Dimitris Skourtis

About

Ph.D. candidate and member of the Systems Research Lab at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz.

My research is on providing QoS on storage systems. Recently, I've been working on improving the performance consistency of flash storage.
Prior to that, I was working on real-time scheduling. Besides systems, I have an interest and experience in machine learning theory and a number of its applications on the web. Prior to my Ph.D. studies, in 2008, I received a Master in Mathematics (M.Math) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

D. Skourtis, D. Achlioptas, N. Watkins, C. Maltzahn, and S. Brandt, "Flash on Rails: Consistent Flash Performance through Redundancy", In Proceedings of 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'14), 2014. [pdf]

D. Skourtis, D. Achlioptas, N. Watkins, C. Maltzahn, and S. Brandt, "Erasure Coding & Read/Write Separation in Flash Storage", In 2nd Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads (INFLOW'14), held in conjunction with OSDI'14, 2014.

D. Skourtis, D. Achlioptas, C. Maltzahn, and S. Brandt, "High Performance & Low Latency in Solid-State Drives Through Redundancy", In 1st Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads (INFLOW'13), held in conjunction with SOSP'13, 2013. [pdf]

D. Skourtis, S. Kato, and S. Brandt, "QBox: Guaranteeing I/O Performance on Black Box Storage Systems", In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12), 2012. [pdf]

D. Skourtis, S. Brandt, and C. Maltzahn, "High Performance & Low Latency in Solid-State Drives Through Redundancy", In Work-in-Progress Reports of the 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (WiP/FAST'13), 2013. [pdf]

D. Skourtis, N. Watkins, D. Achlioptas, C. Maltzahn, and S. Brandt, "Latency Minimization in SSD Clusters for Free" (technical report), 2013.

D. Skourtis, S. Brandt, and C. Maltzahn, "Ianus: Guaranteeing High Performance in Solid-State Drives" (technical report), 2013.