Disk subsystem is known to be a major contributor to overall power consumption of high-end parallel systems. Past research proposed several architectural level techniques to reduc...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir, A...
Multi-core processors with ever increasing number of cores per chip are becoming prevalent in modern parallel computing. Our goal is to make use of the multi-core as well as multi...
Lei Li, Wenjie Fu, Fan Guo, Todd C. Mowry, Christo...
As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson, Scott...
Given the scale of massively parallel systems, occurrence of faults is no longer an exception but a regular event. Periodic checkpointing is becoming increasingly important in the...
Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache...
Sarp Oral, Feiyi Wang, David Dillow, Galen M. Ship...