Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...
Solid State Disks (SSDs) are superior to magnetic disks from a performance point of view due to the favorable features of NAND flash memory. Furthermore, thanks to improvement on...
Jinho Seol, Hyotaek Shim, Jaegeuk Kim, Seungryoul ...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
Building commodity networked storage systems is an important architectural trend; Commodity servers hosting a moderate number of consumer-grade disks and interconnected with a hig...
In this paper, we introduce the “Plug” sensor network, a ubiquitous networked sensing platform ideally suited to broad deployment in environments where people work and live. T...
Joshua Lifton, Mark Feldmeier, Yasuhiro Ono, Camer...