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Resources

NOTE: Neither the IOTTA TWG nor SNIA vouch for the accuracy or reliability of any of the traces or other information provided below. Please contact us regarding any broken or inaccurate links.

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• Tools and Documentation
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• Storage Research Centers
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  • Papers Relating to Traces
  • Publications That Cite iotta.snia.org

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Tools and Documentation

Microsoft Event Tracing (1) (2)

Stonybrook University Dataseries Documentation Wiki

Storage Research List (Computer Storage Systems Research Discussion Forum)

Traces and Snapshots Public Archive

Re-Animator tracing and replay tool

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Storage Conferences

This is a non-exhaustive list of conferences relating to storage and data management. Note that some of these websites do not have stable domains, so please contact us if a link is broken.

ATC
The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Hosted every summer.

EuroSys
EuroSys is organized by EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS, sponsored by ACM SIGOPS. Hosted annually in mid-spring. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

FAST
The USENIX File and Storage Technologies (FAST) conference. Hosted annually in February.

HotStorage
The USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems. Hosted every summer directly before ATC.

ICDCS
The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). This conference does not have a stable URL so we have linked to a Google search.

ICS
The ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). Hosted every summer.

MSST
The International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST). Hosted every summer at the Santa Clara University School of Engineering in Santa Clara, CA.

NAS
The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage. Hosted annually.

NVMSA
The IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA). Hosted annually in the late summer. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

OSDI
The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Hosted annually.

SIGMETRICS
The ACM Special Interest Group for the computer systems performance evaluation community. Hosted annually in June.

SIGOPS
The ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems. Hosts a number of conferences annually.

SoCC
The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). Hosted annually. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

SOSP
The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Hosted annually.

Supercomputing
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. Hosted annually in late fall.

SYSTOR
The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR). Hosted annually in Haifa, Israel.

VLDB
The Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference. Hosted annually in late August.

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Storage Research Centers

Carnegie Mellon University
Parallel Data Lab (PDL)

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

University of Minnesota
Digital Technology Center (DTC)
Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC)

Storage Performance Council (SPC)

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Papers and Publications

Papers Relating to Traces

[Harter11] Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau.
A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications.
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2011.

[Ellard03b] Daniel Ellard, Margo Seltzer.
NFS Tricks and Benchmarking Traps.
Proceedings of the FREENIX Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas. June, 2003.

[Ellard03a] Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani, Margo Seltzer.
Passive NFS Tracing of Email and Research Workloads.
Proceedings of the Second Annual USENIX File and Storage Technologies Conference, pp. 203-216, San Francisco, CA. March, 2003.

[Roselli00] Drew Roselli, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas E. Anderson.
A Comparison of File System Workloads.
Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 44 - 54. San Diego, CA. June, 2000.

[Vogels99] Werner Vogels.
File system usage in Windows NT 4.0.
Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 93 - 109. Kiawah Island Resort, SC. December, 1999.

[Douceur99] John R. Douceur, William J. Bolosky.
A Large-Scale Study of File-System Contents.
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '99, pp. 59 - 70. Atlanta, GA. May, 1999.

[Kuenning97] Geoffrey H. Kuenning and Gerald J. Popek.
Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, St. Malo, France, October 5-8, 1997.

[Uysal97] Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz.
Requirements of I/O Systems for Parallel Machines: An Application-driven Study.
Technical Report, CS-TR-3802, University of Maryland, College Park. May 1997.

[Mummert96] L. Mummert, M. Satyanarayanan.
Long Term Distributed File Reference Tracing: Implementation and Experience.
Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 705 - 736. June, 1996.

[Blackwell95] Trevor Blackwell, Jeffrey Harris, Margo Seltzer.
Heuristic Cleaning Algorithms in Log-Structured File Systems.
Proceedings of the 1995 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 277 - 288. New Orleans, LA. January, 1995.

[Griffioen94] Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton.
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach.
Proceedings of the Summer 1994 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 197 - 207. Boston, MA. June, 1994.

[Chiang93] Chi-ming Chiang, Matt W. Mutka.
Characteristics of User File Usage Patterns.
Systems and Software, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 257 - 268. December, 1993.

[Ruemmler93] Chris Ruemmler, John Wilkes.
UNIX Disk Access Patterns.
Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 405 - 420. San Diego, CA. January, 1993.

