The results of file systems traces have had a significant impact on FS research, even when these traces were 10-15 years old. I have ran experiments to trace the behavior of the Windows NT file system. For this I have developed a distributed tracing architecture that collects the file system access data from potential ten's of nodes. Construction of models and evaluation of the data is still work in progress, but a paper describing the initial result has appeared in the 1999 SOSP . I sponsor a series projects for students that want to do OS research and are looking for short term focused projects.
Students can join the team that works on cluster management and on the cluster-aware programming.
Other projects range from the construction of a clustered event processing system to distributed debugging. A summary of projects for Spring 2001 is available.