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• ORCID: 0000-0003-2994-9060
• NSF IUCRC Center for Research in Storage Systems
• Storage Systems Research Center
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Teaching

2023–24

• None (emeritus)

Undergraduate

• Principles of computer systems design
• Embedded operating systems
• Computer architecture
• Computer security
• Distributed systems

Graduate

• Advanced topics in computer engineering
• Advanced topics in computer systems
• Operating systems
• Storage systems
• Distributed systems
• Computer security

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• Personal home page
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Publications 2002 and later

For all publications in 2002 and later, please see my SSRC publications page.

Publications before 2002

Refereed Journal & Conference Publications

2001

• Ethan Miller, Scott Brandt, and Darrell Long, HeRMES: High-Performance Reliable MRAM-Enabled Storage, Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Schloss Elmau, Germany, May 2001, pages 83–87.

2000

• Lee Butler, Travis Atkison, and Ethan Miller, Comparing CPU Performance Between and Within Processor Families, Proceedings of the 25^th Annual International Conference on Computer Measurement and Performance (CMG 2000), Orlando, FL, December 2000, pages 421–430.
• Ethan Miller and Jon Squire, esim: A Structural Design Language and Simulator for Computer Architecture Education, 2000 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE 2000), Vancouver, Canada, June 2000, pages 42–48.
• William Freeman and Ethan Miller, Design for A Decentralized Security System For Network Attached Storage, Proceedings of the 8^th Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies / 17^th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, College Park, MD, March 2000, pages 361–373.
• Ethan Miller, Dan Shen, Junli Liu, and Charles Nicholas, Performance and Scalability of a Large-Scale N-gram Based Information Retrieval System, Journal of Digital Information 1(5), January 2000, 25 pages (online refereed journal).

1999

• Timothy Gibson and Ethan Miller, An Improved Long-Term File Usage Prediction Algorithm, Proceedings of the 24^th Annual International Conference on Computer Measurement and Performance (CMG99), Reno, NV, December 1999, pages 639–648.
• William Freeman and Ethan Miller, An Experimental Analysis of Cryptographic Overhead in Performance-Critical Systems, Proceedings of the 7^th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS ’99), College Park, MD, October 1999, pages 348–357.
• Christopher Shaw, James Kukla, Ian Soboroff, David Ebert, Charles Nicholas, Amen Zwa, Ethan Miller, and D. Aaron Roberts, Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization for Document Corpus Management, International Journal on Digital Libraries 2(2–3), 1999, pages 144–156.
• Jeffrey Hollingsworth, Ethan Miller, and Kennedy Akala, Binary Version Management for Computational Grids, Parallel Processing Letters 9(2), June 1999, pages 215–225.
• Ethan Miller, Dan Shen, Junli Liu, Charles Nicholas, and Ting Chen, Techniques for Gigabyte-Scale N-gram Based Information Retrieval on Personal Computers, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA ’99), Las Vegas, NV, June 1999, pages 1410–1416.
• Michael Shapiro and Ethan Miller, Managing Databases with Binary Large Objects, Proceedings of the 16^th IEEE Mass Storage System Symposium, San Diego, CA, March 1999, pages 185–193.

1998

• Timothy Gibson, Ethan Miller, and Darrell Long, Long-Term File System Activity and Interreference Patterns, Proceedings of the 23^rd Annual International Conference on Computer Measurement and Performance (CMG ’98), Anaheim, CA, December 1998, pages 976–987.
• Kennedy Akala, Ethan Miller, and Jeff Hollingsworth, Using Content-Derived Names for Package Management in Tcl, Proceedings of the 6^th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, San Diego, CA, September 1998, pages 171–179.
• Theodore Johnson and Ethan Miller, Performance Measurements of Tertiary Storage Devices, Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB ’98), New York, NY, August 1998, pages 50–61.
• Jem Y. Fan, Xiangjun Zhao, J. P. Zhang, Fow-Sen Choa, Yanjie Chai, Jye-Hong Chen, Ethan Miller, Howard Motteler, Pao-Lo Liu, Tawee Tanbun-Ek, Patrick Wisk, Won-Tien Tsang, George J. Zydzik, and Charles A. Burrus, Wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) data block switching for parallel computing and interconnect, SPIE International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 1998, volume 3491, pages 634–638.
• Steven Gribble, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Drew Roselli, Eric Brewer, Timothy Gibson, and Ethan Miller, Self-Similarity in File Systems, Proceedings of the SIGMETRICS ’98 / PERFORMANCE ’98 Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Madison, WI, June 1998, pages 141–150.
• Timothy J. Gibson and Ethan Miller, Long-Term File Activity Patterns in a UNIX Workstation Environment, Proceedings of the 6^th Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies / 15^th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, College Park, MD, March 1998, pages 355–372.
• Theodore Johnson and Ethan Miller, Benchmarking Tape Systems Performance, Proceedings of the 6^th Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies / 15^th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, College Park, MD, March 1998, pages 95–112.

