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ISCA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
TRAP-Array: A Disk Array Architecture Providing Timely Recovery to Any Point-in-time
RAID architectures have been used for more than two decades to recover data upon disk failures. Disk failure is just one of the many causes of damaged data. Data can be damaged by...
Qing Yang, Weijun Xiao, Jin Ren
FAST
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Achieving Reliable Parallel Performance in a VoD Storage Server Using Randomization and Replication
This paper investigates randomization and replication as strategies to achieve reliable performance in disk arrays targeted for video-on-demand (VoD) workloads. A disk array can p...
Yung Ryn Choe, Vijay S. Pai
MM
1997
ACM
131views Multimedia» more  MM 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Continuous Display Using Heterogeneous Disk-Subsystems
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...
Roger Zimmermann, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Informed Multi-Process Prefetching and Caching
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson