Susan Spence

Researcher
Palo Alto

Biography

Susan is a researcher in the Web Services and Systems Lab, focused on creating services to transform business document processes and business document publishing services.

 

Research interests

Distributed systems, storage systems.

Publications

  • Olive: Distributed Point-in-Time Branching Storage for Real Systems. Marcos K. Aguilera, Susan Spence, and Alistair Veitch.  Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2006): 367-380 (May 2006, San Jose, CA).
  • Quickly finding near-optimal storage designs.  Eric Anderson, Susan Spence, Ram Swaminathan, Mahesh Kallahalla, Qian Wang.  ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 23(4): 337-374 (Nov 2005)
  • FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components.  Yasushi Saito, Svend Frlund, Alistair C. Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence.  ASPLOS 2004: 48-58 (October 2004, Boston, MA).
  • A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks.  Svend Frlund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch.  DSN 2004: 125-134.  The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy, June 28th - July 1, 2004.
  • FAB: a low-cost, high-tech next-generation storage system.  Svend Frolund, Minwen Ji, Hernan Laffitte, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch, Steve Chalmers and Doug Voigt. HP TechCon, June 2004.
  • FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring.  Svend Frlund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch.  HotOS 2003: 169-174 (May 2003, Kauai, HI).
  • Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration. Eric Anderson, Michael Hobbs, Kimberly Keeton, Susan Spence, Mustafa Uysal, Alistair C. Veitch.  Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST'02) pp. 175-188 (28-30 January 2002, Monterey, CA). Published by USENIX, Berkeley, CA.
  • When local becomes global: an application study of data consistency in a networked world. Erik Riedel, Susan Spence and Alistair Veitch. 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2001 (4-6 April 2001, Phoenix, AZ).
  • PJRMI: Remote Method Invocation for a Persistent System. Susan Spence.  International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 1999: 44-53  (Sep 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK).
  • Porting a Distributed System to PJama: Orthogonal Persistence for Java. Huw Evans, Susan Spence. Proceedings of the Third Persistence and Java Workshop, September 1998, Tiburon, California: 297-306.
  • A Scalable Model of Distribution Promoting Autonomy of and Cooperation between PJava Object Stores. Susan Spence, Malcolm P. Atkinson.  Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1997, Wailea, Hawaii, USA. HICSS (1) 1997: 513-522
  • The Design of a new Persistent Object Store for PJama. Tony Printezis, Malcolm Atkinson, Laurent Dayns, Susan Spence, Pete Bailey. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW2). August 1997, Half Moon Bay, California.
  • Design Issues for Persistent Java: A Type-Safe, Object-Oriented, Orthogonally Persistent System. Malcolm P. Atkinson, Mick J. Jordan, Laurent Dayns, Susan Spence.  Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS7), May 1996, Cape May, New Jersey, USA: 33-47
  • Distribution Strategies for Persistent Java.  Susan Spence.  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Persistence and Java, September 1996, Drymen, Scotland, UK.
  • An Orthogonally Persistent Java.  Malcolm P. Atkinson, Laurent Daynes, Mick J. Jordan, Tony Printezis, Susan Spence.  ACM SIGMOD Record 25(4): 68-75 (Dec 1996)