DiscFinder: a data-intensive scalable cluster finder for astrophysics. - Bin Fu; Kai Ren 001; Julio López 002; Eugene Fink; Garth A. Gibson (HPDC, 2010)

YCSB++: benchmarking and performance debugging advanced features in scalable table stores. - Swapnil Patil 001; Milo Polte; Kai Ren 001; Wittawat Tantisiriroj; Lin Xiao; Julio López 002; Garth Gibson; Adam Fuchs; Billie Rinaldi (SoCC, 2011)

RainMon: an integrated approach to mining bursty timeseries monitoring data. - Ilari Shafer; Kai Ren 001; Vishnu Naresh Boddeti; Yoshihisa Abe; Gregory R. Ganger; Christos Faloutsos (KDD, 2012)

A Case for Scaling HPC Metadata Performance through De-specialization. - Swapnil Patil 001; Kai Ren 001; Garth Gibson (SC Companion, 2012)

Abstract: Hadoop's Adolescence; A Comparative Workloads Analysis from Three Research Clusters. - Kai Ren 001; Garth Gibson; YongChul Kwon; Magdalena Balazinska; Bill Howe (SC Companion, 2012)

Poster: Hadoop's Adolescence; A Comparative Workloads Analysis from Three Research Clusters. - Kai Ren 001; Garth Gibson; YongChul Kwon; Magdalena Balazinska; Bill Howe (SC Companion, 2012)

TABLEFS: Enhancing Metadata Efficiency in the Local File System. - Kai Ren 001; Garth A. Gibson (USENIX ATC, 2013)

Managing Skew in Hadoop. - YongChul Kwon; Kai Ren 001; Magdalena Balazinska; Bill Howe (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2013)

Hadoop's Adolescence. - Kai Ren 001; YongChul Kwon; Magdalena Balazinska; Bill Howe (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2013)

IndexFS: Scaling File System Metadata Performance with Stateless Caching and Bulk Insertion. - Kai Ren 001; Qing Zheng; Swapnil Patil 001; Garth A. Gibson (SC, 2014)

BatchFS: scaling the file system control plane with client-funded metadata servers. - Qing Zheng; Kai Ren 001; Garth A. Gibson (PDSW@SC, 2014)

ShardFS vs. IndexFS: replication vs. caching strategies for distributed metadata management in cloud storage systems. - Lin Xiao; Kai Ren 001; Qing Zheng; Garth A. Gibson (SoCC, 2015)

DeltaFS: exascale file systems scale better without dedicated servers. - Qing Zheng; Kai Ren 001; Garth A. Gibson; Bradley W. Settlemyer; Gary Grider (PDSW@SC, 2015)

SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data. - Kai Ren 001; Qing Zheng; Joy Arulraj; Garth Gibson (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2017)