[Ramakrishnan92] K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prabuddha Biswas, Ramakrishna Karedla.
Analysis of File I/O Traces in Commercial Computing Environments.
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '92, pp. 78 - 90. Newport, RI. June, 1992.

[Roselli98] Drew Roselli, Thomas E. Anderson.
Characteristics of File System Workloads.
University of California Berkeley Computer Science Division Technical Report UCB//CSD-98-1029. 1992.

[Shirriff92] Ken Shirriff, John K. Ousterhout.
A Trace-Driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed System.
Proceedings of the Winter 1992 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 315 - 332. San Francisco, CA. January, 1992.

[Miller91] Ethan L. Miller, Randy H. Katz.
Input/Output Behavior of Supercomputing Applications.
Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on Supercomputing, pp. 567 - 576. Albuquerque, NM. November, 1991.

[Baker91] M. Baker, J. Hartman, M. Kupfer, K. Shirriff, and J. Ousterhout.
Measurements of a Distributed File System.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium of Operating Systems Principles, pp. 198 - 212. October 1991.

[Bozman91] G.P. Bozman, H.H. Ghannad, E.D. Weinberger.
A trace-driven study of CMS file references.
IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 35, No. 5/6, pp. 815 - 828. September/November, 1991.

[Bennet91] J. Michael Bennet, Michael A. Bauer, David Kinchlea.
Characteristics of Files in NFS Environments.
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM Symposium on Small Systems, pp. 33 - 40. 1991.

[Biswas90] P. Biswas, K.K. Ramakrishnan.
File Access Characterization of VAX/VMS Environments.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 227 - 234. Paris, France. May, 1990.

[Floyd86] Rick Floyd.
Short-Term File Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment.
University of Rochester Computer Science Technical Report #177. March, 1986.

[Ousterhout85] J. Ousterhout, H. Costa, D. Harrison, J. Kunze, M. Kupfer, J. Thompson.
A Trace-Driven Analysis of the UNIX 4.2BSD File System.
Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 15 - 24. Orcas Island, WA. December, 1985.

[Satyanarayanan81] M. Satyanarayanan.
A Study of File Sizes and Functional Lifetimes.
Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 96 - 108. Pacific Grove, CA. December, 1981.

[Smith81] A. J. Smith.
Analysis of Long Term File Reference Patterns for Application to File Migration Algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol SE-7, No. 4, pp. 403 - 417. July, 1981.

Publications That Cite iotta.snia.org

The following publications cite iotta.snia.org as a source of trace data used in their research. They are organized in reverse chronological order. This list attempts to be comprehensive but is not complete; feel free to contact us to suggest additional entries.

[Chen, 2014]

Geng-You Chen. Improving peak I/O performance by exploiting write heterogeneity of MLC NAND flash. Master's thesis, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014.

[Hachiya et al., 2014]

Shogo Hachiya, Koh Johguchi, Kousuke Miyaji, and Ken Takeuchi. Hybrid triple-level-cell/multi-level-cell NAND flash storage array with chip exchangeable method. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 53(4S), 2014.

[Wilson et al., 2014]

Ellis H. Wilson, Myoungsoo Jung, and Mahmut T. Kandemir. ZombieNAND: Resurrecting dead NAND flash for improved SSD longevity. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, pages 229–238, Paris, France, 2014. IEEE.

[Aggarwal et al., 2014]

Pooja Aggarwal, Giridhar Yasa, and Smruti R. Sarangi. RADIR: Lock-free and wait-free bandwidth allocation models for solid state drives. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Dona Paula, India, December 2014. (doi:10.1109/HiPC.2014.7116908)

[Arumugam et al., 2014]

Rajesh Vellore Arumugam, Quanqing Xu, Haixiang Shi, Qingchao Cai, and Yonggang Wen. VirtCache: Managing virtual disk performance variation in distributed file systems for the cloud. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Singapore, December 2014. (doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2014.166)

[He et al., 2014]

Dan He, Fang Wang, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Jing Ning Liu, Wei Tong, and Zheng Zhang. Improving hybrid FTL by fully exploiting internal SSD parallelism with virtual blocks. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 11(4), December 2014. (doi:10.1145/2677160)

[Oe and Okamura, 2014]

Kazuichi Oe and Koji Okamura. A hybrid storage system composed of on-the-fly automated storage tiering (OTF-AST) and caching. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR), pages 406–411, Shizuoka, Japan, December 2014. IEEE.

[Cai et al., 2014]

Qingchao Cai, Rajesh Vellore Arumugam, Quanqing Xu, and Bingsheng He. Understanding the behavior of solid state disk. In Proceedings of the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, pages 341–355, Singapore, November 2014. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13359-1_27)

[Chen et al., 2014]

Zhiguang Chen, Yutong Lu, Nong Xiao, and Fang Liu. A hybrid memory built by SSD and DRAM to support in-memory Big Data analytics. Knowledge and Information Systems, 41(2):335–354, November 2014. (doi:10.1007/s10115-013-0727-6)

[Kang et al., 2014]

Chih-Kai Kang, Yu-Jhang Cai, Chin-Hsien Wu, and Pi-Cheng Hsiu. A hybrid storage access framework for high-performance virtual machines. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 13(5s), November 2014. (doi:10.1145/2660493)

[Qin et al., 2014]

Yi Qin, Dan Feng, Jingning Liu, Wei Tong, and Zhiming Zhu. DT-GC: Adaptive garbage collection with dynamic thresholds for SSDs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CCBD), pages 182–188, Wuhan, China, November 2014. IEEE.

[Talwadker and Voruganti, 2014]

Rukma Talwadker and Kaladhar Voruganti. ParaSwift: File I/O trace modeling for the future. In Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, pages 119–132, Seattle, WA, November 2014. USENIX Association.

[Wang, 2014]

Ting-wei Wang. A garbage collection management method with limited RAM space for flash memory. Master's thesis, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2014.

[Yang and Wang, 2014]

Liu Yang and Wei Wang. FLAP: Flash-aware prefetching for improving SSD-based disk cache. Journal of Networks, 9(10):2766–2774, October 2014.

[On et al., 2014]

Sai Tung On, Shen Gao, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qiong Luo, and Jianliang Xu. FD-buffer: A cost-based adaptive buffer replacement algorithm for flash. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 63(9):2288–2301, September 2014. (doi:10.1109/TC.2013.52)

[Wang et al., 2014]

Ronghui Wang, Zhiguang Chen, Nong Xiao, Minxuan Zhang, and Weihua Dong. Assimilating cleaning operations with flash-level parallelism for NAND flash-based devices. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), pages 212–219, Xi'an, China, September 2014. IEEE.

[Hsu et al., 2014]

Nien-I Hsu, Tseng-Yi Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Hsin-Wen Wei, Wei-Kuan Shih, and Norman Chang. Dynamic tail packing to optimize space utilization of file systems in embedded computing systems. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Chongqing, China, August 2014. (doi:10.1109/RTCSA.2014.6910533)

[Huang and Chang, 2014]

Sheng Min Huang and Li Pin Chang. A locality-preserving write buffer design for page-mapping multichannel SSDs. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, pages 713–720, Paris, France, August 2014. (doi:10.1109/HPCC.2014.108)

[Mao et al., 2014]

Yu Mao, Jiguang Wan, Yifeng Zhu, and Changsheng Xie. A new parity-based migration method to expand RAID-5. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 25(8):1945–1954, August 2014. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2013.279)

[Sun et al., 2014]

Chao Sun, Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki, Takahiro Onagi, Koh Johguchi, and Ken Takeuchi. Cost, capacity, and performance analyses for hybrid SCM/NAND flash SSD. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 61(8):2360–2369, August 2014. (doi:10.1109/TCSI.2014.2309780)

[Tavakkol et al., 2014]

Arash Tavakkol, Mohammad Arjomand, and Hamid Sarbazi-Azad. Design for scalability in enterprise SSDs. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pages 417–430, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 2014. ACM. (doi:10.1145/2628071.2628098)

[Kim et al., 2014]

Jin-Young Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Hyeokjun Seo, Taehee You, and Eui-Young Chung. A wear-leveling method for balanced multi-chip life-time in NAND flash-based storage devices. In Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Conference on Circuit/Systems Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC), Phuket, Thailand, July 2014.

[Tarasov et al., 2014]

Vasily Tarasov, Deepak Jain, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Karthikeyani Palanisami, Philip Shilane, Sagar Trehan, and Erez Zadok. Dmdedup: Device mapper target for data deduplication. In Proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 2014.

[Myers, 2014]

Daniel S. Myers. Quantitative Storage System Design. PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, June 12 2014.

[Cai et al., 2014]

Yu Cai, Gulay Yalcin, Onur Mutlu, Erich F. Haratsch, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, and Ken Mai. Neighbor-cell assisted error correction for MLC NAND flash memories. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, pages 491–504, Austin, TX, June 2014. (doi:10.1145/2591971.2591994)

[Chang et al., 2014]

Yu-Ming Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Jian-Jia Chen, Tei-Wei Kuo, Hsiang-Pang Li, and Hang-Ting Lue. On trading wear-leveling with heal-leveling. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2014. ACM. (doi:10.1145/2593069.2593172)

[He and Du, 2014]

Weiping He and David H.C. Du. Novel address mappings for shingled write disks. In Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, Philadelphia, PA, June 2014. USENIX Association.

[Jung et al., 2014]

Myoungsoo Jung, Wonil Choi, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Joonhyuk Yoo, and Mahmut T. Kandemir. HIOS: A host interface I/O scheduler for solid state disks. In Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Minneapolis, MN, June 2014. (doi:10.1109/ISCA.2014.6853216)

[Kim et al., 2014]

Jin-Young Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Hyeokjun Seo, Taehee You, and Eui-Young Chung. A read-while-write-based out-of-order scheduling for high performance NAND flash-based storage devices. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, JeJu Island, South Korea, June 2014. (doi:10.1109/ISCE.2014.6884314)

[Li et al., 2014]

Cheng Li, Philip Shilane, Fred Douglis, Darren Sawyer, and Hyong Shim. Assert(!Defined(Sequential I/O)). In Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, Philadelphia, PA, June 2014.

[Odeh and Cassuto, 2014]

Saher Odeh and Yuval Cassuto. NAND flash architectures reducing write amplification through multi-write codes. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, June 2014. (doi:10.1109/MSST.2014.6855549)

[Wang et al., 2014]

Yu Wang, Wei Wang, Tao Xie, Wen Pan, Yanyan Gao, and Yiming Ouyang. CR5M: A mirroring-powered channel-RAID5 architecture for an SSD. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, June 2014. (doi:10.1109/MSST.2014.6855547)

[Wei et al., 2014]

Qingsong Wei, Cheng Chen, and Jun Yang. CBM: A cooperative buffer management for SSD. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, June 2014. (doi:10.1109/MSST.2014.6855545)

[Yang, 2014]

Jingpei Yang. Improving Performance for Flash-Based Storage Systems. PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2014.

[Abad, 2014]

Cristina L. Abad. Big Data Storage Workload Characterization, Modeling and Synthetic Generation. PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2014.

[Kurotsuchi and Miura, 2014]

Kenzo Kurotsuchi and Seiji Miura. All-SSD storage system with indication of garbage collection and dynamic allocation of reserved SSD. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2014. (doi:10.1109/IMW.2014.6849353)

[Soga et al., 2014]

Ayumi Soga, Chao Sun, and Ken Takeuchi. NAND flash aware data management system for high-speed SSDs by garbage collection overhead suppression. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2014. (doi:10.1109/IMW.2014.6849374)

[Tanakamaru et al., 2014]

Shuhei Tanakamaru, Shogo Hosaka, Koh Johguchi, and Ken Takeuchi. Performance and reliability of NAND flash/SCM hybrid SSD during write/erase cycling. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2014. (doi:10.1109/IMW.2014.6849389)

[Wang et al., 2014]

Ronghui Wang, Ou Yang, Nong Xiao, and Minxuan Zhang. Utilizing micro-architecture parallelism to hide reclaiming operations for NAND multi-channel SSDs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Electronics, Computer and Applications, pages 832–835, Ottawa, Canada, May 2014. IEEE.

[Su et al., 2014]

Young-Kyoon Su, Bongki Moon, Alon Efrat, Jin-Soo Kim, and Sang-Won Lee. Memory efficient and scalable address mapping for flash storage devices. Journal of Systems Architecture, 60(4):357–371, April 2014. (doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2014.01.002)