Technical Reports

This is a list of SSRC technical reports. All tech reports are available online in PDF format. Each report's citation is followed by links to one or more projects for which the paper is relevant.

Date		Publication
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]
Dec 5, 2017		Daniel Bittman, Matt Bryson, Yuanjiang Ni, Arjun Govindjee, Isaak Cherdak, Pankaj Mehra, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Twizzler: An Operating System for Next-Generation Memory Hierarchies, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-17-01, December 2017. [Storage Class Memories] [Operating Systems Support for NVM]
May 10, 2016		Shesha Sreenivasamurthy, Ethan L. Miller, SIVSHM: Secure Inter-VM Shared Memory, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-16-01, May 2016. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Nov 18, 2015		D J Capelis, fived: A Session Layer Design to Secure the Internet, Technical Report UCSC-WASP-15-01, November 2015. [Secure Networks]
Nov 18, 2015		D J Capelis, A Short Study on Security Indicator Interfaces, Technical Report UCSC-WASP-15-04, November 2015. [User Controlled Trusted Systems]
Nov 18, 2015		D J Capelis, When Encryption is not Enough: Memory Encryption is Broken, Technical Report UCSC-WASP-15-03, November 2015. [User Controlled Trusted Systems]
Nov 18, 2015		D J Capelis, Lockbox: Helping Computers Keep Your Secrets, Technical Report UCSC-WASP-15-02, November 2015. [User Controlled Trusted Systems]
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]
Dec 14, 2012		Aleatha Parker-Wood, Brian Madden, Michael McThrow, Darrell D. E. Long, Examining Extended and Scientific Metadata for Scalable Index Designs, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-07, December 2012. [Scalable File System Indexing] [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Sep 28, 2012		Avani Wildani, Ethan L. Miller, Ian Adams, Darrell D. E. Long, PERSES: Data Layout for Low Impact Failures, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-06, September 2012. [Prediction and Grouping]
Aug 20, 2012		Rekha Pitchumani, Shingled Write Disk Emulator, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-05, August 2012. [Shingled Disk]
Jun 8, 2012		D J Capelis, James Larkby-Lahet, Darrell D. E. Long, Exploring Trusted Networking for Protected Applications, Technical Report UCSC-WASP-12-01, June 2012. [User Controlled Trusted Systems]
May 4, 2012		Ziqian Wan, Alex Nelson, Tao Li, Darrell D. E. Long, Andy Hospodor, Computer Hard Drive Geolocation by HTTP Feature Extraction, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-04, May 2012. Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-04 [Digital Forensics]
Mar 7, 2012		Avani Wildani, Ethan L. Miller, Ohad Rodeh, HANDS: A Heuristically Arranged Non-Backup In-line Deduplication System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-03, March 2012. [Archival Storage] [Deduplication] [Prediction and Grouping]
Mar 2, 2012		Aleatha Parker-Wood, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Margo Seltzer, Daniel Tunkelang, Making Sense of File Systems Through Provenance and Rich Metadata, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-01, March 2012. [Scalable File System Indexing] [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems] [HECURA: Scalable Data Management]
Mar 2, 2012		Brian Madden, Ian Adams, Joel Frank, Ethan L. Miller, Analyzing User Behavior: A Trace Analysis of the NCAR Archival Storage System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-02, March 2012. [Archival Storage]
Oct 12, 2011		Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, David S.H. Rosenthal, Using Storage Class Memory for Archives with DAWN, a Durable Array of Wimpy Nodes , Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-07, October 2011. [Archival Storage]
Sep 12, 2011		Christina Strong, Stephanie Jones, Aleatha Parker-Wood, Alexandra Holloway, Darrell D. E. Long, Los Alamos National Laboratory Interviews, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-06, September 2011. [Scalable File System Indexing] [Dynamic Non-Hierarchical File Systems] [HECURA: Scalable Data Management] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
May 31, 2011		Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, David S.H. Rosenthal, Using Storage Class Memory for Archives with DAWN, a Durable Array of Wimpy Nodes , Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-05, May 2011. NOTE: This report has been superseded by Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-07, please refer to that version. [Archival Storage]
May 24, 2011		Brian Madden, Ian Adams, Mark W. Storer, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas Kroeger, Provenance Based Rebuild: Using Data Provenance to Improve Reliability, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-04, May 2011. [Reliable Storage]
May 11, 2011		Stephanie Jones, Online De-duplication in a Log-Structured File System for Primary Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-03, May 2011. [Deduplication] [Deduplication Optimization]
Mar 18, 2011		Nate Edel, MRAMFS: A Compressing File System for Byte-Addressable Non-Volatile RAM, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-02, March 2011. [Storage Class Memories]
Mar 1, 2011		Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, Mark W. Storer, Analysis of Workload Behavior in Scientific and Historical Long-Term Data Repositories, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-11-01, March 2011. [Archival Storage] [Tracing and Benchmarking]
Sep 30, 2010		Keren Jin, Deduplication for Virtual Machine Disk Images, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-10-01, September 2010. [Deduplication]
