Informed prefetching provides a simple mechanism for I/O-intensive, cache-ineffective applications to efficiently exploit highly-parallel I/O subsystems such as disk arrays. This ...
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
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...
Efficient data management is a key component in achieving good performance for scientific workflows in distributed environments. Workflow applications typically communicate data be...
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...