Due to the ever-widening performance gap between processors and disks, I/O operations tend to become the major performance bottleneck of data-intensive applications on modern clus...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, David ...
In computer systems today, speed and responsiveness is often determined by network and storage subsystem performance. Faster, more scalable networking interfaces like Fibre Channe...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Andrew P. Barry, Jonathan Bras...
We present SGuard, a new fault-tolerance technique for distributed stream processing engines (SPEs) running in clusters of commodity servers. SGuard is less disruptive to normal s...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Albert G. Gre...
IgorFs is a distributed, decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file system that is completely transparent to the user. It is built on top of the Igor peer-to-peer overlay network, whi...
Bernhard Amann, Benedikt Elser, Yaser Houri, Thoma...
The file system is one of the most critical components of the operating system. Almost all applications running in the operating system require file systems to be available for ...