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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
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.
Shu Liu,
Xiangxi Mo, Moshik Hershcovitch,
Henric Zhang, Audrey Cheng, Guy
Girmonsky, Gil Vernik, Michael Factor,
Tiemo Bang, Soujanya Ponnapalli,
Natacha Crooks, Joseph E. Gonzalez,
Danny Harnik, and Ion Stoica.
SkyStore: Cost-optimized
object storage across regions and clouds.
ArXiv, arXiv:2502.20818, February 2025.
Hongliang
Tian, Xinyi Yu, Shaowei Song,
Qingsong Chen, Zhihao Zhang,
Shiyu Wang, Weijie Liu, Erci Xu,
Shoumeng Yan, and Yiming Zhang.
AtomicDisk:
A secure virtual disk for TEEs against eviction attacks.
In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies, pages 449–459, February 2025.
Shuhan Bai,
You Zhou, Fei Wu, Changsheng
Xie, Tei-Wei Kuo, and Chun Jason Xue.
LaVA: An effective layer variation aware bad block management for 3D CT
NAND flash.
In Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference
(DATE), pages 1–6, 2024.
(doi:10.23919/DATE58400.2024.10546546)
Seungsu
Baik, Taehwa Lee, and Jaehyuk Cha.
Data placement through clustering sequential writes and isolating cold pages
for write amplification reduction in NAND flash memory.
IEEE Access, 12:142265–142274, 2024.
(doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3470812)
Han Jang,
Youngbin Jin, Dongjun Lee, and
Ben Lee.
Dynamic clustering page allocation for read-intensive multimedia streaming
applications.
In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking
Conference (CCNC), pages 84–89, 2024.
(doi:10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454852)
Jung Min
Lim, Wonho Lee, Jun-Hyeong Choi, and
Jong Wook Kwak.
CLOCK-DPP: Hybrid disk buffer replacement policy for SSDs with dirty page
preservation for write intensive environments.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2024.
(doi:10.1587/transinf.2024EDL8065)
Ilhoon Shin.
Leveraging static and dynamic wear leveling to prolong the lifespan of
solid-state drives.
Applied Sciences, 14(18), 2024.
(doi:10.3390/app14188186)
Yang
Zhou, Fang Wang, Zhan Shi, and
Dan Feng.
CoFS: A collaboration-aware fairness scheme for NVMe SSD in cloud storage
system.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, 43(12):4490–4504, 2024.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2024.3412970)
Yang
Zhou, Fang Wang, Zhan Shi, and
Dan Feng.
An efficient deep reinforcement learning-based automatic cache replacement
policy in cloud block storage systems.
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 73(1):164–177, 2024.
(doi:10.1109/TC.2023.3325625)
Yang
Zhou, Fang Wang, Zhan Shi, and
Dan Feng.
Parallelism or fairness? how to be friendly for SSDs in cloud environments.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
(CLUSTER), pages 179–189, Kobe, Japan, 2024. IEEE.
(doi:10.1109/CLUSTER59578.2024.00023)
Mingzhe Du
and Michael L. Scott.
Buffered persistence in B+
trees.
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
Management of Data, December 2024.
Maryam
Karimi, Reza Salkhordeh, André Brinkmann,
and Hossein Asadi.
HybRAID: A high-performance hybrid RAID storage architecture for
write-intensive applications in all-flash storage systems.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
35(12):2608–2623, December 2024.
(doi:10.1109/TPDS.2024.3429336)
Zecheng Li,
Guancheng Li, Songhui Cao, Shu
Yin, and Xiaojun Ruan.
Dynamic cache partitioning for enhancing parallel I/O performance in NVMe
SSDs.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking,
Architecture, and Storage, pages 1–4, Zhuhai, China, November 2024.
(doi:10.1109/NAS63802.2024.10781346)
Hexian Lu,
Yuhui Deng, and Jiande Huang.
POFFO: A perceptual online file fingerprint offloading strategy for effective
data deduplication at cloud-edge systems.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking,
Architecture, and Storage, pages 1–8, Zhuhai, China, November 2024.
IEEE.
(doi:10.1109/NAS63802.2024.10781345)
Yen-Yu Lu,
Chin-Hsien Wu, Shih-Jen Li,
Cheng-Tze Lee, and Cheng-Yen Wu.
A stable idle time detection platform for real I/O workloads.
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization,
21(4):1–23, November 2024.
(doi:10.1145/3695871)
Sotiris Vasileiadis, Matthew
Paraskeva, George Savva, Andreas Efstathiou,
Edson Ramiro Lucas Filho, Jianqiang Shen,
Lun Yang, Kebo Fu, and Herodotos
Herodotou.
Optimizing distributed tiered data storage systems with DITIS.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 17(12):4393–4396, November
2024.
(doi:10.14778/3685800.3685883)
Heyu
Zhang, Zhen Yang, Yulai Xie,
Yafeng Wu, Jiakun Li, Dan Feng,
Avani Wildani, and Darrell Long.
Accurate generation of I/O workloads using generative adversarial networks.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking,
Architecture, and Storage, pages 1–9, Zhuhai, China, November 2024.
(doi:10.1109/NAS63802.2024.10781347)
Lorenzo Marini and Damiano
Carra.
Can miss ratio curves predict cache performance?
In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Engineering (IC2E), pages 101–106, Paphos, Cyprus, September 2024.
IEEE.
(doi:10.1109/IC2E61754.2024.00018)
Yanqi Pan,
Hao Huang, Yifeng Zhang, Wen
Xia, Xiangyu Zou, and Cai Deng.
Delaying crash consistency for building a high-performance persistent memory
file system.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, 43(9):2620–2634, September 2024.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2024.3375792)