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.
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.
[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.
Mohammadamin Ajdari, Wonsik
Lee, Pyeongsu Park, Joonsung Kim, and
Jangwoo Kim.
FIDR: A scalable storage system for fine-grain inline data reduction with
efficient memory handling.
In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Microarchitecture, pages 239–252, Columbus, Ohio, October 2019. ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3352460.3358303)
Mingkai
Dong, Heng Bu, Jifei Yi, Benchao
Dong, and Haibo Chen.
Performance and protection in the ZoFS user-space NVM file system.
In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles, pages 478–493, Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, October 2019.
ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3341301.3359637)
Chenlin Ma,
Zhaoyan Shen, Lei Han, and Zili
Shao.
RMW-F: A design of RMW-Free cache using built-in NAND-flash for SMR
storage.
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 18(5s), October
2019.
(doi:10.1145/3358210)
Muhammad Wajahat, Aditya
Yele, Tyler Estro, Anshul Gandhi, and
Erez Zadok.
Distribution fitting and performance modeling for storage traces.
In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,
pages 138–151, Rennes, France, October 2019.
(doi:10.1109/MASCOTS.2019.00024)
Shuo-Han
Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Yu-Ming Chang, and
Wei-Kuan Shih.
mwJFS: A multiwrite-mode journaling file system for MLC NVRAM storages.
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems,
27(9):2060–2073, September 2019.
(doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2919907)
Eric Friedlander and Vaneet
Aggarwal.
Generalization of LRU cache replacement policy with applications to video
streaming.
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing
Systems, 4(3), September 2019.
(doi:10.1145/3345022)
Satoshi Imamura, Eiji
Yoshida, and Kazuichi Oe.
Reducing CPU power consumption with device utilization-aware DVFS for
low-latency SSDs.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 102(9):1740–1749,
September 2019.
(doi:10.1587/transinf.2018EDP7337)
Kazuichi Oe,
Takeshi Nanri, and Koji Okamura.
Hybrid storage system consisting of cache drive and multi-tier SSD for
improved IO access when IO is concentrated.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems,
E102.D(9):1715–1730, September 2019.
(doi:10.1587/transinf.2018EDP7253)
Lei Han,
Hussam Amrouch, Zili Shao, and
Jörg Henkel.
Rebirth-FTL: Lifetime optimization via approximate storage for NAND flash.
In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Applications Symposium, pages 1–6, Hangzhou, China, August 2019.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2019.8863527)
Cheng Ji,
Lun Wang, Qiao Li, Congming Gao,
Liang Shi, Chia-Lin Yang, and
Chun Jason Xue.
Fair down to the device: A GC-aware fair scheduler for SSD.
In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Applications Symposium, pages 1–6, Hangzhou, China, August 2019.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2019.8863523)
Jiahao Liu,
Fang Wang, and Dan Feng.
CostPI: Cost-effective performance isolation for shared NVMe SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel
Processing, Kyoto, Japan, August 2019. ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3337821.3337879)
Mengting Lu,
Fang Wang, Dan Feng, and Yuchong
Hu.
A read-leveling data distribution scheme for promoting read performance in
SSDs with deduplication.
In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel
Processing, pages 1–10, Kyoto, Japan, August 2019. ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3337821.3337884)
Chihiro Matsui and Ken
Takeuchi.
Dynamic adjustment of storage class memory capacity in memory-resource
disaggregated hybrid storage with SCM and NAND flash memory.
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems,
27(8):1799–1810, August 2019.
(doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2905852)
Chunjie Zhu,
Fang Wang, and Binbing Hou.
BPP: A realtime block access pattern mining scheme for I/O prediction.
In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel
Processing, pages 1–10, Kyoto, Japan, August 2019. ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3337821.3337904)
Cheng Hu.
Resource scaling in elastic clusters with the hint of response time.
In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things
and IEEE Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Cyber, Physical and
Social Computing and IEEE Smart Data, pages 333–339, Atlanta,
Georgia, July 2019.
(doi:10.1109/iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData.2019.00076)
Shine Kim,
Jonghyun Bae, Hakbeom Jang,
Wenjing Jin, Jeonghun Gong,
Seungyeon Lee, Tae Jun Ham, and
Jae W. Lee.
Practical
erase suspension for modern low- latency SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference,
pages 813–820, Renton, WA, July 2019.
Yejia Di,
Liang Shi, Shuo-Han Chen,
Chun Jason Xue, and Edwin H.-M. Sha.
