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.

 


 

Open Connectome

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We are happy to be hosting 15TB (raw images) of EM image data representing 1154 slices of a mouse brain at a resolution of 3nm x 3 xnm x 40 nm.  Explore the data at openconnectomeproject.org. Soon we will provide a Web service to help researchers develop algorithms that automatically annotate neural structure and visualize those annotations.  A presentation on this service is also available at http://prezi.com/yj6psr8b9-35/the-open-connectome-project/.  This data set was featured on the cover of Nature on March 10, 2011.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 19 March 2011 17:00
 

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.
 

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.
 

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