Friday, October 13, 2023
10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST)
ETB 1020
Arif Merchant
Research Scientist @ Google
Title: “Research Directions in Google Storage“
Talking Points:
- How does Google Storage work?
- How do you lay out data across tens of thousands of disks, dozens of device types, with wildly varying failure rates and capacities, while keeping them all well utilized, and the data safe?
- What are the open research questions in Cloud Storage?
Abstract
Google’s Cloud is a very large consumer of storage, and these storage systems are geographically distributed, multi-layered, heterogeneous, and complex. We present a high-level overview of Google’s storage systems, the common challenges faced by storage at Google, and explore several research directions for managing and optimizing the resources used. We will touch upon topics in layout, encoding, and new storage technologies. We will conclude with a discussion of some open questions.
Biography
Arif Merchant is a Research Scientist at Google and leads the Storage Analytics group, which studies interactions between components of the storage stack. His interests include distributed storage systems, storage management, and stochastic modeling. He holds the B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
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Please join on Friday, 10/13/23 at 10:20 a.m. in ETB 1020.