Noah Watkins


Office: E2-375
Email: jayhawk@cs.ucsc.edu

Noah is a fourth year Ph.D. student working on extreme-scale storage systems and analysis with the DAMASC team. He came to UCSC from the University of Kansas where he worked on process scheduling, custom programming models, and precise performance measurement in Linux. -

Publications

  • Michael A. Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Noah Watkins, Jeff LeFevre, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, Patrick Donnelly, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Cudele: An API and Framework for Programmable Consistency and Durability in a Global Namespace,” in IPDPS 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2018.
  • Michael A. Sevilla, Reza Nasirigerdeh, Carlos Maltzahn, Jeff LeFevre, Noah Watkins, Peter Alvaro, Margaret Lawson, Jay Lofstead, and Jim Pivarski, “Tintenfisch: File System Namespace Schemas and Generators,” UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-18-08, Apr. 2018.
  • Zhihao Jia, Sean Treichler, Galen Shipman, Michael Bauer, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Pat McCormick, and Alex Aiken, “Integrating External Resources with a Task-Based Programming Model,” in HiPC 2017, Jaipur, India, 2017.
  • Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Andrea Arpac-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, “The Popper Convention: Making Reproducible Systems Evaluation Practical,” in 4th International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (REPPAR) in conjunction with IPDPS 2017, Orlando, FL, 2017.
  • Noah Watkins, Michael A. Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Kathryn Dahlgren, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, and Carlos Maltzahn, “DeclStore: Layering is for the Faint of Heart,” in HotStorage ’17, Santa Clara, CA, 2017.
  • Michael A. Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Ivo Jimenez, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, Jeff LeFevre, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Malacology: A Programmable Storage System,” in EuroSys ’17, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017.
  • Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Popper: Making Reproducible Systems Performance Evaluation Practical,” UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-16-10, May 2016.
  • Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Managing Scientific Experiments Like Software,” USENIX ;login: vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 20–26, 2016.
  • Noah Watkins, Michael Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Neha Ohja, Peter Alvaro, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Brados: Declarative,Programmable Object Storage,” in SoCC’16, Santa Clara, CA, 2016.
  • Noah Watkins, Michael Sevilla, and Carlos Maltzahn, “The Case for Programmable Object Storage Systems,” UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-15-12, Jun. 2016.
  • Manzanares, Noah Watkins, Cyril Guyot, Damien LeMoal, Carlos Maltzahn, and Zvonimir Bandic, “ZEA, A Data Management Approach for SMR,” in HotStorage ’16, Denver, CO, 2016.
  • Noah Watkins, Michael Sevilla, and Carlos Maltzahn, “The Case for Programmable Object Storage Systems,” UC Santa Cruz, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-15-12, Jun. 2015.
  • Noah Watkins, Zhihao Jia, Galen Shipman, Carlos Maltzahn, Alex Aiken, and Pat McCormick, “Automatic and transparent I/O optimization with storage integrated application runtime support,” in PDSW’15, Austin, TX, 2015.
  • Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Ike Nassi, Scott Brandt, Sage Weil, Greg Farnum, and Sam Fineberg, “Mantle: A Programmable Metadata Load Balancer for the Ceph File System,” in SC ’15, Austin, TX, 2015.
  • Dimitris Skourtis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Erasure Coding & Read/Write Separation in Flash Storage,” in INFLOW ’14 (at OSDI’14), Broomfield, CO, 2014.
  • Dimitris Skourtis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Flash on Rails: Consistent Flash Performance through Redundancy,” in USENIX ATC ’14, Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
  • Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, Ian Pye, and Adam Manzanares, “In-Vivo Storage System Development,” University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Technical Report UCSC-SOE-13-02, Mar. 2013.
  • Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, Ian Pye, and Adam Manzanares, “In-Vivo Storage System Development,” in BigDataCloud ’13 (in conjunction with EuroPar 2013), Aachen, Germany, 2013.
  • Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Greg Levin, Adam Crume, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, and Aaron Torres, “SIDR: Structure-Aware Intelligent Data Routing in Hadoop,” in SC ’13, Denver, CO, 2013.
  • Dimitris Skourtis, Noah Watkins, Dimitris Achlioptas, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Latency Minimization in SSD Clusters for Free,” UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-13-10, Jul. 2013.
  • Adam Crume, Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, and Neoklis Polyzotis, “SciHadoop Semantic Compression,” University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Technical Report UCSC-SOE-12-13, Aug. 2012.
  • Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Greg Levin, Adam Crume, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, and Neoklis Polyzotis, “Structure-Aware Intelligent Data Routing in SciHadoop,” University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Technical Report UCSC-SOE-12-08, Jul. 2012.
  • Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott A. Brandt, and Adam Manzanares, “DataMods: Programmable File System Services,” in PDSW’12, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012.
  • Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott A. Brandt, and Adam Manzanares, “DataMods: Programmable File System Services,” University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Technical Report UCSC-SOE-12-07, Jul. 2012.
  • Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Jeff LeFevre, Kleoni Ioannidou, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, and Scott A. Brandt, “SciHadoop: Array-based Query Processing in Hadoop,” in SC ’11, Seattle, WA, 2011.
  • Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Jeff LeFevre, Kleoni Ioannidou, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, and Scott A. Brandt, “SciHadoop: Array-based Query Processing in Hadoop,” UCSC, UCSC-SOE-11-04, Apr. 2011.
  • Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott A. Brandt, “Abstract Storage: Moving file format-specific abstractions into petabyte-scale storage systems,” in 2nd International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (in conjunction with HPDC-18), Munich, Germany, 2009.