Storage Systems Research Center

The growth rate of data has been rapidly increasing over the past decade. This growth has pushed data quantities to a point where users and administrators have difficulty finding and managing files. UC Santa Cruz researchers are addressing this problem by integrating search and indexing into storage systems. We have designed scalable indexes that enable a number of powerful search capabilities across billions of files. Users can quickly find files with specific properties and issue range, nearest neighbor, or top-k queries, for example, 'which 10 files consume the most storage?' or 'what are my most recently accessed presentation files?'. In addition, queries can be issued across specific sub-trees, across an multiple nodes, or across an entire storage system's history. Our index utilizes data structures specifically designed for the properties of large-scale storage systems, such as, highly skewed data distributions and hierarchical files, that provide much better performance and scalability than existing approaches.

The Storage Systems Research Center is part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Composed of faculty from the Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering departments, our research focuses on many aspects of file and storage systems. We have active projects in archival storage, scalable distributed indexing and non-hierarchical file systems, large-scale distributed storage systems, file systems for next-generation storage devices, and data deduplication. We also have particular focus in cross-cutting issues such as security and reliability in file and storage systems. You're encouraged to browse a full list of our projects and explore the research that the SSRC has done since 2001.

If you're interested in joining the SSRC, please see this page or contact any of the faculty or students in the SSRC.

Prospective graduate students

Applications for graduate school at UC Santa Cruz are due at the end of each calendar year. We have lots of information available online for prospective graduate students.

Learn more about the SSRC

There are many ways to learn more about the SSRC and the research we're doing here at UC Santa Cruz.

• Browse the SSRC web site
• Subscribe to one or more RSS feeds (see the links in the upper left corner of the page)
• Contact SSRC faculty, students, or staff
• Attend an SSRC seminar or other event—all are open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
• Browse past events from 2009, 2010, and 2011—many are available via streaming video.
• Visit the SSRC group on LinkedIn

Contact us

You can reach us by contacting individual faculty or students, or you can reach us at:

Storage Systems Research Center
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064  USA
Phone: +1 (831) 459-2817
Fax: +1 (831) 459-1041
Director: Prof. Darrell D. E. Long
Associate Director: Prof. Ethan L. Miller

Engineering 2 Building SSRC Labs:
E2-381: +1 (831) 459-4458
E2-383: +1 (831) 459-1371
E2-380: no phone