Giorgio (Erci) Xu

Storage Nomad

Traveling in the Middle of Nowhere

Biography

Erci Xu is a storage researcher who mostly focuses on distributed storage systems and software/hardware reliability. He has published multiple paper at top venues including USENIX OSDI, FAST, ATC and ACM Eurosys. He is the recipient of two USENIX FAST Best Paper Awards (FAST'23 and FAST'24) and ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award.

Besides research, he enjoys reading books and occasionally writes reviews where one can find it at Goodreads or 知乎.

Erci Xu’s Chinese name is 徐尔茨 (sounds like hsu ertz). He also goes by the name of Giorgio, much easier to pronounce now, innit?

Interests

Storage Systems
Distributed Computing
Software/Hardware Reliability

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2019

NUDT
BSc in Computer Science, 2012

NUDT

Recent Publications

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Zhongyu Wang, Yaheng Song, Erci Xu (Corresponding), Haonan Wu, Guangxun Tong, Haoran Li, Jincheng Liu, Lijun Ding, Rong Liu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu (2024). Ransom Access Memories: Achieving Practical Ransomware Protection in Cloud with DeftPunk. In OSDI'24 (CCF-A).

Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu (Corresponding), Li Zhang, Kapil Karkra, Mariusz Barczak, Wayne Gao, Wojciech Malikowski, Mateusz Kozlowski, Łukasz Łasek, Ruiming Lu, Feng Yang, Lilong Huang, Xiaolu Zhang, Wenrui Li, Jinhu Li, Keqiang Niu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu (2024). CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud. In Eurosys'24 (CCF-A).

Weidong Zhang, Erci Xu (Corresponding), Qiuping Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Yuesheng Gu, Zhenwei Lu, Tao Ouyang, Guanqun Dai, Wenwen Peng, Zhe Xu, Shuo Zhang, Dong Wu, Yilei Peng, Tianyun Wang, Haoming Zhang, Jiasheng Wang, Wenyuan Yan, Yuanyuan Dong, Wenhui Yao, Zhongjie Wu, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yinhu Wang, Rong Liu, Junping Wu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu (2024). What's the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store (awarded Best Paper). In FAST'24 (CCF-A).

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Lingjun Zhu, Yifan Shen, Erci Xu (Corresponding), Bo Shi, Ting Fu, Shu Ma, Shuguang Chen, Zhongyu Wang, Haonan Wu, Zhendan Yang, Xingyu Liao, Wei Lin, Yijun Hou, Rong Liu, Chao Shi, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu (2023). Deploying User-space TCP at Cloud Scale with LUNA. In ATC'23 (CCF-A).

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Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu (co-first), Yiming Zhang, Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu (2023). Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems (awarded Best Paper). In FAST'23 (CCF-A).

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Su Zhou, Erci Xu (Corresponding), Hao Wu, Yu Du, Jiacheng Cui, Wanyu Fu, Chang Liu, Yingni Wang, Wenbo Wang, Shouqu Sun, Xianfei Wang, Bo Feng, Biyun Zhu, Xin Tong, Weikang Kong, Linyan Liu, Zhongjie Wu, Jinbo Wu, Qingchao Luo, Jiesheng Wu (2023). SMRSTORE: A Storage Engine for Cloud Object Storage on HM-SMR Drives. In FAST'23 (CCF-A).

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Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu (co-first), Yiming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu (2022). NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow. In ATC'22 (CCF-A).

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Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu (2021). Concordia: Distributed shared memory with in-network cache coherence. In FAST'21 (CCF-A).

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Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu (2020). Write Dependency Disentanglement with HORAE. In OSDI'20 (CCF-A).

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Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Yikang Xu, Jiesheng Wu (2019). Lessons and Actions: What We Learned from 10K SSD-Related Storage System Failures. In ATC'19 (CCF-A).

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