Hopkins Storage Systems Lab

Storage and Database Systems for Science and Engineering

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The Hopkins Storage Systems Lab (HSSL) is dedicated to building storage and database systems that address emerging requirements in scientific, high-performance, and distributed computing. Towards these goals, the lab conducts research into: scientific data management, scalable storage systems, data archival and preservation, and storage security.

New PhD Students: The Hopkins Storage Systems lab is seeking talented students in the areas of storage systems, operating systems, secure systems, and high-performance computing to join the lab as PhD students.  PhD students are typically fully supported--tuition, stipend, and health insurance--by Teaching or Research Assistantships.  Please refer to the Department's Graduate Application Information and apply through the University's Online Application.  Indicate Randal Burns as a Faculty member of interest in your application and either Storage and Database Systems or Operating Systems as your areas of interest.

 


 

Senior Member

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Randal Burns has been elected to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM Senior Member.  He hopes that this will bring him senior discounts at movie theatres and National parks.
 

SNIA Podcast for CA-NFS

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Our author group for the CA-NFS paper that won the best paper award was interviewed by SNIA for their Podcast series, available at http://www.snia.org/podcasts/.  Here's a link to us:

TC Podcast - Interview with the Best of FAST 09 paper authors (CA-NFS).  

It's kinda like being on TV, just with a factor of 10-6 fewer people watching.  And the paper:  "A. Batsakis, R. Burns, A. Kanevsky, J. Lentini, and T. Talpey. A Congestion-Aware Network File System. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), USENIX, 2009."

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:02
 

IDIES Kickoff

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The Johns Hopkins Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) had a kickoff event, which we have called the Inaugural Get-Together.  It's clear that IDIES needs some marketing consultation.  Anyhow, the Johns Hopkins scientific computing community got together to share project descriptions that fit under this aegis and talk about IDIES future activities. 
 

FAST PC Chair 2009

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Along with Kim Keeton, Randal Burns will be the Co-Chair of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology on February 23-26, 2010.  Thanks to the Organizing Committee and to Ellie Young (the core of all things USENIX) who are going to help Kim and Randal pull this off.