The file is a well-understood and very simple abstraction, which has been successfully used in both centralized and distributed systems. However, files are not expressive enough t...
We focus on automatically diagnosing different performance problems in parallel file systems by identifying, gathering and analyzing OS-level, black-box performance metrics on eve...
Michael P. Kasick, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya...
The Jazz file format is intended to be a replacement for the JAR file format when used for storage and distribution of Java programs. A Jazz file is compressed to a degree that fa...
Quetzalcoatl Bradley, R. Nigel Horspool, Jan Vitek
With an ever increasing amount of data to store, hierarchical storage management (HSM) systems must still use tape for tertiary storage. A disk cache is used to reduce the access ...
Traditional le system implementations do not allow applications to control le caching replacement decisions. We have implemented two-level replacement, a scheme that allows appl...