FAST (File and Storage Technologies) Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System - My Adventures in Amazon S3

Insights into building and operating Amazon S3, exploring technical challenges, organizational aspects, and personal experiences of working on a massive-scale cloud storage service.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Netflix - Streaming Entertainment to 200 Million Members Around the World

Explore Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its optimizations for efficient video streaming to millions of global subscribers. Learn about hardware and software innovations behind their content delivery system.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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F2FS - A New File System for Flash Storage

Explore F2FS, a Linux file system optimized for flash storage. Learn its design, data structures, and algorithms, and see how it outperforms EXT4 in various scenarios on mobile and server systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

DNA Data Storage and Near-Molecule Processing for the Yottabyte Era

Explore DNA data storage and near-molecule processing for the yottabyte era, including encoding, decoding, random access, and potential for hybrid electronic/molecular computing systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

FAST '21 Work-in-Progress Reports

Explore cutting-edge research in storage systems through short presentations on topics like persistent memory, I/O optimization, transaction handling, and data privacy in analytics.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

F2FS - A New File System for Flash Storage

Explore F2FS, a Linux file system optimized for flash storage. Learn its design, data structures, and algorithms, and see how it outperforms EXT4 in various scenarios on mobile and server systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

POLARDB Meets Computational Storage - Efficiently Support Analytical Workloads in Cloud

Explore how computational storage drives enhance cloud-native relational databases for analytical workloads, focusing on POLARDB's implementation and deployment in Alibaba Cloud.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Characterizing, Modeling, and Benchmarking RocksDB Key-Value Workloads at Facebook

Detailed analysis of RocksDB workloads at Facebook, revealing key-value usage patterns and proposing improved benchmarking methods for more accurate representation of real-world scenarios.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

CRaft - An Erasure-coding-supported Version of Raft for Reducing Storage Cost

Explores CRaft, an erasure-coding-supported version of Raft consensus protocol, reducing storage and network costs while maintaining fault tolerance and liveness. Presents design, challenges, and performance improvements.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory

Empirical guide exploring Intel's Optane DIMM behavior, offering insights on performance characteristics and best practices for optimizing persistent memory software in real-world applications.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Fast Erasure Coding for Data Storage - A Comprehensive Study of the Acceleration Techniques

Comprehensive study on accelerating erasure coding for data storage, exploring optimization techniques, bitmatrix design, and vectorization to improve computation efficiency and performance in various scenarios.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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DistCache - Provable Load Balancing for Large-Scale Storage Systems with Distributed Caching

Innovative distributed caching mechanism providing provable load balancing for large-scale storage systems. Partitions hot objects and adaptively routes queries, enabling linear cache throughput increase with node count.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Write-Optimized Dynamic Hashing for Persistent Memory

Optimizing hash-based indexing for persistent memory: CCEH reduces overhead, guarantees constant lookup time, and ensures failure-atomicity without explicit logging, improving query latency compared to existing techniques.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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LDPC-in-SSD - Making Advanced Error Correction Codes Work Effectively in Solid State Drives

Explore advanced error correction techniques for solid state drives, focusing on LDPC codes to improve reliability while mitigating response time delays in NAND flash memory.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

FPGA-Accelerated Compactions for LSM Based Key-Value Store

Explore FPGA acceleration for LSM-tree key-value stores, improving compaction speed and system throughput while reducing CPU bottlenecks and enhancing energy efficiency in short KV storage scenarios.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk