The NOVA file system was recently written up in the Linux Weekly News. NOVA’s goal is to provide a high-performance, full-featured, production-ready file system tailored for byte-addressable non-volatile memories (e.g.,...
NVSL students family and friends joined newly minted Drs. Yang “Robert” Liu, Meenakshi Sundaram Bhaskaran, Michael Wei, and Yanqin Jin for lunch before the graduation ceremony. We were especially happy...
Yang “Robert” Liu and Meenakshi Sundaram Bhaskaran successfully defended their dissertations on the 9th and 8th of December, respectively. Robert’s work on “Systems and Algorithm Support for Efficient Heterogeneous Computing...
Robin Harris, well-known storage blogger has put up a nice piece about NOVA and it's potential role in systems equipped with non-volatile main memory technologies like Intel's 3D XPoint. You...
NOVA is a log-structured file system designed for byte-addressable, non-volatile memories. NOVA is fully POSIX compliant so that existing applications need not be modified to run on NOVA. NOVA bypasses...
Rik Farrow, editor of USENIX ;Login: (USENIX's technology magazine) interviewed Steven about the future of storage, where researchers can have the most impact in the area of SSDs, and the...
Please welcome Chris Nelson and Devon Merril to the NVSL. Chris comes to us from UCSB while Devon is home grown -- he graduated from UCSD this spring. They'll be...
We have a bumper crop of graduates this year. Arup De and Hung Wei recently (and very successfuly) defended their PhD theses, while Chunyan Wang, Matthew Johnson, Alexander Caughron, and...
We'd like to welcome Matias Bjørling to the NVSL. Matias is a graduate student at IT University of Copenhagen where he works on storage system software stacks for SSDs. He's...