In this paper, we propose a file naming scheme, called HK (Hierarchical-Keyword-based) naming. In file systems, hierarchical naming has been used for these several decades. As t...
Configuration management of compiled software artifacts (programs, libraries, icons, etc.) is a growing problem as software reuse becomes more prevalent. For an application compos...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the world’s largest distributed computing system that performs the key function of translating user-friendly domain names to IP addresses through...
An efficient and distributed scheme for file mapping or file lookup scheme is critical in decentralizing metadata management within a group of metadata servers. This paper present...
There are two popular parallel I/O programming styles used by modern scientific computational applications: unique-file and shared-file. Unique-file I/O usually gives satisfactory ...
Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Arifa Nisar, Alok N. Choud...