Simon Ellmann, M.Sc.
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Research Area
- Umbra: A Flash‑Based Database System with In-Memory Performance
- Memory Management in Database Systems
- Scalable I/O on Modern Hardware
Awards
Winner of the ACM SIGMOD 2025 Programming Contest
Publications
ANCS 2019 (best paper award)
Theses
Open
No open theses at the moment.
Work in Progress
| Student | Title | Type | Year |
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| Lennart Kottke | Bare-Metal I/O: Insights into NVMe SSDs with a Rust User-Space Driver | BA | 2025 |
Finished
| Student | Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Daniel Rehmet | From Sync to Async: Hiding I/O Latencies of a Rust NVMe Driver | BA | 2025 |
| Dewangga Winasforcepta Winardi | NVMe-oF via RDMA: A High-Performance Alternative to TCP/IP Block Storage? | GR | 2025 |
| Maximilian Jöst | GPU-Accelerated CSV Parsing on Unified Memory Architectures: A Case Study | BA | 2025 |
| Marius De Kuthy Meurers | Metal with Rust: High-Performance Regex Execution on Unified Memory GPUs | BA | 2025 |
| Lukas Limmer | Sorting Beyond Memory: An IPS²Ra-Based Approach with Efficient I/O | BA | 2024 |
| Mohamed Mehdi Gharam | Zoned Storage and Non-Sequential Write Patterns | BA | 2024 |
| Adrian Würth | Effects of Linux VFIO for User Space I/O | BA | 2024 |
| Tuomas Pirhonen | Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust | BA | 2024 |
Teaching
| Winter 2025/26: | Practical Course: Database Implementation |
| Summer 2025: | Informatik 2 für Ingenieurwissenschaften |
| Winter 2024/25: | Practical Course: Database Implementation |
| Summer 2024: | Informatik 2 für Ingenieurwissenschaften |
| Winter 2023/24: | Practical Course: Database Implementation |
| Summer 2023: | Seminar - Modern Database Systems |
| Winter 2022/23: | Practical Course: Database Implementation |
| Summer 2022: | Practical Course: Advanced Systems Programing in C/Rust Practical Course: Cloud Systems Engineering |
| Winter 2021/22: | Practical Course: Advanced Systems Programing in C/Rust |