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.
Kazuichi Oe,
Mitsuru Sato, and Takeshi Nanri.
ATSMF: Automated tiered storage with fast memory and slow flash storage to
improve reponse time with concentrated input-output (IO) workloads.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems,
E101-D(12):2889–2901, December 2018.
(doi:10.1587/transinf.2018PAP0005)
Ping-Hsien
Lin, Yu-Ming Chang, Yung-Chun Li,
Wei-Chen Wang, Chien-Chung Ho, and
Yuan-Hao Chang.
Achieving fast sanitization with zero live data copy for MLC flash memory.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Computer-Aided Design, pages 1–8, San Diego, CA, November 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3240765.3240773)
Jun Xu.
Block Trace Analysis and Storage System Optimization, chapter
Trace Collection, pages 89–99.
Apress, Berkeley, CA, November 2018.
(doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-3928-5_3)
Wonil
Choi, Myoungsoo Jung, and Mahmut Kandemir.
Invalid data-aware coding to enhance the read performance of high-density flash
memories.
In Proceedings of the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Microarchitecture, pages 482–493, Fukuoka, Japan, October 2018.
(doi:10.1109/MICRO.2018.00046)
Joonsung
Kim, Pyeongsu Park, Jaehyung Ahn,
Jihun Kim, Jong Kim, and Jangwoo
Kim.
SSDcheck: Timely and accurate prediction of irregular behaviors in black-box
SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Microarchitecture, pages 455–468, Fukuoka, Japan, October 2018.
(doi:10.1109/MICRO.2018.00044)
Reika Kinoshita, Chihiro
Matsui, Shinpei Matsuda, Yutaka Adachi, and
Ken Takeuchi.
Maximizing performance/cost figure of merit of storage-type SCM based SSD
by adding small capacity of memory-type SCM.
In Proceedings of the 2018 Non-Volatile Memory Technology
Symposium, Sendai, Japan, October 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NVMTS.2018.8603117)
Daiping Li,
Xiaoyang Qu, Jiguang Wan, Jun
Wang, Yang Xia, Xiaozhao Zhuang, and
Changsheng Xie.
Workload scheduling for massive storage systems with arbitrary renewable
supply.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
29(10):2373–2387, October 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TPDS.2018.2820070)
Caiyin Liu,
Min Lv, Yubiao Pan, Hao Chen,
Yongkun Li, Cheng Li, and Yinlong
Xu.
LCR: Load-aware cache replacement algorithm for flash-based SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Networking,
Architecture, and Storage, Chongqing, China, October 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NAS.2018.8515727)
Joon-Young
Paik, Joong-Hyun Choi, Rize Jin,
Jianming Wang, and Eun-Sun Cho.
A storage-level detection mechanism against crypto-ransomware.
In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and
Communications, pages 2258–2260, Toronto, Canada, October 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3243734.3278491)
Min Fu,
Shujie Han, Patrick P.C. Lee, Dan
Feng, Zuoning Chen, and Yu Xiao.
A simulation analysis of redundancy and reliability in primary storage
deduplication.
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 67(9):1259–1272, September 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TC.2018.2808496)
Xiongzi Ge,
Xuchao Xie, David H.C. Du,
Pradeep Ganesan, and Dennis Hahn.
ChewAnalyzer: Workload-aware data management across differentiated storage
pools.
In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,
pages 94–101, Milwaukee, WI, September 2018.
(doi:10.1109/MASCOTS.2018.00017)
Juhyung
Hong, Sangwoo Han, Young Min Park, and
Eui-Young Chung.
ICS: Interrupt-based channel sneaking for maximally exploiting die-level
parallelism of NAND flash-based storage devices.
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems,
26(9):1802–1806, September 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2018.2824818)
Binbing
Hou and Feng Chen.
Pacaca: Mining object correlations and parallelism for enhancing user
experience with cloud storage.
In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,
pages 293–305, Milwaukee, WI, September 2018.
(doi:10.1109/MASCOTS.2018.00036)
Cheng Hu and
Yuhui Deng.
Fast resource scaling in elastic clusters with an agile method for demand
estimation.
Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 19:165–173,
September 2018.
(doi:10.1016/j.suscom.2018.03.001)
Hikaru Watanabe, Yoshiaki
Deguchi, Atsuro Kobayashi, Chihiro Matsui, and
Ken Takeuchi.