1+1>2: Variation-aware lifetime enhancement for embedded 3D NAND flash
systems.
In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on
Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, pages 45–56,
Phoenix, AZ, June 2019.
(doi:10.1145/3316482.3326359)
Chenlin Ma,
Zhaoyan Shen, Lei Han, and Zili
Shao.
FC: Built-in flash-cache with fast cleaning for SMR storage.
In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Embedded
Software and Systems, pages 1–7, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2019.
(doi:10.1109/ICESS.2019.8782438)
Chihiro
Matsui, Shouhei Fukuyama, Atsuna Hayakawa, and
Ken Takeuchi.
Application-induced cell reliability variability-aware approximate computing in
TaOx-based ReRAM data center storage for machine learning.
In 2019 Symposium on VLSI Technology, Kyoto, Japan, June 2019.
(doi:10.23919/VLSIT.2019.8776565)
Ripon
Patgiri, Sabuzima Nayak, and Samir Kumar
Borgohain.
rDBF: A r-dimensional bloom filter for massive scale membership query.
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 136:100–113, June
2019.
(doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2019.03.004)
Reza Salkhordeh, Mostafa
Hadizadeh, and Hossein Asadi.
An efficient hybrid I/O caching architecture using heterogeneous SSDs.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
30(6):1238–1250, June 2019.
(doi:10.1109/TPDS.2018.2883745)
Jun Li,
Xiaofei Xu, Xiaoning Peng, and
Jianwei Liao.
Pattern-based write scheduling and read balance- oriented wear-leveling for
solid state drivers.
In 2019 35th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies,
pages 126–133, Santa Clara, CA, May 2019.
(doi:10.1109/MSST.2019.00-10)
Chihiro Matsui and Ken
Takeuchi.
Self-determining resource control in multi-tenant data center storage with
future NV memories.
In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pages 1–5, Sapporo, Japan, May 2019.
(doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702348)
Xunsong
Huang, Chentao Wu, and Jie Li.
OPS: An optimized partial stripe write scheme to improve performance of
XOR-based disk arrays tolerating triple disk failures.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on High Performance
Compilation, Computing and Communications, pages 139–148, Xi'an,
China, March 2019. ACM.
(doi:10.1145/3318265.3318274)
Huiba Li,
Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li,
Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Peng
Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, and
Yongqiang Xiong.
URSA: Hybrid block storage for cloud-scale virtual disks.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM European Conference on Computer
Systems, pages 1–17, Dresden, Germany, March 2019.
(doi:10.1145/3302424.3303967)
Xiaohao
Wang, Yifan Yuan, You Zhou,
Chance C. Coats, and Jian Huang.
Project Almanac: A time-traveling solid- state drive.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM European Conference on Computer
Systems, pages 1–16, Dresden, Germany, March 2019.
(doi:10.1145/3302424.3303983)
Mohammadamin Ajdari, Pyeongsu
Park, Joonsung Kim, Dongup Kwon, and
Jangwoo Kim.
CIDR: A cost-effective in-line data reduction system for terabit-per-second
scale SSD arrays.
In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on High
Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), pages 28–41, Washington,
DC, February 2019.
(doi:10.1109/HPCA.2019.00025)
Danny
Harnik, Moshik Hershcovitch, Yosef Shatsky,
Amir Epstein, and Ronen Kat.
Sketching
volume capacities in deduplicated storage.
In Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies, Boston, MA, February 2019. USENIX Association.
Zhuofan
Liao, Ruiming Zhang, Shiming He,
Daojian Zeng, Jin Wang, and
Hye-Jin Kim.
Deep learning-based data storage for low latency in data center networks.
IEEE Access, 7:26411–26417, February 2019.
(doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2901742)
Yejia Di,
Liang Shi, Congming Gao, Qiao
Li, Chun Jason Xue, and Kaijie Wu.
Minimizing retention induced refresh through exploiting process variation of
flash memory.
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 68(1):83–98, January 2019.
(doi:10.1109/TC.2018.2858771)
Ming-Chang
Yang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Fenggang Wu,
Tei-Wei Kuo, and David H.C. Du.
On improving the write responsiveness for host-aware SMR drives.
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 68(1):111–124, January 2019.
(doi:10.1109/TC.2018.2845383)
George Amvrosiadis, Michael
Kuchnik, Jun Woo Park, Chuck Cranor,
Gregory R. Ganger, Elisabeth Moore, and
Nathan Debardeleben.
The
Atlas cluster trace repository.
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