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...
Lustre is a parallel file system that presents high aggregated IO bandwidth by striping file extents across many storage devices. However, our experiments indicate excessively wid...
Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Shane Canon, Song J...
Known parallel DBMS offer at present only static partitioning schemes. Adding a storage node is then a cumbersome operation that typically requires the manual data redistribution....
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
Presently, many distributed multimedia systems adapt to their changing environments and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements by exchanging control and feedback data between server...
Block-level continuous data protection (CDP) logs every disk block update so that disk updates within a time window are undoable. Standard file servers and DBMS servers can enjoy...