Hypervisor-based fault tolerance (HBFT), a checkpoint-recovery mechanism, is an emerging approach to sustaining mission-critical applications. Based on virtualization technology, H...
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Continuous media playback suffers when a station's operating system offers insufficient 1/0 throughput. Conventional 1/0 system structures support a memory-oriented read and ...
In the last few years NAND flash storage has become more and more popular as price per GB and capacity both improve at exponential rates. Flash memory offers significant bene...
Radu Stoica, Manos Athanassoulis, Ryan Johnson, An...
Over the last decades, improvements in CPU speed have outpaced improvements in main memory and disk access rates by orders of magnitude, enabling the use of data compression techn...
MPI is the de-facto standard for message passing in parallel scientific applications. MPI-IO is a part of the MPI-2 specification defining file I/O operations in the MPI world....