Both researchers and operators of production systems are frequently faced with the need to manipulate entire disk images. Convenient and fast tools for saving, transferring, and i...
Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ri...
Abstract—We present reliability solutions for adaptable Network RAM systems running on general-purpose clusters. Network RAM allows nodes with over-committed memory to swap pages...
The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
The rise of ad-hoc data-intensive computing has led to the development of data-parallel programming systems such as Map/Reduce and Hadoop, which achieve scalability by tightly cou...
A block-level continuous data protection (CDP) system logs every disk block update from an application server (e.g., a file or DBMS server) to a storage system so that any disk u...