Smarter SSDs for Faster Data Processing

We are redesigning database, NoSQL, and data retrieval systems to take full advantage of next-generation non-volatile memories. We have developed novel programming models for dealing with persistent state in programs, and we are re-engineering SSDs and memory hierarchies to support and accelerate them.

MARS integrated transaction processing directly into the SSD.
Gulfoss coordinated data move between SSDs, GPUs, and processor memory to speed processing.
Morpheus used the SSD to deserialize data structures on their way to memory.
SPMario and Hippogriff accelerated MapReduce applications by carefully scheduling data transfers in heterogeneous computing systems.

Publications

vCorfu: A Cloud-Scale Object Store on a Shared Log
Michael Wei, Amy Tai, Christopher J. Rossbach, Ittai Abraham, Maithem Munshed, Medhavi Dhawan, Jim Stabile, Udi Wieder, Scott Fritchie, Steven Swanson, Michael J. Freedman, and Dahlia Malkhi 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 17), 2017.
An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression
Jianguo Wang, Chunbin Lin, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Management of Data, 2017.
MILC: inverted list compression in memory
Jianguo Wang, Chunbin Lin, Ruining He, Moojin Chae, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 10(8):853-864, 2017.
SSD In-Storage Computing for Search Engines
Jianguo Wang, Dongchul Park, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson IEEE Trans. Computers, 2016.
HippogriffDB: Balancing I/O and GPU Bandwidth in Big Data Analytics
Jing Li, Hung-Wei Tseng, Chunbin Lin, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson VLDB 9(14), 2016.
Hippogriff: Efficiently Moving Data in Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Yang Liu, Hung-wei Tseng, Mark Gahagan, Jing Li, and Steven Swanson Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2016.
SPMario: Scale up MapReduce with I/O-Oriented Scheduling for the GPU
Yang Liu, Hung-Wei Tseng, and Steven Swanson 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2016, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, October 2-5, 2016, 2016.
From ARIES to MARS:Transaction Support for Next-Generation Solid-State Drives
Joel Coburn, Trevor Bunker, Meir Shwarz, Rajesh K. Gupta, and Steven Swanson Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2013.
SSD In-Storage Computing for Search Engines
Jianguo Wang, Dongchul Park, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson IEEE Trans. Computers, 2016.
SSD in-storage computing for list intersection
Jianguo Wang, Dongchul Park, Yang-Suk Kee, Yannis Papakonstantinou, and Steven Swanson Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 27, 2016, 2016.
Morpheus: Creating Application Objects Efficiently for Heterogeneous Computing
Hung-Wei Tseng, Qianchen Zhao, Yuxiao Zhou, Mark Gahagan, and Steven Swanson 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2016.
Gullfoss: Accelerating and Simplifying Data Movement among Heterogeneous Computing and Storage Resources
Hung-Wei Tseng, Yang Liu, Mark Gahagan, Jing Li, Yanqin Jin, and Steven Swanson Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego technical report technical report CS2015-1015, 2015.
Near-Data Processing: Insights from a MICRO-46 Workshop
Rajeev Balasubramonian, Jichuan Chang, Troy Manning, Jaime H. Moreno, Richard Murphy, Ravi Nair, and Steven Swanson Micro, IEEE 34(4):36-42, July 2014.