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.
Arash Tavakkol, Mohammad
Sadrosadati, Saugata Ghose, Jeremie Kim,
Yixin Luo, Yaohua Wang,
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Lois Orosa,
Juan Gómez-Luna, and Onur Mutlu.
FLIN: Enabling fairness and enhancing performance in modern NVMe solid
state drives.
In Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer
Architecture, pages 397–410, Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.
(doi:10.1109/ISCA.2018.00041)
Wei-Lin
Wang, Tseng-Yi Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang,
Hsin-Wen Wei, and Wei-Kuan Shih.
Minimizing write amplification to enhance lifetime of large-page flash-memory
storage devices.
In Proceedings of the 55th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation
Conference, pages 1–6, San Francisco, CA, June 2018.
(doi:10.1109/DAC.2018.8465814)
Fei Wu,
Jiaona Zhou, Shunzhuo Wang,
Yajuan Du, Chengmo Yang, and
Changsheng Xie.
FastGC: Accelerate garbage collection via an efficient copyback-based data
migration in SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 55th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation
Conference, pages 1–6, San Francisco, CA, June 2018.
(doi:10.1109/DAC.2018.8465931)
Wenhui
Zhang, Qiang Cao, Hong Jiang, and
Jie Yao.
PA-SSD: A page-type aware TLC SSD for improved write/read performance and
storage efficiency.
In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on
Supercomputing, pages 22–32, Beijing, China, June 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3205289.3205319)
Yu Cai,
Yixin Luo, Saugata Ghose,
Erich F. Haratsch, Ken Mai, and
Onur Mutlu.
Read disturb errors in MLC
NAND flash memory.
Technical report, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2018.
Mamoru Fukuchi, Yukiya
Sakaki, Chihiro Matsui, and Ken Takeuchi.
20% system-performance gain of 3D charge-trap TLC NAND flash over 2D
floating-gate MLC NAND flash for SCM/NAND flash hybrid SSD.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, Florence, Italy, May 2018.
(doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351309)
Chihiro Matsui and Ken
Takeuchi.
3ASCA: Application-aware autonomous SCM capacity adjustment for SCM and
NAND flash pooled storage.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pages 1–5, Florence, Italy, May 2018.
(doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351683)
Yi Wang,
Jiangfan Huang, Jing Yang, and
Tao Li.
A temperature-aware reliability enhancement strategy for 3D charge-trap flash
memory.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, May 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2018.2808227)
Suzhen Wu,
Weidong Zhu, Guixin Liu, Hong
Jiang, and Bo Mao.
GC-aware request steering with improved performance and reliability for
SSD-based RAIDs.
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel &
Distributed Processing, pages 296–305, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May
2018.
(doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2018.00039)
Saba Ahmadian, Onur Mutlu,
and Hossein Asadi.
ECI-Cache: A high-endurance and cost-efficient I/O caching scheme for
virtualized platforms.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Measurement and Analysis of
Computing Systems, 2(1):9:1–9:34, April 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3179412)
Maen M. Al Assaf, Xunfei
Jiang, Xiao Qin, Mohamed Abid,
Meikang Qiu, and Jifu Zhang.
Informed prefetching for distributed multi-level storage systems.
Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 90(4):619–640, April 2018.
(doi:10.1007/s11265-017-1277-z)
Youmin
Chen, Jiwu Sh, Jiaxin Ou, and
Youyou Lu.
HiNFS: A persistent memory file system with both buffering and direct-access.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 14(1):4:1–4:30, April 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3204454)
Cheng Ji,
Li-Pin Chang, Chao Wu, Liang
Shi, and Chun Xue.
An I/O scheduling strategy for embedded flash storage devices with mapping
cache.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, 37(4):756–769, April 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2017.2729405)
Masaru Nakanishi, Yutaka
Adachi, Chihiro Matsui, Yusuke Sugiyama, and
Ken Takeuchi.
Application-oriented wear-leveling optimization of 3D TSV-integrated
storage class memory-based solid state drives.
In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Electronics
Packaging and iMAPS All Asia Conference, pages 27–32, Mie, Japan,
April 2018.
(doi:10.23919/ICEP.2018.8374663)
Hirofumi Takishita, Yutaka
Adachi, Chihiro Matsui, and Ken Takeuchi.
Analysis of SCM-based SSD performance in consideration of SCM access unit
size, write/read latencies and application request size.
IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E101-C(4):253–262, April 2018.
(doi:10.1587/transele.E101.C.253)
Yi Wang,
Mingxu Zhang, Xuan Yang, and Tao
Liy.
A thermal-aware physical space re-allocation for open-channel SSD with 3-D
flash memory.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, April 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2018.2821442)
Gala
Yadgar, Eitan Yaakobi, Fabio Margaglia,
Yue Li, Alexander Yucovich,
Nachum Bundak, Lior Gilon, Nir
Yakovi, Assaf Schuster, and André
Brinkmann.
An analysis of flash page reuse with WOM codes.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 14(1), April 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3177886)
Yusuke
Yamaga, Chihiro Matsui, Yukiya Sakaki, and
Ken Takeuchi.
