Overview

Federated array of bricks (FAB) are a self-managing storage system that is highly scalable in both availability and performance. FAB is composed of modular building blocks, called bricks, which provide storage capacity, processing intelligence, and networking capabilities. Our goal is to build the symmetrically distributed infrastructure required for a federation of these smart bricks to provide the abstraction of a single unified storage system to users, regardless of the system scale.

Publications

• "FAB: building reliable enterprise storage systems on the cheap.", Yasushi Saito, Svend Frolund, Alistair Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence,
  To appear in ASPLOS 2004.
• "A decentralized algorithm for erasure coded virtual disks" Svend Frolund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch,
  To appear in DSN 2004.
• FAB: enterprise storage systems on a shoestring, Svend Frolund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch,
  HotOS 2003.

People

• Marcos Aguilera
• Minwen Ji
• Hernan Laffitte
• Arif Merchant
• Yasushi Saito
• Susan Spence
• Alistair Veitch (project manager)

Alumni

• Svend Frolund
• Craig Soules (Summer 2003 intern from CMU)