Dec 10, 2009		Andrew Leung, Organizing, Indexing, and Searching Large-Scale File Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-09, December 2009. [Scalable File System Indexing] [HECURA: Scalable Data Management] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Dec 3, 2009		Kevin Greenan, Reliability and Power-Efficiency in Erasure-Coded Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-08, December 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Nov 13, 2009		Andrew Leung, Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, Magellan: A Searchable Metadata Architecture for Large-Scale File Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-07, November 2009. [Scalable File System Indexing] [HECURA: Scalable Data Management] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Oct 8, 2009		Andrew Leung, Aleatha Parker-Wood, Ethan L. Miller, Copernicus: A Scalable, High-Performance Semantic File System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-06, October 2009. [Scalable File System Indexing] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
May 6, 2009		Kanchi Gopinath, Jon Elerath, Darrell D. E. Long, Reliability Modelling of Disk Subsystems with Probabilistic Model Checking, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-05, May 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]
Apr 15, 2009		Avani Wildani, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-03, April 2009. Preliminary version of a paper that appeared in MASCOTS 2009. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
Mar 17, 2009		Rosie Wacha, Data Reliability Techniques for Specialized Storage Environments, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-02, March 2009. [Reliable Storage]
Mar 4, 2009		Mark W. Storer, Secure, Energy-Efficient, Evolvable, Long-Term Archival Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-01, March 2009. [Archival Storage]
Oct 5, 2008		Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Quasar: A Scalable Naming Language for Very Large File Collections, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-04, October 2008. [Scalable File System Indexing]
Sep 15, 2008		Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, QUASAR: Interaction with File Systems Using a Query and Naming Language, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-03, September 2008. [Scalable File System Indexing]
Jun 13, 2008		Casey Marshall, Efficient and safe data backup with Arrow, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-02, June 2008. Masters project report. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]
May 21, 2008		Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-01, May 2008. [Scalable File System Indexing] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Aug 30, 2007		Max Mehech, The Impact of Failures on Large Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-10, August 2007. [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Aug 21, 2007		Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, Analysis and Construction of Galois Fields for Efficient Storage Reliability, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-09, August 2007. Revised version published in MASCOTS 2008.. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems] [Reliable Storage]
Aug 20, 2007		Sasha Ames, LiFSBrowse: A Visual, User Environment for the Linking File System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-08, August 2007. [Storage Class Memories]
Jun 16, 2007		Andrew Leung, Scalable Security for High Performance, Petascale Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-07, June 2007. [Secure File and Storage Systems] [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
May 25, 2007		Qin Xin, Understanding and Coping with Failures in Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-06, May 2007. [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
May 24, 2007		Andrew Leung, Eric Lalonde, Jacob Telleen, James Davis, Carlos Maltzahn, Using Comprehensive Analysis for Performance Debugging in Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-05, May 2007. Later version published in MSST 2007. [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
May 15, 2007		Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-04, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
May 14, 2007		Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Hybrid Disk Write Latency with Flash-Backed I/O Requests, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-03, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
Jan 23, 2007		Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Scalable File System Indexing]
Sep 27, 2006		Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Archival Storage Without Encryption, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-03, September 2006. Later version published in USENIX 2007. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems] [Reliable Storage]
Jun 30, 2006		Lawrence You, Efficient Archival Data Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-04, June 2006. Ph.D. thesis. [Archival Storage] [Deduplication]
Mar 1, 2006		Sage Weil, Feng Wang, Qin Xin, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Carlos Maltzahn, Ceph: A Scalable Object-Based Storage System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-01, March 2006. [Ultra-Large Scale Storage]
Sep 1, 2003		Geoff Kuenning, Ethan L. Miller, Anonymization Techniques for URLs and Filenames, Technical Report UCSC-CRL-03-05, September 2003. [Secure File and Storage Systems]
Jul 1, 2003		Nate Edel, Karl Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Measuring the compressibility of metadata and small files for disk/NVRAM hybrid storage systems, Technical Report UCSC-CSL-03-04, July 2003. [Storage Class Memories]
Sep 1, 2002		Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, An analytical solution to a MEMS seek time model, Technical Report UCSC-CSL-02-31, September 2002. [MEMS-based Storage]