Randal Burns

Invited

• R. Burns, L. Stockmeyer, and D. Long. Experimentally Evaluating In-Place Delta Reconstruction. NASA and IEEE Mass Storage Conference, IEEE, 2002.
• B. Reed, E. Chron, D. Long, and R. Burns. Authenticating Network Attached Storage. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, IEEE, 1999.

Other

• A. S. Szalay et al. (23 authors). GrayWulf: Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing. Winner of the Supercomputing: HPC Storage Challenge, 2008.
• R. Burns. Using Databases to Store the Space-Time Histories of Turbulent Flows. Abstract, Microsoft eScience Workshop, 2006.

Beyond Computer Science

• 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.
• 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.
• B. Ball, R. Burns, B. Cucker, D. DiToro, T. Gross, M. Kemp, L, Murray, M. Piasecki, and I. Zaslavsky. Conceptual Design of a Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO). Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21F-1427, 2006.
• K. Szlavecz, A. Szalay, A. Terzis, R. Musaloiu-E., S. Small, J. Cogan. R. Burns, J. Gray, S. Ozer. Building and end-to-end system for soil monitoring. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract H32B-02, 2004.

Thesis and Dissertation

• Randal Burns. Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2000.
• Randal Burns. Differential Compression: A Generalized Solution for Binary Files. Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, December 1997.

Patents

• Producer/consumer locking system for efficient replication of file data (with A. Goel, W. Hineman, and R. Rees), US6925515, 02 August 2005.
• System for dynamically evaluating locks in a distributed data storage systems (with R. Rees), US6917942, 12 July 2005.
• System and method for managing authentication and coherency in a storage area network (with D. Long), US6792424, 13 September 2004.
• Lease-based safety protocol for distributed system with multiple networks (with A. Goel, D. Long and R. Rees) US6775703, 10 August 2004.
• Data placement and allocation using virtual contiguity (with D. Long and R. Rees), US6651147, 18 November 2003.
• System for managing asset access in a distributed storage system (with A. Goel and R. Rees), US6571276, 27 May 2003.
• System and method for allocating storage space using bit-parallel search of bitmap (with W. Hineman), US6510505, 21 January 2003.
• Decentralized and Remotely Encrypted File Systems (with E. Chron, D. Long, and B. Reed), US6405315, 11 June 2002.
• System and Method for Differential Compression of Data from a Plurality of Sources (with M. Ajtai, R. Fagin, D. Long and L. Stockmeyer), US06374250, 14 April 2002.
• Continuous Availability and Efficient Backup for Externally Referenced Files (with I. Narang), US06088694, 7 October 2000.
• A Method for Generating and Reconstructing In-Place Delta Files (with D. Long), US06018747, 25 January 2000.
• Secure Array of Remotely Encrypted Storage Devices (with E. Chron, D. Long and B. Reed), US05931847, 3 August 1999.