SGER: Designs for High-Performance Fault-Tolerant Disk Arrays

这是一个规划奖，调查RAID系统的系统和软件方面，其中系统开发可以受益于理论研究。 目标是制定研究问题，联合收割机理论和系统的努力，影响下一代RAID系统的设计和性能。 重点将放在四个方面：容忍多个故障的数据布局; 磁盘阵列的在线可扩展性，其中新的磁盘被添加到运行的系统;数据布局映射的有效实现;以及系统级优化的效果，例如大型读写优化。 将与实验RAID组（如Ubergie-Mellon University，UCSD和IBM Almaden）进行合作，以获得新的研究主题和新的指标。

This is a planning award to investigate systems and software aspects of RAID systems in which system development can benefit from theoretical research. The goal is to formulate research problems that combine theory and systems efforts to affect the design and performance of the next generation of RAID systems. The focus will be in four areas: data layouts that tolerate multiple faults; on-line extendibility of disk arrays, in which new disks are added to a running system; efficient implementation of data-layout mappings; and the effect of system-level optimizations such as large read and write optimizations. Collaborations with experimental RAID groups (such as Carnegie-Mellon University, UCSD, and IBM Almaden) will be pursued, with the goal of obtaining new research topics and new metrics.