The unprecedented scale, heterogeneity, and varied usage patterns of grids pose significant technical challenges to any underlying file system that will support them. While grid...
Brian S. White, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Anh Nguyen-Tuo...
— In this paper, we propose a distributed data storage framework that supports unrestricted offline access. The system does not explicitly distinguish between connected and disc...
: This paper describes the collection and analysis of supercomputer I/O traces and their use in a collection of buffering and caching simulations. This serves two purposes. First, ...
We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...