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CCGRID
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Technique for Lock-Less Mirroring in Parallel File Systems
—As parallel file systems span larger and larger numbers of nodes in order to provide the performance and scalability necessary for modern cluster applications, the need for fau...
Bradley W. Settlemyer, Walter B. Ligon III
HPCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Comparative Evaluation of Latency Tolerance Techniques for Software Distributed Shared Memory
A key challenge in achieving high performance on software DSM systems is overcoming their relatively large communication latencies. In this paper, we consider two techniques which...
Todd C. Mowy, Charles Q. C. Chan, Adley K. W. Lo
ICPPW
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Active Streaming in Transport Delay Minimization
In this paper we present a technique for reducing response delay for web systems, which is based on a proactive cache scheme. It combines predictive pre-fetching and streaming to ...
Javed I. Khan
SIGOPS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information
The layered design of the Linux operating system hides the liveness of file system data from the underlying block layers. This lack of liveness information prevents the storage sy...
David Boutcher, Abhishek Chandra
ICDCSW
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Scalable Technique for VCR-Like Interactions in Video-on-Demand Applications
In video-on-demand (VOD) applications, it is desirable to provide the user with the video-cassette-recorder-like (VCR) capabilities such as fast-forwarding a video or jumping to a...
Mounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu