2026 Garth A. Gibson: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	80	1067	1032	572	550	259	30064

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the performance and reliability of storage systems.

Overview

Garth A. Gibson is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, particularly within the subfields of computer networks and communications as well as information systems.

The main topics of Gibson's work include:

Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

Gibson's recent papers cover a range of topics related to computing environments and data management:

Mochi: Composing Data Services for High-Performance Computing Environments (2020, Journal of Computer Science and Technology)
Streaming Data Reorganization at Scale with DeltaFS Indexed Massive Directories (2020, ACM Transactions on Storage)
DeltaFS: a scalable no-ground-truth filesystem for massively-parallel computing (2021, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics)
Building A Research Partnership Between Computer Scientists and Health Service Researchers for Access and Analysis of Population-Level Health Datasets (2020, International Journal for Population Data Science)

Frequent collaborators in Gibson's research include:

George Amvrosiadis
Charles D. Cranor
Bradley W. Settlemyer
Qing Zheng
Gregory R. Ganger

Gibson has contributed to publications in multiple venues, often appearing in:

Journal of Computer Science and Technology
ACM Transactions on Storage
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics
International Journal for Population Data Science

In recognition of their contributions to storage system performance and reliability, Gibson was named an ACM Fellow in 2012.

Best Publications

A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)

David A. Patterson;Garth Gibson;Randy H. Katz

4547
Citations
A Large-Scale Study of Failures in High-Performance Computing Systems

Bianca Schroeder;Garth A Gibson

2335
Citations
RAID: high-performance, reliable secondary storage

Peter M. Chen;Edward K. Lee;Garth A. Gibson;Randy H. Katz

2031
Citations
Understanding disk failure rates: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?

Bianca Schroeder;Garth A. Gibson

1295
Citations
Informed prefetching and caching

R. H. Patterson;G. A. Gibson;E. Ginting;D. Stodolsky

998
Citations
Disk failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?

Bianca Schroeder;Garth A. Gibson

888
Citations
More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server

Qirong Ho;James Cipar;Henggang Cui;Seunghak Lee

767
Citations
Network attached storage architecture

Garth A. Gibson;Rodney Van Meter

616
Citations
A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture

Garth A. Gibson;David F. Nagle;Khalil Amiri;Jeff Butler

565
Citations
Safe and effective fine-grained TCP retransmissions for datacenter communication

Vijay Vasudevan;Amar Phanishayee;Hiral Shah;Elie Krevat

563
Citations
Understanding failures in petascale computers

Bianca Schroeder;Garth A. Gibson

560
Citations
Scalable performance of the Panasas parallel file system

Brent Welch;Marc Unangst;Zainul Abbasi;Garth Gibson

522
Citations
Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia Applications

Erik Reidel;Garth Gibson;Christos Faloutsos

475
Citations
PLFS: a checkpoint filesystem for parallel applications

John Bent;Garth Gibson;Gary Grider;Ben McClelland

471
Citations
Coding techniques for handling failures in large disk arrays

Garth A. Gibson;Lisa Hellerstein;Richard Manning Karp;Randy H. Katz

393
Citations
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia

Erik Riedel;Garth A. Gibson;Christos Faloutsos

388
Citations
Introduction to redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)

D.A. Patterson;P. Chen;G. Gibson;R.H. Katz

379
Citations
File server scaling with network-attached secure disks

Garth A. Gibson;David F. Nagle;Khalil Amiri;Fay W. Chang

374
Citations
Redundant Disk Arrays: Reliable, Parallel Secondary Storage

Garth Alan Gibson

368
Citations
Measurement and analysis of TCP throughput collapse in cluster-based storage systems

Amar Phanishayee;Elie Krevat;Vijay Vasudevan;David G. Andersen

363
Citations
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? (CMU-PDL-06-111)

Bianca Schroeder;Garth A. Gibson

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory R. Ganger Carnegie Mellon University

Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley

Eric P. Xing Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Peter M. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Vijay K. Vasudevan Google (United States)

Susan J. Eggers University of Washington

David G. Andersen Carnegie Mellon University

Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University

Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University

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