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HOTOS
1999
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
A Case for Buffer Servers
Faster networks and cheaper storage have brought us to a point where I/O caching servers have an important role in the design of scalable, high-performance file systems. These int...
Darrell C. Anderson, Ken Yocum, Jeffrey S. Chase
ISCA
2008
IEEE
136views Hardware» more  ISCA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
The Design and Performance of a Bare PC Web Server
There is an increasing need for new Web server architectures that are application-centric, simple, small, and pervasive in nature. In this paper, we present a novel architecture f...
Long He, Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. Wijesinha
HPDC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Collective caching: application-aware client-side file caching
Parallel file subsystems in today’s high-performance computers adopt many I/O optimization strategies that were designed for distributed systems. These strategies, for instance...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Using Leases to Support Server-Driven Consistency in Large-Scale Systems
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...
SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Multicast protocols for scalable on-demand download
Previous scalable protocols for downloading large, popular files from a single server include batching and cyclic multicast. With batching, clients wait to begin receiving a reque...
Niklas Carlsson, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon