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Background
 

Garth Goodson is a researcher at NetApp. He is currently working on integrating Flash memory technologies into the storage system. Previously, he worked on standardizing Parallel NFS (pNFS), an extension to provide parallelism within the NFSv4 protocol. pNFS is undergoing standardization through the IETF as part of NFSv4.1. He is also interested in the use of virtual machines to provide software fault isolation. Prior to joining NetApp in 2004, Goodson received his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University in electrical and computer engineering under Gregory Ganger. For his thesis, Goodson developed novel Byzantine fault–tolerant protocols using erasure–coding schemes to provide consistency in a distributed storage system (PASIS). He also received his bachelor of science degree in 1998 and master of science degree in 2000 from CMU. While at CMU he worked on a versioning file system, the Self–Securing Storage project (S4), and on user–level networking.
 

Professional Activities

  • Member of ACM
  • Member of USENIX
  • Participated in NFSv4.1 standardization within the IETF

Research Interests

  • Nonvolatile memory technologies
  • Distributed file systems
  • Virtualization
  • Fault tolerance

Publications

  • Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. Data corruption in the storage stack: a closer look. USENIX ;login:, June 2008.
  • Garth Goodson, Sai Susarla, and Rahul Iyer. Standardizing Storage Clusters. ACM Queue, vol. 5, no. 7, November 2007.
  • Andrew Leung, Shankar Pasupathy, Garth Goodson, and Ethan L. Miller. Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads. Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Technical Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2008.
  • Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, California, February 27–29, 2008.
  • Andrew Krioukov, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Kiran Srinivasan, Randy Thelen, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. Parity Lost and Parity Regained. 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, California, February 27–29, 2008.
  • Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Jiri Schindler. An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, San Diego, California, June 12–16, 2007.
  • Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K. Reiter, and Jay J. Wylie. Fault-Scalable Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services. SOSP, Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23–26, 2005.
  • Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. Goodson, Michael K. Reiter, and Jay J. Wylie. Lazy Verification in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Storage Systems. 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Orlando, Florida, October 26–28, 2005.
  • Garth Goodson. Efficient, scalable consistency for highly fault-tolerant storage. Carnegie Mellon University PhD dissertation. CMU-PDL-04-111, August 2004.
  • Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter. Efficient Byzantine-tolerant Erasure-coded Storage. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004). Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy, June 28– July 1, 2004.
  • Jay J. Wylie, Garth R. Goodson, Gregory R. Ganger, and Michael K. Reiter. Protocol Family Approach to Survivable Storage Infrastructures. FuDiCo II: S.O.S. (Survivability: Obstacles and Solutions), 2nd Bertinoro Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing, University of Bologna Residential Center, Bertinoro (Forlì), Italy, June 23–25 2004.
  • Adam Pennington, John Strunk, John Griffin, Craig Soules, Garth Goodson, and Greg Ganger. Storage-based Intrusion Detection: Watching Storage Activity For Suspicious Behavior. 12th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, DC, August 4–8, 2003.
  • Craig A. N. Soules, Garth R. Goodson, John D. Strunk, and Gregory R. Ganger. Metadata Efficiency in a Comprehensive Versioning File System. 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Francisco, California, March 31–April 2, 2003.
  • Strunk, J.D., Goodson, G.R., Scheinholtz, M.L., Soules, C.A.N., and Ganger, G.R. Self-Securing Storage: Protecting Data in Compromised Systems. Appears in Proc. of the 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, California, October 23–25, 2000.

Recent Talks

  • UCSD CNS Review, January 2008
  • UCSC SRC Symposium, March 2008