Michael Mesnier

Mike's contact information 

• michael.p.mesnier@gmail.com

• LinkedIn

Selected blogs

• Good AI Starts with Good Data: Battling Silent Data Corruption with Computational Storage. May 2024, Intel.

• Intel Labs Fights Silent Data Corruption with Computational Storage. May 2024, HPCWire.

• Intel Labs Showcases Product Concept for a Server-Based Computational Storage Platform. August 2022, Intel.

Selected talks (videos)

• Computational Storage at SDC '23

• Plumbing the Depths of Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day '16

• Differentiated Storage Services at SOSP '11

Industry engagement

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Storage. Fall 2024 - present.

• Program committees: Eurosys ('24), USENIX ATC ('20, '21, '22, '23, '25), HotStorage ('18, 19, '20) Non-volatile Memories Workshop ('12, '13, '16), INSIC '05

• Co-chair of SNIA technical work group for Object-based Storage Devices (OSD).  August 2001 - May 2004. 

• Maintainer, Open Storage Toolkit (iSCSI, Object-based Storage, Differentiated Storage Services).  2001-present.

Publications

• Peter Desnoyers, Ian F. Adams, Tyler Estro, Anshul Gandhi, Geoff Kuenning, Michael P. Mesnier, Carl A. Waldspurger, Avani Wildani, Erez Zadok: Persistent Memory Research in the Post-Optane Era. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Disruptive Memory Systems (DIMES '23) at SOSP '24.

• Yi Zheng, Joshua Fixelle, Pingyi Huo, Mircea Stan, Michael P. Mesnier, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan: ISVABI: In-Storage Video Analytics Engine with Block Interface.  Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '23).

• Ian F. Adams, Neha Agrawal, Michael P. Mesnier: Enabling near-data processing in distributed object storage systems. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '21).

• Ian F. Adams, John Keys, Michael P. Mesnier: Respecting the block interface - computational storage using virtual objects. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '19).

• Accelerating Swift with Intel Cache Acceleration Software. Intel whitepaper, 2017.

• Binbing Hou, Feng Chen, Zhonghong Ou, Ren Wang, Michael P. Mesnier: Understanding I/O Performance Behaviors of Cloud Storage from a Client's Perspective. ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol 13 Issue 2, 2017.

• Binbing Hou, Feng Chen, Zhonghong Ou, Ren Wang, Michael P. Mesnier: Understanding I/O Performance Behaviors of Cloud Storage from a Client's Perspective. IEEE/NASA 32nd Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '16).

• Yahoo Accelerates Scale-out Storage Performance with Intel CAS 3.0. Intel whitepaper, 2016.

• Feng Chen, Michael P. Mesnier, Scott Hahn: A protected block device for persistent memory. IEEE/NASA 30nd Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '14).

• Feng Chen, Michael P. Mesnier, Scott Hahn: Client-aware cloud storage. IEEE/NASA 30nd Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '14).

• Tian Luo, Rubao Lee, Michael P. Mesnier, Feng Chen, Xiaodong Zhang: hStorage-DB: Heterogeneity-aware Data Management to Exploit the Full Capability of Hybrid Storage Systems. 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2012 (VLDB 2012).

• Christian Black, Michael Mesnier, Terry Yoshii: Solid-State Drive Caching with Differentiated Storage Services. Intel whitepaper, 2012. 

• Michael P. Mesnier, Jason B. Akers: Differentiated storage services. ACM SIGOPS: Operating Systems Review, Volume 45 Issue 1, 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. ACM SIGOPS: Operating Systems Review, Volume 45 Issue 1, 2011.

• Michael P. Mesnier, Feng Chen, Tian Luo, Jason B. Akers: Differentiated storage services. 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '11). slides

• Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger: Relative fitness modeling.  Communications of the ACM, Research Highlights. April, 2009

• Michael P. Mesnier: On modeling the relative fitness of storage.   Ph.D Dissertation.  Carnegie Mellon University. December, 2007.

• Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio López, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, David R. O'Hallaron: //TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events. 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2007). slides

• Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger: Modeling the relative fitness of storage. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS International conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS '07).  Best paper award.

• Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael P. Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie: Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage.  Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, September 2006. 

• Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Brandon Salmon, Gregory R. Ganger: Relative fitness models for storage. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Revue, Volume 33 Issue 4, 2006.

• Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael P. 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.  4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2005). Best paper award.

• Michael P. Mesnier, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel: Object-based storage: pushing more functionality into storage. IEEE Potentials, Volume 24 Issue 2. 2005.

• Michael P. Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Daniel Ellard, Margo I. Seltzer: File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2004).

• Daniel Ellard, Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Margo Seltzer: Attribute-Based Prediction of File Properties. TR-14-03, Harvard University. 2003.

• Michael P. Mesnier, Gregory R. Ganger, Erik Riedel: Object-based storage. IEEE Communications Magazine. Volume 41 Issue 8, 2003.

• Michael C. Ferris, Michael P. Mesnier, Jorge J. Moré: NEOS and Condor: solving optimization problems over the Internet. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Volume 26 Issue 1, 2000.  Argonne TR.  Rice TR.

• Joseph Czyzyk, Michael P. Mesnier, Jorge J. Moré: The NEOS Server. IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, Volume 5 Issue 3, 1998.

• Daniel A. Reed et al.: Users' Guide for PPFS: A High-Performance Portable Parallel File System. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Technical Report, 1996.

• Joseph Czyzyk, Michael P. Mesnier, Jorge J. Moré: The Network-Enabled Optimization System (NEOS) Server. Argonne, October 1996.

• M. C. Ferris, M. P. Mesnier, J. More': The NEOS system for complementarity problems: PATH, Technical Report 96-08, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1996. Also available as MCS-P616-1096, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory.

• Michael Paul Mesnier: The Network-Enabled Optimization System Server, Technical Memorandum, No. 210, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995.

Patents

• https://patents.justia.com/inventor/michael-p-mesnier

• https://patents.justia.com/inventor/michael-mesnier

Miscellaneous open source

• UFS_domain_select - a Cartopy script for NOAA's open source weather model

• Archived projects (90's code, including some Pascal)

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