May 2, 2007. The ext3cow file systems has been released for Linux 2.6. This is reported on /. and dig.com.
October 10, 2006. Network Appliance supports the HSSL with a Research Gift of $29,192.
October 9 , 2006. Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Peterson who successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Towards Regulatory Compliant Storage Systems."
July 8, 2006. The next newest member of the HSSL, Theodore Jarvis Burns, aka TJ or the Hoosh, joins the world.
June 9, 2006. The NSF funds a joint project to intgegrate model and observational data on the Chesapeake Bay. Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs (CEO:P), NSF 06-505. “A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure – Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO).” co-PI Randal Burns with William P. Ball, Dominic M. Di Toro, Thomas Gross (PI), William M. Kemp, Michael Piasecki, ATM-0618986, $2,149,906M, 10/1/2006-9/31/2009.
May 17, 2006. Congratulations to Dr. Chuck Wu who successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Efficient Scalable Load Management for Heterogeneous Resource Clusters."
September 1, 2005. Jayant Gupchup joins the HSSL as a Ph.D. student. Jayant joins us from the Virtual Observatory of India Project, IUCAA, Pune, where he has been working on distributed astronomy databases.
June 27, 2005. Randal Burns (PI) receives NSF award IIS-0456027 entitled Securely Managing the Lifetime of Versions in Digital Archives with co-PIs Avi Rubin and Giuseppe Ateniese. This project will develop secure deletion techniques to protect privacy and limit liability in versioning filesystems. This work is funded by the Library of Congress in conjunction with the NSF.
September 24, 2004. Randal Burns (PI) receives NSF award IIS-0430848 entitled SEI+II (AST): Bypass-Yield Caching for Large-Scale Scientific Database Workloads in the World-Wide Telescope. This project will develop caching and query scheduling techniques for scientific database federations in collaboration with Professors Alex Szalay and Ani Thakar in the Physics Department.
September 2, 2004. Xiaodan "Dan" Wang joins the HSSL as a Ph.D. student. Dan graduated from the University of Maryland in 2003 and has been working on scientific databases at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
August 15, 2004. Amithab "Amic" Chaudary, collaborator and friend of the lab, joins the Faculty of Notre Dame University. Congratulations Amic.
August 12, 2004. Randal Burns (co-PI) receives NSF award AST-0428325 entitled ITR-ASE-(int+sim): Exploring the Lagrangian Structure of Complex Flows with 100 Terabyte Datasets. This project will develop large-scale database technologies in order to study turbulence.
June 16, 2004. Zachary Peterson receives a scholarship from the Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assesment Group (PORTIA) to attend the PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Data in Medical, Financial, and Content-Distribution Systems and present his research on "Limiting Liability in Federally Compliant File Systems."
May 21, 2004. Maxwell Louis Burns, the newest member of the HSSL, joins the world.
August 28, 2003. Eric Perlman has joined the HSSL as a Ph.D. student. Eric graduated from UC Santa Cruz in Spring 2002 and worked briefly at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
June 21, 2003. Zachary Peterson and the HSSL released the initial version of ext3cow, the time-shifting file system implemented with copy-on-write based on ext3.
March 6, 2003. Randal Burns receives NSF CAREER award ACI-0238305 in order to develop protocols and systems that allow heterogeneous storage systems to inter-operate.
January 13, 2003. HSSL releases data to help researchers study how files change in mobile and wireless systems. "Data for Versioning Experiments in Mobile Systems" are available at http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/ipdata/.
September 20, 2002. Randal Burns releases software for "the ARIES project", a project for a course on database implementation. The project defines a six week curriculum in which students implement write-ahead logging, transactions, full and partial rollback, and restart recovery.
September 3, 2002: In conjunction with Rai Winslow and the Computation Medicine and Biology Laboratory, Randal Burns and the HSSL received an IBM Shared University Research Grant. The grant will be used to acquire and deploy an X-series cluster with fibre-channel networking to all of the HSSL's workstations as well as acquire several new workstations. Read more about it in the Hopkins Headlines or on genomeweb.com
July 30, 2002: The DOE grants to Randal Burns the Early-Career Principal Investigator award for research into "Global-Scale File Sharing for High-Performance Cluster Computing."
January 28, 2002: The HSSL and the IBM Almaden Research Center reach a research agreement. HSSL and Almaden will be working together to create file system and data management tools for a wide range of target environments, including high-performance clusters built on storage area networks and distributed file systems on global-scale networks.