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Matthew Andrews

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Matthew Andrews
Storage Systems Group, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Phone: (510) 486-4309 , Fax: (510) 486-4316
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Mail Stop 943-256
Berkeley, CA 94720 US

Biographical Sketch

Matthew Andrews joined the Lab after one and a half years with Intuit. Matt attended Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he earned his degree in electrical and computer engineering. He also worked at the university, gaining experience in AFS and distributed file storage systems.

 

Conference Papers

Neal Master, Matthew Andrews, Jason Hick, Shane Canon, Nicholas J. Wright, “Performance Analysis of Commodity and Enterprise Class Flash Devices”, Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW), November 2010,

Presentation/Talks

J. Hick, M. Andrews, Leveraging the Business Value of Tape, FujiFilm Executive IT Summit 2011, June 9, 2011,

Describes how tape is used in the HPSS Archive and HPSS Backup systems at NERSC.  Includes some examples of our organizations tape policies, our roadmap to Exascale and an example of tape in the Exascale Era, our observed tape reliability, and an overview of our locally developed Parallel Incremental Backup System (PIBS) which performs backups of our NGF file system.