Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...
Known parallel DBMS offer at present only static partitioning schemes. Adding a storage node is then a cumbersome operation that typically requires the manual data redistribution....
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Recently, cheap and large capacity non-volatile memory such as flash memory is rapidly replacing disks not only in embedded systems, but also in high performance servers. Unlike ...
Woochul Kang, Sang Hyuk Son, John A. Stankovic, Me...