System-level read disturb suppression techniques of TLC NAND flash memories
for Read-Hot/Cold data mixed applications.
Solid State Electronics, 147:63–77, September 2018.
(doi:10.1016/j.sse.2018.05.004)
Chien-Chung
Ho, Yung-Chun Li, Ping-Hsien Lin,
Wei-Chen Wang, and Yuan-Hao Chang.
A stride-away programming scheme to resolve crash recoverability and data
readability issues of multi-level-cell flash memory.
In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Applications Symposium, pages 67–72, Hakodate, Japan, August 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2018.00019)
Satoshi Imamura and Eiji
Yoshida.
Reducing CPU power consumption for low-latency SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Applications Symposium, pages 79–84, Hakodate, Japan, August 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2018.00021)
Yi-Ling Lin,
Ming-Chang Yang, Yuan-Hao Chang,
Che-Wei Chang, and Shuo-Han Chen.
On harmonizing data lifetime and block retention time for flash devices.
In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Applications Symposium, pages 73–78, Hakodate, Japan, August 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2018.00020)
Wen Pan and
Tao Xie.
A mirroring-assisted channel-RAID5 SSD for mobile applications.
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 17(4), August
2018.
(doi:10.1145/3209625)
Cheng Pan,
Xiameng Hu, Lan Zhou, Yingwei
Luo, Xiaolin Wang, and Zhenlin Wang.
PACE: Penalty aware cache modeling with enhanced AET.
In Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Jeju
Island, Republic of Korea, August 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3265723.3265736)
Jihe Wang,
Chenlin Ma, Zhaoyan Shen, Shaheer
Muhammad, and Zili Shao.
Tiler: An autonomous region-based scheme with fast cleaning for SMR
storage.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 7th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and
Application Symposium, pages 13–18, Hakodate, Japan, August 2018.
(doi:10.1109/NVMSA.2018.00010)
Tong
Zhang, Ping Luo, Ze Cheng, and
Jing Li.
Efficient flash-aware page-mapping cache management for on-board remote sensing
image processing.
Journal of Systems Architecture, 88:1–12, August 2018.
(doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2018.04.003)
Janki Bhimani, Ningfang Mi,
and Bo Sheng.
BloomStream: Data temperature identification for flash based memory storage
using Bloom filters.
In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science, San Francisco, CA, July 2018. IEEE.
(doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2018.00037)
Xinjian Luo,
Xiaofeng Gao, Zhaowei Tan, Jiaxi
Liu, Xiaochun Yang, and Guihai Chen.
D2-Tree: A distributed double-layer namespace tree partition scheme for
metadata management in large-scale storage systems.
In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems, pages 110–119, Vienna, Austria, July 2018.
(doi:10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00021)
Reza Salkhordeh, Shahriar
Ebrahimi, and Hossein Asadi.
ReCA: An efficient reconfigurable cache architecture for storage systems with
online workload characterization.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
29(7):1605–1620, July 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TPDS.2018.2796100)
Daniel S. Berger, Nathan
Beckmann, and Mor Harchol-Balter.
Practical bounds on optimal caching with variable object sizes.
In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Measurement and Analysis of
Computing Systems, Irvine, CA, June 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3224427)
Wonil
Choi, Myoungsoo Jung, Mahmut Kandemir, and
Chita Das.
Parallelizing garbage collection with I/O to improve flash resource
utilization.
In Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on High Performance
Parallel and Distributed Computing, pages 243–254, Tempe, AZ, June
2018.
(doi:10.1145/3208040.3208048)
Wongkyung
Kang and Sungjoo Yoo.
Dynamic management of key states for reinforcement learning-assisted garbage
collection to reduce long tail latency in SSD.
In Proceedings of the 55th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference,
pages 1–6, San Francisco, CA, June 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3195970.3196034)
Bo Mao,
Suzhen Wu, Hong Jiang, Yaodong
Yang, and Zaifa Xi.
EDC: Improving the performance and space efficiency of flash-based storage
systems with elastic data compression.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
29(6):1261–1274, June 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TPDS.2018.2794966)
Dusan
Ramljak, Deepak Abraham Tom, Doug Voigt, and
Krishna Kant.
Modular framework for data prefetching and replacement at the edge.
In 2018 International Conference on Edge Computing, pages 18–33,
Seattle, WA, June 2018. Springer International Publishing.
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94340-4_2)