This paper presents a new distributed disk-array architecture for achieving high I/O performance in scalable cluster computing. In a serverless cluster of computers, all distribute...
RAID5 disk arrays provide high performance and high reliability for reasonable cost. However RAID5 suffers a performance penalty during block updates. In order to overcome this pr...
—We investigate the impact of irrecoverable read errors—also known as bad blocks—on the MTTDL of mirrored disks, RAID level 5 arrays and RAID level 6 arrays. Our study is bas...
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...