We present a policy-based architecture STEPS for lifecycle management (LCM) in a mass scale distributed file system. The STEPS architecture is designed in the context of IBM’s ...
Akshat Verma, David Pease, Upendra Sharma, Marc Ka...
We introduce a new reliability infrastructure for file systems called I/O shepherding. I/O shepherding allows a file system developer to craft nuanced reliability policies to de...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Swetha Kri...
Given the decreasing cost of non-volatile RAM (NVRAM), by the late 1990's it will be feasible for most workstations to include a megabyte or more of NVRAM, enabling the desig...
Mary Baker, Satoshi Asami, Etienne Deprit, John K....
Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to clo...
This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM) instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in Gri...
Ming Zhao 0002, Jian Zhang 0005, Renato J. O. Figu...