1997

• Claudia Pearce and Ethan Miller, The TELLTALE Dynamic Hypertext Environment: Approaches to Scalability, in Advances in Intelligent Hypertext, J. Mayfield and C. Nicholas, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, October 1997, pages 109–130.
• R. Scott Cost, Jeegar Lakhani, Ian Soboroff, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, and Charles Nicholas, TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1365, Springer-Verlag, pages 339–343. Also appeared in the Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Agent Theories and Agent Languages (ATAL97), Newport, RI, July 1997.
• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, RAMA: An Easy-To-Use, High-Performance Parallel File System, Parallel Computing 23(4), July 1997, pages 419–446.
• David Ebert, Amen Zwa, Ethan Miller, Chris D. Shaw, and D. Aaron Roberts, Two-handed Volumetric Document Corpus Management, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 17(4), July 1997, pages 60–62.
• R. Scott Cost, Jeegar Lakhani, Ian Soboroff, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, and Charles Nicholas, Agent Development Support for Tcl, Proceedings of the 5^th Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, Boston, MA, July 1997, pages 177–178.
• Jeff Hollingsworth and Ethan Miller, Using Content-Derived Names for Configuration Management, Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR ’97), Boston, MA, May 1997, pages 104–109.
• David Ebert, Chris Shaw, Amen Zwa, Ethan Miller, and D. A. Roberts, Interactive Volume Visualization for Document Corpus Management, Proceedings of Graphics Interface, May 1997, pages 121–128.

1996

• Timothy Gibson and Ethan Miller, The Case for Personal Computers as Workstations, 22^nd Annual International Conference on Computer Measurement and Performance, San Diego, CA, December 1996, pages 644–652.
• Amen Zwa, David Ebert, and Ethan Miller, Multiresolution Document Analysis with Wavelets, Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, Rockville, MD, December 1996, pages 50–53.
• David Ebert, Chris Shaw, Amen Zwa, and Ethan Miller, Minimally-immersive Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization, Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization ’96, San Francisco, CA, October 1996, pages 66–68.
• Ethan Miller, Towards Scalable Benchmarks for Mass Storage Systems, Proceedings of the 5^th NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, MD, September 1996, pages 515–528.

1995

• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, RAMA: Easy Access to a High-Bandwidth Massively Parallel File System, Proceedings of the Winter 1995 USENIX Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 1995, pages 59–70.

1994

• Peter Chen, Edward Lee, Ann Drapeau, Ken Lutz, Ethan Miller, Srini Seshan, Ken Shirriff, David Patterson, and Randy Katz, Performance and Design Evaluation of the RAID-II Storage Server, Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases 2(3), July 1994, pages 243–260.
• Ann Drapeau, Peter Chen, John Hartman, Edward Lee, Ethan Miller, Ken Shirriff, Srini Seshan, Randy Katz, Garth Gibson, and David Patterson, RAID-II: A Scalable Storage Architecture for High-Bandwidth Network File Service, 21^st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, April 1994, pages 234–244.

1993

• Peter Chen, Edward Lee, Ann Drapeau, Ken Lutz, Ethan Miller, Srini Seshan, Ken Shirriff, David Patterson, and Randy Katz, Performance and Design Evaluation of the RAID-II Storage Server, International Parallel Processing Symposium Workshop on I/O in Parallel Computer Systems, Newport Beach, CA, April 1993, pages 110–120.
• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, RAMA: A Filesystem for Massively Parallel Computers, Digest of Papers, 12^th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, Monterey, CA, April 1993, pages 163–168.
• Randy Katz, Peter Chen, Ann Drapeau, Edward Lee, Ethan Miller, Srini Seshan, and David Patterson, RAID-II: Design and Implementation of a Large Scale Disk Array Controller, VLSI System Design Conference, Seattle, WA, March 1993.
• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, An Analysis of File Migration in a UNIX Supercomputing Environment, Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conference, San Diego, CA, January 1993, pages 421–433.

1992

• Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson, Ann Chervenak-Drapeau, Joel Fine, and Ethan Miller, An Approach to Cost-Effective Terabyte Memory Systems, Digest of Papers, Compcon Spring ’92, 37^th IEEE Computer Society International Conference, February 1992, San Francisco, CA, pages 395–400.

1991

• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, Input/Output Behavior of Supercomputing Applications, Supercomputing ’91, Albuquerque, NM, November 1991, pages 567–576.
• Ethan Miller and Randy Katz, Analyzing the I/O Behavior of Supercomputing Applications, Digest of Papers, 11^th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, Monterey, CA, October 1991, pages 51–55.

Invited Publications

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, Pergamum: Energy-efficient Archival Storage with Disk Instead of Tape, ;login:—The USENIX Magazine 33(3), June 2008, pages 15–21.
• Ethan L. Miller, Dealing with Long-Lived Data in High Performance Storage Systems, Storage on the Lunatic Fringe: Beyond Peta-Scale Storage Systems, workshop at SC03, November 2003.
• Ethan Miller, Darrell Long, William Freeman, and Benjamin Reed, Strong Security for Distributed File Systems, Proceedings of the 20^th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2001), Phoenix, AZ, April 2001, pages 34–40.

Last updated 13 Jan 2022 by Ethan L. Miller (elm©cs·ucsc·edu)