Electrical Project

Garth R. Goodson

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Carnegie Mellon University

ECE Dept, Hamerschlag Hall

Pittsburgh, PA

412-***-**** (W)

412-***-**** (H)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include distributed storage and file systems, as

well as, high-performance network applications and operating systems.

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania USA

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, (expected:

August 2004)

Dissertation Topic: Efficient, flexible consistency for highly

fault tolerant storage

Advisor: Gregory Ganger

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2000

Thesis: "I/O infrastucture support for network-attached storage

devices"

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1998

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania

Includes current Ph.D. research, Ph.D. and Masters level coursework.

Designed a decentralized storage consistency protocol

family capable of tolerating many fault and system models; from crash

clients and servers to Byzantine clients and servers, in both

asynchronous and synchronous environments. Implemented a survivable

block-store using erasure-codes combined with this consistency

protocol family.

Designed and implemented a file system for the PASIS

system. PASIS is a survivable storage system that can guarantee the

confidentiality, integrity, and availability of stored data even when

some storage nodes fail or are compromised.

Implemented the RPC and disk I/O modules for the

Self-Securing Storage Systems (S4) project. S4 is a NASD like storage

system with strong guarantees of data security and availability (even

of deleted objects).

Added network interface card (NIC) support for

application-level networking; which involved the modification of the

NIC firmware and OS drivers.

Teaching Assistant

Shared responsibility for exams, homework,

projects, and grading.

Introduction to storage systems

(18-546)

Designed a class project for building

an NFS server. Instructor: Gregory Ganger.

Spring 2001, 2002

Introduction to embedded systems (18-349)

Supervised students during labs. Instructors: David Nagle, Gregory Ganger.

Spring 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael

K. Reiter. Byzantine-tolerant

erasure-coded storage. The International Conference on

Dependable Systems and Networks (Florence, Italy, 28 June -- 01

July), 2004.

Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael

K. Reiter. A protocol family for

versatile survivable storage infrastructures. Technical

Report CMU-CS-03-103. Carnegie Mellon University, December 2003.

Adam G. Pennington, John D. Strunk, John L. Griffin, Craig

A. N. Soules, Garth R. Goodson, Gregory R. Ganger. Storage-based intrusion detection: watching storage

activity for suspicious behavior. USENIX Security (Washington,

DC, 06-08 August 2003), USENIX Association, 2003.

Craig A. N. Soules, Garth R. Goodson, John D. Strunk, and Gregory

R. Ganger. Metadata efficiency in a

comprehensive versioning file system. Conference on File and

Storage Technologies (San Francisco, CA, 31 March-02 April 2003),

pages 43-57. USENIX Association, 2003.

Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger, Mike

K. Reiter. Decentralized storage consistency via

versioning servers. Technical Report CMU-CS-02-180. Carnegie

Mellon University, September 2002.

John D. Strunk, Garth R. Goodson, Adam G. Pennington, Craig

A. N. Soules, and Gregory R. Ganger. Intrusion

detection, diagnosis, and recovery with self-securing

storage. Technical report CMU-CS-02-140. Carnegie-Mellon

University, May 2002.

Gregory R. Ganger, Pradeep K. Khosla, Mehmet Bakkaloglu, Michael

W. Bigrigg, Garth R. Goodson, Semih Oguz, Vijay Pandurangan, Craig

A. N. Soules, John D. Strunk, Jay J. Wylie. Survivable storage systems. DARPA Information

Survivability Conference and Exposition (Anaheim, CA, 12-14 June

2001), pages 184-195 vol 2. IEEE, 2001.

John D. Strunk, Garth R. Goodson, Michael L. Scheinholtz, Craig

A. N. Soules, and Gregory R. Ganger. Self-securing

storage: Protecting data in compromised systems. Operating

Systems Design and Implementation (San Diego, CA, 23-25 October 2000),

pages 165-180. USENIX Association, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM Research: Almaden

San Jose, California

I worked with the Storage Systems group on the Collective

Intelligent Bricks project.

I designed and implemented a recovery/repair protocol, within a

simulator, for restoring data across a set of distributed

storage-bricks.

Summer 2002

IBM Research: Watson

Yorktown Heights, New York

I worked with the Advanced Operating System group on a new

multiprocessor object-oriented operating system (K42).

I was responsibile for designing and implementing a

high-performance application-level network interface within K42. This

included an application-level TCP library and socket interface that

communicated with network packet rings located in the kernel.

Summer 2000

Intel

Hillsboro, Oregon

I worked on micro-architectural design and specification of the

Merced GX motherboard chipset.

I was responsible for designing and specifying the PCI data path

and hardware configuration registers for the AGP bridge chip within

the GX chipset.

Summer 1997

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, Unix shell scripts.

Development skills: Threaded, networking, OS kernel, NFSv2 & NFSv3, large systems

Operating systems: Unix/Linux/FreeBSD, Windows.

HONORS AND AWARDS

SOSP Student Research Competition Semi-finalist, 2003

IBM Research Fellowship, 2001-2002

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