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Publications by Michail Flouris

... in reverse chronological order

• Book Chapters

  1. Michail D. Flouris, and Evangelos P. Markatos: “Network RAM”, In High Performance Cluster Computing, Vol 1, editor Buyya Rajkumar, Prentice Hall, USA, ISBN 0-13-013784-7.

• Patents

  1. “System and Method for Implementing SSD-based I/O Caches” (Patent Pending),
     Inventors: Angelos Bilas, Michail Flouris, Yannis Klonatos, Thanos Makatos, Manolis Marazakis.
     Patent Application No. PCT/CA2012/050497 filed on July 24, 2012.
     URL: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2014015409A1?cl=en
  2. “System and Method for Classifying and Storing Related Form of Data” (Patent Pending),
     Inventors: Angelos Bilas and Michail Flouris.
     US Patent Application No. 12/314,758 filed on December 16, 2008
     International Patent Application No: PCT/IB2009/007726, Filed on December 11, 2009.
     URL: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2010070410A1?cl=en

• Journals & Special Issues (Refereed)

  1. “Transparent Online Storage Compression at the Block-level”, Yannis Klonatos, Thanos Makatos, Manonis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris, and Angelos Bilas.
     To appear at ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS).
  2. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize, Konstantinos Chasapis, and Angelos Bilas: “Extensible block-level storage virtualization in cluster-based systems”, In the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 70, Issue 5, May 2010.
     Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.03.001
  3. Evangelos P. Markatos, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Michail D. Flouris, and Manolis G.H. Katevenis: “Web-Conscious Storage Management for Web Proxies”, In the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), December 2002, Volume 10, Number 6, pp. 735-748. Link to TON article Check out the source code of our web cache prototype in the projects page
  4. Michail D. Flouris and Evangelos P. Markatos: “The Network RamDisk : Using Remote Memory on Heterogeneous NOWs” , in Cluster Computing, Special Issue on I/O in Shared-Storage Clusters, 2(4), pp. 281-293, 1999, Baltzer Science Publishers.
     Available: compressed postscript (58 KBytes), SpringerLink.

• Conferences & Workshops (Refereed)

