA, September 2007. [Reliable Storage]
Sep 14, 2006		Jeff Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Adapting Predictions and Workloads for Power Management, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2006), September 2006. [Prediction and Grouping]
Nov 11, 2005		Jeff Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Expecting the unexpected: adaptation for predictive energy conservation, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Storage security and survivability (StorageSS 2005), Fairfax, VA, November 2005. [Prediction and Grouping]
Nov 1, 2005		Jeff Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Expecting the Unexpected: Adaptation for Predictive Energy Conservation, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability, November 2005. [Prediction and Grouping]
Jun 12, 2005		Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos Chrysanthis, Towards Universal Mobile Caching, Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2005) (held in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD 2005), June 2005. [Adaptive Caching]
Oct 1, 2004		Karl Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer, Predicting When Not To Predict, Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '04), October 2004. [Prediction and Grouping]
Apr 1, 2004		Purvi Shah, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Identifying Stable File Access Patterns, Proceedings of the Twelfth NASA Goddard/Twenty First IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '04), April 2004. [Prediction and Grouping]
Sep 1, 2003		Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, A Stochastic Approach to File Access Prediction, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI '03), September 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]
Apr 1, 2003		Gary Whittle, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Randal Burns, Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictions, Proceedings of the Twentieth Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, April 2003. [Scalable File System Indexing]
Apr 1, 2003		Ahmed Amer, Alison Luo, Newton Der, Darrell D. E. Long, Alexander Pang, Visualizing Cache Effects on I/O Workload Predictability, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '03), April 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]
Apr 1, 2003		Gary Whittle, Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Randal Burns, Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictors, Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE/Eleventh NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '03), April 2003. [Prediction and Grouping]
Dec 5, 2002		Ismail Ari, Ahmed Amer, Robert Gramacy, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, ACME: Adaptive Caching Using Multiple Experts, Proceedings in Informatics 14, December 2002, pages 143-158. [Adaptive Caching]
Jul 1, 2002		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Randal Burns, Group-based management of distributed file caches, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '02), July 2002. [Prediction and Grouping]
Jun 1, 2002		Alison Luo, Ahmed Amer, Scott Speidel, Darrell D. E. Long, Alexander Pang, Visualizing I/O Predictability, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, June 2002. [Secure I/O Scheduling]
Apr 1, 2002		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris, Randal Burns, File access prediction with adjustable accuracy, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '02), April 2002. [Prediction and Grouping]
Mar 1, 2002		Ismail Ari, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Who is more adaptive? ACME: adaptive caching using multiple experts, Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2002), March 2002. [Adaptive Caching]
Aug 1, 2001		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Aggregating caches: A mechanism for implicit file prefetching, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '01), August 2001, pages 293–301. [Prediction and Grouping]
Jun 1, 2001		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Adverse Filtering Effects and the Resilience of Aggregating Caches, Proceedings of the Workshop on Caching, Coherence and Consistency, June 2001. [Adaptive Caching]
Apr 1, 2001		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Dynamic Relationships and the Persistence of Pairings, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, April 2001. [Archival Storage]
Apr 1, 2001		Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Noah: Low-cost file access prediction through pairs, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC '01), April 2001, pages 27–33. [Prediction and Grouping]

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