The access patterns performed by disk-intensive applications vary widely, from simple contiguous reads or writes through an entire file to completely unpredictable random access....
Dennis Dalessandro, Ananth Devulapalli, Pete Wycko...
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
With the fast technical improvement, flash memory based Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming an important part of the computer storage hierarchy to significantly improve perfo...
This paper reports our experiences on the Scalable Network Of Workstation (SNOW) project, which implements a novel methodology to support user-level process migration for traditio...