Daniel Ellard:

Publications

• Daniel Ellard and James Megquier.
  DISP: Practical, efficient, secure and fault-tolerant distributed data storage. (PDF)
  Appears in ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol 1. No. 1, December 2004, pages 71-94.

• Daniel Ellard.
  Trace-Based Analyses and Optimizations for Network Storage Servers. (PDF)
  PhD thesis, Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-11-04, May 2004.

• Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Daniel Ellard, Gregory R. Ganger and Margo Seltzer.
  File classification in self-* storage systems. (PDF, Postscript)
  Appears in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), pages 44-51, New York, NY, May 2004.

• Daniel Ellard and Margo Seltzer.
  New NFS Tracing Tools and Techniques for System Analysis (PDF, Postscript)
  Appears in Proceedings of the 17th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA'03), pages 73-85, San Diego, CA. October 2003. (note that the page numbers in the on-line version are not identical to the printed proceedings)

• Daniel Ellard and Margo Seltzer.
  NFS Tricks and Benchmarking Traps (PDF)
  Appears in Proceedings of the 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track (FREENIX'03), pages 101-114, San Antonio, Texas. June 2003.

• Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani and Margo Seltzer.
  Passive NFS Tracing of Email and Research Workloads (PDF, HTML)
  Appears in Proceedings of the Second USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'03), pages 203-216, San Francisco, California. March 2003.

• Daniel Ellard, David Holland, Nicholas Murphy and Margo Seltzer.
  On the Design of a New CPU Architecture for Pedagogical Purposes (PDF, Postscript)
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE'02), pages 28-34, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002.

Recent Tech Reports and Posters

• Ningning Zhu, Jiawu Chen, Tzi-cker Chiueh, and Daniel Ellard.
  TBBT: Scalable and Accurate Trace Replay for File Server Evaluation. (PDF)
  To be presented at ACM SIGMETRICS'05, June, 2005.

• Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger and Margo Seltzer.
  Attribute-Based Prediction of File Properties. (PDF, Postscript)
  Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-14-03, December 2003.

• Ningning Zhu, Jiawu Chen, Tzi-cker Chiueh and Daniel Ellard.
  An NFS Trace Player for File System Evaluation. (PDF, Postscript)
  Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-16-03, December 2003.

• Daniel Ellard.
  The File System Interface is an Anachronism (PDF)
  Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-15-03, November 2003.

• Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie and Margo Seltzer.
  The Utility of File Names (PDF, Postscript)
  Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-05-03, March 2003.

• Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani and Margo Seltzer.
  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About NFS Trace Analysis, But Were Afraid to Ask (PDF, Postscript)
  Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-06-02, June 2002.