Research in Intelligent Storage

The Center for Research in Intelligent Storage (CRIS) pushes the boundaries of file, memory, and storage systems by exploring and developing new technologies and techniques to improve the usability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance of data storage systems.

Research Areas

Research on new storage technologies: flash memory-based solid-state drive, nonvolatile random-access memory, shingled write disks, and kinetic drives.
Research on new storage hierarchies and hyper-convergence: multilevel caching/prefetching, data allocation/migration, multitiered storage, new information technology infrastructure (seamlessly integrating server, storage and networking).
Cloud storage and Big Data: OpenStack, key-value store, Hadoop, Spark, Container, Access Hint, cloud storage, software-defined storage.
Input/output (I/O) workload characterization and synthetic workload generation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning approaches for data and storage management and for systems design.

Facilities & Resources

Partner Organizations

Abbreviation

CRIS

Country

United States

Region

Americas

Primary Language

English

Evidence of Intl Collaboration?

Industry engagement required?

Associated Funding Agencies

Contact Name

David Du

Contact Title

Center Director

Contact E-Mail

du@cs.umn.edu

Website

General E-mail

Phone

Address

The Center for Research in Intelligent Storage (CRIS) pushes the boundaries of file, memory, and storage systems by exploring and developing new technologies and techniques to improve the usability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance of data storage systems.

Abbreviation

CRIS

Country

United States

Region

Americas

Primary Language

English

Evidence of Intl Collaboration?

Industry engagement required?

Associated Funding Agencies

Contact Name

David Du

Contact Title

Center Director

Contact E-Mail

du@cs.umn.edu

Website

General E-mail

Phone

Address

Research Areas

Research on new storage technologies: flash memory-based solid-state drive, nonvolatile random-access memory, shingled write disks, and kinetic drives.
Research on new storage hierarchies and hyper-convergence: multilevel caching/prefetching, data allocation/migration, multitiered storage, new information technology infrastructure (seamlessly integrating server, storage and networking).
Cloud storage and Big Data: OpenStack, key-value store, Hadoop, Spark, Container, Access Hint, cloud storage, software-defined storage.
Input/output (I/O) workload characterization and synthetic workload generation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning approaches for data and storage management and for systems design.

Facilities & Resources

Partner Organizations