Current Project

• Differentiated Storage Services (block-level QoS in storage systems) - view SOSP talk online
  

Past Projects

• Relative fitness modeling (PhD dissertation). Parallel Data Lab. CMU
• Parallel I/O trace collection and replay. Parallel Data Lab. CMU
• Open Storage Toolkit (iSCSI & OSD). Intel
• Self-* storage systems. Parallel Data Lab. CMU
• Attribute-based Learning Environments (ABLE). Parallel Data Lab. CMU
• Object-based storage (OSD). Network Architecture Lab. Intel
• Internet SCSI (iSCSI). Network Architecture Lab. Intel
• Non-Photorealistic Rendering . Intel Architecture Labs. Intel
• Random Number Generator Analysis. Platform Security Division. Intel
• VI-A performance benchmarks. Server Architecture Laboratory. Intel
• Pablo I/O Benchmarks. Pablo Research Group. University of Illinois
• Portable Parallel File System. Pablo Research Group. University of Illinois
• Network Enabled Optimization System. Argonne National Laboratory

Industry involvement

• Member of program committee and session leader for the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Data Storage Devices and Systems (DS2) research roadmap. May, 2004.
• Co-chair of the SNIA technical work group for object-based storage devices (OSD). This work was submitted to ANSI/T10 in 2004 and became a new SCSI standard in 2005. August 2001 - May 2004.

Publications

• Michael Mesnier, Jason Akers, Feng Chen, Tian Luo. Differentiated Storage Services. 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). October 2011.
• Michael Mesnier, Jason Akers. Differentiated Storage Services. Operating Systems Review (OSR). Communications of the ACM (Vol. 45, Issue 1). January 2011.
• Yuan Dong,Haiyang Zhu,  Jinzhan Peng,  Fang Wang,  Michael P. Mesnier,  Dawei Wang,  Sun C. Chan. RFS: a network file system for mobile devices and the cloud. Operating Systems Review (OSR). Communications of the ACM (Vol. 45, Issue 1). January 2011.
• Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger. Relative Fitness Models. Research Highlights, Communications of the ACM (Vol. 52, No. 4, pg 91-96). April, 2009.
• Michael Mesnier. On modeling the relative fitness of storage. PhD dissertation. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. December, 2007. Model appendices. Data appendices.
• Lily Mummert, Steve Schlosser, Mike Mesnier, M. Satyanarayanan. Rethinking Storage for Discard-Based Search. Technical report (CMU-CS-07-176). Carnegie Mellon University. December, 2007.
• Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger. Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage. International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2007). San Diego, CA. June 12-14, 2007. ACM. Awarded Best Paper.
• Michael Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, David O'Hallaron. //TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events. Fifth Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'07). San Jose, CA. February 12-13, 2007. USENIX.
• Michael Mesnier, Brandon Salmon, Matthew Wachs, Gregory Ganger. Relative fitness models for storage. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (Vol 33, No 4, pg 23-38). March, 2006. ACM.
• Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor,  Gregory R. Ganger,  James Hendricks,  Andrew J. Klosterman,  Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad,  Brandon Salmon,  Raja R. Sambasivan,  Shafeeq Sinnamohideen,  John D. Strunk,  Eno Thereska,  Matthew Wachs,  Jay J. Wylie. Ursa minor: versatile cluster-based storage. Fourth Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'05). San Jose, CA. December 13-16, 2005. USENIX. Awarded Best Paper.
• Michael Mesnier, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel. Object-based storage: pushing more functionality into storage. IEEE Potentials (Vol 24, Issue 2, pg 31-34). Apr-May 2005. IEEE.Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Greg Ganger, Daniel Ellard, Margo Seltzer. File classification in self-* storage systems. First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04). New York, NY. May 17-18, 2004. IEEE.
• Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer. Attribute-based prediction of file properties. Technical report (TR-14-03). Harvard University. Dec 2003.
• Michael Mesnier, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel. Object-based Storage. IEEE Communications (Vol 41, No 8, pg 84-90) Aug 2003. IEEE.
• Michael Mesnier. NS Modeling of iSCSI. Carnegie Mellon University. March 2003.
• James V. Huber Jr., Christopher L. Elford, Daniel A. Reed, Andrew A. Chien, David S. Blumenthal, Ilker Hamzaoglu, Andrew J. Lavery, Michael P. Mesnier, James P. Oly. Users' Guide for PPFS: A High-Performance Portable Parallel File System. University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1996.
• M. C. Ferris, M. P. Mesnier, and J. More'. NEOS and Condor: Solving nonlinear optimization problems over the Internet. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. (Vol 26, pg 1-18) 2000. ACM.
• Joseph Czyzyk, Michael P. Mesnier, Jorge J. More'. The NEOS Server. IEEE Computational Science and Engineering (Vol 5, No 3, pg 68-75). Jul-Sep 1998. IEEE.
• Michael P. Mesnier. The Network-Enabled Optimization System Server. Technical Memorandum (No. 210). Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995.

Patents

• Providing differentiated I/O services within a hardware storage controller. Pub. No. 2010/0169570 A1. Filed Dec. 31, 2008, Published July 1, 2010.
• Rendering a Silhouette Edge. Patent No. US 6,822,658 B1. November 23, 2004.