  1. Yannis Klonatos, Thanos Makatos, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Azor: Using Two-level Block Selection to Improve SSD-based I/O caches”, In the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2011), July 28−30, 2011 Dalian, Liaoning, China.
  2. Markos Fountoulakis, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Design and Evaluation of an I/O Controller for Data Protection”, In the 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference (SYSTOR 2010), May 24-26, 2010 at Haifa, Israel.
  3. Thanos Makatos, Yannis Klonatos, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:“Using Transparent Compression at the Block Level to Increase Storage Space Efficiency”, In the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI ’10), May 3rd, 2010 at Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, NV, USA. [in conjunction with the 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2010)].
  4. Thanos Makatos, Yannis Klonatos, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Using Transparent Compression to Improve SSD-based I/O Caches”, In the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2010), April 13-16, 2010, Paris, France.
     Available: Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
  5. George Panagiotakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Reducing Disk I/O Performance Sensitivity for Large Numbers of Sequential Streams”, In the 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), June 22-26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
     Available: Paper (PDF), Slides (PDF)
  6. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas: “Orchestra: Extensible Block-level Support for Resource and Data Sharing in Networked Storage Systems”, In the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008), 8-10 Dec. 2008.
     Available: PDF
  7. Jesus Luna, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, Angelos Bilas, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Harald Gjermundrod, Theodoros Kyprianou:“Using the gLite middleware to implement a secure Intensive Care Grid System”. In Grid and Services Evolution, CoreGRID series, Springer Verlag, 2009. (ISBN: 978-0-387-85965-1)
  8. Maciej Brzezniak, Norbert Meyer, Michail D. Flouris, and Angelos Bilas: “Practical evaluation of custom technology-based vs commodity technology-based Storage Elements”. In Grid and Services Evolution, CoreGRID series, Springer Verlag, 2009. (ISBN: 978-0-387-85965-1)
  9. Jesus Luna, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, and Angelos Bilas:“Providing Security to the Desktop Data Grid”, In the 2nd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid ’08), (in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’08), pages 1-8, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1693-6), April 2008, Miami, Florida, USA. (Also published as CoreGRID technical report TR-0145)
  10. Jesus Luna, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, Angelos Bilas, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Harald Gjermundrod, Theodoros Kyprianou: “A Data-Centric Security Analysis of ICGrid”, In Proceedings of the CoreGRID Integrated Research in Grid Computing, pages 165-176, April 2008. (Also published as CoreGRID technical report TR-0144)
  11. Jesus Luna, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, Angelos Bilas, Federico Stagni, Alberto Forti, Antonia Ghiselli, Luca Magnoni and Riccardo Zappi: “An Analysis of Security Services in Grid Storage Systems”, In Grid Middleware and Services : Challenges and Solutions, CoreGRID series, Springer Verlag, August 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-387-78445-8) (Also published as CoreGRID technical report TR-0090)
  12. Maciej Brzezniak, Norbert Meyer, Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize, and Angelos Bilas:“An Analysis of GRID Storage Element Architectures: High-end Fiber-Channel vs. Emerging Cluster-based Networked Storage”, In Grid Middleware and Services : Challenges and Solutions, CoreGRID series, Springer Verlag, August 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-387-78445-8)
  13. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas: “Violin: A Framework for Extensible Block-level Storage”, In Knowledge and Data Management in Grids, CoreGRID series, Vol. 3, Pages 83-98, Springer Verlag, 2007. (ISBN: 978-0-387-37830-5)
  14. Zsolt Nemeth, Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas:“Conductor: Support for Autonomous Configuration of Storage Systems”, In Knowledge and Data Management in Grids, CoreGRID series, Vol. 3, Pages 83-98, Springer Verlag, 2007. (ISBN: 978-0-387-37830-5)
  15. Zsolt Nemeth, Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas:“Support for Automatic Diagnosis and Dynamic Configuration of Scalable Storage Systems”, In CoreGrid Workshop on Grid Middleware in conjunction with EuroPar’06, Springer Verlag, 2006.
      Available: PS Link
  16. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas: “Using Lightweight Transactions and Snapshots for Fault-Tolerant Services Based on Shared Storage Bricks”, In International Workshop on High Performance I/O Techniques and Deployment of Very Large Scale I/O Systems (HiperIO ’06), Sept. 2006 (In conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2006).
  17. Michail D. Flouris, Stergios V. Anastasiadis and Angelos Bilas: “Block-level Virtualization: How far can we go?”, In IEEE-CS International Symposium on Global Data Interoperability – Challenges and Technologies, June 20-24, 2005, Sardinia, Italy.
      Available: IEEE Link PDF
  18. Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:“Violin: A Framework for Extensible Block-level Storage”, In 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2005), April 11-14, 2005, Monterey, California USA.
      Available: PDF
  19. Dimitrios Xinidis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Performance Evaluation of Commodity iSCSI-based Storage Systems”, In 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2005), April 11-14, 2005, Monterey, California USA.
      Available: PDF
  20. Dimitrios Xinidis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “Virtual Timers: Using Hardware Physical Timers for Profiling Kernel Code-Paths”, In 8th Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW-8), (immediately preceding the 11th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-11)), February 12, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA.
      Available: PDF
  21. Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:“Clotho: Transparent Data Versioning at the Block I/O Level”, In 12th NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2004), April 2004, College Park, Maryland, USA.
      Available: PDF
  22. Michail D. Flouris, Lap Chi Lau, Tsuyoshi Morioka, Periklis A. Papakonstantinou, and Gerald Penn: “Bounded and Ordered Satisfiability: Connecting Recognition with Lambek-style Calculi to Classical Satisfiability Testing”, Mathematics of Language 8 (MoL 8 ), 20-22 June 2003, Bloomington, IN, USA.
      Available: Postscript PDF
  23. Evangelos P. Markatos, Manolis G.H. Katevenis, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, and Michail D. Flouris: “Secondary Storage Management for Web Proxies”. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS’99), 1999, pp. 93-104, Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on the Internet.
      Available: PDF.

• Tutorials (Refereed)

  1. Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris, and Angelos Bilas: “Storage Virtualization and High-Performance I/O: Storage I/O Stack Design and Implementation”. Tutorial in the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2010), April 13-16, 2010, Paris, France.

