StorRep: Storage Research Experiment Patterns on Chameleon Cloud and Trovi
2026-06-15 • Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingOperating Systems
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The authors explain that storage research often struggles because experiments are hard to reproduce and build on. They found that very few SSD simulator experiments are shared in a way others can easily repeat. To fix this, they created StorRep, a set of six well-documented and reusable storage experiments using the Chameleon platform. Their work offers clear guidelines and tools to help other researchers do transparent and dependable storage experiments. They have tested these methods in different settings and made everything publicly available for others to use without limits.
storage experimentsSSD simulatorreproducibilityextensibilityChameleon infrastructurestorage artifactstransparent researchdependable experiments
Authors
Ray A. O. Sinurat, Yuyang Huang, Nanqinqin Li, Mark Powers, Michael Sherman, Kate Keahey, Haryadi S. Gunawi
Abstract
Storage experiments are vital to advancing storage research, but creating extensible and reproducible storage artifacts can be a challenging task. Our research has shown that only 1% of SSD simulator-based experiences are packaged and 0.5% of them can be easily reproduced. The lack of such artifacts without proper reproducibility can significantly impede the advancement of storage research. The biggest challenges in these types of experiments are ensuring that we have the correct environment to conduct them and creating extensible experiments that can be built upon in future research. To address this issue, we introduce StorRep, a thorough study that provides six extensible and reproducible storage experiment artifacts that serve as the foundation for further storage research, utilizing the Chameleon infrastructure. Our study offers experiment patterns and guidelines that can help researchers create transparent and dependable storage experiments. We have successfully integrated our methods in several experiments in multiple community and educational events over several years and produced publicly accessible artifacts that can be extended and fully reproduced without any restrictions.