Sage Weil


Email: sage@newdream.net

Founding Member, New Dream Network. Sage Weil received his Ph.D. from UCSC in 2006 under the direction of Scott Brandt and Carlos Maltzahn. Sage designed Ceph as part of his PhD research. Since graduating, he has continued to refine the system with the goal of providing a stable next generation distributed file system. Prior to his graduate work, Sage helped found New Dream Network, the company behind Dreamhost web hosting (dreamhost.com), who now supports a small team of Ceph developers.

Publications

  • 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.
  • Carlos Maltzahn, Esteban Molina-Estolano, Amandeep Khurana, Alex J. Nelson, Scott A. Brandt, and Sage A. Weil, “Ceph as a Scalable Alternative to the Hadoop Distributed File System,” ;login: The USENIX Magazine, vol. 35, no. 4, 2010.
  • Sage A. Weil, Andrew Leung, Scott A. Brandt, and Carlos Maltzahn, “RADOS: A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Storage Service for Petabyte-scale Storage Clusters,” in pdsw07, Reno, NV, 2007.
  • Sage Weil, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott A. Brandt, “RADOS: A Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store,” University of California, Santa Cruz, SSRC-07-01, Jan. 2007.
  • Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ceph: A Scalable Object-based Storage System,” University of California, Santa Cruz, SSRC-06-02, Jan. 2006.
  • Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System,” in OSDI’06, Seattle, WA, 2006.
  • Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, and Carlos Maltzahn, “CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data,” in SC ’06, Tampa, FL, 2006.
  • Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, and Carlos Maltzahn, “CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data,” University of California, Santa Cruz, SSRC-06-01, Jan. 2006.