• Posters / Short Papers (Refereed)

  1. Konstantinos Chasapis, Yannis Klonatos, Manolis Marazakis, Stelios Mavridis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:
     “Towards a Performance Scalable File System Design”,
     Poster in Seventh International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems (ACACES 2011), July 2011.
  2. Sandesh Uppoor, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:
     “Cloud-based Synchronization of Distributed File System Hierarchies”,
     Poster in the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2010), September 2010.
  3. Markos Fountoulakis, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas: “A high performance commodity I/O controller for storage virtualization”, Poster in the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2010), April 2010.
     Available: Eyrosys2010 PDF
  4. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize, Kostas Magoutis, and Angelos Bilas:
     “RIBD: Recoverable Independent Block Devices”.
     Work-in-progress paper and poster in the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2009), April 2009.
  5. Thanos Makatos, Manolis Marazakis, Michail D. Flouris, Kostas Magoutis, and Angelos Bilas:“Improving Online Storage Space Efficiency Using Transparent Block-level Compression”. Poster in the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2009), April 2009.
  6. Yannis Klonatos, Michail D. Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, and Angelos Bilas:“Using NAND-based Flash SSDs as a storage cache”. Poster in the ACM/SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2009), April 2009.
  7. Michail D. Flouris and Evangelos P. Markatos: “The Network RamDisk: Using Remote Memory on Heterogeneous NOWs”. Poster paper in the Work – In – Progress Session of the USENIX ’99 Annual Technical Conference, June 6-11 1999, Monterey, CA, USA.

• Technical Reports & Theses

  1. Michail D. Flouris: “Extensible Networked-Storage Virtualization with Metadata Management at the Block Level”, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto, Canada, 2009.
     Available: U. Toronto Library (PDF), Local copy (PDF), Wordles: Wordle 1, Wordle 2, Wordle 3
  2. Maciej Brzezniak, Norbert Meyer, Michail Flouris, and Angelos Bilas:“Practical evaluation of custom technology-based vs commodity technology-based Storage Elements”. CoreGrid Technical Report TR-0168, July 2008.
     Available: PDF
  3. Michail D. Flouris, Renaud Lachaize and Angelos Bilas: “Shared & Flexible Block I/O for Cluster-Based Storage”, Technical Report 380, July 2006, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece.
  4. Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:“Violin: A Framework for Extensible Block-level Storage”, Technical Report 344, Oct. 2004, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece.
  5. Michail D. Flouris and Angelos Bilas:“Clotho: Transparent Data Versioning at the Block I/O Level”, Technical Report 326, Oct. 2003, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece.
  6. Evangelos P. Markatos, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Michail D. Flouris, and Manolis G.H. Katevenis: “Web-Conscious Storage Management for Web Proxies”, Techinal Report 275, Aug. 2000, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece.
     Available: compressed postscript (580 KBytes).
  7. Michail D. Flouris: “Design and Implementation of Methods Enchancing the Performance of WWW Proxies”, M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science Dept. University of Crete, Greece, Feb. 2000.
     Abstract (whole thesis in Greek Language only): thesis_abstract.ps.gz
  8. Michail D. Flouris and Evangelos P. Markatos: “The Network RamDisk: Using Remote Memory on Heterogeneous NOWs”, Technical Report 226, ICS-FORTH, Aug. 1998.
     Available: compressed postscript (54 KBytes).

• Articles

  1. [Available in Greek language only] Μιχαήλ Φλουρής και Αγγελος Μπίλας: Ναυαγοί στον ωκεανό της πληροφορίας, The Economist – Technology Quarterly (H ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ Ειδικές Εκδόσεις), Τεύχος 76, Μάϊος 2010.
     Διαθέσιμο: PDF, Web
  2. [Available in Greek language only] Μιχαήλ Φλουρής, Μανόλης Μαραζάκης, Κώστας Μαγκούτης, Αγγελος Μπίλας: Αποθήκευση Δεδομένων: Προβλέψεις για “νεφελώδεις” λύσεις, The Economist – Technology Quarterly (H ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ Ειδικές Εκδόσεις), Τεύχος 71, Δεκέμβριος 2009.
     Διαθέσιμο: PDF, Web

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