Publications

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Refereed conference papers

  • Everest: Scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading. Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska, Sameh Elnikety, Antony Rowstron. Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08), San Diego, CA. December 8-10 2008. PDF
  • IRONModel: robust performance models in the wild. Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'08), Annapolis, Maryland. June 2-6 2008.  PDF
  • Using utility to provision storage systems. John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'08), San Jose, CA. February 26-29 2008. PDF

  • Argon: performance insulation for shared storage servers. Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'07), San Jose, CA. February 13-16 2007.
    Abstract / PDF [167K] .

  • Stardust: Tracking activity in a distributed storage system. Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John Strunk, Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Julio Lopez, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'06), Saint-Malo, France. June 26-30 2006.
    Abstract / PDF [578K] .

  • Informed data distribution selection in a self-predicting storage system. Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, Dushyanth Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'06), Dublin, Ireland. June 12-16 2006. Abstract / PDF [578K] .
  • Ursa Minor: Versatile cluster-based storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'05), San Francisco, CA. December 13-16 2005. 
    • (Best Paper Award)
    Abstract / PDF [490K] .
  • Continuous Resource Monitoring for Self-predicting DBMS. Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Anastassia Ailamaki. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'05), Atlanta, GA, September 25-27, 2005. Abstract / PDF [333K]
  • File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems. Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Daniel Ellard, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04). New York, NY. May 2004.
    Abstract / Postscript [1.6M] / PDF [80K]
  • A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications. Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'04). San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2004.  (Best Student Paper Award)
    Abstract / Postscript [5.1M] / PDF [148K]

Invited journal papers

  • Towards self-predicting systems: What if you could ask ``what-if''? Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. The Knowledge Engineering Review (2006), 21: 261-267 Cambridge University Press. October 2006.
  • Early Experiences on the Journey Towards Self-* Storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 29(3). Special issue on self-managing database systems. September 2006. Abstract / PDF [113K] / Postscript [745K]
  • Challenges in building a DBMS Resource Advisor. Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Anastassia Ailamaki. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 29(3). Special issue on self-managing database systems. September 2006. PDF [67K] / Postscript [200K]

Workshop papers

  • Observer: Keeping System Models from Becoming Obsolete. Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL.  Abstract / PDF [75K]
  • Categorizing and Differencing System Behaviours. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing. June 15, 2007. Jacksonville, FL.
    Abstract / PDF [120K]
  • Towards self-predicting systems: What if you could ask ``what-if''? Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Narayanan, Gregory R. Ganger. 3rd International Workshop on self-adaptive and autonomic computing systems. Copenhagen, Denmark. 22 August 2005. Abstract / PDF [110K]
  • A Two-Tiered Software Architecture for Automated Tuning of Disk Layouts. Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Craig A.N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger. First Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Self-Managing Systems. In conjunction with Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). San Diego, CA. June 11, 2003.
    Abstract / Postscript [718K] / PDF [405K]

Technical reports (non-overlapping with above)

  • Migrating enterprise storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs. Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly, Sameh Elnikety, Antony Rowstron. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-169. November 2008.PDF
  • Practical structural and performance model checking. Eno Thereska. Appears as position paper in MSR-TR-2008-61 on ``The Rise and Rise of the Declarative Datacentre''. May 2008.
  • Challenges in Building a Two-Tiered Learning Architecture for Disk Layout. Brandon Salmon, Eno Thereska, Craig A.N. Soules, John Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-04-109. August, 2004. Abstract / Postscript [718K] / PDF [405K]
  • Attribute-Based Prediction of File Properties. Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer. Harvard Computer Science Group Technical Report TR-14-03, December 2003.
    Abstract / Postscript [850K] / PDF [127K]
  • Design and Implementation of a Freeblock Subsystem. Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, Christopher R. Lumb, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-03-107, December, 2003. Abstract / Postscript [6.5M] / PDF [165K]

PhD Dissertation

  • Enabling what-if explorations in systems. Eno Thereska. PhD Dissertation CMU-PDL-07-103. Carnegie Mellon University. August 2007.   Abstract / PDF [2410K]