Randal Burns

Recent Publications

2009:

• 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.
• X. Wang, R. Burns, and T. Malik. LifeRaft: Data-Driven, Batch Processing for the Exploration of Scientific Databases. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), ACM, 2009.
• T. Malik, X. Wang, D. Dash, A. Chaudhary, R. Burns, and A. Ailamaki. Adaptive Physical Design for Curated Archives. To appear at: Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM), 2009.
• A. S. Szalay, G. Bell, J. Vandenberg, R. Burns, D. Fay, J. Heasley, T. Hey, M. Nieto-Santisteban, A. Thakar, C. Van Ingen, R. Wilton, and A. Wonders. GrayWulf: Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing. Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), 2009.

2008:

• Y. Li, E. Perlman, M. Wang, Y. Yang, C. Meneveau, R. Burns, S. Chen, A. Szalay, and G. Eyink. A Public Turbulence Database Cluster and Applications to Study Lagrangian Evolution of Velocity Increments in Turbulence. Journal of Turbulence, 9(31), pp. 1-29, 2008.
• A. Batsakis and R. Burns. NFS-CD: Write-Enabled Cooperative Caching in NFS. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 19(3), 323-333, 2008.
• B. Ball, D. Brady, M. Brooks, R. Burns, B. Cuker, D. DiToro, T. Gross, M. Kemp, L. Murray, R. Murphy, E. Perlman, M. Piasecki, J. Testa and I. Zaslavsky. A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure - Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO). Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 13(9), September 2008.
• X. Wang, R Burns, A. Terzis, and A. Deshpande. Network-Aware Join Processing in Global-Scale Database Federations. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE, 2008.
• R. Curtmola, O. Khan, R. Burns, and G. Ateniese. MR-PDP: Multilple-Replica Provable Data Possession. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE, 2008.
• T. Malik and R. Burns. Workload-Aware Histograms for Remote Applications. International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), 2008.
• A. Batsakis, R. Burns, A. Kanevsky, J. Lentini, and T. Talpey. AWOL: An Adaptive Write Optimizations Layer. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), USENIX, 2008.
• E. Perlman, R. Burns, and M. Kazhdan. Organizing and Indexing Non-Convex Regions.  Demonstration paper, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2008.
• R. Curtmola, O. Khan, and R. Burns. Robust Remote Data Checking. Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS), 2008.
• X. Wang, T. Malik, D. Dash, R. Burns, and A. Ailamaki. Automated Physical Design in Database Caches. Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SDS), IEEE, 2008.
• R. Burns and G. Ateniese. Currency and Correctness of Content in Object Storage Networks. Whitepaper at the DARPA Distributed Object Storage and Retrieval Workshop, 2008.
• J. Gupchup, A. Sharma, A. Terzis, R. Burns, and A. Szalay. The Perils of Detecting Measurement Faults in Environmental Monitoring Networks. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCoSS), 2008.
• A. S. Szalay et al. (23 authors). GrayWulf: Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing. Winner of the Supercomputing: HPC Storage Challenge, 2008.

2007:

• Z. Peterson, R. Burns, G. Ateniese, and S. Bono. Design and Implementation of Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System. File and Storage Technology (FAST), USENIX, 2007.
• G. Ateniese, R. Burns, R. Curtmola, J. Herring, L. Kissner, Z. Peterson, and D. Song. Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores. Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, 2007.
• T. Malik, R. Burns, N. Chawla. A Black-Box Approach to Query Cardinality Estimation. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), ACM, 2007.
• E. Perlman, R. Burns, Y. Li, and C. Meneveau. Data Exploration of Turbulence Simulations using a Database Cluster. Supercomputing (SC07), ACM, IEEE, 2007.
• M. Bolitho, M. Kazhdan, R. Burns, and H. Hoppe. Multilevel Streaming for Out-of-Core Surface Reconstruction. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), ACM, 2007.
• X. Wang, T. Malik, R. Burns, S. Papadomanolakis, and A. Ailamaki. A Workload-Driven Unit of Cache Replacement for Mid-Tier Database Caching. Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), IEEE, 2007.
• X. Wang, R. Burns, and A. Terzis. Throughput-Optimized, Global-Scale Join Processing in Scientific Federations. Workshop On Networking Meets Databases (NetDB), USENIX, 2007.
• C. Meneveau, Y. Li, E. Perlman, M. Wan, Y. Yang, R. Burns, S. Chen, G. Eyink, and A. Szalay. Analysis of Turbulence Datasets using a Database Cluster: Requirements, Design, and Sample Applications. APS-DPD Meeting, Abstract BS.00004, 2007.
• A. Batsakis, R. Burns, T. Talpey, A. Kanevsky, and J. Lentini. Enhancing the Linux Memory Architecture to Support File Systems over Heterogeneous Devices. Position paper at Linux File Systems and IO Workshop (LSF), USENIX, 2007.
• J. Gupchup, R. Burns, A. Terzis, and A. Szalay. Model-Based Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. Workshop on Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-Wide Sensor Web (DSI), ACM/IEEE, 2007.
  

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• R. Musaloiu-E., J. Cogan, K. Szlavecz, A. Szalay, J. Gray, S. Ozer, C.-J. M. Liang, J. Gupchup, and R. Burns. Wireless Sensor Networks for Soil Science. International Journal of Sensor Networks, Accepted 2008.