Scott Brandt


  • Vice Chancellor for Research
  • Professor, Computer Science
    • Office: E2-369
    Email: sbrandt@soe.ucsc.edu

    Scott Brandt is Professor of Computer Science, the UCSC Director of the ISSDM and Director of the UCSC Systems Research Laboratory. He is also co- founder of the UCSC Storage Systems Research Center. Scott’s research is in the area of Computer Systems. He specializes in both storage systems and real-time systems. His current storage system research focuses on high-performance peta-scale distributed object-based storage, while his real-time research focuses on integrating real-time and non-real-time processing into a uniform processing environment. His most recent research integrates the two, researching novel solutions for robust guarantee-able management of varied system resources, including CPU, disk, memory, and network.

    Publications

    • Andrew G. Shewmaker, Carlos Maltzahn, Katia Obraczka, Scott Brandt, and John Bent, “TCP Inigo: Ambidextrous Congestion Control,” in 25th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2016), Waikoloa, HI, 2016.
    • 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.
    • Michael Sevilla, Ike Nassi, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, and Carlos Maltzahn, “SupMR: Circumventing Disk and Memory Bandwidth Bottlenecks for Scale-up MapReduce,” in LSPP at IPDPS 2014, Phoenix, AZ, 2014.
    • 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.
    • Andrew Shewmaker, Carlos Maltzahn, Katia Obraczka, and Scott Brandt, “Run, Fatboy, Run: Applying the Reduction to Uniprocessor Algorithm to Other Wide Resources,” University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-14-08, Jul. 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.
    • Micheal Sevilla, Ike Nassi, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, and Carlos Maltzahn, “A Framework for an In-depth Comparison of Scale-up and Scale-out,” in DISCS 2013 at SC13, Denver, CO, 2013.
    • Dimitris Skourtis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “High Performance & Low Latency in Solid-State Drives Through Redundancy,” in INFLOW ’13, Farmington, PA, 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.
    • Dimitris Skourtis, Scott A. Brandt, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ianus: Guaranteeing High Performance in Solid-State Drives,” UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, Tech. rept. UCSC-SOE-13-08, May 2013.
    • 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.
    • 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,” University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Technical Report UCSC-SOE-12-07, Jul. 2012.
    • Shinpei Kato, Michael McThrow, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott A. Brandt, “Gdev: First-Class GPU Resource Management in the Operating System,” in USENIX ATC ’12, Boston, MA, 2012.
    • 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.
    • Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott A. Brandt, and Adam Manzanares, “DataMods: Programmable File System Services,” in PDSW’12, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012.
    • Adam Crume, Joe Buck, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Compressing Intermediate Keys between Mappers and Reducers in SciHadoop,” in PDSW’12, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012.
    • Roberto Pineiro, Kleoni Ioannidou, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott A. Brandt, “RAD-FLOWS: Buffering for Predictable Communication,” in RTAS 2011, Chicago, IL, 2011.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Esteban Molina-Estolano, Carlos Maltzahn, Ben Reed, and Scott A. Brandt, “Haceph: Scalable Meta- data Management for Hadoop using Ceph,” in Poster Session at NSDI 2010, San Jose, CA, 2010.
    • Rosie Wacha, Scott A. Brandt, John Bent, and Carlos Maltzahn, “RAID4S: Adding SSDs to RAID Arrays,” in Poster Session and Ph.D. Workshop at EuroSys 2010, Paris, France, 2010.
    • Milo Polte, Esteban Molina-Estolano, John Bent, Scott A. Brandt, Garth A. Gibson, Maya Gokhale, Carlos Maltzahn, and Meghan Wingate, “Enabling Scientific Application I/O on Cloud FileSystems,” in Work-in-Progress and Poster Session at FAST’10, San Jose, CA, 2010.
    • 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.
    • Esteban Molina-Estolano, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott A. Brandt, and John Bent, “Comparing the Performance of Different Parallel File system Placement Strategies,” in WiP at FAST ’09, San Francisco, CA, 2009.
    • Esteban Molina-Estolano, Maya Gokhale, Carlos Maltzahn, John May, John Bent, and Scott Brandt, “Mixing Hadoop and HPC Workloads on Parallel Filesystems,” in pdsw09, Portland, OR, 2009.
    • Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, and Wang-Chiew Tan, “Fusing Data Management Services with File Systems,” in PDSW’09, Portland, OR, 2009.
    • Esteban Molina-Estolano, Carlos Maltzahn, John Bent, and Scott A. Brandt, “Building a Parallel File System Simulator,” J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., vol. 126, no. 012050, 2009.
    • Anna Povzner, Scott A. Brandt, Richard Golding, Theodore Wong, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Virtualizing Disk Performance with Fahrrad,” in fast08wip, 2008.
    • Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Anna Povzner, Roberto Pineiro, Andrew Shewmaker, and Tim Kaldewey, “An Integrated Model for Performance Management in a Distributed System,” in OSPERT 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008.
    • Anna Povzner, Tim Kaldewey, Scott A. Brandt, Richard Golding, Theodore Wong, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Efficient Guaranteed Disk Request Scheduling with Fahrrad,” in Eurosys 2008, Glasgow, Scottland, 2008.
    • Anna Povzner, Tim Kaldewey, Scott A. Brandt, Richard Golding, Theodore Wong, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Efficient Guaranteed Disk Request Scheduling with Fahrrad,” Operating Systems Review, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 13–25, May 2008.
    • Tim Kaldewey, Andrew Shewmaker, Richard Golding, Carlos Maltzahn, Theodore Wong, and Scott A. Brandt, “RADoN: QoS in Storage Networks,” in fast08wip, 2008.
    • Tim Kaldewey, Anna Povzner, Theodore Wong, Richard Golding, Scott A. Brandt, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Virtualizing Disk Performance,” in RTAS 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, 2008.
    • Carlos Maltzahn, Nikhil Bobb, Mark W. Storer, Damian Eads, Scott A. Brandt, and Ethan L. Miller, “Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata,” Proceedings in Informatics, vol. 21, pp. 97–111, 2007.
    • 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.
    • David Bigelow, Suresh Iyer, Tim Kaldewey, Roberto Pineiro, Anna Povzner, Scott A. Brandt, Richard Golding, Theodore Wong, and Carlos Maltzahn, “End-to-end Performance Management for Scalable Distributed Storage,” 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, and Carlos Maltzahn, “CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data,” University of California, Santa Cruz, SSRC-06-01, Jan. 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.
    • Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Kevin M. Greenan, Owen S. Hofmann, Mark W. Storer, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt, “LiFS: An Attribute-Rich File System for Storage Class Memories,” in MSST ’06, College Park, MD, 2006.
    • Nikhil Bobb, Damian Eads, Mark W. Storer, Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, and Ethan L. Miller, “Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata,” in wdas06, San Jose, CA, 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, Darrell D. E. Long, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ceph: A Scalable Object-based Storage System,” University of California, Santa Cruz, SSRC-06-02, Jan. 2006.
    • Alexander Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Scott A. Brandt, Adam Hiatt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Alisa Neeman, and Deepa Tuteja, “Richer File System Metadata Using Links and Attributes,” in MSST ’05, Monterey, CA, 2005.