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UCSC / IBM Almaden Computer Scientists awarded Best Student Paper for their work on disk performance virtualization
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Computer Science Ph.D. Students Tim Kaldewey and Anna Povzner, working with their advisor Professor Scott Brandt and colleagues Drs. Carlos Maltzahn, Richard Golding, and Theodore Wong have been recognized with the Springer Journal of Real-Time Systems Award for Best Student Paper at the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2008) for their paper entitled, "Virtualizing Disk Performance."
The research, a collaboration between UCSC and IBM Almaden Research Center, addresses a hot topic in storage systems: managing and guaranteeing disk I/O performance. Building upon successful research in CPU scheduling and supported by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, this research extends the scheduling model to the storage domain and demonstrates that performance guarantees and high disk I/O performance are mutually compatible.
RTAS is one of the principal conferences in real-time systems. This award, sponsored by the Springer Journal of Real-Time Systems, is given to the highest-rated paper whose first author is a student. For more information on RTAS or the award, please visit the RTAS web site.