Noah Watkins

375 Engineering 2 Baskin School of Engineering University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Email: jayhawk@soe.ucsc.edu

About

I received my PhD in 2018 from UC Santa Cruz. My thesis explores the programmability of storage systems, which is related to the topic of co-design between storage and applications, and focuses on the reusability of low-level storage system services and building application-specific interfaces. I generally have research interests in systems (operating systems, storage, and data processing), but find that my attention is frequently pulled towards language design and I think there is a lot of interesting work in this area when coupled with system design and code generation. Over time I've learned that even when a system looks like its been completely explored, the simple act of trying to build it reveals a mountain of interesting topics.

Contact

Phone: +1 (785) 393-3644 Email: jayhawk@soe.ucsc.edu

Publications

• Noah Watkins, “Dissertation”, UCSC ’18

• Noah Watkins, Michael A. Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Kathryn Dahlgren, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, and Carlos Maltzahn, “DeclStore: Layering is for the Faint of Heart”, HotStorage ’17

• Michael A. Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Ivo Jimenez, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, Jeff LeFevre, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Malacology: A Programmable Storage System”, EuroSys ’17

• Adam Manzanares, Noah Watkins, Cyril Guyot, Damien LeMoal, Carlos Maltzahn, and Zvonimr Bandic, “ZEA, A Data Management Approach for SMR”, HotStorage ’16

• Ivo Jimenez, Michael A. Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Managing Scientific Experiments Like Software”, ;login ’16

• Noah Watkins, Zhihao Jia, Galen Shipman, Carlos Maltzahn, Alex Aiken, and Pat McCormick, “Automatic and Transparent I/O Optimization With Storage Integrated Application Runtime Support”, PDSW ’15

• Michael A. Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Ike Nassi, Scott A. Brandt, Sage A. Weil, Greg Farnum, and Sam Fineberg, “Mantle: A Programmable Metadata Load Balancer for the Ceph File System”, SC ’15

• Dimitris Skourtis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Erasure Coding & Read/Write Separation in Flash Storage”, INFLOW ’14

• Dimitris Skourtis, Dimitris Achlioptas, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, and Scott Brandt, “Flash on Rails: Consistent Flash Performance through Redundancy”, USENIX ’14

• Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, Ian Pye, and Adam Manzanares, “In-Vivo Storage System Development”, BDMC ’13

• Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Greg Levin, Adam Crume, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, and Aaron Torres, “SIDR: Structure-Aware Intelligent Data Routing in Hadoop”, SC ’13

• Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, Adam Manzanares, “DataMods: Programmable File System Service”, PDSW ’12

• Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Jeff Lefevre, Kleoni Ioannidou, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, Scott A. Brandt, “SciHadoop: Array-based Query Processing in Hadoop”, SC ’11

• Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Scott Brandt, “Abstract Storage: Moving File Format-specific Abstractions Into Petabyte-scale Storage Systems”, DADC ’09

• Noah Watkins, Jared Straub, Douglas Niehaus, “A Flexible Scheduling Framework Supporting Multiple Programming Models with Arbitrary Semantics in Linux”, RTLWS ’09

• Terry Tidwell, Noah Watkins, Venkita Subramonian, Douglas Niehaus, Christopher Gill, and Armando Migliaccio, “The Design, Modeling, and Implementation of Group Scheduling for Isolation of Computations from Adversarial Interference”, Washington University, WUCSE-2006-34