The Logical Disk (LD) defines a new interface to disk storage that separates file management and disk management by using logical block numbers and block lists. The LD interface...
Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, Wilson C. Hsi...
Storage Latency Estimation Descriptors, or SLEDs, are an API that allow applications to understand and take advantage of the dynamic state of a storage system. By accessing data i...
Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
A block-level continuous data protection (CDP) system logs every disk block update from an application server (e.g., a file or DBMS server) to a storage system so that any disk u...
—Lustre is becoming an increasingly important file system for large-scale computing clusters. The problem, however, is that many data-intensive applications use MPI-IO for their ...