Alistair Veitch

General Information and Research Interests

I manage the Storage Systems Department within Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

My research interests include the design, implementation and analysis of large computer systems, with particular interests in operating systems, distributed systems, file systems and storage systems. 

For those internal to HP, my HP internal home page has more details on current research topics and results.

Education

• 1998 - Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of British Columbia
• 1991 - M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• 1989 - B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Publications

• Marcos K. Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul Shah, Alistair Veitch and Christos Karamanolis. Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems, 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
  
  
• Karl Gyllstrom, Craig Soules and Alistair Veitch. Confluence: enhancing contextual desktop search, Poster session, pp. 717-718, Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Amsterdam, 2007
  
  
• Marcos K. Aguilera, Susan Spence and Alistair Veitch. Olive: Distributed Point-in-Time Branching Storage for Real Systems, 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2006), San Jose, California, May 8-10, 2007
  
  
• Yasushi Saito, Svend Frolund, Alistair Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence. FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components, Symposium on Architectual Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems(ASPLOS-XI), Boston, MA, October 2004.
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• Svend Frolund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch. A decentralized algorithm for erasure-coded virtual disks, Dependable Systems and Networks(DSN'04), Florence, Italy, June 2004.
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• Svend Frolund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch. FAB: enterprise storage systems on a shoestring, Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS-IX), Kauai, Hawaii, May 2003.
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• Eric Anderson, Michael Hobbs, Kimberly Keeton, Susan Spence, Mustafa Uysal, Alistair Veitch. Hippodrome: running circles around storage administration, Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'02), Monterey, California, January 2002.
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• Eric Anderson, Ram Swaminathan, Alistair Veitch, Guillermo Alvarez, John Wilkes. Selecting RAID levels for disk arrays, Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'02), Monterey, California, January 2002.
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• Guillermo A. Alvarez, John Wilkes, Elizabeth Borowsky, Susie Go, Theodore H. Romer, Ralph Becker-Szendy, Richard Golding, Arif Merchant, Mirjana Spasojevic and Alistair Veitch. Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems, In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 19 (4) (November 2001).
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• Alistair C. Veitch, Erik Riedel, John Wilkes and Simon Towers. Position paper: Towards global storage management and data placement, 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), May 2001.
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• Erik Riedel, Susan Spence and Alistair Veitch. When local becomes global: an application study of data consistency in a networked world, 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC-20), April 2001.
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• Kim Keeton, Alistair Veitch, Doug Obal and John Wilkes. I/O Characterization of Commercial Workloads, presented at CAECW-OO (before HPCA-6), January 2000.
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• Douglas S. Santry, Michael J, Feeley, Norman C. Hutchinson, Alistair C. Veitch, Ross W. Carton and Jacob Ofir. Deciding when to forget in the Elephant file system. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP99), December 1999, pp. 110-123.
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• Douglas S. Santry, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutchinson and Alistair C. Veitch. Elephant: The File System That Never Forgets. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS VII), March 1999.
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• Alistair C. Veitch. A Dynamically Reconfigurable and Extensible Operating System. Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science, University of British Columbia, June 1998
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• Alistair C. Veitch and Norman C. Hutchinson. Dynamic service reconfiguration and migration in the Kea kernel. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, May 1998, pp. 156-163
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• Alistair C. Veitch and Norman C. Hutchinson. Kea - A Dynamically Extensible and Configurable Operating System Kernel. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, May 1996, pp. 123-129
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• Alistair C. Veitch and Geoff Holmes. A Modified QuickProp Algorithm. Neural Computation, 3(3), Fall 1991, pp. 310-311
  
  
• Alistair C. Veitch and Geoff Holmes. Benchmarking and Fast Learning in Neural Networks: Results for Back-Propagation. In Proceedings of the Second Australian Conference on Neural Networks, 1991, pp. 187-197
  
  
• Alistair C. Veitch. Benchmarking and Fast Learning in Neural Networks: Results for Back-Propagation and Real-Time Recurrent Learning. M.Sc. thesis, University of Waikato, November 1990.
  
  
• Alistair C. Veitch, Geoff Holmes, and Olivier Y. de Vel. Implementation of an Artificial Neural Network on a Multi-Transputer System. In Proceedings of the 1990 New Zealand Transputer Users Group Conference, pp. 1-10

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Last modified: Sun Apr 7 04:46:33 PDT 2002 by Alistair Veitch (aveitch@hpl.hp.com)