Giorgio (Erci) Xu

Giorgio (Erci) Xu

Nomad

Independent Researcher

Biography

Erci Xu is a research nomad who mostly focuses on distributed storage systems and software/hardware reliability. Besides research, he enjoys reading books and occasionally writes reviews where one can find it here Goodreads.

Erci Xu has a Chinese name, 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

Selected Publications

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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 (to appear). In FAST'23 (CCF-A).

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 (to appear). In FAST'23 (CCF-A).

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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Cai Deng, Qi Chen, Xiangyu Zou, Erci Xu, Bo Tang, Wen Xia (2022). imDedup: A Lossless Deduplication Scheme to Eliminate Fine-grained Redundancy among Images. In ICDE'22 (CCF-A).

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Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu (2021). Max: A Multicore-Accelerated File System for Flash Storage. In ATC'21 (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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Zhe Yang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu (2020). CoinPurse: A Device-Assisted File System with Dual Interfaces. In DAC'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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Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Jiesheng Wu, Yikang Xu (2018). Understanding SSD Reliability in Large-Scale Cloud Systems. In PDSW-DISCS@SC'18.

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Recent Posts

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Skunk Works Review (Chinese)
A book review for Ben. Rich’s memoir of his years at Skunk Works.
Giorgio (Erci) Xu
Oct 7, 2021 1 min read Review

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