NSF CIF: Efficient Codes and their Performance Limits for Distributed Storage Systems

Faculty

Alexander Barg

Funding Agency

National Science Foundation

Year

2014

Descriptions

The three-year, $300K “Efficient Codes and their Performance Limits for Distributed Storage Systems”grant addresses the efficient means of storing the huge amount of data being generated and collected. This research will develop more efficient data management procedures for large-scale distributed storage systems.

Large data centers and distributed storage systems have become more widespread, playing an ever-increasing role in everyday computational tasks. While a data center should never lose data, industry statistics confirm that disk failures occur on a daily basis. Barg will develop methods and ideas about error correcting codes that will enable systems to provide better guarantees against data loss and reduce the amount of data that needs to be moved to enable recovery of information lost due to disk failures.