Reliability analysis of scaled NAND flash memory based SSDs with real
workload characteristics by using real usage-based precise reliability test.
IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E101-C(4):243–252, April 2018.
(doi:10.1587/transele.E101.C.243)
Chien-Chung
Ho, Yu-Ming Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang, and
Tei-Wei Kuo.
An SLC-like programming scheme for MLC flash memory.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 14(1):11:1–11:26, March 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3129257)
Hyukjoong
Kim, Kyuhwa Han, and Dongkun Shin.
StreamFTL: Stream-level address translation scheme for memory constrained
flash storage.
In Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Conference (DATE), pages 617–620, Dresden, Germany, March 2018.
(doi:10.23919/DATE.2018.8342083)
Hong-Bin
Tsai and Chin-Laung Lei.
Time-shift replacement algorithm for main memory performance optimization.
Journal of Supercomputing, March 2018.
(doi:10.1007/s11227-018-2311-z)
Tai-Chou Wu,
Yu-Ping Ma, and Li-Pin Chang.
Flash read disturb management using adaptive cell bit-density with in-place
reprogramming.
In Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Conference (DATE), pages 325–330, Dresden, Germany, March 2018.
(doi:10.23919/DATE.2018.8342030)
Sheng-Min Huang and Li-Pin
Chang.
Providing SLO compliance on NVMe SSDs through parallelism reservation.
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems,
23(3), February 2018.
(doi:10.1145/3174867)
Huaicheng Li,
Mingzhe Hao, Michael Hao Tong,
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Matias Bjørling,
and Haryadi S. Gunawi.
The CASE
of FEMU: Cheap, accurate, scalable and extensible flash emulator.
In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies, Oakland, CA, February 2018. USENIX Association.
Bo Mao,
Suzhen Wu, and Lide Duan.
Improving the SSD performance by exploiting request characteristics and
internal parallelism.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, 37(2):472–484, February 2018.
(doi:10.1109/TCAD.2017.2697961)
Chihiro
Matsui, Reika Kinoshita, and Ken Takeuchi.
Analysis on applicable error-correcting code strength of storage class memory
and NAND flash in hybrid storage.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57(4S), February 2018.
(doi:10.7567/JJAP.57.04FE01)
Yukiya
Sakaki, Tomoaki Yamada, Chihiro Matsui,
Yusuke Yamaga, and Ken Takeuchi.
Performance analysis of three-dimensional-triple-level cell and
two-dimensional-multi-level cell NAND flash hybrid solid-state drives.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57(4S), February 2018.
(doi:10.7567/JJAP.57.04FE03)
Jihun Kim,
Joonsung Kim, Pyeongsu Park, Jong
Kim, and Jangwoo Kim.
SSD performance modeling using bottleneck analysis.
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 17(1):80–83, January 2018.
(doi:10.1109/LCA.2017.2779122)
Jian Liu,
Yun-Peng Chai, Xiao Qin, and
Yao-Hong Liu.
Endurable SSD-based read cache for improving the performance of selective
restore from deduplication systems.
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 33:58–78, January
2018.
(doi:10.1007/s11390-018-1808-5)
Dongchul
Park, Weiping He, and David H.C. Du.
Hot data identification with multiple bloom filters: Block-level decision vs
I/O request-level decision.
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 33:79–97, January
2018.
(doi:10.1007/s11390-018-1809-4)
Jiayang Guo,
Yiming Hu, Bo Mao, and Suzhen
Wu.
Parallelism and garbage collection aware I/O scheduler with improved SSD
performance.
In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel &
Distributed Processing, pages 1184–1193, Orlando, FL, 2017.
(doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2017.55)
Alireza Haghdoost, Weiping
He, Jerry Fredin, and David H. C. Du.
Hfplayer: Scalable replay for intensive block I/O workloads.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 13(4), December 2017.
(doi:10.1145/3149392)
Juan Li,
Zhengguo Chen, Zhiguang Chen,
Nong Xiao, Fang Liu, and Wei
Chen.
KV-FTL: A novel key-value-based FTL scheme for large scale SSDs.
In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on High
Performance Computing and Communications, pages 106–114, Bangkok,
Thailand, December 2017.
(doi:10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2017.14)
Yazhi
Feng, Dan Feng, Wei Tong,
Yu Jiang, and Chuanqi Liu.
Using disturbance compensation and data clustering (DC)2 to improve
reliability and performance of 3D MLD flash memory.
In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer
Design, pages 565–572, Boston, MA, November 2017.
(doi:10.1109/ICCD.2017.98)
Sang-Hoon
Kim, Jinhyuk Lee, and Jin-Soo Kim.
GCMix: An efficient data protection scheme against the paired page
interference.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 13(4):37:1–37:23, November 2017.
(doi:10.1145/3149373)
Kazuichi Oe,
Mitsuru Sato, and Takeshi Nanri.
Automated tiered storage system consisting of memory and flash storage to
improve response time with input-output (IO) concentration workloads.
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Computing and
Networking (CANDAR), pages 311–317, Aomori, Japan, November 2017.
(doi:10.1109/CANDAR.2017.25)