Digital archives protect important data collections from failures by making multiple copies at other archives, so that there are always several good copies of a collection. In a c...
The sciences, business confederations, and medicine urgently need infrastructure for sharing data and updates among collaborators' constantly changing, heterogeneous databases...
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces. Typically checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques, ...
Over the past decade, new solid state storage technologies, with flash being the most mature one, have become increasingly popular. Such technologies store data durably, and can a...
— We recently showed for peer-to-peer networks, that having the number of replicas of each object proportional to the request rate for these objects has many per-node advantages....