Tim Bisson received his Ph.D working with Prof. Scott Brandt on using flash to improve hard disk power consumption, performance, and reliability. He now works in the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp.

Publications

2008

• Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, High-Performance Metadata Indexing and Search in Petascale Data Storage Systems, Proceedings of the SciDAC 2008 Conference, July 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]
• Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-01, May 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management] [Petabyte-Scale Object-Based Storage]

2007

• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-04, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Hybrid Disk Write Latency with Flash-Backed I/O Requests, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-03, May 2007. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]
• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, A Hybrid Disk-Aware Spin-Down Algorithm with I/O Subsystem Support, Proceedings of the International Performance Conference on Computers and Communication (IPCCC '07), April 2007. Won Best Paper Award. [Storage Class Memories] [Effective Mobility]

2006

• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, NVCache: Increasing the effectiveness of disk spin-down algorithms with caching, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2006), September 2006. [Real-time Systems]

2005

• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Energy Consumption with a Non-Volatile Storage Cache, International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS) held in conjunction with the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Systems and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2005), March 2005. [Storage Class Memories] [Real-time Systems]

2004

• Scott Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt, Timothy Bisson, Integrating best-effort scheduling into a real-time system, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), December 2004. [Real-time Systems]
• Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Adaptive Disk Spin-down Algorithms in Practice, Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the Usenix Conference of File and Storage Technology (FAST 2004), March 2004. [Storage Class Memories] [Real-time Systems]

2003

• Scott A. Brandt, Scott Banachowski, Caixue Lin, Timothy Bisson, Dynamic integrated scheduling of hard real-time, soft real-time and non-real-time processes, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003), December 2003, pages 396–407. [Real-time Systems]