Shafeeq Sinnamohideen

I was a PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. in the research group of Greg Ganger in the Parallel Data Lab. My major research interest in in efficient, consistent and recoverable meta-data storage in large distributed storage systems (such Ursa Major). Previously, I have worked with M. Satyanarayanan at Intel Research Pittsburgh and the Coda Project after completing my undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both at CMU.

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Publications

Refereed

• A transparently scalable metadata service for the Ursa Minor storage system. Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, Likun Liu, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. June 2010. Boston, MA, USA.
• Scalable Fault Tolerance through Byzantine Locking. James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010). June 2010. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Ursa Minor: versatile cluster-based storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. In the proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'05). December 2005. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates. Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan. In the proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'03). March 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• The Case for Cyber Foraging. Rajesh Balan, Jason Flinn, M. Satyanarayanan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Hen-I Yang. In the proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop. September 2002. Saint-Emilion, France.
• Write-Back Caching for Coda} Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Lawrence Greenfield. In the proceedings of the 2nd CMU Student Symposium on Computer Systems. October 1999, Pittsburgh.

Invited

• Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage. Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie. In the Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering. September 2006.
• Seamless Mobile Computing on Fixed Infrastructure. Michael Kozuch, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Thomas Bressoud, Casey Helfrich, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen. In IEEE Computer. July 2004.

Technical reports

• A Transparently-Scalable Metadata Service for the Ursa Minor Storage System. Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, James Hendricks, Likun Liu, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-10-102. March 2010
• Eliminating cross-server operations in scalable file systems. James Hendricks, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Raja R. Sambasivan, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-105. May 2006.
• Improving small file performance in object-based storage. James Hendricks, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-06-104. May 2006.

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