CRSS: Heiner Litz

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Heiner Litz

Heiner Litz is the Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He is an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz which he joined in 2018 after graduating from Stanford and Google. His main research interests are in Computer Architecture, Operating Systems and Storage with a focus on data centers. He works on storage disaggregation (ReFlex), software programmable storage using LightNVM/OpenChannel SSDs and on machine learning techniques to improve storage systems.

Publications

Date		Publication
Mar 11, 2024		Lokesh Jaliminche, Yangwook Kang, Changho Choi, Pankaj Mehra, Heiner Litz, CS-Assist: A Tool to Assist Computational Storage Device Offload, 15TH ANNUAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES WORKSHOP 2024, March 2024. [CXL SIG (Disaggregated Memory)] [Computational Storage]
Nov 1, 2023		Yuanjiang Ni, Pankaj Mehra, Ethan L. Miller, Heiner Litz, TMC: Near-Optimal Resource Allocation for Tiered-Memory Systems, Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), November 2023. [Storage Class Memories] [CXL SIG (Disaggregated Memory)] [Prediction and Grouping] [Adaptive Caching]
Oct 30, 2023		Lokesh Jaliminche, Chandranil (Nil) Chakraborttii, Changho Choi, Heiner Litz, Enabling Multi-tenancy on SSDs with Accurate IO Interference Modeling, Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, October 2023, pages 216–232.
May 22, 2023		Yi Liu, Shouqian Shi, Minghao Xie, Heiner Litz, Chen Qian, Smash: Flexible, Fast, and Resource-efficient Placement and Lookup of Distributed Storage, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems , May 2023.
May 10, 2023		Yuxuan Zhang, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Gilles Pokam, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz, Joseph Devietti, Online COde Layout OptimizationS via OCOLOS, IEEE Micro , May 2023.
Oct 1, 2022		Yuxuan Zhang, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Gilles Pokam, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz, Joseph Devietti, OCOLOS: Online COde Layout OptimizationS, 2022 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2022, pages 530-545.
Mar 28, 2022		Saba Jamilan, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Grant Ayers, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz, APT-GET: profile-guided timely software prefetching, Proceedings of the Seventeenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '22), March 2022, pages 747–764.
Jan 10, 2022		Devashish Purandare, Pete Wilcox, Heiner Litz, Shel Finkelstein, Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research 2022 (CIDR '22), January 2022. [Archival Storage] [Designing an Efficient Flash Translation] [Designing systems for QLC flash] [Shingled Disk] [Computational Storage]
Apr 26, 2021		Pete Wilcox, Heiner Litz, Design for Computational Storage Simulation Platform, Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS), April 2021. [Computational Storage]
May 29, 2020		Yuanjiang Ni, Shuo Chen, Qingda Lu, Heiner Litz, Pang Zhu, Ethan L. Miller, Jiesheng Wu, Closing the Performance Gap between DRAM and PM for In-Memory Index Structures, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-20-01, May 2020. [Storage Class Memories]
May 15, 2020		Minghao Xie, Chen Qian, Heiner Litz, ReFlex4ARM: Supporting 100GbE Flash Storage Disaggregation on ARM SoC, OCP Future Technologies Symposium 2020, May 2020.
Oct 14, 2019		Yuanjiang Ni, Jishen Zhao, Heiner Litz, Daniel Bittman, Ethan L. Miller, SSP: Eliminating Redundant Writes in Failure-Atomic NVRAMs via Shadow Sub-Paging, Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-52), October 2019. [Storage Class Memories] [Operating Systems Support for NVM]

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Last modified Aug 16 2023