One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
To prepare for future peta- or exa-scale computing, it is important to gain a good understanding on what impacts a hierarchical storage system would have on the performance of data...
Weikuan Yu, Sarp Oral, Shane Canon, Jeffrey S. Vet...
Fermilab provides a multi-Petabyte scale mass storage system for High Energy Physics (HEP) Experiments and other scientific endeavors. We describe the scalability aspects of the h...
Gene Oleynik, Bonnie Alcorn, Wayne Baisley, Jon Ba...
Archival storage systems must operate under stringent requirements, providing 100% availability while guaranteeing that data will not be lost. In this paper we explore the multipl...
Reagan Moore, Joe Lopez, Charles Lofton, Wayne Sch...
Most fault-tolerant systems are designed to stop faulty programs before they write permanent data or communicate with other processes. This property (halt-on-failure) forms the co...