Abstract. Current approaches to parallel I/O demand extensive user effort to obtain acceptable performance. This is in part due to difficulties in understanding the characteristics...
Gokhan Memik, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhar...
We present DEBAR, a scalable and high-performance de-duplication storage system for backup and archiving, to overcome the throughput and scalability limitations of the state-of-th...
Tianming Yang, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Zhongying Niu...
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
1 The unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems usually use a “blind search” method to find the requested data object by propagating a query to a number of peers randomly. In or...